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Watching a repeat of this 2017 episode of House of Games just now, and three consecutive answers were Ray Liotta, Caroline Flack and Lionel Blair. So maybe worth keeping an eye on the next answer in the sequence (Daniel Kaluuya).

RIP, loved her in Billions and 27 Dresses.

As of 9:45pm on April 13, Spanish composer Lorenzo Palomo is the only notable listed as dying today.

He's been working more in recent years than he has for decades though - Megalopolis is due to hit the festivals circuit next month, a project that he's been tinkering with since the late 70s and had to sell his winefields to finance because it ballooned in production costs a la Apocalypse Now.

This set me on a short detour trying to find the shortest Wikipedia article (excluding external links and disambiguation pages). In terms of character count, this takes some beating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_bandy_team

Literally in one case if you believe the rumours...

Juice detox.

Does he try and jog her memory by going "have you seen this? did you hear about this?"

Mister Cee, legendary New York hip-hop DJ and the man who (probably) discovered Biggie, dead at 57.

Probably too early for the "Dying off the radar" thread, but while looking for something else I found out that the character actor Tom Stern died last month and it doesn't appear to have made it anywhere outside of his family's Facebook. Not to be confused with the Tom Stern who has a long history as cinematographer for Clint Eastwood movies, or Tom Stern the director of music videos by Marilyn Manson and Ice Cube, this Tom Stern was the lead in the 1971 namspolitation film Trip to Kill (billed ahead of Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughan and Burgess Meredith), but was also a mainstay villain-of-the-week in American TV throughout the 60s and 70s. Was also one of the endless "it could have been us!" residents of 10050 Cielo Drive prior to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski taking up residence there.

Toby Simkin, theatre producer and the first man to sell tickets for performances on a new-fangled thing called "the internet" in the mid-90s, dead at 59. Normally wouldn't have posted, but he hits one of my favourite niches for dead celebs: people who clearly wrote their own Wikipedia entry.

How have you people managed to make this thread even worse?

Latest on David Elmore Smith (the censoring of the name is done by him, not me, because it's a total mystery what could come after the "David S" in the Facebook account for David Elmore Smith).

Is there an explanation somewhere of how a Chess Records mainstay of the 50s ended up doing the scampi-and-chips seaside circuit in the UK 30 years later? Was it just a "people in the UK gave more of a shit and he had bills to pay" deal?

Rare public appearance from Matthew Corbett at a Sooty live show yesterday, looks a lot better than you'd have imagined considering recent news about him: