Dead Pool 7th June 2020

A quiet week again! Not much of a pandemic this one, too many celebrities are actually surviving! I’m opening the cage, the evil flying monkeys will reap someone of note this week! 

Look Who You Could Have Had:

In Other News

The White House has released information about President Donald Trump‘s annual physical, including him experiencing no side effects while taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against Covid-19. Lumpy Trumpy weighs 17½ stone and stands at 6ft 3in tall, according a summary of the annual physical. The president made an unannounced visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in November for a little over two hours to perform tests necessary for the physical. Subsequent tests then happened later at the White House. “Sadly there were no findings of significance or changes to report,” Dr Sean Conely, the president’s physician, wrote in a memo about the president’s physical. Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany described Mr Trump as “healthy” after the summary report was released. After Mr Trump’s first physical, it was indicated the president had a common form of heart disease, CNN reported. The president’s doctor recommended a higher dose of medication that would help lower his cholesterol and lifestyle changes. The latest annual physical showed Mr Trump’s cholesterol was now at 167 with an LDL, low-density lipoprotein, below 100, indicating a healthy level. Results are still pending on his psychological tests.  

Australian actress Cate Blanchett is lucky to be alive after a DIY accident with a chainsaw at her country estate in East Sussex, England. The two-time Oscar winner, 51, took a ‘little nick to the head’ while using the mechanical saw, but fortunately avoided a serious injury. She casually revealed her brush with death in a podcast interview with former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard last week. Cate mentioned the incident in passing, telling Gillard it wasn’t very ‘exciting’. She said: ‘I’m fine. I had a bit of a chainsaw accident yesterday, which sounds very, very exciting, but it wasn’t. Apart from the little nick to the head, I’m fine.’ Gillard replied: ‘Be very careful with that chainsaw. You’ve got a very famous head, I don’t think people would like to see any nicks taken out of it.’ Cate, who was born and raised in Melbourne, lives in a $6.25million manor called Highwell House near Crowborough, about an hour south of London. Obviously can’t afford a gardener…  

Bhad Barbie has entered rehab to seek treatment for childhood trauma and prescription pills abuse, her management has confirmed. The “These Heaux” rapper, real name Danielle Bregoli, has been in the facility for several weeks now and sources told TMZ that they expect her to stay there for 30 to 90 days. In a statement, Bregoli’s management said: “We are very proud of Danielle for recognising that she needed help and seeking it out.” A further statement on her Instagram read: “Danielle has been working hard for the past few years and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off to attend to some personal issues. “For the past weeks, she has been in a treatment centre receiving and continuing to receive professional support. “She loves her fans, and has promised to return better, and healthier than ever.” Bregoli has been quiet on social media lately, which caught the attention of fellow rapper Chika who called her out for her silence on the death of George Floyd. 

On This Day

  • 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.  
  • 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the  Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • 1977 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. Kids enjoy a street party where mugs are given out. Yay!

Deaths

  • 1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)  
  • 1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (b. 1911)  
  • 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)  
  • 1970 – E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)  
  • 1980 – Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891)  
  • 2015 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)

The Youngest British Executions

Alice Glaston was an 11-year-old English girl from Little Wenlock who was hanged in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England. She is likely the youngest girl ever to be legally executed in England. The crime for which she was hanged is unknown, but she was hanged with two other people. A note of the incident from 1545 in the parish register of Sir Thomas Butler, vicar of Much Wenlock in Shropshire reads: 

Here was buried John Dod of the parish of Little Wenlock, who was hanged here, as also Alice Glaston, 11 yrs of age, of the parish of Little Wenlock, and Wm. Harper, a tailor. Three Convicts buried one a girl of 11 years old. 

However, this is not the youngest reference to a child who was hanged, a John Dean from Oxfordshire was not even 10 when he was executed for arson: 

At Abingdon assizes Feb 23 1629 before Whitlock justice one John Dean an infant between eight and nine years was indicted arraigned and found guilty of burning two barns in the town of Windsor and it appearing upon examination that he had malice revenge craft and cunning lie had judgment to be hanged and was hanged accordingly. 

But, such cruelty can be topped! The Guernsey Martyrs were three women who were burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs during the Marian Persecutions, in 1556 Guernsey, Channel Islands. The execution was carried out on or around 18th July. All three were burnt on the same fire; they ought to have been strangled beforehand, but the rope broke before they died and they were thrown into  the fire alive. John Foxe recorded that one of the women was “great with child” and that “the belly of the woman burst asunder by the vehemence of the flame, the infant, being a fair man-child, fell into the fire”. The baby was rescued and laid on the grass, taken by the Provost to the Bailiff, Hellier Gosselin who took the advice of Roman Catholic priests nearby who said the boy should burn due to having inherited moral stain from his mother, Gosselin ordered that “it should be carried back again, and cast into the fire”.  Burn Baby Burn, 1556 Disco Inferno! 

Last Week’s Birthdays

Karl Urban (47), Liam Neeson (67), Anna Torv (40), Michael Cera (31), Lance Reddick (57), Bill Hader (41), Helen Baxendale (49), Iggy Azalea (29), Jason Isaacs (56), Paul Giamatti (52), Robert Englund (72), Sandra Bernhard (64), Josie Lawrence (60), Mark Wahlberg (48), Mel Giedroyc (51), Angelina Jolie (44), Bruce Dern (83), Noah Wyle (48), Sean Pertwee (55), Russell Brand (44), Geoffrey Palmer (92), Bradley Walsh (59), Imogen Poots (31), Penelope Wilton (74), James Purefoy (56), Clive Mantle (63), Bill Paterson (75), Suzi Quatro (70), Morena Baccarin (41), Awkwafina (32), Jewel Staite (38), Justin Long (42), Zachary Quinto (43), Dominic Cooper (42), Liam Cunningham (59), Dana Carvey (65), Sally Kellerman (83), Tom Holland (24), Morgan Freeman (83), Brian Cox (74), Jonathan Pryce (73), Amy Schumer (39), Heidi Klum (47), Alanis Morissette (46), and Robert Powell (76).

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