Dead Pool 29th March 2026

A few familiar faces among the dead this week, no points though, so perhaps the Flying Monkeys need to be released….

Look Who You Could Have Had:

Daphne Selfe, 97, British model.
Valerie Perrine, 82, American actress (Slaughterhouse-Five, Lenny, Superman), complications from Parkinson’s disease.
Ben Keaton, 69, Irish actor (Emmerdale, Casualty, Father Ted).
Chip Taylor, 86, American singer and songwriter (“Angel of the Morning“, “Wild Thing“), cancer.
Leonid Radvinsky, 43, Ukrainian-American businessman (OnlyFans, MyFreeCams), cancer
Mel Schilling, 53, Australian television presenter (Married at First Sight), colon cancer.
James Tolkan, 94, American actor (Back to the Future, Top Gun).
Mary Rand, 86, British track and field athlete, Olympic champion (1964).
Trevor Oakes, 79, British guitarist and songwriter, (Showaddywaddy).

In Other News

Perez Hilton has revealed the mystery illness that sent him to the hospital for three weeks. On Monday, the 47-year-old blogger took to social media to share the news with his fans. ‘My stupidity landed me in the hospital for 21 days… It was the worst and best thing that’s ever happened to me,’ he began. Perez said he had the flu for a week and took his medication, but did not take the medication with food. ‘Because I have been taking all of this medication without food for a week, I developed an ulcer then a perforation and then Sepsis. People die of Sepsis.’ He also said he had intense stomach pain then could not walk causing him to have to be taken to the emergency room by ambulance. Hilton thanked the hospital that took care of him as he added he had ultrasounds before they could figure out the problem. ‘Finally after five days I ended up having laparoscopic surgery,’ he added. He also said the infection was very serious and he had fluid in his lungs which led to another major procedure. At that point he developed a heart problem. But the surgery was complicated as he developed another infection in the hospital, which he said was common. The star broke down in tears several times as he detailed he had many accidents after he started eating food following weeks on a feeding tube. And the worst part was a tube that was placed in him to suck up the infection and a Foley catheter. ‘That was intense,’ he added, as he said he lost ‘a lot of weight.’ ‘Now that I am home, I am not 100 percent,’ he also shared as he showed a pick line into his arm. ‘It’s like a scary IV with two lines, and one goes to my heart.’

Barry Manilow is officially cancer-free months after revealing his diagnosis. “You just don’t even think about how fragile life is. And suddenly, you have lung cancer. But I’m still here,” Manilow, 82, told the Flying Monkeys on Tuesday, while detailing his health battle and recovery. He continued: “I’m still here. I’m not all here, there’s part of me that isn’t here, they took out a part of me, and now I’ve got to figure out, ‘What do I do?’” Manilow originally announced in December 2025 that he was diagnosed with lung cancer and needed to undergo surgery to remove “a cancerous spot” on his left lung. He elaborated on Tuesday about how having an MRI for a separate issue with his hips led to his cancer being discovered. “If he hadn’t done that, man,” he said. “That doctor saved my life, because there’s no symptoms for what I had. I could go on, nothing hurt but they found the dot in my lung. They called me and said, ‘Could be cancer.’ That’s a bad word. ‘Not me. Fuck you. I can’t have cancer.’” Manilow recalled the moment he was told he had Stage I Lung Cancer. “They don’t even know how long I had this thing sitting on me. It could have been years,” he continued. “If it had gone any further, then I would be up shit’s creek. It just so happened that it hadn’t spread, and boy, oh boy, I thought I might be dying.” After his lobectomy, a procedure which removed part of his lung, Manilow spent seven days in the ICU. “I don’t remember it, thank goodness, because it was a nightmare,” Manilow shared of his hospital stay. “I’m one of the lucky ones. I don’t have to have chemo, radiation and all that stuff.” Manilow was forced to postpone concert dates while on the mend, noting that the experience has “really rocked him.” “But I’m getting stronger. It has really, really made me take stock of my life. This made me stop and think about: Have I done what I wanted to do, and have I made people happy? Have I been a good friend?” he concluded. “All of those cornball things that I’ve read for all of my life, I started to think about that, too. It really did stop me in my tracks. And the answers are yes. And as a matter of fact, there are more yeses than I ever thought.”

Princess Michael of Kent, 81, is “bedridden” after suffering a stroke, according to the Flying Monkeys. Princess Michael, who is married to Prince Michael of Kent, a first cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth, has dealt with a number of health issues in recent years. After undergoing heart surgery in 2023, she broke both of her wrists in a fall down the stairs of her home at Kensington Palace. She was carrying an armful of overcoats at the time when the accident happened. Luckily, she fell into the coats, but broke multiple small bones. About her fall, she previously stated: “So many things that you rely on being able to do, like cleaning your teeth, are impossible.” “I can type with one finger on a mobile, but I can’t use a laptop. I am told that, after an accident like this, if you do one wrong movement on top of the unhealed bones, you are back where you started.” It’s been a difficult few years for the family, Princess Michael’s son-in-law, Thomas Kingston, took his own life at the age of 45 in February 2024. He died from a “catastrophic head injury” and a gun was found near his body at his parents’ home in the Cotswolds.

On This Day

1968 – The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, started in Moscow, with thousands of people in attendance.
1974 – Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
2017 – Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

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