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Jean Alexander RIP

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    #2
    kingchess
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    I do, who??


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    spurious
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    Sorry to hear that. She was a one off.

    "Woman, Stanley, Woman!"


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    KKkitty
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    R.I.P.


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    Omackeral
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1360


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    Firewalkwithme
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    Well, she was 90 after all.
    More famous people will die in 2017!


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
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    Zomg 2016.

    Zomg.


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    Gael23
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    She was one of a kind for sure.


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    Winterlong
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    Bye bye Hilda.


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    JupiterKid
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    Gael23 wrote: »
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jean-alexander-dead-aged-90-9046029
    2016 , what can I say.

    I remember Hilda Ogden from my childhood. I presumed the actress who played her passed away ages ago. RIP.


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    Annasopra
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    I missed her Our Ilda in corrie for years. She was a legend.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Riesen_Meal
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I remember Hilda Ogden from my childhood. I presumed the actress who played her passed away ages ago. RIP.

    I always thought she kicked the bucket in the 80s, some life, fair play... :)


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    johnruns
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    Great actress thanks for the memories RIP.


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    Summer wind
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    Anyone that has seen Jean as Auntie Wainwright in Last Of The Summer Wine and as Hilda in Coronation Street will know what a great actress she was. She always sounded like a lovely lady in interviews. Loads of happy hours spent watching her onscreen. May she Rest In Peace.


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    Harry Palmr
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    Jean Alexander sounded like a regency Dame in real life.


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    #16
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
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    Still chuffing fags at 78. No wonder she lived so long.


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    Pherekydes
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    Bad day for Corrie. I see from another thread that Hilda Ogden died too.


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    Gael23
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    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Bad day for Corrie. I see from another thread that Hilda Ogden died too.

    Jean Alexander was the actress that played Hilda Ogden


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    Ted111
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    Gael23 wrote: »
    Jean Alexander was the actress that played Hilda Ogden

    Yes. A double tragedy.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    I wouldn't blame 2016 for this one, it's been a bad year for celebrities taken before their time but passing away at the age of 90 having enjoyed a full, rich and healthy life is something to be celebrated and admired.


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    learn_more
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    She seemed rather grand in real life unlike the rest of the Coronation Street cast who are as common as muck in real life as well as on screen.


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    corner of hells
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    Ted111 wrote: »
    Yes. A double tragedy.

    Bad enough paying for one funeral , but two.


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    Ted111
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    corner of hells wrote: »
    Bad enough paying for one funeral , but two.

    They say these things come in threes.
    So there may be one more tragedy for them before the year ends.


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    corner of hells
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    Ted111 wrote: »
    They say these things come in threes.
    So there may be one more tragedy for them before the year ends.

    Definitely Ted , certainly don't put away the funeral suit for a while yet.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Ted111 wrote: »
    They say these things come in threes.
    So there may be one more tragedy for them before the year ends.

    Auntie Wainwright from Last of the Summer Wine has just died too, if that helps.


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    It's not a tragedy when someone dies aged ninety. It's a tragedy when a young person dies, not a person who's lived a long and hopefully full life.

    It's sad, it's difficult for the family, but it's not a tragedy. It's natural, and exactly the way it's meant to be. Ninety good years is to be celebrated.


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    corner of hells
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    Candie wrote: »
    It's not a tragedy when someone dies aged ninety. It's a tragedy when a young person dies, not a person who's lived a long and hopefully full life.

    It's sad, it's difficult for the family, but it's not a tragedy. It's natural, and exactly the way it's meant to be. Ninety good years is to be celebrated.

    It is , if they leave you out of the will.


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    9or10
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    Candie wrote: »
    It's not a tragedy when someone dies aged ninety. It's a tragedy when a young person dies, not a person who's lived a long and hopefully full life.

    It's sad, it's difficult for the family, but it's not a tragedy. It's natural, and exactly the way it's meant to be. Ninety good years is to be celebrated.
    Nicely put Candie.
    2016 has been totally shoite for me and we got some more bad news today.


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    [Deleted User]
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    9or10 wrote: »
    Nicely put Candie.
    2016 has been totally shoite for me and we got some more bad news today.

    I hope you and yours come through whatever it was as easily as you can. :)


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    Pherekydes
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    Gael23 wrote: »
    Jean Alexander was the actress that played Hilda Ogden

    No, really?


    Next you're going to tell me all the Corrie regulars are just characters, played by actors...











    :pac:


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    LordSutch
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    Great woman, great career. I will mostly remember her from Corrie & Last of the summer wine. She's up in the clouds now with Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner & Compo, God rest their thespian souls . . . .


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