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RIP cilla black

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  • #32
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    Eh, we're doing RIP threads about PEOPLE now???

    I heard it was her dentist that shot her. He couldn't handle her overbite.


  • #33
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    Nobody cares


    You can't speak for everyone.


  • #34
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    She made Bernard McHugh a household name.

    RIP


  • #35
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Always enjoyed her in The Weakest Link.


  • #36
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    brummytom wrote: »
    I've never heard anything good about her, and I know a lot of people who've came into contact with her, but the drama about her life recently was quite good. RIP..

    Person in Manchester doesnt like person from Liverpool. Surprise surprise indeed.

    R.I.P to the woman.


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  • #37
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    brummytom wrote: »
    I've never heard anything good about her, and I know a lot of people who've came into contact with her, but the drama about her life recently was quite good. RIP..

    I always got the impression she was as tough as nails under the 'ta ra, love' exterior and I think I remember reading stories about her being pretty unpleasant to deal with on a one to one basis.


  • #38
    Boring username
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Boring username


    brummytom wrote: »
    I've never heard anything good about her, and I know a lot of people who've came into contact with her, but the drama about her life recently was quite good. RIP..


    +1. I'm surprised at the amount of people that aren't aware of just what a horrid, nasty person she was off screen.There's a thread on a well known aviation site regarding the worst passengers that flight crew have had to deal with, Cilla Black is consistently the most ignorant, pig headed, sneering 'celebrity' they've encountered.

    Just my two cents worth. I suppose I'll be banned again for not hopping on the RIP bandwagon now...


  • #39
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    She made Bernard McHugh a household name.

    Who?


  • #40
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    kneemos wrote: »
    Can't say I'm bothered,except to avoid the "tribute"shows for the next week.

    Thanks for clicking into the thread to let us know


  • #41
    RayCon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,046 ✭✭✭RayCon


    May not be an actual representation of how she died ... but I for one trust Viz.

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YKmhJPiCyFM/TDeMH2a0xRI/AAAAAAAAAak/RnNJp8GIEmk/s1600/Cilla+Black+CCollins.jpg


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  • #42
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    brummytom wrote: »
    I've never heard anything good about her, and I know a lot of people who've came into contact with her, but the drama about her life recently was quite good. RIP..

    Indeed. Outside her close circle of family and friends, she was renowned for being...a not very pleasant person.

    Still, she was very good at what she did. Blind Date was an institution when I was growing up and she was a very talented singer too. A true broadcasting legend.


  • #43
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Fudge You wrote: »
    But, its really not.

    It is though.

    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



  • #44
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Berserker wrote: »
    Who?
    Seriously?

    Only the second most famous Donegal man ever


  • #45
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    dollar_king wrote: »
    her biggest asset was being nice , she didn't have star looks and was not a great singer but her ordinary warmth made her a huge tv star

    very much of a different era when Saturday evening light entertainment could pull in twenty million viewers in the uk , she would not succeed today

    I dunno. Back in the 60s she was very attractive.

    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



  • #46
    Fudge You
    Closed Accounts Posts: 978 ✭✭✭Fudge You


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    It is though.

    No its not.

    12 is young to die. 50ish is quite young. 72 is not quite young at all.


  • #47
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    I always got the impression she was as tough as nails under the 'ta ra, love' exterior and I think I remember reading stories about her being pretty unpleasant to deal with on a one to one basis.

    To be fair though, that's often the case with actors, musicians and entertainers.

    It's a very tough industry and to succeed against all the odds, they're usually as hard as nails and tough as old boot leather.

    There are exceptions but, mostly they get "educated" in one of the bitchiest, most backstabbing industries in existence and also have to deal with tabloid journalism trying to get sensationalist scoops on them (in the UK in particular.)

    I'm not saying it's excusable to be rude and nasty but it's far from unusual.


  • #48
    mikedoherty99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭mikedoherty99


    She had an awful reputation for being horrible to everybody


  • #49
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭micar


    Ta ra chuck

    RIP cilla


  • #50
    kunst nugget
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    Fudge You wrote: »
    No its not.

    12 is young to die. 50ish is quite young. 72 is not quite young at all.

    It's all relative. For me, at 37, 50 is very young to die and 72 is quite young. I'd rather be popping my clogs unexpectedly at 88 than 72.


  • #51
    donegaLroad
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    mikedoherty99 wrote: »
    She had an awful reputation for being horrible to everybody

    are you thinking of Anne Robinson from 'The Weakest Link'?


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  • #52
    Volvoair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Volvoair


    few piccys of her here......
    https://www.google.ie/search?q=cilla+black&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIr9LN166KxwIVC5rbCh2zmQi8&biw=1680&bih=897


  • #53
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    brummytom wrote: »
    I've never heard anything good about her, and I know a lot of people who've came into contact with her, but the drama about her life recently was quite good. RIP..

    There will be a lot of stories now, apparently she was a horrific diva.


  • #54
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    OK, as a compromise joey and Fudge you: 72 is not very old, and is quite an early age to die.
    SpaceTime wrote: »
    To be fair though, that's often the case with actors, musicians and entertainers.

    It's a very tough industry and to succeed against all the odds, they're usually as hard as nails and tough as old boot leather.

    There are exceptions but, mostly they get "educated" in one of the bitchiest, most backstabbing industries in existence and also have to deal with tabloid journalism trying to get sensationalist scoops on them (in the UK in particular.)
    Tough as nails is ok (within reason) when working in such an industry, but nasty and spiteful isn't, and the two don't have to co-exist. If anything, people who are tough as nails when they need to be can be lovely otherwise.


  • #55
    mikedoherty99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭mikedoherty99


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    are you thinking of Anne Robinson from 'The Weakest Link'?

    No
    She was a good friend of that turd cliff richard too

    Birds of a feather


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was in the shops earlier and I had a feeling something terrible had happened. I checked the BBC website, but nothing. Now I log onto boards and I see this?

    When Cecil passed away I swore to jesus I would never smile again, but eventually I did. Now Cilla has gone I cannot imagine I will ever smile for the rest of my life, but I probably will break that vow too


  • #57
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    Fudge You wrote: »
    Cilla had lovely legs well past her 50s. I

    Are you mixing her up with Sandie Shaw?


  • #58
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Streetwalker wrote: »
    Person in Manchester doesnt like person from Liverpool. Surprise surprise indeed.

    R.I.P to the woman.
    Well there's one Mancunian by the name of Stephen Patrick Morrissey who I reckon will be saddened by her death.


  • #59
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Odelay wrote: »
    Always enjoyed her in The Weakest Link.

    You confusing her with Anne Robinson?


  • #60
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Hitchens wrote: »
    Are you mixing her up with Sandie Shaw?
    Cilla did have great legs - she wasnt particularly a beauty, but renowned for her figure.


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  • #61
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    dollar_king wrote: »
    her biggest asset was being nice , she didn't have star looks and was not a great singer but her ordinary warmth made her a huge tv star

    very much of a different era when Saturday evening light entertainment could pull in twenty million viewers in the uk , she would not succeed today

    Would stongly disagree with this, that's how she originally made her name.


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