Keith Floyd

[ummmm]

Is dead as well. He died of a heart attack last night.

[Bbbananas]

No????? Really ummm? What apt timing...
RIP Floydy Boy.

[Bbbananas]

Are you sure ummm... can't find anything on the news pages. It was his documentary style interview last night with Keith Allen on channel 4 which I commented on this morning in media & tv.

[ummmm]

Just watched it on BBC. I think it's just been announced.

[Rollo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8256260.stm

[ummmm]

Thanks Rollo

[4getmenot]

Oh my lord thats shocking!!

[ummmm]

Are being sarcy 4get??? :-)

I think he's had a heart attack before.

[Bbbananas]

That's sad - and what bizarre timing. Last night's documentary was interesting to say the least - for a man of 65, he looked at least a decade or more older - all that drinking, smoking and good living certainly took its toll in recent years. I know he was recently diagnosed with bowel cancer.
I liked him enormously (though flinched at his liberal use of the 'C' word last night...!).
RIP Keith. Bottoms Up.

[David Black]

Truly weird, I watched the interview last night and he looked like a very old broken man. I am sure he would have loved the timing. For all his clear faults he loved life and did not want to blame anyone else for his fate.

I am sure if you ate in his restaurants in Bristol in the 1970s it would have been a hoot.

A gem from the rather boring BBC TV world of the 1980s.

[4getmenot]

sarcy?? Huh?

[ummmm]

Oh my lord thats shocking.

Not very shocking for a man who drank too much, smoked too much and lived life to excess. So I thought you might be being sarcy...

:-)

[4getmenot]

No was probably expected but I meant shocking after him being on tv last night

[ummmm]

I didn't know he was on TV last night. What channel was it on?

[Bbbananas]

Channel 4 ummm... a very interesting interview to say the least - Keith Allen was the interviewer - so a bit like the blind leading the blind.... actually it was very entertaining, but parts of it made quite uncomfortable viewing. he really had gone downhill. Still - he certainly lived a good life while he could, so all in all, not such sad news as that of the young boxer who hung himself yesterday ;-(

[ummmm]

I'll see if I can watch it on catch up..

[ummmm]

Yep it's on there....

[jake-the-peg]

Strange documentary

Especially strange seemed Keith Allen's question "Why do you drink so much"

Sat there thinking "Because he's an alcoholic you idiot"

[TheEqualizer]

Hi ummmm xx

oh my gawd..........what's going on!

I quite liked him as eccentric and off the wall!

[4getmenot]

Patrick Swayze was a recovering alcoholic