Simon Woodroffe

[Andy008]

I met him in September last year. Someone has just told me he's dead. Is this true?

[kempie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Woodroffe

[JackDanielsU]

Googling him doesnt bring up any obituaries so no hes alive and well Id say

[Jules001]

JackDanielsU if you look at the link that Kempie supplied, you will see he died from a heart attack on Jan 17th 2007

[vehelpfulguy]

Are we sure Wikipeida is right ? Remember, anyone can put anything in Wikipedia.

I can find no other reference to this anywhere on the internet, which is surprising.

If someone that famous had died surely at least ONE site would have mention of it.

[craigiep]

On the other hand vehelpfulguy, Mr.Woodruffe is / was clearly a very wealthy man, so anyone erroneously printing that he's dead risks having his or her aaarse sued off

[kempie]

Look at the bottom of the page

'This page was last modified 21:13, 14 December 2006.'

Perhaps there's a contract out on him.

[Jules001]

I read the link that Kempie supplied, but have since Googled and searched on lots of reputable online newspaper sites and have been unable to confirm his death, so I would agree that as someone as famous as this would at least warrant a mention somewhere, I would assume that the Wikipedia entry is incorrect.

[jno]

I emailed Wikipedia about this and they've changed it

[chitchat]

Who's Simon Woodroffe?

[JackDanielsU]

Wikipedia is unfortuntley open to abuse

They had Leo Sayer being electrocuted in the BB House

Footballers get a good level of abuse leveled at them as well

Thankfully the moderators there are pretty quick to change the mistakes

[jno]

I someimtes correct Wiki pages myself if I definitely know they're wrong, but as I didn't know in this case I just emailed them and pointed out what Kempie said, that the death announcement seemed to have preceded the death.

[bendigedig]

his agency is still listing him for after dinner speeches so i hope not!

[Thicko2006]

As chitchat asked - who is Simon Woodroffe?