Keith on Keith
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DJC

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23,563 posts

253 months

Monday 14th September 2009
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Keith Floyd...well you arent a very nice person are you?

VX Foxy

3,962 posts

260 months

Monday 14th September 2009
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...yet strangely compelling. Legend.

taldo

1,357 posts

211 months

Monday 14th September 2009
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facinating watch that was. only 65 years old too.

i found it upsetting to see someone i idolised as a child had aged so badly.

Balmoral Green

42,442 posts

265 months

Monday 14th September 2009
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smile and yet frown

taldo

1,357 posts

211 months

Monday 14th September 2009
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Balmoral Green said:
smile and yet frown
summed it up nicely!

OllieWinchester

5,693 posts

209 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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Missed it 'cos I'm sat at work. Why did you say he isn't a nice person?

Lord Croker

7,277 posts

206 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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He's just died this morning...

aeropilot

38,586 posts

244 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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Lord Croker said:
He's just died this morning...
eek
What a bizare co-incidence the day after that programme going out last night.

CraigW

12,248 posts

299 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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i just found keith allen to be such a sycophant it was painful, I had to switch off. Very sad news this am too.

VX Foxy

3,962 posts

260 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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aeropilot said:
Lord Croker said:
He's just died this morning...
eek
What a bizare co-incidence the day after that programme going out last night.
He died on Monday...blimey frown

Dupont666

22,215 posts

209 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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VX Foxy said:
aeropilot said:
Lord Croker said:
He's just died this morning...
eek
What a bizare co-incidence the day after that programme going out last night.
He died on Monday...blimey frown
Maybe he watched the show and realised he called all other cooks s and died of embarassment

Bunglist

545 posts

247 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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Dupont666 said:
VX Foxy said:
aeropilot said:
Lord Croker said:
He's just died this morning...
eek
What a bizare co-incidence the day after that programme going out last night.
He died on Monday...blimey frown
Maybe he watched the show and realised he called all other cooks s and died of embarassment
To be fair pretty much all the other tv chefs are Ccensoreds

DJC

Original Poster:

23,563 posts

253 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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Its not a shock to be honest.

I turned the show on last night and immediately thought "Christ he doesnt look well! Aged and haggard."

That was before the show turned into a long alcoholfest! As soon as it started to show how much he was drinking and abusing, I knew exactly why he looked so ravaged and thought he was driniking himself to death. When they announced at the end of the show he was actually seriously ill with cancer I think it was, well it made a few numbers add up for me.

Dupont666

22,215 posts

209 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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DJC said:
Its not a shock to be honest.

I turned the show on last night and immediately thought "Christ he doesnt look well! Aged and haggard."

That was before the show turned into a long alcoholfest! As soon as it started to show how much he was drinking and abusing, I knew exactly why he looked so ravaged and thought he was driniking himself to death. When they announced at the end of the show he was actually seriously ill with cancer I think it was, well it made a few numbers add up for me.
What they killed him after the show?

Nobby Diesel

2,093 posts

268 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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He actually died before the show was aired, according to this article.
Hmm, wait a minute, it's in the Daily Mail, so it may not be true.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213601/Ke...

XJSJohn

16,093 posts

236 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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Keith RIP ....

Always one to speak your mind, never one to stand on political correctness, and a legend of his era!!

opinions aside, I am having a "quick slurp" to Mr Floyd ......


Soovy

35,829 posts

288 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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Not a bad way to check out, I'd say.

His Companion of many years said:
He had a wonderful last day and even told me: 'I've not felt this well for ages' shortly before he collapsed.

It was my 65th birthday yesterday and we started off by going to see the specialist to do with his cancer. He had some very good news and he was very optimistic of his chances of beating it.

We then went to have a pub lunch in Lyme Regis and he was on good form, he was feeling marvellous.

He said "I have not felt this well for ages." He had a very good last day.'
The pair ate a three-course meal at the Hix Oyster and Fish House, which cost more than £120, before going home.

Floyd drank a Champagne cocktail, a glass of Pouilly Vinzelles 2006 white Burgundy and a couple of glasses of Nature Perrin and Fils Cotes de Rhone 2007 red wine.

To eat, he had oysters with potted shrimp and toast, partridge and then Perry Jelly - pear cider made into jelly.

Back at home, Floyd had a nap and woke up feeling 'a bit headachy' but Mrs Martin just put it down to the extravagant lunch.

They were waiting to watch Keith Meets Keith, a Channel 4 documentary that shows actor Keith Allen visiting Floyd in France, when he collapsed and died.



Edited by Soovy on Tuesday 15th September 14:46

XJSJohn

16,093 posts

236 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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Soovy, "Quick Slurp...... "


Nobby Diesel

2,093 posts

268 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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I just told my wife that I would be having a Floyd Tribute Dinner tonight, as she is going out.

I think we all should.

Balmoral Green

42,442 posts

265 months

Tuesday 15th September 2009
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anonymous said:
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TBF in last nights documentary, more than once he spoke to people in a pretty appalling and shocking way. Which was quite different to expressing his opinions about people. Who was the older lady on his right he snapped at? I don't think anyone deserves to be spoken to like that, friend or family.

Anyway, RIP Keith.