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The anti-Mandela effect - did everyone else realise Sean Connery died 3 years ago?

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RubaiyatOfAnyone · 18/07/2023 20:48

Because i totally didn’t!
what else have i missed?

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Invisablepanic · 19/07/2023 14:30

Thehonestybox · 19/07/2023 08:12

Emma Chambers (who played Alice Tinker in Vicar of Dibley) & Keith Chegwin

Keith Chegwin? I totally missed that.

I was like this with Alan Rickman the other day, once DH said he had died I did vaguely remember when it happened but I just didn't link it whenever I've watched him in anything recently.

Eloweeese · 19/07/2023 14:30

Bill Paxton Loved him

LlynTegid · 19/07/2023 14:47

I remember it but did not realise it was 3 years ago.

Nelson Mandela's death was ten years ago, does not seem that long.

JamieFrasersfurrysporran · 19/07/2023 14:54

He was by far the best Bond

Verv · 19/07/2023 17:37

ThirtyPercentRecycled · 18/07/2023 23:33

I had no idea that Bill Paxton had died 6 years ago ☹️

Me either! I was just talking about him the other day (without knowing he was dead)

HalloumiLuvver · 19/07/2023 17:53

@Invisablepanic I think there was a wee spate of some of my favourites dying - Alan Rickman, Prince, David Bowie all around 2016/2017 I think. I felt very old!

DinnaeFashYersel · 19/07/2023 17:55

Yes. But then he was practically the second patron saint of Scotland. So it was everywhere.

JustKeepSlimming · 19/07/2023 18:06

HalloumiLuvver · 19/07/2023 17:53

@Invisablepanic I think there was a wee spate of some of my favourites dying - Alan Rickman, Prince, David Bowie all around 2016/2017 I think. I felt very old!

2016 was the year that there was a spate of celebrity deaths. I remember the BBC announcing that their end of year "people who died this year" programme was going to be an hour long instead of half an hour (or 2 hours instead of 1 or something).

People were joking that 2016 was the worst year ever; that it was so bad that in the future we'd look back and just pretend it never happened. That didn't age so well!

TimeToMoveIt · 19/07/2023 18:46

I hadn't realised meat loaf had died until yesterday

toomuchlaundry · 19/07/2023 18:52

2016 was an awful year, Terry Wogan and Victoria Wood also died and I think it ended with George Michael

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 19/07/2023 20:48

I forgot about TPT until an article the other day. I often forget George Michael died as well

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