2018...checking out

[Bullet]

Peter Stringfellow... He showed me the light when I was a teenager. 77

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44394076

Well, I did not know that. Thanks. No surprise he got lung cancer after years of running nightclubs.

Shame he left 2 tiny kids behind:



Married three times and a grandfather four times over, Stringfellow married former Royal Ballet dancer Bella - 41 years his junior - in 2009.

The pair's two children - Rosabella and Angelo - were born when he was in his 70s.

Image Copyright @PJStringfellow@PJSTRINGFELLOW
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Last year, he held his children's naming ceremony at his London club

 

[DeleHarry]

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain commits suicide. Hanged himself. Only 61

WTF is going on

RIP

 

[milo]

I think that Bourdain would hate to be thought of as a celebrity chef.

 

[DeleHarry]

I think that Bourdain would hate to be thought of as a celebrity chef.

Well that's what he became so I'm sure he got used to it.

 

[milo]

Well that's what he became so I'm sure he got used to it.

I don't think that he did, he became a cookery writer and presenter.

 

[Raziel]

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain commits suicide. Hanged himself. Only 61

WTF is going on

RIP

Everyone has their demons in their head ...

 

[milo]

Everyone has their demons in their head ...

And suicide clusters are well established

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

Really good writer, self-aware and funny. And every one of his maxims for what not to order, and when, has stayed with me. RIP.

 

[DeleHarry]

I don't think that he did, he became a cookery writer and presenter.

It doesn't really matter though does it....celebrity chef, celebrity cookery writer, celebrity food show presenter, he was a trained chef who wanted to share his food knowledge, journeys and experiences through all media and over the years became famous all round the world.

 

[milo]

It doesn't really matter though does it....celebrity chef, celebrity cookery writer, celebrity food show presenter, he was a trained chef who wanted to share his food knowledge, journeys and experiences through all media and over the years became famous all round the world.

I think that there's a difference (mainly talent and experience) but we're in danger of arguing over semantics

 

[Baleforce]

He wrote about more than food.

 

[NickTB]

Absolutely gutted with this news. I loved Kitchen confidential. Blew the lid off the restaurant world in only the way he could. RIP

 

[Bullet]

Barely heard of the fella, didn't he have a US cookery show or present Masterchef or something?

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

And suicide clusters are well established

I did not know this.

Did not know the fella but feel sad that he was in so much pain. The wife was saying this week that some handbag designer she admired did the same thing.

 

[Mr_B]

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain commits suicide. Hanged himself. Only 61

WTF is going on

RIP

a man with a dream job, paid to travel and eat food all over the world and just has to talk about the experience, a bon viveur in every sense if u google him, didnt see this one coming, RIP.

 

[NickTB]

a man with a dream job, paid to travel and eat food all over the world and just has to talk about the experience, a bon viveur in every sense if u google him, didnt see this one coming, RIP.

If you read Kitchen Confidential, he had plenty of demons niggling him. Addicted to heroin and drinking for quite some time. It's a shame as I was under the impression he'd rid himself of it all

 

[Jordinho]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1010366009709035520

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

That has to be the least famous dead person on this thread. I doubt even his mum had heard of Damageplan.

 

[Baleforce]

 

[Robbo]

That has to be the least famous dead person on this thread. I doubt even his mum had heard of Damageplan.

More famous to me than the chef and the handbag lady. Although I'll admit I never heard of Damageplan either (but listened a bit to Pantera in my younger years).

RIP