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Blimey, they’re dropping like flies.

Now Anton Rogers is dead.

As a great fan of the sitcom May to December, this is tragic news.

Then again, I did catch a repeat of the show a while ago, and like so many things we treasure from our past, it was actually rubbish.

Nonetheless, it entertained me at the time, so Anton, thank you and goodnight.

Interestingly, Anton seems to have grown up in crazy opposite world …

Rodgers was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of an accountant. As a boy at Westminster city school, he hoped to become a doctor. But his mother - a domineering woman who was a former singer and ran a dancing school - recruited him, at the age of five, into one of her charity singing and dancing shows and later put pressure on him to become an actor.

So he gave up his youthful dream of being a doctor because his mother wouldn't have it, forcing him into acting.

That’s almost a comedy sketch in itself isn’t it?

posted by Peter The Great @ 9:00 AM