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(December 2008)

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Gareth E
BBC News reporting the death of 'Last of the Summer Wine' actress Kathy Staff, aged 80.

Very sad news.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7782250.stm
(Link not yet working as of initial post)

I guess Nora Batty will now be reunited with Compo.
PT
Put The Telly On
Oh dear, according to Peter Sallis it looks like it spells the very Last of the Summer Wine then.

I guess it has to be said that Kathy was the last original iconic character of the show and you can see the bitterness that it seems Mr Sallis wishes he had a more notable comical role maybe.

I never saw Kathy in Crossroads but also saw her in Open All Hours - again typically portraying the Northern housewife character she did so brilliantly.
BR
Brekkie
nok32uk posted:
Oh dear, according to Peter Sallis it looks like it spells the very Last of the Summer Wine then.


I think for most people it ended when Compo died anyway, and I'm sure Kathy herself quit at the time, only to return not long after.
MD
Mr D'Arcy
She was a fantastic actress, another great gone! Crying or Very sad
SG
SatGold
News report said kathy was ill for some time during the making of recent episodes so was written out in a storyline that she was visiting her sick sister in australia.
Probably came back if well a bit like that sugden bloke in emmerdale he wasn't well was gonna come back but sadly died.
just checked peter sallis on wikipedia says he is 87.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sallis
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Lewis c
It is very sad i never watched Last Of The Summer Wine .I associate Kathy with her role as Doris Luke in Crossroads and i also remember when she was in Coronation Street.
JE
Jez Founding member
Very Sad News - RIP Kathy Crying or Very sad
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Lewis c
No mention of it on ITV News how bad is that she appeared in two of their big soaps Corrie and Crossroads .
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Andrew Founding member
Brekkie posted:
nok32uk posted:
Oh dear, according to Peter Sallis it looks like it spells the very Last of the Summer Wine then.


I think for most people it ended when Compo died anyway, and I'm sure Kathy herself quit at the time, only to return not long after.

In my opinion it went awful after Compo died, but then picked up a bit but then in the last few years with more deaths (Thora Hird, him who played Wesley Pegden etc) it's now just a bunch of old actors that you've seen in other programmes

Sadly Peter Salis looks quite old thesedays so I think they will now have to call it a day and end the programme shortly

Bizzarely the new series starts on New Year's Eve, that's a Wednesday Shocked
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itsrobert Founding member
Lewis c posted:
No mention of it on ITV News how bad is that she appeared in two of their big soaps Corrie and Crossroads .


They did mention it in the early evening bulletin.
PT
Put The Telly On
Andrew posted:
Brekkie posted:
nok32uk posted:
Oh dear, according to Peter Sallis it looks like it spells the very Last of the Summer Wine then.


I think for most people it ended when Compo died anyway, and I'm sure Kathy herself quit at the time, only to return not long after.

In my opinion it went awful after Compo died, but then picked up a bit but then in the last few years with more deaths (Thora Hird, him who played Wesley Pegden etc) it's now just a bunch of old actors that you've seen in other programmes

Sadly Peter Salis looks quite old thesedays so I think they will now have to call it a day and end the programme shortly

Bizzarely the new series starts on New Year's Eve, that's a Wednesday Shocked


There's a new series already in the can? I missed that listed.

Peter Sallis didn't seem overly interested about doing a new series to be honest, I think he knows he and the series has had it's day now. But, we'll wait and see.

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