I don't have a strong opinion either way on Cilla but i have to disagree with this! Plenty of unpleasant people have lasted many years in the industry. I think Jimmy Saville is probably the best example?! Not that i am comparing Jimmy and Cilla before anyone jumps on that.
I agree. Jimmy and Cilla were icons of television when 20m plus watched. They became untouchable. Fact is many of that viewing generation wouldn't have believed any negative stuff anyway. Cilla was just an diva who had been indulged for far too long. She played the liverpudlian working class routine for audience but she stopped having any grasp of this life in 1960's.
Very true. If memory serves me right weren't the foreign news outlets reporting Diana's death before the British media? And look at how much media has changed in the almost 18 years since.
I think it will depend how much the palace can manage the news and the circumstances of the Queen's passing. (In some respect Diana was different as she was no longer officially a royal and her death happened on an open road.)
BTW - 2pm BBC News Channel has Cilla as the leading story.
If she dies in a palace they will be able to control news. If anywhere else not a chance.
What a ridiculous comparison. To the best of my knowledge, Cilla Black was not a major criminal, who sexually molested children or had friends in the police and high places who tried to cover up for her. Where are her 'victims'? Oh hang on. This is DS. I nearly forgot. No doubt they'll all be coming forward in the weeks to come. :rolleyes:
Except the story broke 2 hours ago.
The BBC is a dinosaur by modern news standards.
It's becoming a joke. All they need to do is report source and say they are waiting official confirmation. The audience are intelligent enough to understand this. BBC as a 24 hour news service is just not up to standard. It's a regurgitating old news and putting our slant on it news service.
I think it is very unfair to use the hyperbolic example of people on the internet potentially paying respects to an evil dictator responsible for so many deaths, in direct relation to the death of Cilla Black, in order to illustrate both your opinion that Cilla was an unpleasant person and that people who are writing messages of RIP, are, in your view, ridiculous for doing so.
Haha. Well I initially got the Cilla news from... The Mail Online. It comes to something when they are more up to date than the BBC website. I'm not suggesting this is massive world news but when the headline news is athletics doping (which is a day old), followed by migrants in Calais (which is at least 30 years old) I would have thought there'd be one line on the BBC website. Unless they know something we don't. (I have no view either way on the comments in this thread - reading the thread is the first time I'd heard any negatives as I've never followed Cilla, other than watching her TV shows in the 80s).
From what the BBC reporter was saying, it has been impossible to get absolute confirmation, which is what the BBC will always try to do in circumstances such as this.
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I nearly spat out my coffee reading that x
I agree. Jimmy and Cilla were icons of television when 20m plus watched. They became untouchable. Fact is many of that viewing generation wouldn't have believed any negative stuff anyway. Cilla was just an diva who had been indulged for far too long. She played the liverpudlian working class routine for audience but she stopped having any grasp of this life in 1960's.
Except the story broke 2 hours ago.
The BBC is a dinosaur by modern news standards.
They like to make sure
If she dies in a palace they will be able to control news. If anywhere else not a chance.
BBC just said it started to filter out about an hour ago 😒
Rest in peace.
“I thought she was well. I can’t believe it to tell you the truth.”
http://www.twitcelebgossip.com/15929-paul-ogrady-finding-cilla-blacks-death-very-difficult-to-comprehend/
It's becoming a joke. All they need to do is report source and say they are waiting official confirmation. The audience are intelligent enough to understand this. BBC as a 24 hour news service is just not up to standard. It's a regurgitating old news and putting our slant on it news service.
Ok let me rephrase...
I think it is very unfair to use the hyperbolic example of people on the internet potentially paying respects to an evil dictator responsible for so many deaths, in direct relation to the death of Cilla Black, in order to illustrate both your opinion that Cilla was an unpleasant person and that people who are writing messages of RIP, are, in your view, ridiculous for doing so.
From what the BBC reporter was saying, it has been impossible to get absolute confirmation, which is what the BBC will always try to do in circumstances such as this.
The BBC do like to make sure as they have been accused before of wrong reporting
RIP Cilla.
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