Anthony Stewart Head, Giles of Buffy fame, dead at 72.
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Reposted because I spelled his middle name wrong the first time.
RIP Rupert from Buffy.
RIP Rupert from Ted Lasso.
RIP the various other characters, too.
RIP Ripper.
>partner
Was he gay? Or a police officer? Or a cowboy?
In the UK/EU they don’t use “wife/husband” anymore in reports. Just “partner” because, yknow, gay marriage is just the same
So not gay, this article is just using non gendered gay terms.
They might just not have ever married, since she is mentioned there with a different surname. While it may be weird to use the term partner, it feels a lot more weird to call people in their 60s and 70s "boyfriend and girlfriend" since the boy- and girl- prefixes are terms commonly linked with younger aged individuals.
One of my uncles lives with a woman. They're married in all but name, because (IIRC) she'd lose benefits she gets as a veteran widow if she remarried.
It's not ideal, but that's what happens when the government goes sticking it's grubby fingers everywhere.
They should go find a sympathetic priest/pastor and have him marry them off the books. That's what I would do in that situation.
If they were never married, the headline should read:
Wikipedia agrees:
I agree that it's weird to call people in their 60s and 70s who aren't married "boyfriend and girlfriend". But that's because it's weird to be in your 60s and 70s, having lived together for more than forty years, and not be married. The answer isn't to use the term 'partner', the answer is to just get married, u/Cyberguy's uncle notwithstanding.
Damn and I only just recently caught up on Ted Lasso.
I did enjoy him as an actor but from the sounds of it, he was one of those where when your partner goes, you follow soon.
Enjoyed him in Repo Man genetic opera. Talented guy, rip
72… from Pneumonia? Ehhh
Almost thought they were suggesting he died because he was heartbroken from Nicholas Brendon
He was a handsome bloke for his age, and definitely one of the better elements of that feminist trash that was Buffy (Elisha Dushku was the only other tolerable element... along with James Marsters).
I bet you Sharon Maughan is shitting herself.
Famous Gold Blend coffee advert man.