Kay Burley just tweeted an RIP about someone who died 26 years ago and people are confused
This morning Sky News presenter Kay Burley tweeted an RIP message about Malcolm Muggeridge, the journalist and author who died in 1990.
This led to much bafflement, piss-takery and other belated RIP’s on Twitter. Had she just found out about his death? He died on the 14th November 1990, so it wasn’t even an anniversary.
@KayBurley There wasn’t Twitter when he died so she is just backdating her condolences. RIP Charlie Chaplin
— Jack Murray (@JackMurray2) March 17, 2016
@KayBurley He died about 25 years ago! What are you up to?
— david charles bowen (@davidcharlesbow) March 17, 2016
@KayBurley RIP Arthur Mullard pic.twitter.com/MNyPNHOYUP
— rob (@robshuttleworth) March 17, 2016
@KayBurley RIP King Lulach I of Scotland #sadnessinhiseyes
— joe fee (@smokinjose72) March 17, 2016
@KayBurley RIP the dinosaurs
— Paul Hancock (@spadoinkler) March 17, 2016
@KayBurley RIP Æthelred the Unready
— Ben Gazeley (@BGazeley) March 17, 2016
.@KayBurley Requiescat In Pace Edward, Rex Anglorum #RIP pic.twitter.com/VocX3GvlGx
— Frank Hames (@frankhames) March 17, 2016
Some suggested she had got Muggeridge confused with some others who recently passed away.
@chrishawtree In 1990, yes. Cliff Michelmore, Malcolm Muggeridge. IT’S CLOSE ENOUGH
— Jack Seale (@jackseale) March 17, 2016
@KayBurley I think you mean Paul Daniels..
— john locke (@jlocke13) March 17, 2016
Who knows? Maybe she’s just steadily working her way through celebrity deaths. One of the actors who played E.T died on November 28th 1990, so we can all look forward to Burley’s moving tribute to her.
At least the internet was there to help.
Thanks all for correcting me re Malcolm Muggerdige. Some of you more polite than others, as ever
— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) March 17, 2016
