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THE MIRROR 8th September 2003

TV QUIZ LOSER KILLS HIMSELF
TEST THE NATION HUBBY'S SUICIDE AFTER LOSING TO WIFE

A FAN of telly quiz Test the Nation killed himself - after his wife got a better score than him.

Brannon Brockbank, 30, took a lethal cocktail of vodka and painkillers in the wake of a bitter row with wife Shirley.

He was angry because she had outplayed him during the Anne Robinson-fronted show, which lets viewers test their intellect.

Yesterday, devastated Shirley said: "He was cross because he got a lower score than me, and threw his note pad and pen across the room.

"He said he was thick, but I told him that people were clever in different ways."

She found Brannon dead on the floor next morning.

(Slightly more senstive than The Star's report.)

What a terrible tale. Will they now please ban this sick stunt?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

it is tragic, but I find it hard to believe that he wasn't mentally unstable anyway and there's no way I would regard Test the Nation as a sick stunt on the basis of this tragedy.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

wait a minute, Anne Robinson is working?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I find it hard to believe N. isn't mentally unstable, too.

this is ridiculous otherwise, too, obviously.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Suicide is not a sick stunt.

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i'm going to post a question abt Test the Nation, coz I took part and enjoyed it and what is more, there was an "expert" and a woman who sets quizzes on the show, both of whom were emphasising that not being good at quizzes doesn't make you thick ect ect.

my ex was forever *telling* me i was thick, but that belongs on a different thread...

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Suicide is not a sick stunt.

It is if you commit it wearing suspenders and a comedy nose.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 8 September 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Your name's not Dan.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 September 2003 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's all Friends Reunited's fault.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 8 September 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

SOMEBODY OR SOMETHING IS (ALWAYS) TO BLAME

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 September 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Who ate my cheese?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 8 September 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn - I missed The Curse Of Friends Reunited, didn't I?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 September 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

me too - I was watching The Talented Mr Ripley instead.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Anne Robinson can do that to people!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I have The Curse Of Friends Reunited on VHS (longplay) if anyone wants to borrow it? I too was watching The Talented Mr Ripley and marvelling at the gorgeous Jude Law getting his pretty face stoved in by an oar-wielding Matt Damon.

I predict a huge fuckin' rash of people removing their entries from the site after that breathless scaremongering. What kind of twunt bangs on about his lucrative career as a coke dealer on a public forum, using his real name? Ha.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely you are not lured into adultery just because you have put an entry on a website. Unless of course the entry reads 'Am open to being lured into adultery.'

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

well quite - Friends Reunited asked me for another fiver to renew my subscription. I couldn't be bothered to renew it and haven't been near the site since.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I am totally open to being lured into adultery.

Enough talk of Law, btw.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

When my ex-girlfriend beat me in chess it was an ugly scene, for real

― dave q, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you stab her in the eye with a bishop? oo-er sounds like a carry on film!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the premise of the show?

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

When my ex-girlfriend beat me in chess it was an ugly scene, for real

You didn't decide to top yourself, though.

This guy wasn't secure enough to handle losing, and if I wasn't respectful of (the idiotic) dead, I'd say a unique eulogy. [No doubt the wife's in major pain, which is sadder.]

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Having just taken the quiz, I noted that both I and the late Brannon Brockbank just fall into the 30-59 age category. This is surely the unreported story.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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