Death happens. Why not make it interesting?
The online competition to guess which famous people won't make it to the end of the current year. If they're elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em in your team, and for each one whose death you correctly predict, you'll score points. DDP was dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by Big Iain back in 1996. Other hosts: Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid (2003-7), Octopus of Odstock (2008-9), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), and Reptile (2020-23). Now the Committee of DI (2022), time (2024), and Banana (2023) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
8½ POINTS (ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST WHOLE) Actress Sandra Milo has died aged 90. A muse to Federico Fellini, she was best known as the main character’s mistress in his acclaimed 8½. She was unique for Perfect 10. Sandra Milo11 March 1933 – 29 January 2024, aged 90💀💀💀💀💀 + 👻 = 9 POINTS
WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS New Orleans attorney Harry Connick Sr. has died aged 97. He served as the city’s district attorney for thirty years, though multiple innocents sent to death row blotted his legacy. And you’ll never guess who his son is. He was unique for Complete Phalluses. Harry Connick Sr.27 March 1926 […]
NO LONGER FIENNES Peer Nathaniel Fiennes has died aged 103. Hailing from the same family as Ralph, Joseph, and Ranulph, he helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He was picked by Obituarynotice. Nathaniel Fiennes22 September 1920 – 20 January 2024, aged 103💀💀💀💀 + 👻 = 8 POINTS
HIT THE ROAD JACK Fucking hell 1923 really is a shriveled raisin now. Another recent departee from its ranks is one Jack Burke Jr. Burke was a successful golfer of the 1950s and early 60s who won both the Masters and PGA Championship in 1956. His Masters win, where he rebounded from an eight-shot deficit […]
GLYNIS VOTED OUT Hello again deadpoolers, the DDP 2024 has well and truly started with newcomer time joining Banana and I. Outgoing Reptile has also been invaluable in assuring a smooth transition, and the four of us (plus Whitehouse in a guest capacity) have bulldozed through the new celeb bios. As usual there’s plenty of […]
DER KAISER WIRD GESTÜRZT Another year, another absolute legend of football falls. Indeed, Franz Beckenbauer was as standout of his era as Pelé or Bobby Charlton, with the World Cup, Euro Cup, and Ballon d’Or all to his name on top of numerous German-level trophies. Der Kaiser joined a struggling Bayern Munich as a teen, […]
HUTCHED Starsky and Hutch star David Soul has died aged 80. His acting career started off with bit parts on Flipper and All in the Family before exploding into stardom with the popular buddy cop series. His cerebral Hutch and Paul Michael Glaser’s scrappy Starsky kept Bay City safe for four seasons and the duo […]
OFF LIFE SUPPORT Given how much of his media coverage in recent years has been as Kate garraway husband derek draper, it can be easy to forget Derek Draper was a high-profile political nuisance for years. He first stepped into the spotlight at the centre of the Lobbygate scandal, one of the earliest scandals of […]
BANG, ZOOM, STRAIGHT TO THE TOMB The first Sulu-ing of the year is… not Jimmy Carter. Joyce Randolph was the last survivor of The Honeymooners, the influential, Flintstones blueprint 50s US sitcom starring Jackie Gleason’s lovable lug bus driver Ralph Kramden. Randolph played the proto-Betty Rubble, Trixie Norton, and was the most peripheral character of […]
BILLY, BILLY CARK IT King of the deadpool frontier… Soaps actor and singer Bill Hayes has lost him a pulse when he was 98. His music career came first, and he topped the US charts in 1955 with “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”, a ditty about the frontiersman who I will never be able to […]
