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...
DEFORRESTED In a week where the Sycamore Gap Tree was felled, so goes a whole Forrest. Rangers striker Jim Forrest scored 145 goals for the Gers and his five goals in a single League Cup match set a club record. He was 79 and a unique for They think it’s all over. Jim Forrest22 September […]
THROW DOWN THE GAGE Judge William Gage has banged his last gavel aged 85. He was best known as the stoic arbiter of the sensational Jill Dando murder trial, in which Barry George was convicted though overturned on appeal years later. After his retirement he chaired a public inquiry into the abusive killing of Iraqi […]
BONALLACKS TO THAT! Considered Britain’s greatest amateur golfer, Michael Bonallack won five British Amateur Championships and could’ve easily had a solid professional career had he opted to do so. He proved a pivotal behind-the-scenes figure on all levels of the sport, serving as Secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and […]
JOHN URNER Architect John Francis Charlewood Turner was impressed by the rural people of Peru, who cobbled together their own housing networks without urban planning. He became a strong advocate for people self-building their communities, and worked with the United Nations to promote this in developing countries. He was 96 and picked by Alternative in […]
HIT THE BONG South Korean actor Byun Hee-bong has died aged 81. Byun was long a recognisable face on Korean TV as a fish-out-of-water character actor. Into the 21st century he became known for his collaborations with Bong Joon-ho, leaving an early impression as an eccentric dog-eating janitor in Barking Dogs Never Bite. Further acclaim […]
PAEDOPHILE DIES Serial paedophile Barry Bennell has died aged 69. He was jailed in 2018 for sexually abusing numerous young boys during his decades as a football coach, and is a welcome hit for three teams. Barry Bennellc. 1954 – 16 September 2023, aged 693 TEAMS (💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 8 POINTS)
NO MORE TO DO NO MORE TO SEE SomeBODY once told me his liver was gonna roll him… The Internet of the early 2010s was arguably the last hurrah of Wild West Internet, when forums were still semi-prolific and before everything got condensed into three or four different social media conglomerates. One of the pervasive […]
AND THIS IS ME! *THUD* Impressionist Mike Yarwood has died aged 82. One of the bastions of 70s British entertainment, at his peak he was capable of commanding a TV audience over twenty million. His act was notable as one of the first in the mainstream to impersonate politicians, with his trademark being a take […]
GOODBYE, DOLLY! The cloning of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, remains one of science’s great milestones, turning scientific consensus upside down and propelling panic of a clone apocalypse in one fell swoop. The team that made it possible was led by Sir Ian Wilmut, a leading embryologist who was […]
RIPE MANGO Zulu prince and politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi was one of the few black South Africans to hold a position of power during the apartheid years, reigning over the semi-independent KwaZulu designated by the government for the Zulu people. His role in the fight against apartheid was a polarising one: Though he correctly assessed KwaZulu […]
