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...
BROWN BREAD Actress Jean Boht has died aged 91. A longtime stage actress, she became better known for TV roles such as drama Boys from the Blackstuff and short-lived Britified Golden Girls adaptation The Brighton Belles. Her biggest success was as acerbic, domineering matriarch Nellie Boswell in working-class sitcom Bread, which was popular enough to […]
YOU CAN’T HEAR THE DRUMS FERNANDO Colombian artist and sculptor Fernando Botero has slimmed down aged 91. His trademark “Boterismo” made the ladies of Rubens look svelte, exaggeratedly plumping up all his subjects whether it be to make a political point or just because it was funny. Indeed, he’d alternate between serious and silly pieces, […]
A LIFE TO REMEMBER Scottish actor John Cairney has died aged 93. He was best known for a one-man show as Robert Burns that he debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and proved so popular he took it around the world for decades. On stage he played Macbeth and Hamlet, and was in the British […]
POINT OF DEPARTURE Jazz bassist Richard Davis has died aged 93. He worked with prolific jazz figures such as Eric Dolphy and Sarah Vaughan, and deftly straddled genres as he backed up artists from Springsteen to Sinatra and formed the bedrock of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. In classical circles he performed with Leonard Bernstein and […]
SNOOKERED Snooker player Perrie Mans has died aged 82. His greatest feat was winning the 1979 Masters against Alex Higgins, and also finished runner up to Ray Reardon in the 1978 World Snooker Championship. He was unique for snooker loopy c*NTS are we. Perrie Mans14 October 1940 – 13 September 2023, aged 82💀💀💀💀💀💀 + 👻 […]
A BOONE FOR TWO TEAMS Ruschell Boone was a Jamacian-born, NYC-based newcaster, who was popular in the Big Apple for her coverage of the local immigrant community and events like Hurricane Sandy, the George Floyd protests, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary victory. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022, but despite her high point […]
LOSING HORN BLOWS FOR BARKER We’ve got an exciting obituary for you today for The Price is Right emcee Bob Barker! Grim Reaper, come on down! With the looming retirement of Pat Sajak, active US game show hosts who weren’t really known for anything outside of hosting game shows are on the precipice of TV […]
TERRY’S DEAD FOREVER! FOREVER! FOREVER! FOREVER! FOREVER! FOREVER! Hardcore wrestling great Terry Funk has permanently retired aged 79. A member of the influential Funk family (father Dory was a pioneering promoter and elder brother Dory Jr is another popular figure), he was billed as hailing from the Double Cross Ranch and made his debut in […]
DEAD AS A DODI! Mohamed Al-Fayed was probably best known for his supporting role in the furore surrounding Princess Diana’s death. Perishing in the same crash was Di’s boyfriend and Al-Fayed’s son Dodi. A grief-stricken Al-Fayed uncovered the truth – that Prince Philip didn’t want Di to walk like an Egyptian and coordinated an assassination […]
RECIPE FOR DISASTER FOR PUTIN’S CHEF If there’s any midyear announcement that reeks more of “not seeing the New Year” than entering hospice care with advanced pancreatic cancer, it’s staging a mutiny against Vladimir Putin. I’m not implying Yevgeny Prigozhin did that while suffering from pancan, though that would be impressive. He and Vlad went […]
