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...
A TIME TO DIE… Crosby’s still, gnashed, and, er… old… Few could have predicted Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to be one of the last great 60s bands with an intact lineup, and the biggest reason for the WTF-ness has removed himself from the equation. Grand ole git of folk rock David Crosby first made […]
BRIGIDA TO NOWHERE Fesity Italian silver screen star Gina Lollobrigida has died aged 95. After placing bronze in the 1947 Miss Italy contest, she became mainstay in both Italian and French cinema for years to come, winning early acclaim for Bread, Love and Dreams and Beautiful but Dangerous. Howard Hughes pursued her for a Hollywood […]
ICE COLD IN SYLVIA Respected veteran actress Sylvia Syms has died aged 89. Her prolific 60-year career began in the late 50s, with her first role of note as a young delinquent in 1956’s My Teenage Daughter. She rounded off the decade in fine form, being nominated for a BAFTA in drama Woman in a […]
LUCILE, PLEASE COME BACK WHERE YOU BELONG! And so the surviving half of our 2020s version of Calment and Knauss goes down. Frenchwoman Lucile Randon was born on one humble day in February 1904, three days after the Russo-Japanese War was declared and six days before the premiere of Madame Butterfly. Raised Protestant, she converted […]
THIS OBIT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTERS DDP In Bernard Cribbins’s obit last year, I noted that anyone who made 50 years’ worth of children happy lived a good life. Lloyd Morrisett, as a lesser-known-but-crucial pillar of Sesame Street, could claim the same with one co-creation. An experimental psychologist, Morrisett was piqued […]
CALVIN HOBBLED Prisoner John Keith Calvin has died aged 56. Imprisoned in 2003 for the shooting of John Coates the year before, he maintained his innocence to the end. Given that the cop who put him in the slammer was later indicted for being a serial rapist, we’re inclined to think that his plight at […]
STENKYBOYS TikTok personality Randy Gonzalez has died aged 35. Half of the father-and-son duo Enkyboys, the pair amassed millions of followers. He announced a colon cancer diagnosis last year, and although the initial prognosis was measured in years, he let slip in recent TikToks that the chemo wasn’t working. To Kill A Gabor Sister astutely […]
LIN’S BINNED Chicago DJ Lin Brehmer has spun his last disc aged 68. Active in radio since the 70s, he began his career in Albany as “the Reverend of Rock ‘n’ Roll” but it was in the Windy City where he became a fixture, hosting WXRT programmes since 1991. He was noted for jokingly calling […]
POETRY IMMOBILE South Korean actress Yoon Jeong-hee has died aged 79. One of South Korea’s most prominent film actresses of the 60s and 70s, she had over 330 appearances to her name and was considered part of the “troika” of preeminent era actress alongside Moon Hee and Nam Jeong-im. She retired in the 90s but […]
CANNED BEANO Leading Beano illustrator David Sutherland has been erased aged 89. His association with the DC Thompson corridors spanned 60 years, beginning his trade with obscurer adventure strips before making his name inking troublemaker favourites The Bash Street Kids and Dennis the Menace. He passed the Dennis pencil to David Parkins in 1998, but […]
