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...

Roberto Maroni

BONY MARONI Italian politician Roberto Maroni has died aged 67. A familiar presence in Italian right-wing politics with unmistakable red glasses, he was a key figure in the Lega Nord party and often cropped up in Berlusconi cabinets. To the side he was a keen pianist, and a rare government official to openly admit to […]

Peter Scupham

SCUPHAM SCUPPERED Poet Peter Scupham has died aged 89. He began publishing his poetry in the 70s, and his personal favourite of his books was The Air Show, which harkened to his childhood and paid tribute to his parents. Fittingly for our purposes, he also had an affinity for invoking ghosts. Though he died in […]

Don St. Claire

HIS AMAZING RACE HAS RUN He was from a different reality TV show entirely so I can’t even copy and paste the same obit. The Amazing Race participant Don St. Claire has died aged 87. As part of a team with his wife, he was one of the oldest participants on the show. He was […]

Robert Clary

HOGAN’S ZEROED The last major original player of the Hogan’s Heroes stead has escaped from Stalag 13. Frenchman Robert Clary portrayed patriotic chef Corporal LeBeau, among the POWs who helped Colonel Hogan outwit the bumbling Nazi guards led by Colonel Klink. LeBeau’s culinary aptitude often persuaded would-be Klink allies to assist team Hogan, and his […]

Vicky Phelan

YOU’VE LOST THAT LIVIN’ PHELAN… In 2011, a young Irishwoman named Vicky Phelan underwent a smear test that indicated no abnormalities. Three years later, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. An audit unveiled the smear test was a false negative, but Phelan did not know this for another 15 months. She refused to stay quiet, […]

Virginia McLaurin

COME ON VIRGINIA, SHOW ME A SIGN Kindly old lady Virginia McLaurin has died aged 113 according to her obituaries, though she was probably actually 105. Imagine being 105 and feeling that’s not impressive enough. A longtime community volunteer, she danced with the Obamas in 2016 and it was enough for a QO six years […]

Jim Bohannon

WHO NEEDS TO THINK WHEN YOUR FEET JUST GO? Talk radio host Jim Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon has signed off aged 78. Active in radio since the early 60s, reporting on a Barry Goldwater campaign event for which Mr. Conservative was an hour late finessed his ability to minimize dead air. After working the ranks […]

John Aniston

DAY OF HIS DEATH Actor and Jennifer’s dad, John Aniston, has died aged 89. Greek-born Aniston shortened his name from Anastassakis, and was a soaps regular in the 70s onward before landing his most prominent role in Days of Our Lives as suave on-and-off mobster Victor Kiriakis. He continued to play the character until his […]

Dan Lembo

NO LONGER A SURVIVOR: PART 2 The tribe has spoken for Survivor contestant Roger Sexton Dan Lembo, who has died of Lewy body dementia aged 76 75. He participated in the Amazon Nicaragua-situated sixth twenty-first season, and was the 7th 14th contestant to be voted out. The Elders of Reality TV, a theme team of […]

Leslie Phillips

DING DONG AT HEAVEN’S DOOR! Goodbyaeee… Reliable cad and premier immortal Leslie Phillips has ding donged his last aged 98. After the 2011 death of his wife Angela Scoular, there were fears feeble Leslie would not be long for this world. By 2017, he had made his last public appearance, but kept carrying on, and […]