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...
JIMMY ILLER Rangers striker Jimmy Millar has died aged 87. During his 12 years with the Gers, he scored 162 goals for the team and two caps for the Scotland national team. He was ailing with dementia for over a decade and a premature death notice late last year piqued the interest of Octopus of […]
SLEUTH AS OLD AS TIME Obit, I wrote… Esteemed actress Angela Lansbury has died on the cusp of her 97th birthday. So immortalised is she as amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote that one can forget the breadth of her 80-year career. The daughter of Communist activist Edgar Lansbury and actress Moyna Macgill, […]
ON THE FITZ Scottish acting heavyweight Robbie Coltrane has died aged 72. Taking his stage name from John Coltrane, he had a prolific presence in 80s sketch comedies and a memorable bit in Blackadder as an irate Samuel Johnson out-lexiconed by the titular antihero. Goofy film leads in Nuns on the Run and The Pope […]
COAL MINER’S SLAUGHTER Grand old lady of country music Loretta Lynn has died aged 90. The news comes days after a tabloid claimed she was planning her funeral, only for the tabloid to bungle this flukey dart by insisting she wasn’t at deaths door. Born to an impoverished coal-mining Kentucky family and married in her […]
BRUNO MARRED French philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour has died aged 75. He was noted for his environmental musings, with a particular emphasis on climate change in recent years. Books he published included We Have Never Been Modern and Laboratory Life, which contrasted conventional philosophical wisdom with his belief that facts and values were intertwined. […]
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 PETER TOBIN IS DEAD 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Chances are at least one of 2022’s celebrity deaths deeply saddened you. But death is the great equaliser and plenty of nasty bastards have also died throughout the year. Now it’s time for an extra-welcome uncorking of the champagne bottle, a beast so horrid that the likes of Robert […]
SCONE COLD Scottish nationalist, lawyer and Stone of Destiny tug-of-warrer Ian Hamilton has died aged 97. Centuries after the stone was moved from its native Scotland to Westminster Abbey, Hamilton and three other students concocted the plan in 1950 to return the cultural relic to its homeland in an effort to rekindle Scottish identity. It […]
TARRED AND FEATHERED Nowadays, you have to slap someone to generate headlines at the Oscars, but back in the day legitimate causes could gain attention. Sacheen Littlefeather will forever be remembered as the Native American girl who stood in for Marlon Brando’s Godfather gong to draw attention to both the Wounded Knee Occupation and Native […]
LAST LAP Grand Prix motorcyclist Phil Read has zipped past the finish line aged 83. A seven-time world champion, he was the first to win world titles in the 125, 250, and 500cc classes. He was also noted for his on-track rivalries with Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini, and his outspoken views on the Isle […]
INOKI BOMBED-BA-YE The DDP was four years of nirvana for wrestling fans, with Spade and msc both knowing WWE like the back of their hand. That joyride has come to an end, with my base of knowledge roughly ending at knowing who Lou Albano was because of Mario and Cyndi Lauper. And that means sod […]
