The year that the Queen died was a right royal one for the DDP. David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals clinched the long-promised Drive For Five with a record points total containing conventional differentials like Tom Parker and canny research like a Traci Braxton unique. It was a year where many of the major celebrity deaths were sudden or of private health battles, thus not on the DDP, but we still farewelled giants like Sidney Poitier, Bernard Cribbins, Olivia Newton-John, Mikhail Gorbachev, Angela Lansbury, and in the waning hours of the year Pope Benedict XVI and Pelé – himself a DQSP hit.
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DDP 2022 – Teams: 497 Hits: 280
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Other names in the 2022 queue were Ronnie Spector, Meat Loaf, Barry Cryer, Bamber Gascoigne, Peter Bowles, Lynda Baron, Madeleine Albright, Estelle Harris, June Brown, Vangelis, Lester Piggott, Jean-Louis Trintignant, James Caan, James Lovelock, Nichelle Nichols, Bill Turnbull, Jean-Luc Godard, Louise Fletcher, Loretta Lynn, Robbie Coltrane, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Treacher, Leslie Phillips, Wilko Johnson, Kirstie Alley, George Cohen, and Barbara Walters. And that precludes List of the Missed-bound shockers like Shinzo Abe, Ray Liotta, Christine McVie, Dennis Waterman, Bob Saget, Gilbert Gottfried, and Shane Warne.