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, first tenure), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), Reptile (2020-23), and Death Impends (2022-2025). Now the Committee of Banana (2023), time (2024), the returning Octopus of Odstock (2026) and the deadpooling equivalent of a gap year temp Marlfox (2026) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
KO’D Boxer Lee Noble has died aged 33, after a long battle with terminal cancer. Noble had his boxing debut in 2006 and had a 20-24-1 record, being best known for taking the later champion Billy Joe Saunders to a decision in 2009. He had beaten cancer twice before it came became terminally last year. […]
WOMAN AT POINT ZERO The Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World, Nawal el Saadawi has died aged 89. A feminist writer in 1950s Egypt (as safe a job as being the food taster for a Trump family member), she was considered an ideological foe of the government and imprisoned. In 1982, fresh from another […]
RIOT IN THE AFTERLIFE Scottish footballer Peter Lorimer has died after a battle with brain cancer aged 74. Lorimer debuted for Leeds in 1962 and spent the next 17 seasons at the club, winning two league titles and two FA Cups under Don Revie. He was part of the team which reached the 1975 European […]
NESTERDEADKO Opera singer Yevgeni Nesterenko has died aged 83. A regular on the Bolshoi Theatre stage, Nesterenko became so renowed as an opera singer, even the likes of Shostakovich were writing music specifically for him. He suffered in recent times from covid, and was a unique pick for the Fat Lady’s Singing Yevgeni Nesterenko8 January […]
LAPPED BY DEATH Motor racer Sabine Schmitz has died after a battle with cancer aged 51. An expert on the Nurburgring course, she went viral when she appeared on Top Gear and drove round the Nurburgring in a van. When Jeremy Clarkson left Top Gear, the Guardian wrote a jokey article that Schmitz should takeover […]
NAMES ARE FOR TOMBSTONES Trailblazing actor Yaphet Kotto has died aged 81. He played the formidable Bond villain Dr Kananga in Live and Let Die, a loose expy of real life dictator Duvalier, and remains the only black actor to play the main villain in the series. (The only Bond villain with the common sense […]
Actor Henry Darrow has died aged 87. He was best known for his role in 60s US drama The High Chaparral. He also played Zorro’s dad in the 90s TV series, and won an Emmy for Santa Barbera. He was a unique pick for All Quiet on the Westerns Front. Henry Darrow15 September 1933 – […]
NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS PICK EXCEPT HES DEAD!!! The great sports commentator Murray Walker has sadly died at the great age of 97. A tank commander in World War Two, Walker took to a career in advertising before he was known as a broadcaster. The classic “Opal fruits made to make your mouth water” was […]
FINAL SERVICE Evangelist Luis Palau has died after a long battle with cancer. He was one of the more popular televangelists in recent memory with over 25 million followers across Latin America. He was viewed as the successor to Billy Graham but unlike Billy Graham he barely made his early 80s, and unlike Graham he […]
COUNCIL ADJOURNED Oh no no no no no no no no no no, yes… custard pie fight arranger Trevor Peacock has died aged 89 after a long illness. A talented songwriter, Peacock wrote a number of hits for the likes of Adam Faith and national treasure Bernard Cribbins before turning his hand at acting. He […]
