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...
MOON ON A FUNERAL SHAWL Actress and model Cicely Tyson has somewhat surprised deadpoolers by dying at the age of only 96. One of the seemingly better aging nonagenarians in some time, many expected she’d see 100. She hasn’t. Tyson was best known for her roles in films such as Sounder (for which she […]
RUMOURS OF HIS DEATH GREATLY CONFIRMED The acting great Hal Holbrook has died aged 95. Holborok, who first came to fame playing Mark Twain in the 1940s, played the author nearly longer than Twain himself did, retiring the role in 2017. He won a Tony for his Twain, five Emmy awards and was nominated […]
LARRY KING DEAD LIVE ON CNN American TV broadcasting legend Larry King has died aged 87 after a number of health complaints in recent years. His broadcasting career started in local Florida radio in the 1950s and ended last year with an opinion show on Russia Today, which yours truly was surprised to stumble […]
FINAL TRAIN Screenwriter Walter Bernstein has died aged 101. After serving in WW2, he was uncredited script assistant at Columbia and Universal, until he was blacklisted during the McCarthy Communism scare of the 1950s. He continued to work under pseudonyms until Sidney Lumet signed him for That Kind of Woman. Other scripts of the […]
SLOVAN, JOZEF CZECHS OUT Football manager Dr Jozef Venglos has died, another victim of Half Man Half Biscuit, aged 84. He won the Czechoslovakian league twice with Slovan Bratislava before becoming the assistant coach for the Czechoslovaks famous Euro 1976 win. (The last time the Germans have lost an international penalty shootout, fact fans!) […]
Former Jamaican international striker Luton Shelton has become the latest victim of ALS, dying at the age of 35. Shelton played for Helsinborgs and Valeranga in the Scandinavian leagues, in between a short stay at Sheffield United. He played for the Blades at Old Trafford but was unable to keep them in the Premiership. Stays […]
HANK HAMMERED Hank Aaron, one of the most famous and popular American baseball stars of all time, has died a few weeks short of 87. With two decades play in the MLB, he won the World Series in 1957 with the Braves, and was an All-Star twenty five times in a row. He was […]
FADE TO GRAY Scottish comic actor Andy Gray has died aged 61. Gray made his name in iconic 1980s Scottish comedy sketch show Naked Video alongside Gregor Fisher, before moving onto sitcoms and latterly River City. He was best known for his partnership with the late Gerard Kelly. They were co-stars of sitcom City Lights, […]
JIMMIE DODGERED Pop singer Jimmie Rodgers has died aged 87. He had a number of top hits in the US charts in the 1950s, including the number 1 single Honeycomb, and saccharine top 10 hit Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. He was involved in a nasty incident in 1967 when his car was stopped by police […]
PHIL NOW A SPECTOR Music pioneer turned convicted murderer Phil Spector has died in prison aged 81. As creator of the Wall of Sound approach to record production, which revolutionised sound and led to him working with the hottest acts of the time from Dylan to the Beatles. He was also fond of eccentric behaviour, […]
