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...
REAPER PUTS DRAX OUT OF HIS MISERY French actor Michael Lonsdale has died aged 89. Acclaimed in his homeland, Lonsdale made international success with roles in films such as The Day of the Jackal, where he plays Commissioner Lebel hunting the titular Jackal played by Edward Fox. He was also a priest in Orson Welles […]
ECHOES IN THE DARK Drummer Lee Kerslake has died after a long battle with cancer. He was drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Uriah Heep, who had eight charting UK albums in the 1970s. In 1980, he met Ozzy Osbourne in a lift, and went on to be the drummer on classic rock […]
BYE BYE BABY Musician Tommy DeVito has died of covid aged 92. DeVito was one of the original members of Frankie Valli’s Four Seasons, and his guitar work can be heard on all of their 1960s classics such as Working My Way Back to you, Beggin’, and Can’t Take My Eyes Off You. He left […]
TURNER IN HIS GRAVE Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner has died aged 91, another victim of the increased rate of activity on the 2020 DDP. Born in Richmond (now part of London), he moved to Canada when he was three after the death of his father. In government, he was seen as a loyal […]
KANSAS COMET CRATERS American football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers has died aged 77 after a long battle with dementia. Knee injuries restricted his career to six seasons, but in that time he made the Pro-Bowl 6 times. When his friend Brian Piccolo died of cancer in 1970, Sayers wrote about their opposites attract friendship, […]
Jackie Stallone, mother of A list move star Sylvester, has died, days after some DDP regulars tipped her to reach her century. Kiss of death! An astrologer by trade, where she popularised fortune telling by looking at people’s arses, so she could have warned us those who wanted to pick her on DDP2021 were in […]
PAT’S FINAL FURLONG Jockey Pat Smullen has died aged 43 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Over a twenty-six year career riding horses, he won several titles, including nine Irish champion jockey titles. He had been fighting pancreatic cancer for three years, and as such was a pick for several regular contenders, including reigning […]
Actress Barbara Jefford has died aged 90. She was much acclaimed on stage for her roles in several RSC Shakespeare performances, including Julius Caesar and As You Like It. She starred at The Old Vic, and was nominated for a BAFTA for her role in Ulysses. She dubbed the voices of two actresses in the […]
CLOSED GATES 2020 has been a hell of a year. So many big names we never got a chance to pick in the DDP, and so their hilarious obits never made the front page. Who could forget Derek Acorah’s “Mary loves Dick” scene as one notorious example? We could have spoken about Roy Horn’s near […]
Für Vergessen German politican Hans-Jochen Vogel has died aged 94. A former Mayor of Munich, he was the leader of the SDP from 1983 to 1991. As a politician he oversaw the Munich Olympics, squatters rights and he was an outspoken critic of nuclear energy. He had suffered from Parkinsons disease for a number of […]
