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...
WONT SEE U NEXT TUESDAY Playwright Sir Ronald Harwood has died aged 85. Best known for his plays The Dresser and Quartet, he won the Oscar for best screenplay in 2003 for his work on grim holocaust drama The Pianist. He was a unique pick for And Its Goodnight from Him Sir Ronald Harwood9 November […]
SEAVERED FROM LIFE Former baseball pitcher Tom Seaver has died of covid complications. He won the World Series in 1969 with the New York Mets and in a 19 year career he made the All-Star game twelve times. He was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1992, and last year Tom Brady was […]
PERILS OF THE REAP Czech film director Jiri Menzel has died aged 82. His 1967 film Closely Watched Trains won an Academy Award, but this didn’t stop later works such as Larks on a String being banned by the Czech communist government. His work liked to poke at the activities of authoritarian governments like the […]
BOB TAKES THE BULLET WWE Hall of Famer Bullet Bob Armstrong has died, aged 80, after a battle with cancer. The former fireman’s wrestling career, which started in 1960 and ended last summer, was known for its longevity and generosity. Indeed, Armstrong was known, even in his late 70s, as a man who could be […]
WHAT A GUY Luxury furniture designer Christopher Guy Harrison has died shortly before his 60th birthday. The British designer specialised in expensive living rooms for the stupidly rich in places like Beverly Hills and Java. His view of a chair was that it should be sophisticated and remind you of sitting on a young Vivien […]
WHERE THERE’S A WILLZ, THERE’S A WAY Actor Philip Latham, who once donned the robes as Doctor Who’s wily old mentor Borusa in Doctor Who, died back in June. Due to current events in the world – I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there’s been a hell of a pandemic lately – coverage of […]
CONDITION VERY CRITICAL Musician Frankie Banali has died after a long battle with cancer. The Queens born drummer was best known for his tenure in American rock band Quiet Riot, whom he joined in 1982 and was a member on and off until his death 38 years later. He was part of the band in […]
POSTHUMEOUS REPORT Arguably one of the most important political figures of the 20th Century, Irish statesman John Hume has died after a long battle with dementia. Hume involved himself in civil and human rights from an early age, at first in his beloved hometown of Derry and then in Northern Ireland as a whole. He […]
KAMALA NOT VEEP, BURIED DEEP Jim Harris, better known as Kamala the Uganda Giant, or “Kamala” Harris to those of you who like to mischievous on Twitter, has died. Harris’s wrestling career started in Nashville in the late 70s as the Mississippi Mauler before he decided to paint his face, pretend he spoke no English […]
FOREVER SUMNER Weekend at Bernies impersonator Sumner Redstone has shocked the world by actually dying aged 97. Redstone was a tax expert who became CEO of his father’s theater chain, and used the stock market to leverage investments in Columbia, Fox and Paramount. In 1979 he was nearly killed in a hotel fire and told […]
