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...
THE DEVIL CAME DOWN TO CHARLIE Charlie Daniels was a well known country music singer-songwriter. The Devil Went Down to Georgia (think Tenacious D’s Tribute, but with less jokes) was a worldwide smash hit in the 1970s, reaching the top 20 in the UK charts and third in the US Hot 100. “I don’t know […]
EVERTON NOW VERY WEEKES Sir Everton Weekes, the last surviving member of the famed West Indies 3 Ws, has died after a period of ill health. IN a long career he managed 12, 010 runs in 152 matches, and was considered one of the best cricket players in the world in the 1950s, with the […]
HUGH DOWNED American TV host Hugh Downs has died aged 99. He was best known in America for host news panel show 20/20, which turned out to be an accurate projection of his longevity. He also hosted The Today Show (the US equivalent of Good Morning) from 1962 to 1971, making him a sort of […]
REIN WHEN I DIE Mel Brooks best friend has died the day after Mel Brooks birthday. Talk about timing. Carl Reiner, who was tweeting until a few days before his death, was considered a legend in US TV. Not only was he the co-writer and muse for Brooks, and the father of Rob “This Is […]
CRISTAL BALL REVEALS LATEST HIT Argentine actress Linda Cristal has died age 89. She made her name in the 1950s in Western films and TV appearances in shows such as Rawhide. It was Westerns that provided her biggest fame, as Victoria Cannon in The High Chaparral, a role for which she won a Golden Globe. […]
FELLOWSHIP OF THE REAPER Much respected film actor Ian Holm has died aged 88, which is a bit of a surprise for those who expected the cast of Alien to continue dying in the order they died on screen. (Somewhere Tom Skerrit breaths a sigh of relief…) His career started in the early 1950s after […]
WE’LL (NOT) MEET AGAIN The Forces Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, has died at the age of 103. When Vera was two years old, she was seriously ill with diphtheria but lived. Rumours the Reaper said “you have this century, but wait for the next one” cannot be confirmed. She began singing in her childhood and […]
FALZON’S EPILOGUE Australian stage actor Michael Falzon has died aged 48 after a battle with cancer. His career stretched two decades and multiple continents with lead roles in Sydney and London. He played Judas in a tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and had a world tour with Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of […]
DICTATORS SON DONE Sergei, son of Nikita, has died on the verge of his 85th birthday. After his fathers death he emigrated to the USA, and became a regular on the academic circuits talking of his experiences of the Cold War. He had designed cruise missiles and moon vehicles, but presumably not for the same […]
END OF THE LINE The last of the Kennedy clan siblings who tried to change the world, Jean Kennedy Smith, has died aged 92. The second youngest of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children, Jean’s siblings included 3 of the most famous American politicians of the 20th Century and the founder of the Special Olympics. […]
