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...
WHERE DID YOU GO TO, MY LOVELY? Zizi Jeanmaire has died aged 96. She was a dancer, whom people who talked like Marlene Dietrich danced like. Their clothes were all made by Balmain too. Sadly, the well respected social historian Peter Sarstedt left us with that information alone. Aside from a mention in the most […]
MOROUNIC PICK? NO, UNIQUE! Sir Creep’s Cancel My Appointments team has been rather underwhelming this year (they currently sit outside the top 100) so here is some rare 2020 cheer for him, a unique hit on his theme team, Made in Detroit. Manuel Moroun owned the Ambassador Bridge, the only private bridge between the US […]
MILOS JAKES IT IN Milos Jakes, a name most of you thought died 20 years ago, has died. Jakes was the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia from 1987 until he was deposed in the 1989 Velvet Revolution. His rise up the Communist party was aided by his hearty support of enemy purges, especially after […]
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 […]
