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...
JESUS HE KNOWS THEM Singer, songwriter, poet, punk, avant-garde industrial electronic performer and offbeat occultist, Genesis P-orridge has died after a long and noted battle with cancer. Founder of cult favourites Throbbing Gristle, P-orridge was a popular figure on the underground music scene of the 1970s and 80s, despite, or perhaps because of music that […]
CHECK MATE Death has finally won its game of Chess with the wonderful Max von Sydow, who has died a few weeks short of his 91st birthday. A Bergman regular who went onto appear in some of the biggest franchises on the planet, von Sydow was one of the most instantly recognisable Swedish actors who […]
INSIDE THE ACTORS FUNERAL James Lipton has died aged 93. The dean of the Actors Studio drama school, he was the host and producer of Inside the Actors Studio, a popular interview show, from 1994 to 2018. He was picked by three teams in this years DDP, including Cant Sleep Clown Will Eat Them (great […]
DYSON SPHERED Acclaimed scientist Freeman Dyson has died aged 96. A man who felt real science needed to be subversive and anti-authority, hence a rather contrarian approach to climate change in later life, he displayed natural brilliance in physics from an early age and worked under the brilliant Richard Feynman. Under Edward Teller he helped […]
KENNYS OUT OF ACES Legendary country musician Kenny Rogers has died aged 81. With over 100 million albums sold in his lifetime, he burst out of the country music niche with world wide hits like The Gambler and a duet with Dolly Parton on BeeGees penned Islands in the Stream. And Coward of the Country, […]
AVADA KEDAVRA FOR GRIFFIN-DOR Maggie Griffin was the mother of an American comedian, Kathy. She died after a long period of ill health shortly before her 100th birthday. She was a rad unique for To Kill a Gabor Sister, who now find themselves at the top of the DDP, despite currently being on a […]
JOHN TOOLS OVER Sir John Tooley, who has died aged 95, was the general director of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden from the 1960s to 1988. He was regarded as having revatilisied British opera in the 1970s, and held a large number of directorships into his old age. He also married three times.
HAMLINED Catherine Hamlin has died aged 96. She was a doctor who, after reading an SOS for expert knowledge from the Ethiopian government in 1958, went there and later founded a women’s hospital in Addis Ababa in 1974 designed to help women suffering from childbirth injuries. For this, she won a number of humanitarian awards, […]
FALCON SINKS Alfred Worden, who has died aged 88, was the pilot of the Apollo 15 lunar mission, and one of only twenty-four men in history to have flown to the moon. Despite it being the habit of Apollo 15 crews to take things to the moon to increase their value, Worden was rewarded for […]
FALLEN OFF THE WAGGON Lyle Waggoner has died aged 84. A familiar face on US TV in the 1960s and 70s, he was seen in Wonder Woman, and The Love Boat (isn’t that a team?). He also played several characters over seven years and 182 episodes of The Carol Burnett Show. By 1979, he had […]
