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...
DEPOSED, NOW DECOMPOSED As you can see from many several posts in this years DDP, often the death of a highly picked celebrity can produce great sadness. Terry Jones brought the world laughter and had to undergo a terrible illness before his time. Katherine Johnson strove to make the world a better place for those […]
SHOESTRING FUNERAL Actor Michael Medwin has died aged 96. A regular on stage, TV and film, he played Fred in Scrooge, What the Butler Saw in the West End, and a long running role in The Army Game. He was Trevor Eve’s boss, Don Satchley, in Shoestring, the popular TV detective show which preceded Bergerac. […]
RAISE THE DIETANIC Author of many ripping yarns, Clive Cussler, has died at the age of 88. Known for best seller Raise the Titanic, he sold 100 million copies of his novels. A film version of Raise The Titanic was a major flop, the studio later saying it would have been cheaper to lower the […]
HOXHED OFF Nexhmije Hoxha has died aged 99. The wife of Albanian dictator Enver, she spent much of her life defending his regime. She was a unique pick for Going Green, which is a bit of a blast from the past – they reached the top 20 back in 2011. Nexhmije Hoxha7 February 1921 – […]
OBITAL MECHANICS The great Katherine Johnson has died at the venerable age of 101. Born to a black working class family in West Virginia in 1918, Johnson found herself with both extraordinary maths skills from very early on, and a society prejudiced against her using them. Case in point, her family had to save to […]
NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A MORGUE Diana Serra Cary has died aged 101 years old. Better known as Baby Peggy, Cary was a ridiculously popular child actress in the silent movie industry, with a contract worth $1.5 million dollars by the time she was five. None of this money wound up with her, so in […]
EXTINCT REBEL Swedish actor Olof Thunberg has died at the age of 94. Despite being far better known in the UK and US for being the grandfather of climate activist Greta, Olof was a much loved voice actor in his homeland. He was the voice of Bamse, a honey loving bear (this sounds awfie familiar) […]
OLD MAN DIES The oldest man in the world, Chitetsu Watanabe, has died. A Japanese farmer, he worked on sugarcane plants and was independent until the age of 108 when he caught the flu. He claimed his longevity was down to laughing lots and enjoying good food, which suggests Billy Connolly might be immortal. He […]
SONNY BONED Former mobster Sonny Franzese has died at the remarkably old age for a Soprano of 103. Involved in organised crime from the early 1930s, he became boss of the Columbo family from 1963 to 67 and again several times despite the authorities attempts to lock him up for life. Eventually he served 6 […]
HERO OF THE DAY ENDS In nine years, Harry Gregg played over 200 league games for Manchester United. He also played for Stoke City, Doncaster Rovers, and in the 1958 World Cup for Northern Ireland, where several outstanding saves led his country to a stunning Quarterfinal. He was named best goalkeeper at the World Cup […]
