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...

Daryl Dragon

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Originally a surf musician and live keyboardist for the Beach Boys, Daryl Dragon achieved fame as “The Captain”, the peaked cap-wearing half of 1970s cheeseboard easy listening act Captain and Tennille. While Toni Tennille served as the focal point, Dragon handled the overall sound of the band, playing the majority of instruments on daytime radio-friendly […]

Mean Gene Okerlund

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Mean WHOO! BY GAWD! Gene Okerlund has finally put that cigarette out, aged 76. A failed rock’n’roll star (his teenage band, Gene Carroll & The Shades, put out a number of singles but failed to get out of their hometown), Okerlund studied broadcast journalism at college and joined the AWA in 1970. Despite previously having […]

Kevin J. McIntyre

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In what will undoubtedly be the most glamorous, high profile death of the year, we at the DDP wave goodbye to Kevin J. McIntyre. Appointed by Donald Trump as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, McIntyre’s reign lasted less than a year before a brain tumour forced him to stand down from the role. […]

Tyler Trent

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Our first hit of the year came to us all the way from West Lafayette, Indiana, on January 1st. Tyler Trent was a student at Purdue University who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma as a 15-year-old. However, he didn’t let that stand in the way of his college football love, and in 2018 became an honorary […]

2018: A Foolz Paradise

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2018. The year that England celebrated losing three matches out of a possible seven, Elon Musk called a cave diver a paedophile and Bitcoin investors had to sell their gaming chairs on Gumtree. It might not have been a marquee year for celebrity deaths, but in the world of deadpooling we saw a tight race […]