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 DI (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...
HE’S BUTCHERED, I SAY, HE’S BUTCHERED Coronation Street stalwart John Savident has died aged 86. He was a regular of TV, film, and stage for decades, with his CV including A Clockwork Orange, Gandhi, Doctor Who, Yes Minister, The Battle of Britain, and the opening of Phantom of the Opera. However his defining role would […]
PARTY OF GRIEFS Vladimir Putin is a cunt. This is not an opinion. But there is very little risk to saying this on a niche deadpooling website whilst Putin is too preoccupied by his own deadpools that lack a “you can’t murder your picks” rule. Alexei Navalny, meanwhile, was the most vocal voice against Vlad […]
THE GAMBLER, HE BROKE EVEN Football maverick Stan Bowles has died aged 75. The star player of Queens Park Rangers in the 70s, he helped take the team to second place in the Football League First Division during the 1975-76 season. He was equally remembered for his colourful antics on and off the pitch, with […]
PRESLE’S KNELL French actress Micheline Presle has died aged 101. The last surviving star of pre-WWII French cinema, she quickly caught eyes with The Devil in the Flesh, where the plot of her nurse having an affair with a student while her husband was off at war provoked much conversation. She proved popular enough to […]
GONNIE CAMPBELL Former Labour MP Ronnie Campbell has died aged 80. The former miner represented Blyth Valley for 32 years, and often went against the grain in his party both good (always opposing the Iraq War) and bad (opposing same-sex marriage even as it became the party norm). A prior bout with stomach cancer meant […]
FITTIPALDI CROSSES THE FINISH LINE Racing driver Wilson Fittipaldi Junior has died aged 80. He participated in 38 F1 Grands Prix, and co-founded Copersucar Fittipaldi with his more successful younger brother Emerson. At his Christmas Day birthday bash last year, he choked on a chunk of food and never recovered. He was unique for Formula […]
CANNED Krautrock innovator Damo Suzuki has died aged 74. He scraped by as a busker when his performances on the streets of Munich piqued Can’s Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit. In need of a new frontman, Suzuki fit their bill of a boundary pusher and he shaped influential albums like Tago Mago and Future Days […]
HUNG OUT TO DRIES Former Dutch PM Dries van Agt has died aged 93. He served for five years from 1977 to 1982, where he was noted for his penchant for archaic vocabulary. He largely governed from the centre as PM, though post-office he veered leftward. In his later years he was notably outspoken against […]
WOWIE OZOWIE Popular conductor Seiji Ozawa has passed the baton aged 88. He was notably the only Japanese conductor to become a superstar in the Western world. His flashy outfits and lightning-struck hairdo cut a recognisable figure as he helmed the Boston Sympathy Orchestra for almost thirty years. Some critics debated whether his style came […]
LIFE ABOLISHED French Justice Minister Robert Badinter has died aged 95. A lawyer who was repulsed by witnessing his clients’ executions firsthand, he made abolition of the death penalty his mission. The guillotine was still intermittently used, increasingly divisively, during the Giscard d’Estaing administration. After Mitterand was elected in 1981 on a platform that was […]
