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...
GLYNIS VOTED OUT Hello again deadpoolers, the DDP 2024 has well and truly started with newcomer time joining Banana and I. Outgoing Reptile has also been invaluable in assuring a smooth transition, and the four of us (plus Whitehouse in a guest capacity) have bulldozed through the new celeb bios. As usual there’s plenty of […]
DER KAISER WIRD GESTÜRZT Another year, another absolute legend of football falls. Indeed, Franz Beckenbauer was as standout of his era as Pelé or Bobby Charlton, with the World Cup, Euro Cup, and Ballon d’Or all to his name on top of numerous German-level trophies. Der Kaiser joined a struggling Bayern Munich as a teen, […]
HUTCHED Starsky and Hutch star David Soul has died aged 80. His acting career started off with bit parts on Flipper and All in the Family before exploding into stardom with the popular buddy cop series. His cerebral Hutch and Paul Michael Glaser’s scrappy Starsky kept Bay City safe for four seasons and the duo […]
OFF LIFE SUPPORT Given how much of his media coverage in recent years has been as Kate garraway husband derek draper, it can be easy to forget Derek Draper was a high-profile political nuisance for years. He first stepped into the spotlight at the centre of the Lobbygate scandal, one of the earliest scandals of […]
BANG, ZOOM, STRAIGHT TO THE TOMB The first Sulu-ing of the year is… not Jimmy Carter. Joyce Randolph was the last survivor of The Honeymooners, the influential, Flintstones blueprint 50s US sitcom starring Jackie Gleason’s lovable lug bus driver Ralph Kramden. Randolph played the proto-Betty Rubble, Trixie Norton, and was the most peripheral character of […]
BILLY, BILLY CARK IT King of the deadpool frontier… Soaps actor and singer Bill Hayes has lost him a pulse when he was 98. His music career came first, and he topped the US charts in 1955 with “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”, a ditty about the frontiersman who I will never be able to […]
REPTILE MAN NOW COLD BLOODED Reptile enthusiast YouTube Brian Barczyk has died aged 54. The founder of reptile zoo The Reptarium, he hassled about with his menagerie to an audience of 5+ million. His favourite animal was the snake, of which he owned over 30,000, but he also owned lizards, crocodiles, turtles, and the occasional […]
BATTER UP Veteran TV director Roy Battersby has died aged 87. He became known early on for his unabashedly leftist documentaries, often depicting working class struggles. The BBC blacklisted him for his association with the Workers Revolutionary Party, but he had a fruitful second wind directing popular dramas including Between the Lines, Inspector Morse, Cracker, […]
STUPORED MARIO Brazilian football great Mario Zagallo has died aged 92. The forward played on two World Cup winning teams in 1958 and 1962, and was the last survivor of the former after Pelé’s death. He later turned his hand to coaching, and promptly won another World Cup in 1970. Only Franz Beckenbauer and Didier […]
ANOTHER TRUMP GETS FIRED Melania Trump’s mum, Amalija Knavs, has died aged 78. This marks a third year in the row where there’s a Trump family hit in the DDP. Your aim is getting more frustrating than John Hinckley’s, Reaper. She was unique for Manifest Death-stiny. Amalija Knavs9 July 1945 – 9 January 2024, aged […]
