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...
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRIGIT FORSYTH? Actress Brigit Forsyth has died aged 83. A veteran of stage and drama, she was best known for the sitcom roles of prim-and-proper Thelma in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and grumpy Madge in Still Open All Hours. She was also a capable cellist and a trained martial artist […]
MA CLAVIN DELIVERS Actress Frances Sternhagen has died aged 93. A popular stage actress who won two Tonys for The Good Doctor and The Heiress, she was also known for film roles such as the sheriff’s wife in Misery. It’s a little-known fact that she also played Cliff Clavin’s bossy Ma in Cheers, with such […]
KINNOCKING AT HEAVEN’S DOOR Former MEP Glenys Kinnock has died aged 79. The wife of Neil, she was noted for her work to reduce poverty and starvation in Africa. Her family eulogised her saying “She was the beloved wife and life partner of Neil, the cherished mother of Steve and Rachel and an adored grandmother.” […]
CORKED Soaps actor Dean Sullivan has died aged 68. He was best known as lovable rogue Jimmy Corkhill in Brookside, whose gradual descent into drug addiction brought some of the programme’s most compelling storylines such as killing his neighbours in a coked-up car accident. So popular was he that he was only planned for six […]
LAND OF THE LOST Marty Krofft followed elder brother Sid into the puppet business, and the duo were behind a series of low-budget, cult favourite children’s programmes during the 60s and 70s. Their biggest hit was H.R. Pufnstuf, starring a boy and the titular puppet dragon squaring off against the evil Witchiepoo. McDonald’s borrowed so […]
BERKSHIRE PASSEDAWAY Investor Charlie Munger has hit the bear market aged 99. He was the longtime financial sidekick of Warren Buffett, often buying the same stocks and notably transforming Berkshire Hathaway from an unheralded textile mill to a corporate powerhouse in many a portfolio. His stock would’ve gone down a point had he made it […]
PAVAN THE WAY FOR ANOTHER HIT Actress Marisa Pavan has died aged 91. The twin sister of fellow actress Pier Angeli, Pavan was Oscar-nominated for her role in The Rose Tattoo. She was unique for Waiting for the Hearse. Marisa Pavan19 June 1932 – 6 December 2023, aged 91💀💀💀💀💀 + 👻 = 9 POINTS
LOST IN THE MAZE Colette Maze began her recording career in her 90s, releasing albums until shortly before her death aged 109. Lest you fear this is a Captain Tom-style cacophony of horror, worry not, she was a pianist not a “singer”. A student of Alfred Cortot, she specialized in the works of Debussy and […]
STEEL MAGNOLIA RUSTS No man has had a more eventful 2023 than Jimmy Carter. After announcing in February that he was likely to die this century rather than next century, he put his time left on this globe to good use: Ran marathons, stopped burglaries, threw Rolf Harris and the Unabomber off the Empire State […]
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY REVOKED Actor Joss Ackland has died aged 23. He was one of the busiest actors for decades, with over 130 film credits to his name and believed to have more stage credits than any living actor from Falstaff to Juan Peron. Perhaps his finest moment on the silver screen was as the cuckolded […]
