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...
MANCHESTER BLACKEYE Former MP Ken Eastham has died aged 96. The Labour man represented Manchester Blackley and his time in parliament bookended Labour’s dry spell of opposition – he first won as Thatcher was swept in and retired at the Blair comeback. He was unique for No More Expenses. Ken Eastham11 August 1927 – 21 […]
ATOMIC SLUMBER No, not the Married… with Children regular and patron saint of shark jumping, that’s Ted McGinley. Ken McGinley was a long-time campaigner against nuclear weapons after his witnessing of several tests left him with lingering health issues. He founded the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association, which seeked restitution for soldiers who suffered nuclear […]
SCOTT FREE Scottish rugby union player Donald Scott has died aged 96. Among his ten international appearances was an infamous match where South Africa crushed Scotland 44-0. His obit prospects were seeming similarly pessimistic until being rescued by Herald Scotland two months after the fact. He was picked by Jocks Away. Donald Scott15 April 1928 […]
THEY CALL ME ISMAIL Ismail Haniyeh was one of the leading figures of Hamas. He was wanted by the ICC for war crimes but at the very least had interest in negotiating an end to the genocide in Gaza. Which is more than you can say for Bibi. He was assassinated in Tehran aged 61 […]
STROOCK OF LUCK Actress Gloria Stroock has died aged 99. She acted in films like Fun with Dick and Jane and The Day of the Locust and was perhaps best known as Rock Hudson’s secretary in the police TV drama McMillan & Wife. Her husband was Leonard Stern, a screenwriter who also [verb]ed Mad Libs […]
NEWHART BUTTONED DOWN Comedy legend Bob Newhart … he … has hung up aged 94. He landed on the scene with his acclaimed 1960 album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, which featured skits such as a driving instructor struggling with a reckless student, and Abe Lincoln rebuffing a slick ad man while he writes […]
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF DEATH Last of the OG Four Tops, Duke Fakir, has died aged 88. Fakir had befriended frontman Levi Stubbs in high school over their mutual interest in sports and singing, and soon the quartet was rounded out with Lawrence Payton and Renaldo Benson. They named themselves The Four Aims (named […]
SHANNEN IS GONE, I HOPE SHE’S DRIFTING OUT TO SEA 90s sensation Shannen Doherty has died aged 53. First known as a child actress on Little House on the Prairie, she gained further momentum with a string of teen dramas and comedies such as the morbid Heathers. It was riding the Aaron Spelling train that […]
GOODBYE, I’M SHELLEY DUVALL The Shining star Shelley Duvall has been axed from life aged 75. Her thin frame and wide eyes created an unforgettable screen presence as her character gets mortified by husband Jack Nicholson’s descent into madness. It was a grueling recording process with sometimes north of a hundred takes, but didn’t detract […]
GET SOME POINTS Leading sexpert Dr. Ruth Westheimer has been sniped out 96. She was among the thousands of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust by the Kindertransport and trained as a sniper in Palestine. If she had already lived several lifetimes by age 18, she wasn’t known to the world at large until her […]
