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 Death Impends (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...
PAEDOPHILE DIES Serial paedophile Barry Bennell has died aged 69. He was jailed in 2018 for sexually abusing numerous young boys during his decades as a football coach, and is a welcome hit for three teams. Barry Bennellc. 1954 – 16 September 2023, aged 693 TEAMS (💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 8 POINTS)
NO MORE TO DO NO MORE TO SEE SomeBODY once told me his liver was gonna roll him… The Internet of the early 2010s was arguably the last hurrah of Wild West Internet, when forums were still semi-prolific and before everything got condensed into three or four different social media conglomerates. One of the pervasive […]
AND THIS IS ME! *THUD* Impressionist Mike Yarwood has died aged 82. One of the bastions of 70s British entertainment, at his peak he was capable of commanding a TV audience over twenty million. His act was notable as one of the first in the mainstream to impersonate politicians, with his trademark being a take […]
GOODBYE, DOLLY! The cloning of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, remains one of science’s great milestones, turning scientific consensus upside down and propelling panic of a clone apocalypse in one fell swoop. The team that made it possible was led by Sir Ian Wilmut, a leading embryologist who was […]
RIPE MANGO Zulu prince and politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi was one of the few black South Africans to hold a position of power during the apartheid years, reigning over the semi-independent KwaZulu designated by the government for the Zulu people. His role in the fight against apartheid was a polarising one: Though he correctly assessed KwaZulu […]
BROWN BREAD Actress Jean Boht has died aged 91. A longtime stage actress, she became better known for TV roles such as drama Boys from the Blackstuff and short-lived Britified Golden Girls adaptation The Brighton Belles. Her biggest success was as acerbic, domineering matriarch Nellie Boswell in working-class sitcom Bread, which was popular enough to […]
YOU CAN’T HEAR THE DRUMS FERNANDO Colombian artist and sculptor Fernando Botero has slimmed down aged 91. His trademark “Boterismo” made the ladies of Rubens look svelte, exaggeratedly plumping up all his subjects whether it be to make a political point or just because it was funny. Indeed, he’d alternate between serious and silly pieces, […]
A LIFE TO REMEMBER Scottish actor John Cairney has died aged 93. He was best known for a one-man show as Robert Burns that he debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and proved so popular he took it around the world for decades. On stage he played Macbeth and Hamlet, and was in the British […]
POINT OF DEPARTURE Jazz bassist Richard Davis has died aged 93. He worked with prolific jazz figures such as Eric Dolphy and Sarah Vaughan, and deftly straddled genres as he backed up artists from Springsteen to Sinatra and formed the bedrock of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. In classical circles he performed with Leonard Bernstein and […]
SNOOKERED Snooker player Perrie Mans has died aged 82. His greatest feat was winning the 1979 Masters against Alex Higgins, and also finished runner up to Ray Reardon in the 1978 World Snooker Championship. He was unique for snooker loopy c*NTS are we. Perrie Mans14 October 1940 – 13 September 2023, aged 82💀💀💀💀💀💀 + 👻 […]
