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...
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 […]
SWEATING FOR THIS OLDIE Fitness guru Richard Simmons has further slimmed down aged 76. Simmons was a corpulent teenager when taking a one-two regimen of exercise and diet to constrain himself to a healthy weight. He took the exercise market by storm with his Sweatin’ to the Oldies, and was an unmistakable US pop culture […]
A HARD ROAD Bluesman John Mayall has died aged 90. He formed his Bluesbreakers in the 60s and his band would nurture many of the British blues greats including Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor. He never quite reached the stardom of his proteges but remained in high […]
THAT BITES FOR DRACULA Snooker star Ray Reardon has died aged 91. He dominated the game in the 70s with six World Championships to his name, and was nicknamed “Dracula” for the vampiric vibes to his hair and teeth. He was picked by fifteen teams. Ray Reardon8 October 1932 – 19 July 2024, aged 9115 […]
CADAVER, READY! REAPER, READY! Gladiators referee John Anderson has died aged 92. He was everpresent during the original 90s series and came back for the brief aughties revival, where his catchphrases and umping would prove as much a part of the pop culture fabric as the athletics contests. His death leaves I’ll sleep when you’re […]
