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...
STENKYBOYS TikTok personality Randy Gonzalez has died aged 35. Half of the father-and-son duo Enkyboys, the pair amassed millions of followers. He announced a colon cancer diagnosis last year, and although the initial prognosis was measured in years, he let slip in recent TikToks that the chemo wasn’t working. To Kill A Gabor Sister astutely […]
LIN’S BINNED Chicago DJ Lin Brehmer has spun his last disc aged 68. Active in radio since the 70s, he began his career in Albany as “the Reverend of Rock ‘n’ Roll” but it was in the Windy City where he became a fixture, hosting WXRT programmes since 1991. He was noted for jokingly calling […]
POETRY IMMOBILE South Korean actress Yoon Jeong-hee has died aged 79. One of South Korea’s most prominent film actresses of the 60s and 70s, she had over 330 appearances to her name and was considered part of the “troika” of preeminent era actress alongside Moon Hee and Nam Jeong-im. She retired in the 90s but […]
CANNED BEANO Leading Beano illustrator David Sutherland has been erased aged 89. His association with the DC Thompson corridors spanned 60 years, beginning his trade with obscurer adventure strips before making his name inking troublemaker favourites The Bash Street Kids and Dennis the Menace. He passed the Dennis pencil to David Parkins in 1998, but […]
TAPS Tap dancing trailblazer Arthur Duncan has hung up his shoes aged 97. Duncan’s career prospects faced long odds – one, he was a tap dancer in the 50s and 60s, when the art form was going out of vogue, and two, he was African American in the 50s and 60s. But there was a […]
DEATH VIALLI We’re finally up and running – if with kinks still in need of ironing out – and about to chop on into the first wave of 2023 cadavers. Before doing so, let’s give kudos to those who assisted the 2023 committee of DI, Reptile, and Banana with getting things up and running – […]
COME TOMORROW, WILL I BE COLDER? Pioneering guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck has died aged 78, a rare celebrity death from bacterial meningitis. Inspired by Les Paul’s “How High the Moon” to take up electric guitar, bluesmen like Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters further influenced his playing approach. He rotated through various bands in the early […]
CONSTANTINOPULSE The Greek monarchy has fully faded to history with the death of its last king, Constantine II, at the age of 82. A gold-winning Olympic sailor before donning the crown, he ascended to the throne in 1964 upon the death of his father, King Paul. His reign began inconspicuously, but his popularity soon plummeted […]
THE INCREDIBLE MRS. LIMP Actress Carole Cook has died on the cusp of her 99th birthday. Recognisable by her fiery red hair, Cook was trained by another carrot-top funnylady – none other than Lucille Ball. Lucy repaid in kind, with Cook a regular on latter-day Ball sitcoms The Lucy Show and Here’s Lucy, rarely playing […]
BLYTHE NOT SO LITHE Writer Ronald Blythe has died aged 100. Deemed too docile to fight in World War II, he instead spent the 40s and 50s weaving his way into literary circles. His own author career began writing novels, but his specialty would be profiling the English countryside. His 1969 work Akenfield, which covers […]
