Derby Dead Pool

UP AND UP Prolific children’s author and illustrator Shirley Hughes has died aged 94. Her primary focus was stories about preschoolers its audience could relate to, with her two most successful works being the Alfie series, which featured a young boy and occasionally his younger sister, and Dogger, a story about a child losing and […]

RALPH CRAMMED IN Character actor Ralph Ahn hailed from a family venerated in Korean American culture. His father Ahn Changho was the early 20th century’s preeminent voice of Korean independence, elder brother Philip Ahn was the first Korean American of note in Hollywood and one of the most familiar Asian faces of his era, and […]

GLUM END FOR BLUM Investment banker Richard Blum has died aged 86. He was better known as the husband of US Senate fossil Dianne Feinstein. According to the aide deciphering the waves from the jar containing Feinstein’s brain, it’s the saddest she’s been since losing her old beau in the Battle of the Alamo. Blum […]

BLIGHTED FADE OF AILED Gary Brooker, the voice behind one of the most enduring 60s tunes, has died aged 76. He first figured his health was awry after skipping the light fandango, with concerns furthered after feeling kind of seasick. And so it waaaas cancer, which has now led to him… hmm, how the fuck […]

OLIVE IN THE PITS British TV mainstay Anna Karen has died, terrifyingly in a house fire, aged 85. Her first sitcom role in Wild, Wild Women would be a launchpad to her defining role, frumpish and oft-harried wife Olive in ITV bus crew sitcom On the Buses. Filming episodes of WWW while suffering from flu, […]

DIGITAL NUMB Sing, fly, review art, is there anything nuns can’t do? Have an A-game on Twitter, you say? Sister Catherine Wybourne, who has hit her 280th character aged 67, proves you wrong. Her longtime fascination with technology often put her at odds with her Benedictine order, but Wybourne was unperturbed and spearheaded a fusion […]

NOW YOU SEE HIM… Outrageous Vegas magician The Amazing Johnathan makes his disappearing act aged 63, following years of ticker woes. The stage name of John Szeles, Johnathan deemed himself the “Freddy Krueger of Comedy” for his gory tricks. This both involved apparent self-mutilation (such as sucking on his dangling eyeball) and morbid variants of […]

A STEP INTO THE PAST Hong Kong film director Chor Yuen has died aged 87, following many years of suffering from dementia. Heavily associated with the martial arts genre, he also acted, with roles including the main baddie in Jackie Chan romp Police Story. Oriental outfit Dead Continent chops into the points, and is a […]

REBEL DOUSER Perhaps not the UK political maverick you were expecting to read here, former Tory MP Richard Shepherd has died aged 79. The MP for Aldridge-Brownhills for 36 years, his support of whistleblowers irritated Thatcher and was later shepherded (heh) into the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. He was also among the Maastricht Rebel […]

GOLDEN BUZZARD RECEIVES NIGHTBIRDE Seemingly every three years a young musical upstart positions themselves as one of the pivotal differentials of the DDP contest. Thomas Fekete in 2016 and Billy Clayton in 2019 both delivered for the eventual winners, and many of those vying for the 2022 crown had their eyes on America’s Got Talent […]