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...
DIVORCED (NOT BEHEADED) DEAD Former US politician John Warner has died aged 94. He was the US Senator for Virginia from 1979 to 2009, and had previously been Richard Nixon’s Navy Secretary. Warner was originally runner up in his primary, seen as not as reliably right wing enough, but then his opponent died in a […]
THE VERY MOURNING CATERPILLAR In the light of the moon, an old author sat at a typewriter. One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and – pop! – out of the writer’s mind came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. It started to look for some food.. Childrens author Eric Carle has sadly died […]
TOUR DE MORT French cyclist Robert Marchand has died at the premature age of 109. Marchand had cycled in his youth and in the 1940s, before returning to it as an interest in his 60s. His cycling fame became ore famous when he continued on competitive cycling after his 100th birthday, winning fans and Guinness […]
JOE SMOKED Jockey Joe Mercer has died aged 86. Smokin Joe won nearly 3000 races in a near forty year career, and worked with Henry Cecil. He won the St Ledger 4 times between 1965 and 1981. He was a unique pick for Blueberry Crumble. Joe Mercer25 October 1934 – 17 May 2021.unique
MR (DEAD) PERSONALITY Singer Lloyd Price has died aged 88. Price had three top ten hits in the US, but was best known for his number one single Stagger Lee, which sold over a million copies and upset Dick Clark over its violent lyrics. He also promoted boxing with Don King, was once fired over […]
DEATH EQUALS DEATH Oscar winning actress Olympia Dukakis has died aged 89.She started a stage career early, and only transferred to films in her mid 30s. Dukakis won the Oscar in 1987 for playing Rose Castorini, Cher’s mother in Moonstruck. It was her natural chemistry with the late John Mahoney (Frasier Crane’s dead) that swung […]
WHEN YOU DIE UPON A STAR Actor Johnny Crawford has died aged 75. Crawford was a child actor who appeared in the 1950s drama The Riflemen. He was also known to audiences of the time as one of the Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club. He also appeared in The Big Valley, Hawaii Five-O, and […]
APOLLO CURTEEN Astronaut Michael Collins has died at the age of 91. Collins was an Air Force Test pilot before he joined NASA in 1963. He first went into space as part of the Gemini missions with John Young. However, he became far more famous as part of the Apollo 11 mission, on which Neil […]
Associated Press writer Rachel Zoll has died of cancer aged 55, after her DDP promoter Thomas Jefferson Survives stopped picking her. A writer on religion matters, Zoll had been suffering from brain cancer for several years. She was picked by 6 teams including Dead Ends and The Beatles are Dying in the Wrong Order Rachel […]
Litsa Menounos, the mother of Maria Menounos, has died of brain cancer aged 66. While Maria Menounos is known for her TV reporting and WWE appearances, her mother appeared on Maria Menounos’s show. An imdb page was enough to trick at least one DDP co-host into assuming she had a larger profile than she actually […]
