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...
LAPPED BY DEATH Motor racer Sabine Schmitz has died after a battle with cancer aged 51. An expert on the Nurburgring course, she went viral when she appeared on Top Gear and drove round the Nurburgring in a van. When Jeremy Clarkson left Top Gear, the Guardian wrote a jokey article that Schmitz should takeover […]
NAMES ARE FOR TOMBSTONES Trailblazing actor Yaphet Kotto has died aged 81. He played the formidable Bond villain Dr Kananga in Live and Let Die, a loose expy of real life dictator Duvalier, and remains the only black actor to play the main villain in the series. (The only Bond villain with the common sense […]
Actor Henry Darrow has died aged 87. He was best known for his role in 60s US drama The High Chaparral. He also played Zorro’s dad in the 90s TV series, and won an Emmy for Santa Barbera. He was a unique pick for All Quiet on the Westerns Front. Henry Darrow15 September 1933 – […]
NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS PICK EXCEPT HES DEAD!!! The great sports commentator Murray Walker has sadly died at the great age of 97. A tank commander in World War Two, Walker took to a career in advertising before he was known as a broadcaster. The classic “Opal fruits made to make your mouth water” was […]
FINAL SERVICE Evangelist Luis Palau has died after a long battle with cancer. He was one of the more popular televangelists in recent memory with over 25 million followers across Latin America. He was viewed as the successor to Billy Graham but unlike Billy Graham he barely made his early 80s, and unlike Graham he […]
COUNCIL ADJOURNED Oh no no no no no no no no no no, yes… custard pie fight arranger Trevor Peacock has died aged 89 after a long illness. A talented songwriter, Peacock wrote a number of hits for the likes of Adam Faith and national treasure Bernard Cribbins before turning his hand at acting. He […]
MEMORIES OF MY DEATH Influential jazz musician Chris Barber has died aged 90. Barber’s career started in 1950 and was to prove one of the most important in modern British music. His blues band included a young Lonnie Donegan, and the duo played on Rock Island Line, the single which inspired half the Beatles and […]
IRISH ROVER RETURNS Entertainer Carmel Quinn has died aged 95. Quinn was an Irish stage entertainer before she moved to the US in 1954 to take up a Broadway career. Knowing for her singing, she performed for JFK and appeared in several musicals, such as The Sound of Music. She was a unique hit for […]
YOU KILL ME, GRIM-SY Scottish international footballer, and Liverpool legend, Ian St John has died after a long battle with cancer. St John scored eighty goals in three seasons for Motherwell before he moved to Liverpool to play under Bill Shankly. There he won two league titles and the FA Cup, and became synonymous with […]
YOU’RE FINISHED, BALDWIN Corrie star Johnny Briggs had died aged 85. A child evacuee during the Blitz, Briggs was trained early as an actor. He had small roles in Sink the Bismarck, The Lavender Hill Mob, and three Carry On films. He was however best known for his long running role as Mike Baldwin, Coronation […]
