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...
UFC make up artist Suzy Friton has died after a long battle with Stage IV cancer, which she had been trying to treat with alternative medicines. During a 15 year run with the UFC, she worked with hundreds of MMA fighters as a wardrobe and hair stylist. I had no idea until now that MMA […]
NO MORE ZECONDS FOR DONALD Former journalist and biographer Donald Zec had died at the age of 102. For forty years from 1938 on, he worked for the Daily Mirror, originally as the crime reporter and then later on as a film correspondent. In these roles he interviewed serial killers and John Lennon, with no […]
FUNERALS OF CHERBOURG Italian actor Nino Castelnuovo has died aged 84. He appeared in several films such as The Five Man Army and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and was D’Agostino in the interminably long 1996 hit The English Patient. He worked with 2020 DDP hit Ennio Morricone, as well as future DDP alumni Dario Argento, […]
THE HUNTER GOT HIM French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo has died aged 88, two decades after suffering a life changing stroke. Belmondo was also the envy of many across the world with his 7 year relationship with Bond Girl Ursula Andress. Considered the French Brando, he had a fondness for women and for playing police officers. […]
GLITZ ON THE FRITZ Popular actor Tony Selby has died of covid complications aged 83. A stage actor from his teenage years on (including in the first performance of Edward Bond’s Saved), Selby appeared in early roles in films like Witchfinder General (alongside the late Hilary Dwyer, who also died of covid) and the Spike […]
WHOLE LOTTA HISTORY One-fifth of pop music behemoths Girls Aloud, Sarah Harding has died aged only 39 after a publicised battle with Stage IV cancer. Harding worked as a BT phone operator and a Pizza Hut waitress before successfully auditioning for Popstars: The Rivals, a Pete Waterman bid to find a new manufactured pop success […]
VERY ILL KIN NFL player Tunch Ilkin, the first Turkish player in the NFL history, has died aged 63. In twelve seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he made the Pro Bowl twice, and was declared a member of the Steelers all time best team in 2007. After retiring he took up commentating on Steeler’s matches, […]
LIFE DOESN’T GO ON Life long political activist, and composer, Mikis Theodorakis has spoken at his last anti-Macedonia rally aged 96. Theodorakis was an acclaimed classical composer who switched between symphony, ballet and opera with ease. He also wrote the film scores for Serpico and Zorba the Greek. You’ve almost certainly heard Zorba’s Dance. His […]
MY BIG FAT GREEK WAKE American actor Michael Constantine has died aged 94. Constantine was best known for playing the father of the bride, Gus, in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (and its sequel). However, he had a long TV and film career before that, and had won an Emmy for his role as […]
UP AND AWAY Actor Ed Asner has died aged 91 to make Betty White the last actor standing from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Asner had an acting career so long and extensive there’s a decent chance he’s on TV now in something as you read this. The former President of the Screen Actors […]
