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...
NO RETRAIL FOR BAILEY F Lee Bailey was an American lawyer best known for being part of the Dream defence team which got OJ Simpson off a murder charge. He made his name in the 1960s as the lawyer who got Sam Shephard a retrial over the murder of his wife. Shephard, who was innocent, […]
UNIVERSAL DEATH RATE Anerood Jugnauth has died aged 91. The politician was both President and thrice Prime Minister of his native Mauritius, his longest run being 1982-1995. He won five general elections in a row and was nicknamed Rambo. Jugnauth was part of the discussions in 1965 which led to Mauritius gaining independence from Britain, […]
LOVE BOAT (NOT THE LOVE BOAT) Actor Gavin MacLeod, who appeared on The Love Boat (TV series), but not on The Love Boat (DDP team) has died aged 90. MacLeod, who divorced his wife Patty in 1982, only to remarry her in 1985, had been in the US Air Force during the 1950s. He also […]
THE ONE RULE YOU CAN’T BREAK American dancer Anna Halprin has died aged 100. Halprin popularised postmodern dance, and was a key figure in postwar dance in the USA. She suffered from colon cancer in her 50s but recovered and decided to promote dance as a rehab. Her career lasted 92 years, and one of […]
SCHLUTER DOING “REASONABLY WELL” Former Danish Prime Minister Poul Schluter has died aged 92. He was Danish leader for 9 years between 1983 and 1992, having been the first right winger to lead Denmark in 80 years! He was forced to resign after having been found to have misled the Danish parliament over the reunification […]
LLOYD OUT THE LIMELIGHT Actor Norman Lloyd has died prematurely at the age of 106. Recently he was asked how it felt to be the oldest working actor in America and replied it was a reminder of age rather than an accolade! Lloyd’s career started with Orson Welles at the Mercury Theatre in the 1930s, […]
WHAT DDP DO YOU DIE IN TO GET YOUR REPUTATION BACK? US businessman and politician Raymond Donovan has died aged 90. He was the US Labour Secretary under Ronald Reagan, until he was forced to resign after being fingered in a fraud scandal involving a crime family, the Bronx, and a subway line extension. He […]
SOLES TO SOUL Canadian actor Paul Soles has died aged 90. He provided the voice of Hermey in Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, and the voice of Spider-Man in the 1960s cartoon series. Soles was also a documentary maker, and a CBC TV host in his native Canada. He was a unique pick for I […]
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 […]
