YoungWillz

Way back in the times before Simon Cowell, before Dr Fox, before Marti Caine and Nina Myskow, before Derek Hobson and Tony Hatch, there was an old old man who emerged from the mists of time called Hughie Green, who hosted a talent show called Opportunity Knocks. Some acts went on to become household names, others had fame for a week or maybe a few. Anyhow, 6 time winner singer Helen Wearing, then known as Helen Foster from Gillingham, a mere 16 years old in 1974, has reportedly died (she was runner up in the Variety Club awards to Lena Zavaroni I believe):

Possible - I guess it can happen in any walk of thread. I mean Jean Phillippe isn't exactly an unusual name. But Eurovish fans are just as rabid as Doctor Who fans so any possible link to an act would be tracked down and wrung out to within an inch of its life to confirm or deny. So possible but unusual certainly.

Rafael Vinoly is a DDP pick so here's yer QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11819045/Rafael-Vinoly-architect-known-unique-structures-dead-78.html

Wally Fawkes last picked for the DDP in 2020: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_F.html#fawkw0 Edit: the QO was always guaranteed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11818305/Cartoonist-jazz-musician-Wally-Fawkes-dies-aged-98.html

On Newscast, discloses he can't see out of his left eye and has problems hearing out of his left ear due to microbleeds on the brain he suffered from COVID infection. Quite lucid and clearly speaking otherwise.

DDP and Cup pick Christopher Fowler reportedly dead: Author of the Bryant & May mysteries etc.

Ted Donaldson being reported dead:

His name is Dead-orah (dead-orah)...

Sat out the reunion set for this year. The signs were there.

Why does this site not alert me when a post has been made on a thread when I'm drafting? Always getting fucked.

Billy Dib update: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-11811785/Billy-Dib-provides-update-cancer-battle-Sonny-Bill-Williams-makes-promise.html

Elizabeth Larner last picked for the DDP in 2017 if true @Death Impends http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_L.html#larne0

Distantly by marriage but no blood relation. It's all a bit convoluted to explain. Mind you, we are all related to royalty in some fashion. I myself have several queens in my history.

Period when Americans sat in movie theaters (sic) to wank, before home video allowed them to wank off on their couches.

Details his brain cancer battle: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11808137/Astrologer-Russell-Grant-reveals-secret-brain-cancer-battle.html

Irma Serrano would have QO-ed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11808423/Irma-Serrano-dead-89-Singer-actress-Chiapas-heart-attack.html Seems true.

Report of the death of Phyllis Perkins (nee Green) who competed for GB in the 800m at the 1960 Games: https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/world-record-breaking-middle-distance-runner-phyllis-perkins-dies-1039965643/

If true, Irma Serrano last picked in 2013 @Death Impends http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2013/celebs_S.html#serrai

Various reports that Irma Serrano has died: https://mexico-as-com.translate.goog/tikitakas/fallece-irma-serrano-la-tigresa-a-sus-89-anos-n/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Might be being disputed but all reports are in the last half hour and there's plenty.

Seems to be a bit of a clear out of old favourites, some picked, some abandoned. There's not one person who's credited death on the DDP I would have picked. (Probably why they aren't living now, tbh ). I actually think this is 2016 all over again - I think the hit rate will rise rather than fall.

At this point with Browning and Fontaine's guaranteed QOs in the bag, the DDP sits on 60 hits for 60 days. When does this normally start to tail off?

Keith Whitall, actor with one appearance on IMDB for Z Cars, but rather more theatrical performer at Bristol's Little Theatre, Gazette Notice, died 29 December 2022: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4286178 https://theatricalia.com/person/xps/keith-whitall

Death Notice for Robert Crewdson: https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/crewdson/5107603 He had just turned 96.

Eldest son of Barbara Cartland and publisher of her works, Ian McCorquodale, death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/262732/mccorquodale He was also a former Chair of Debretts, hence he goes here rather than family/fringes.

Yikes!