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And it's goodnight for DDP Pick by @time Ron Jones - another late hit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/59831045 64 and 68 Olympiads, but his medals came from elsewhere.

Tony Jefferies, TT winner 350cc Junior class in 1971, reportedly dead after a long illness: https://www.bikesportnews.com/news/news-detail/tony-jefferies-has-died

Late 1980s songstress Alyson Williams is reportedly unwell: https://www.soultracks.com/story-alyson-williams-ailing

Nick Mason postpones 2022 tour: https://bestclassicbands.com/nick-mason-2022-tour-postponed-saucerful-of-secrets-album-12-28-21/ COVID uncertainty rather than any health issues for the man himself.

Don't need to itemise or lay out my scores. All DPs entered - F-.

US Senate leader Harry Reid has been democratically removed from life. A hit for theoldlady and Sean. Bonuses: theoldlady: Pair 7s - 10 Points; Two Pair 7s and 5s - 15 Points - Total: 25 Additional Points. Leaderboard updated.

Probably not. Days to go mind. Baby Blue gets an unique hit with John Madden, for some reason only heard of by me by scanning the gaming shelves, apparently he did other things. Bonuses: Pair Ks - 10 Points; Two Pair - Ks and 3s - 15 Points - Total: 25 Additional Points. Leaderboard updated.

Add Eric Cockeram to the List of the Missed, last picked in 2016: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2016/celebs_C.html#cocke0

Death Notice for Eric Cockeram, former Tory MP for Bebington and then Ludlow, aged 97, a Christmas Day fatality: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/254333/cockeram Another Tory naughty boy - was it insider trading? Hmmm... Anyway, another @msc was keeping an eye out for. Not a DDP Pick this year.

Nifty Fifty for 2022, with love from me to you: 01. George Alagiah 02. Stanley Baxter 03. Pope Benedict XVI 04. Tony Bennett 05. Silvio Berlusconi 06. Jet Black 07. Sepp Blatter 08. Mel Brooks 09. Rob Burrow 10. James Caan 11. Michael Caine 12. Jimmy Carter 13. Petula Clark 14. Phil Collins 15. Billy Connolly 16. Kenneth Cope 17. Bill Cosby 18. Bernard Cribbins 19. Shannen Doherty 20. Winnie Ewing 21. Frank Field 22. Roberta Flack 23. Mikhail Gorbachev 24. Richard Hadlee 25. Frank Ifield 26. Jeremy Isaacs 27. George Johnny Johnson 28. Angela Lansbury 29. Denis Law 30. Jerry Lee Lewis 31. Liza Minnelli 32. Nana Mouskouri 33. Pete Murray 34. Bob Newhart 35. Olivia Newton-John 36. Linda Nolan 37.Monty Norman 38.Yoko Ono 39.Ozzy Osbourne 40.Pele 41.Leslie Phillips 42.Sidney Poitier 43.Mary Quant 44.Nigel Starmer-Smith 45.Norman Tebbit 46.Bill Treacher 47.Ted Turner 48.Tom Weiskopf 49. Betty White James Whale 50. Bill Wyman Please gawd, don't take anyone until the New Year.

Possibly a Gazette Notice for the death of this Stuart Rose: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3959222

Indeed! Bonuses: Pair Ks (Hearts and Spades) - 10 Points; Pair Ks (Clubs and Spades) - 10 Points; Three of a Kind (Ks) - 20 Points - Total: 40 Additional Points.

Is it worth adding GB News to the list of QOs? What do we think?

Thinking of @Grim Up North at this sad time...

Accuracy.

Rumours that Wayne Thiebaud, US artist famed for his depiction of everyday objects in the pop art era, has died. Anything on FB or other platforms? Couple of mentions on Twitter. Rather important - he's picked for the DDP. Would he obit? That's another matter.

Too many players decided not to mess with my Tutu. An error of judgement by most as the Archbishop has gone to meet the guy who wrote the book. An unique for Bibliogryphon, he plays a Black Joker so gains the additional 50 Points bonus. @Bibliogryphon, you have 48 hours to convert your Joker for even more pointage. Leaderboard updated. If you think I've missed someone, let me know. This pool is, like so many names, in its dying days.

Dead So Far: Anne Stallybrass - 3 July - Obit Rick Laird - 4 July - Obit Stan Swamy - 5 July - Obit Gillian Sheen Donaldson - 5 July - Obit Axel Kahn - 6 July Dilip Kumar - 7 July - Obit Carlos Reutemann - 7 July - Obit Jehan Sadat - 9 July - Obit Ernie Moss - 11 July - Obit Renee Simonot - 11 July - Obit Mick Bates - 12 July - Obit Edwin Edwards - 12 July - Obit Paul Orndorff - 12 July - Obit Gary Corbett - 14 July - Obit Mary Ward - 19 July - Obit Brian Henderson - 5 August - Obit Gertrude Annie Kingston - ? August 2021 Jaan Kaplinski - 8 August Patricia Hitchcock - 9 August - Obit Gerd Muller - 15 August - Obit Paul Mitchell III - 15 August - Obit Sir Michael Cullen - 19 August - Obit Sandra Richardson - 25 August - Obit Jonathan Myles-Lea - 25 August - Obit Michael Constantine - 31 August - Obit Mikis Theodorakis - 2 September - Obit Sarah Harding - 5 September - Obit Carl Bean - 7 September - Obit Amy Winifred Hawkins - 8 September - Obit Art Metrano - 8 September - Obit Terry Lubbock - 15 September - Obit Robert Fyfe - 15 September - Obit Jane Powell - 16 September - Obit Abdelaziz Bouteflika - 17 September - Obit Albert J Raboteau III - 18 September Jimmy Greaves - 19 September - Obit Greg Gilbert - 30 September - Obit Bernard Tapie - 3 October - Obit Budge Patty - 3 October - Obit Nadia Chaudhri - 5 October - Obit Granville Adams - 10 October - Obit Ruthie T(h)ompson - 10 October - Obit Ally McLaws - 15 October - Obit Maire Mhac an tSaoi - 16 October - Obit Betty Lynn - 16 October - Obit Denise Bryer - 16 October - Obit James Michael Tyler - 24 October - Obit Pat Martino - 1 November - Obit Alan Igglesden - 1 November - Obit Clifford Rose - 6 November - Obit FW de Klerk - 11 November - Obit Bertie Auld - 14 November - Obit Clarissa Eden - 15 November - Obit Jyrki Kasvi - 16 November Belinda Sykes - 16 November Chun Doo-hwan - 23 November - Obit Stephen Sondheim - 26 November - Obit Sir Frank Williams - 28 November - Obit Mustafa Cengiz - 28 November David Gulpilil - 29 November - Obit Arlene Dahl - 29 November - Obit Ray Kennedy - 30 November - Obit Duchess of Grafton - 3 December - Obit Bob Dole - 5 December - Obit Lars Hogh - 8 December - Obit Lucia Hiriart - 16 December - Obit Desmond Tutu - 26 December - Obit John Madden - 28 December - Obit Harry Reid - 28 December - Obit Captain Chorizo: 1580 Points (Kumar; Reutemann; Laird; Orndorff; Cullen; Harding; Lubbock; Tapie; Tyler; de Klerk; Gulpilil; Dole) (Sub: Henderson [3 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [7]; Aug [J]; Sep [8]; Oct [J]; Nov [5]) Cards Played: gcreptile: 1519 Points (Swamy, Laird; Bates; Richardson; Bean; Lubbock; Chaudhri; McLaws; Igglesden; de Klerk; Gulpilil; Dole) (Sub: Kumar [5 Diamonds]; Tyler [5 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [7]; Aug [4]; Sep [K]; Oct [Q]; Nov [K]) Cards Played: Perhaps: 1472 Points (Kumar; Reutemann; Sadat; Orndorff; Harding; Lubbock; Gilbert; de Klerk; Gulpilil; Dole) (Sub: Swamy [4 Hearts]; Auld [6 Spades]) (MD: Jul [4]; Aug [2]; Sep [Q]; Oct [Q]; Nov [2]) Cards Played: Death Impends: 1347 Points (Kumar; Cullen; Harding; Thompson; McLaws; Tyler; Igglesden; de Klerk; Gulpilil; Dole) (MD: Jul [A]; Aug [5]; Sep [10]; Oct [10]; Nov [8]) Cards Played: An Fear Beag: 1050 Points (Kumar; Muller; Cullen; Harding; Greaves; Tapie; Tyler; Gulpilil; Dole) (Sub: P. Mitchell [6 Spades]) (MD: Jul [2]; Aug [Q]; Sep [3]; Oct [Q]; Nov [10]) Cards Played: theoldlady: 1021 Points (Muller; Cullen; Harding; Bouteflika; Adams; Eden; Gulpilil; Dole; Reid) (Sub: Gilbert [Q Hearts]) (MD: Jul [3]; Aug [9]; Sep [5]; Oct [10]; Nov [7]) Cards Played: Grim Up North: 1006 Points (Cullen; Harding; Lubbock; Gilbert; Igglesden; de Klerk; Gulpilil; Dole) (Sub: Moss [4 Hearts]; Williams (Motorsport) [4 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [9]; Aug [6]; Sep [7]; Oct [9]; Nov [7]) Cards Played: msc: 998 Points (Laird; Bates; Theodorakis; Harding; Lubbock; McLaws; Igglesden; Gulpilil; Dole) (Sub: Orndorff [10 Clubs]; de Klerk [6 Hearts]) (MD: Jul [J]; Aug [Q]; Sep [5]; Oct [7]; Nov [Q]) Cards Played: Salmon Mousse: 986 Points (Reutemann; Orndorff; Henderson; Muller; Harding; Tyler; Martino; Gulpilil; Dole) (MD: Jul [Q]; Aug [4]; Sep [10]; Oct [5]; Nov [5]) Cards Played: Joey Russ: 957 Points (Laird; Harding; Bean; Lubbock; McLaws; Martino; de Klerk; Gulpilil; Dole) (Sub: Cullen [2 Diamonds]; Gilbert [8 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [2]; Aug [8]; Sep [Q]; Oct [7]; Nov [3]) Cards Played: Banana: 927 Points (Kumar: Laird; Corbett; Harding; Lubbock; de Klerk; Gulpilil; Dole) (Sub: McLaws [5 Diamonds]; Igglesden [K Clubs]; Eden [9 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [J]; Aug [A]; Sep [6]; Oct [6]; Nov [8]) Cards Played: Caleb H: 779 Points (Simonot; Ward; Harding; Tapie; an tSaoi; Eden; Hiriart) (Sub: Hitchcock [K Clubs]; Hogh [7 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [6]; Aug [A]; Sep [2]; Oct [A]; Nov [3]) Cards Played: Baby Blue: 770 Points (Reutemann; Edwards; Corbett; Harding; Constantine; Metrano; Madden) (Sub: Hiriart [5 Spades]) (MD: Jul [9]; Aug [J]; Sep [4]; Oct [2]; Nov [4]) Cards Played: Sean: 743 Points (Cullen; Myles-Lea; Martino; de Klerk; Gulpilil; Kennedy; Reid) (MD: Jul [Q]; Aug [3]; Sep [4]; Oct [3]; Nov [J]) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 708 Points (Greaves; Fyfe; Bryer; Rose; Tutu) (Sub: Stallybrass [3 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [J]; Aug [K]; Sep [A]; Oct [7]; Nov [10]) Cards Played: JoeMoneypenny: 681 Points (Sheen; Reutemann; Muller; Bouteflika; Lynn; Doo-hwan) (MD: Jul [5]; Aug [3]; Sep [2]; Oct [2]; Nov [A]) Cards Played: Yorkshire Banker: 548 Points (Ward; Harding; Gilbert; Gulpilil; Grafton) (MD: Jul [A]; Aug [10]; Sep [K]; Oct [7]; Nov [4]) Cards Played: Great Uncle Bulgaria: 458 Points (Hawkins; Greaves; Gulpilil; Dole) (MD: Jul [5]; Aug [K]; Sep [A]; Oct [J]; Nov [10]) Cards Played: Torva Messor: 442 Points (Simonot; Patty; Dahl; Dole) (Sub: Eden [4 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [3]; Aug [8]; Sep [7]; Oct [4]; Nov [6]) Cards Played: DeathByArsenic: 348 Points (Harding; Bouteflika; Dole) (Sub: Lynn [7 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [9]; Aug [Q]; Sep [9]; Oct [6]; Nov [5]) Cards Played: Toast: 348 Points (Lubbock; Gilbert; Dole) (Sub: Greaves [3 Hearts]) (MD: Jul [K]; Aug [7]; Sep [9]; Oct [3]; Nov [K]) Cards Played: YoungWillz: 340 Points (Greaves; Eden; Dole) (MD: Jul [5]; Aug [10]; Sep [J]; Oct [5]; Nov [9]) Cards Played: GuyFromFuture: 264 Points (Powell; Dole) (MD: Jul [K]; Aug [Q]; Sep [J]; Oct [A]; Nov [4]) Cards Played: Gooseberry Crumble: 152 Points (Sondheim) (MD: Jul [Q]; Aug [9]; Sep [8]; Oct [9]; Nov [A]) Cards Played:

Not for long, mwahahahahahahaha. Maybe...

On someone's shortlist - ELEVEN YEARS AGO! Picked for the DDP in 2010, so if true, List of the Missed: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2010/celebs_L.html#longj

Cheggers' sister, also famous for failing miserably as we all did on Ted Rogers' 3-2-1. Presented Top Of The Pops innumerably. If this is true, shock Christmas death.

Actor/Dancer Harvey Evans, aka Harvey Hohnecker, probably best known as Mouthpiece - one of the Jets in the original West Side Story - being reported dead: Plays a security guard in the 2021 remake. Good Broadway and film career. IBDB: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/harvey-evans-74253

If it's not him, it might be someone doing an impression of him...

Team of no thought: 01. Frank Field 02. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 03. Norman Tebbit 04. Bernard Cribbins 05. Nigel Lawson 06. Jerry Lee Lewis 07. Douglas Hurd 08. Leslie Phillips 09. Norman Fowler 10. Roberta Flack Subs: A. Olivia Newton-John B. Linda Nolan Thanks for running this DI, busy 2022 for you!

Saw Jane Goodall interviewed a couple of months ago if that on the BBC. Looked with it and determined to carry on. Think she will see 90 at least.