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The guy in the second story can't be Jelinek. I haven't listened to the interview yet, but in the description it says The footballer Jelinek surely can't have claimed asylum, as he went back to play for Bohemians in 1973, after his spell with the Cosmos. Also he never spent any time in Italy, he went from the Czech League, to the Dutch League, to the NASL. Is this a guy who has pretended to be the real Jelinek for the past x years while living in the States?

The other Josef Jelinek was born in 1902, I'm pretty sure he's not still alive. This interview from two years ago with Jelinek makes it clear he's both the World Cup alum and the NY Cosmos player. Although.... I'm faceblind as fuck, are these actually the same people?

The longlists are taking a fucking beating today.

The big rumour now is that Foxx was poisoned by Diddy, leading to his health troubles. Foxx hasn't commented on the claims, perhaps because they're true or, more likely, because he has a Netflix special about his illness coming out on December 10th that he wants you to watch.

Three down, four to go. If they stick to that counter-clockwise pattern, should Old Meo be on the 2025 DL?

Would Ian Smith be the first time a DL pick has shared a name with a previous DL pick (former Rhodesian premier Ian Smith, a perennial favourite of "actually I'm not a conservative I'm a classical liberal" types on xformerlyknownastwitter, was a hit in 2007)?

One of Dubbya's final pardons was for hip-hop producer John Forte, who was behind the worst single of 1998 and possibly one of the 50 worst songs ever recorded: (he was in prison for coke-dealing rather than somehow capturing the worst excesses of shiny suit rap into four minutes)

Fun-size 91-year-old motor racing magnate promises to "take a bullet for Vladimir Putin" in his latest TV interview. How long before a reunion with his old mucker Max?

Denise Welch pulls out of playing Captain Hook in Nottingham's Peter Pan pantomime due to ill health. Don't worry though, you will still be treated to Gok Wan as the Magical Merman, Paul Chuckle as Starkey and Steve Hewlett (presumably the Britain's Got Talent ventriloquist, rather than the DDP alum Independent journalist of the same name) as Smee.

Him in The Beat My Heart Skipped might be the best cinematic performance of the 2000s, great loss.

Whale might be the first celeb I'm 100% sure is deliberately trolling deadpoolers. That's like four years in a row now he's come out with "yep, looks like the end of the line for this ol' bag of bones" in late November/December, only to show absolutely zero signs of being close to death for the other 10.5 months of the year.

There's this from a YouTube comment section, seems credible but ymmv

Scott L. Schwartz, who wrestled for batshit Herb Abrams' batshit Universal Wrestling Federation as Joshua Ben-Gurion The Israeli Commander, dead at 65. After leaving the grap game he found fruitful work as a "big man for hire" in Hollywood, most notably as Bruiser in the Oceans movies.

Isn't it time for "pancreatic cancer since about 1915" sufferer Chris Rea to become a permanent fixture in the 40s of the DL?

With the official cancellation of The Wendy Williams Show due to Wendy's "medical issues", I believe this has now entered thread territory.

Ounces?

Colin Crompton if he hadn't died in 1985.

Not to compedbump, but this guy would have been the ultimate "picked by 6 DDP teams all in the top 10" name if he'd made it to the 2025 starting line.

Shall we? I mean, they're dropping like flies (four whole castmember deaths over 20 years), and its probably a more interesting category than "who will die first, an old man or another old man". Plus if David Jason starts going handgliding again [deleted on legal grounds].

Never resurrected a nice South African.

Always assumed this was a "fuck you, we'll do what we want" reaction to everyone else drafting Michael Tilson Thomas for their 2024 deadpool outfit.

More of a "fitting" name than a "what a name", but what would you call a 6'10 Canadian basketball player who dies aged 33? Chad Posthumus.

Steve Pokol, who played nine different roles on Doctor Who (although only one was credited), may be 89 but he's still healthy enough to beat his wife.

Entrepreneur and investor Peter Cowley, who did a lot of "what my stage 4 cancer has taught me about business" appearances over the past 12 months, dead at 69. Probably just under the barrier for DDP selection imho.