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Considering they're going to have to find a lot of new names for the 2025 DL, have absolutely zero objection to the committee shoving Chuckie in the low 30s.

Will we all be captaining Anthony Doyle, owner of the "most festive house in Wicklow", following news he has months to live?

One of the all-time great 90DF weirdos, a man who was clearly being scammed and then TLC paid his scammer to actually turn up and pretend she was romantically interested in him.

Originally we had the Lee Evans gambiting, deliberately hyping up someone with a low-grade, treatable cancer in December. Then we did the reverse of that, which was going so gung-ho on a solid pick that people thought you were bluffing. Then it was just buck-shotting the board with a mix of good and bad info in December so nobody could work out what was viable data. The next great dark art of deadpooling is yet to be discovered, though.

From what I understand, Kara sort of got caught up in a media rush around a misunderstanding of his diagnosis, and never got around to correcting news stories (in fairness he only gave a couple of interviews, a lot of the Kara content out there is prime churn-era journalism "rewriting a story we saw elsewhere with no new content").

How come Frankie Fraser's never on the TV any more? He was never off the bloody thing in the late 90s. Is there some, like, Sky 3 or Bravo documentary series he hosts now, or is he just dying in a home alone and unloved somewhere? People who I crossed off my DDP team for this year at the last minute: "cancer stricken" Glaswegian crimelord Jamie Daniel, because I have absolutely no idea about Scottish crime whatsoever and for all I know these guys could just be having a laugh and a carry on with bored local crime reporters. Most of the current capi of the American Mafia are in their 70s and unlikely to be shot any time soon. On the other hand, Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano turns 90 this year, having spent 15 of the past 18 years in prison for his part in an extortion racket that saw the Mafia make $2 for every window replaced in New York for five years.

A thread for people who have passed the age of 100 but have (very, very) faint claims to fame other than "just being old". The lifeblood of many a DDP theme team, really, may as well get them all in one place. Plus it gives me an excuse to have a regular meeting point for two of my favourites: 110-year-old paranormal investigator Alexander Imich and 107-year-old financier Irving Kahn, who apparently still goes to work daily. Check out his current stock portfolio here. Anyway, so here's where we can rhapsodise about Run Run Shaw, Roy Douglas and Vo Nguyen Giap and the many public appearances they'll no doubt be making in the near future. One of the leading actors of the pre-blaxploitation era cowboy "race movies", Herb Jeffries, just turned 100.

Big Pun, who was an actual legitimate rapper before hitting the 12-for-1 deals on lard cakes, made it to 698 pounds before dying, so this young pretender has some way to go.

I mentioned in the "Fringes of Fame" thread that beloved-by-roidhead internet "fitness" guru Zyzz died in a gay sauna yesterday aged 22, and somehow this has actually made eight actual real Australian newspapers, according to Google News. I was disinterestedly scouring Spankwire, as you do, and was reminded of the existence of Tila Tequila. At one point she was the most popular person on MySpace (ask your grandparents). She then went on to have a brief career as a celebrity, but after the MTV reality shows ran out it was just her being bottled off-stage at gigs and having whoever she stuck her tongue into that week die on her. She strikes me as a good candidate for a TMZ-friendly overdose within the next few years. Anyway, there's loads of these "internet famous" folk nowadays and we need a thread for them I feel. Maybe Tron Guy will battle a brave fight against cancer or that guy from Evolution of Dance will go mad and shoot up a shopping mall. Talk about these guys here. Or don't.

Bad news for those of us who pencilled in Birmingham Royal Ballet leader Caroline Miller last week after it was announced she was stepping down from her position immediately due to ill health: she's dead. EDIT: In fairness, probably also bad news for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, her family, and Caggy herself.

Well there was a request for a thread, so here you go.

A thread for, in the spirit of Doreen Keogh and Gerard Sim, detective work that needs to be undertaken by deathlisters to ascertain as to whether people with possible claims to celebritydom are still alive. I mainly ask this because I cannot find, after two hours online, if Brian Walker is still alive. My assumption is the man's death would at least get a mention somewhere, as he was the only man in history to be both a member of The Wurzels and a contributing artist to Viz. He was part of the original Adge Cutler line-up of the West Country's finest but left soon after their first album was released (he'd also played with Acker Bilk as well). He then became a full-time comics artist, and has his own entry in the Dictionary of British Comics. He drew mainly for Whizzer and Chips, an example of his work is pictured below: But I cannot find a) a death notice for him (he would be 89 now), or any sign of him making any sort of public declaration of being alive any time in the past decade. Can this forum's more learned members help out? Also, please suggest other names you consider to be Schroedinger's Dead Pool picks, not alive or dead until proven otherwise.

Is Neil Fitzwiliam definitely still alive?

Graphic just flashed up on the darts letting us know that Wayne Mardle's wife Donna died today.

First mention on the board for him: haven't heard much from Malcolm Gluck in the past decade. Turns 83 in 2025, never struck me as a man to reach a high age.

Was just saying this to the lads down the pub

Internet doesn't have any photos of Clive Dunn eating popcorn, sadly.

Lookin' good Mitch!

Watched that trailer and was immediately drawn to "Dom Famularo, drumming's global ambassador" as a man who clearly had advanced cancer... checked and yes, he died of pancreatic aged 70 in September last year. Must have taken them a while to edit the footage.

A CONSCIENCE!

That's what I mean, I clearly know who Duncan Norvelle was, what his schtick was, what his catchphrase was... and yet I have no recollection of any of his TV appearances. And I'm 99% sure it's not a Chubby Brown/Jethro thing where he was making big money on VHS so he didn't need to tone his act down for ITV.

For a man who is very much an indelible figure on British popular culture for those of a certain age, I can't actually remember him ever being on TV.

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