Drico's Dead Pool

[Drico One]

Actor:Clive Dunn
Actress:Elizabeth Taylor
Musician:Phil Spector
Politician:Nelson Mandela
Soap Star:Danniella Westbrook (Eastenders moll sans nasal septum)
Comedian/Comedienne:Paul O'Grady
Sports Personality:Muhammad Ali
Radio/TV Personality:Sir Patrick Moore
Artist: Rolf Harris
Media Tart:Bruno Brookes

Wild Card: Diego Maradona

[Drico One]

* Soap Star - Blanche out of Corro

Recent bulletin on the health of "Blanche" can be found here: Still Hangin' in there

Best hope the old dear manages to keep gasping until November 1, Dave.

Drico.

[Patrick Bateman]

With soap stars is it the actor or the character's death that counts?

[Drico One]

Deffo the actor - the character is likely to reappear whistling contentedly in the shower long after their demise. And that would only ruin our scoring and lead to all sorts of flame wars. We couldn't be having that.

Drico.

[Danny C]

Undertakers, appropriately, look pretty spot on. Is Doris Day still alive though?
Actor - Leslie Phillips
Actress - Liz Taylor is a good one, but as she's 'taken' by the Undertaker!!!! already, I'll plump for Dame Maggie Smith

Politician - Michael Foot
Soap Star - Barbara Windsor
Comedian/ Comedienne - Joan Rivers (she'll still look great though)
Sports Personality - Jimmy Greaves
Radio/ TV Personality - Bruce Forsythe
Artist - Louise Bourgeois (Sculptor, she'll be 100 in 2011...or maybe not!)
Media Tart - Paris Hilton

Wild Card - Jordan

You didn't pick a musician yet! Wouldn't be fair if your pool was amller than everyone else's

I'd humbly suggest Andy Bell, but I'm not sure his stuff counts as music, plus isn't it cheating to pick someone who's already terminally ill?

[Drico One]

For those in the non-Anglo world who are interested in taking part in this ghoulishness, feel free. You can list anybody you like in each category - providing their untimely demise will be reported by at least one internationally-renowned press agency, broadcaster, or obituarist (Reuters, The Times, Agence France-Presse, DPA, Der Spiegel, New York Times, Associated Press, BBC, CNN, TASS, The PSB Community Off-Topic Forum RIP threads, etc.). Entries will be accepted until midnight - of course - on October 31. The league table, otherwise known as the Group of Death, will be posted here at the end of any week when any nominated celeb breathes their last.

Drico.

[No Muscle Mary]

Actor - Denis Hopper
Actress - Dame Judi Dench
Musician - Neil Diamond
Politician - Garret Fitzgerald
Soap Star - Ray Meaghar (Alf in Home and Away)
Comedian/Comedienne - Frank Carson
Sports Personality - Giovanni Trapattoni
Radio/TV Personality - Paul Daniels
Artist - Louis Le Brocuy
Media Tart - Donald Trump

Wild Card - Whitney Houston

[GalataPSB]

Actor - Ben Stiller / Will Ferrel
Actress - Jamie Lee Curtis
Musician - Bono / Britney Spears
Politician - Geert Wilders / Kaddafi
Soap Star -Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men), America Ferrera (ugly betty)
Comedian/Comedienne - Jay Leno
Sports Personality - Zidane
Artist - Paris Hilton
Media Tart - Jordan / Peter Andre
Wild Card - Sacha Baron Cohen (Bruno) / Boy George

[Danny C]

You can only pick one in each category

[GalataPSB]

Ok!

Actor - Ben Stiller
Actress - Jamie Lee Curtis
Musician - Bono
Politician - Geert Wilders
Soap Star -Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men)
Comedian/Comedienne - Jay Leno
Sports Personality - Zidane
Artist - Paris Hilton
Radio/TV Personality - Graham Norton
Media Tart - Peter Andre
Wild Card - Sacha Baron Cohen (Bruno)

[Fugitive1979]

Actor - Leslie Nielsen
Actress - Dame Judi Dench
Musician - Keith Richards
Politician - Fidel Castro
Soap Star - William Roache (Ken Barlow in Coronation Street)
Comedian/Comedienne - Ken Dodd
Sports Personality - Sir Bobby Charlton
Radio/TV personality - Denis Norden
Artist - Tracey Emin
Media Tart - Peaches Geldof

Wild Card - Lindsay Lohan

[Drico One]

Still a week to go, but it looks as if Morrissey is making a late play for inclusion...

Drico.

[Drico One]

Last call for the Dead Pool. The competition starts at midnight GMT. Get your nominations in before the final curtain...

Drico.

[fluffmoln]

OK, here goes:

Actor: Peter O'Toole
Actress: Gloria Stuart
Musician: Chuck Berry
Politician: Henry Kissinger
Soap Star: Patsy King (Gov. Erica Davidson, Prisoner: Cell Block H)
Comedian: Bob Newhart
Sports Personality: John Madden
Radio/TV Personality: Dan Rather
Artist: Yoko Ono
Media Tart: Barbara Walters

Wild Card: Pete Doherty

[Undertaker]

Kick off is only 6 hours away. Getting my envelopes full of Anthrax ready. It's Halloween AND a full Moon, just to add to the tension.