Dead Pool 21st June 2026

Quite a deadly week! Points need to be awarded too! Well done to me for correctly guessing that Roy Hattersley would die this year. 57 points!! Not only that, Neil G also guessed that Teddie Beverley would sing her last song; another 51 points!!

Not sure what would happen if anyone theoretically went with the Major Oak, you’d probably end up with -850 points….

Look Who You Could Have Had:

Roger Cook, 83, New Zealand-born British investigative journalist and television broadcaster (The Cook Report).
Roy Hattersley, 93, British politician, MP and member of the House of Lords.
Dee Palmer, 88, English musician (Jethro Tull), arranger, and composer.
Anne Schedeen, 77, American actress (ALF, Marcus Welby, M.D., Three’s Company).
Oliver Tree, 32, American singer-songwriter (“Life Goes On“, “Jerk“, “Superhero“).
Brian Johnson, 86, British special effects film artist (The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, The NeverEnding Story).
Paul Avery, 81, American actor (Superman, All My Children), injuries from a house fire.
Daveigh Chase, 35, American actress (Lilo & Stitch, The Ring, Donnie Darko), complications from sepsis and meningitis.
Robert Thurman, 84, American Buddhist writer and academic, father of Uma Thurman.
Teddie Beverley, 99, English singer (The Beverley Sisters).
Tom Dreesen, 86, American comedian and actor (Man on the Moon, Trouble with the Curve, Spaceballs).
Major Oak, c. 800–1000, English oak (Quercus robur).
James Burrows, 85, American television producer and director (Cheers, Will & Grace, Taxi).

In Other News

An 81-year-old pétanque player has been arrested after allegedly killing a 68-year-old rival with a metal boule in an apparent turf war. The alleged attack broke out in the usually peaceful resort of Mimizan in south-west France. Witnesses say a row erupted when a group who usually play at a nearby beach turned up at the local boulodrome looking for shade during a heatwave. “According to the evidence … it seems that it is the 81-year-old man who struck the victim, who is deceased, with a pétanque boule,” Alexa Dubourg, the public prosecutor in nearby Mont-de-Marsan, said. She said the incident occurred after “an argument which degenerated into a physical confrontation”. The prosecutor added that the row concerned “the use of the boulodrome habitually frequented by one of the groups”. Investigations are ongoing to “determine precisely the role played by each person”, she said. The victim and alleged attacker have not yet been named. Some reports suggest the man was hit in the face with the metal boule, while others suggest he was struck in the head. The 68-year-old victim suffered a cardiac arrest after being hit and died at the scene. The 81-year-old suspect was detained by the local Gendarmerie as soon as they arrived and put into police custody. He is due to appear before a judge as prosecutors look to bring formal charges. The petanque club in Mimizan has suspended operations and offered psychological support to the witnesses who have reportedly been left traumatised by what they saw.

A weekend BASE jumping accident in a Utah canyon has killed two people, one of them a daredevil athlete best known for performing onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl. The sheriff’s office in Grand County, Utah, confirmed one of the dead was Andy Lewis, an extreme athlete known for feats in dangerous sports. The victims had been conducting a tandem jump in which two people are harnessed together, according to a social media post by Aerial Arts Moab, an acrobatics company that described Lewis as “co-owner and best friend.” The business offered tandem jumps to inexperienced customers who would be harnessed to a guide wearing the parachute. Promotional videos on the company’s website show pairs of people stepping off the edges of towering cliffs and briefly plummeting before their parachutes open. In BASE jumping circles, Lewis had a huge following and a reputation for pushing the envelope — leaping into tighter spaces or deploying his parachute later than his peers would dare, said John McEvoy, a BASE jumping instructor in Twin Falls, Idaho, who has jumped with Lewis. “He had an incredible level of athleticism and skill that was developed over years of practice,” McEvoy said. “But then he would take an incredible amount of risk.” Grand County Sheriff Jamison Wiggins confirmed the other person who was killed was Danny Joe Kregle, a 68-year-old father and grandfather who was described by a family member as an accomplished businessman. Lewis was also a prominent figure in the niche sports of slacklining and tricklining, which combine elements of high-wire walking with aerial acrobatics, sometimes at perilous heights. In 2014, he walked a slackline suspended between two hot air balloons more than 4,000 feet above the Nevada desert. He went from obscure athlete to overnight celebrity when he appeared onstage in Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. Dressed in a Roman toga, Lewis bounced and executed tricks on his inch-wide line like it was a trampoline while Madonna sang behind him.Though there’s no official tally of BASE jumping deaths, a list compiled by the website BASEaddict.com shows 540 total fatalities worldwide since 1981, including 30 people killed last year.

Would be farmer and television presenter Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The news was announced in an episode of the latest series of Clarkson’s Farm, released on Wednesday. It is not clear exactly when the footage was filmed, but the series was shot in 2024 and 2025, so it can’t be that bad as the fucker is still alive. Clarkson, 66, is seen telling series regulars Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland of his diagnosis, both of whom were visibly shocked by the news. The former Top Gear presenter did not clarify what stage of cancer he had been diagnosed with, but described it as “aggressive” and that a portion of his prostate had been removed as part of his treatment. “I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy, and it is cancer, and it’s aggressive, but it’s really early,” he said. Clarkson added that he had known “since May”. “I promise I’ll be fine,” he told the two men, adding that he would be out of action “for a little while”. Cooper told Clarkson to “look after yourself” while Ireland added: “I wish you a very speedy recovery.” In a separate discussion with Cooper in the following episode, Clarkson confirmed the type of cancer, telling him: “The prostate, 10% of it is dead, the 10% where the cancer is.” Later, Clarkson told co-star Gerald: “I had the op, and just fingers crossed it’s worked, we don’t know yet.” The episode, and series, ended with Clarkson pictured in a hospital bed following treatment. “We started season five with me in a hospital bed, and here we are at the end of season five and I’m back in the hospital bed,” he said. “Some of the treatment’s gone a bit awry, let’s say, so I’m going to be here for a little while. I’m nil by mouth, I don’t know what’s going to happen. But if this is all successful,I’ll see you for season six, and if it isn’t, I wont.” He signed off: “Take care everyone.”

On This Day

1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

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