Dead Pool 8th March 2026

As the whole world rejoices at the brutal death of Ian Huntley, only one of us saw fit to include him on our lists. Congratulations to Trish, who listed Huntley as a Cert, she cores 198 points! Sometimes wishful thinking works 😀

Look Who You Could Have Had:

Stephen Hibbert, 65, American actor (Pulp Fiction) and television writer (Late Night with David Letterman), heart attack.
Paul Conroy, 61, British photojournalist, heart attack
Annabel Schofield, 62, Welsh-born American model and actress (Dallas), cancer
Pockets Warhol, 33, Canadian capuchin monkey artist.
Mike Vernon, 81, English record producer (“Albatross“, “Hocus Pocus“).
Billy Leon Kearse, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Ian Huntley, 52, British murderer (Soham Murders), head trauma from an attack.
Jamie Dunn, 75, Australian puppeteer (Agro), voice actor and radio host.

In Other News

Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell has shared a “shock” health update. The American actor and filmmaker posted the statement on his social media on Tuesday, revealing he has been diagnosed with a type of cancer that is “treatable” but not “curable”. “The good news is, I’m not gonna go into any more details,” Campbell wrote. “I’m posting this, because professionally, a few things will have to change — appearances and cons and work in general need to take a back seat to treatment.” The 67-year-old actor explained his priority is to get as well as possible so he can join the tour for his upcoming road-trip comedy Ernie & Emma about a widowed pear salesman’s journey to scatter his wife’s ashes. “There are several cons this year summer that I have to cancel,” Campbell confirmed. “Big regrets on my part. Treatment needs and professional obligations don’t always go hand-in-hand.” He emphasised the statement was not meant to elicit sympathy or advice but simply to set the record straight regarding his health. Despite the diagnosis, Campbell said he is determined to fight the cancer. “Fear not, I am a tough son-of-a-bitch and I have great support, so I expect to be around a while,” he said. “As always, you’re the greatest fans in the world and I hope to see you soon!”

BBC star Finnian Garbutt has issued a heartfelt appeal to raise funds to support his wife and child after his death. The 28-year-old actor, best known for his role as PC Ryan Power in the Irish BBC drama Hope Street, was diagnosed with Stage 3 skin cancer, which has since spread to his neck. Just days after revealing he is now in the “last stages” of the disease, he has launched a GoFundMe campaign. At the time of writing, it had raised a whopping £27,500 so far. Finnian, who has also featured in Casualty, spoke candidly to Belfast Live about his diagnosis and confessed that his world had been “crashing down”. Disclosing that doctors warned him he might not survive, he revealed: “It was almost as if they accidentally had diagnosed me with cancer and were treating me by mistake. I was told I could die; my plastic surgeons had warned me about how ill I could be following surgery. “It kept being communicated to me that I was really sick, that I was one step away from being a terminal patient. I was just waiting to hear that I had tumours elsewhere throughout my body. I had already come to terms with the fact that I was going to die young. My defence mechanism was to expect the worst. I thought it was only going to be a matter of time.” Four years ago, Finnian discovered a lump behind his ear, initially believing it to be an ingrown hair. However, when his barber informed him that the lump had grown significantly, he received his devastating diagnosis. He subsequently underwent a gruelling 12-hour surgery to remove 75 lymph nodes from his face and neck. He concluded: “Unfortunately, the scans have shown that the cancer has progressed rapidly in my body and I am now entering the last stages of life. I’m putting this out there as it is really difficult to tell people individually and I hope now that it’s in the open I can enjoy the time with my amazing family and friends.”

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi shared she was diagnosed with Stage I adenocarcinoma, a type of cervical cancer. A star of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore, which launched in 2009 and ran for six seasons, Snooki told her story through a TikTok video posted February 20th. She has updated fans about her health journey, including during doctors’ visits, in subsequent posts, using her platform to emphasise the importance of routine cancer screening. “I’m 38 years old, and I’ve been struggling with abnormal Pap smears for three or four years now, and now look at me,” Snooki said when announcing her diagnosis. “Instead of putting it off because I didn’t want to go because I was hurt and scared, I just went and did it. And it was there, cancer is in there. But it’s Stage I, and it’s curable. A lot of women go through it silently without anyone to talk to and they’re scared by themselves. And that was me until I decided to upload the video about what was happening with me,” Snooki said.

On This Day

1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.
1950 – The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 “Bus” begins production.
1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
2014 – In one of aviation’s greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The fate of the flight remains unknown.

Deaths

1723 – Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St. Paul’s Cathedral (born 1632).
1930 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (born 1857).
1996 – Jack Churchill, British colonel (born 1906).
2003 – Adam Faith, English singer (born 1940).
2007 – John Inman, English actor (born 1935).
2020 – Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (born 1929).