0:00:20 > 0:00:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Hello, you, and welcome to Insert Name Here,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28the show where we discover surprising facts about people
0:00:28 > 0:00:31with just one thing in common - they've all got the same name.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Joining me are six of my favourite people,
0:00:33 > 0:00:35each responding to their own given name.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Please welcome James Acaster, Kate Williams
0:00:37 > 0:00:39and their team captain Josh Widdicombe.
0:00:39 > 0:00:40And on the other side, Ed Balls, Lauren Laverne
0:00:40 > 0:00:42and their captain Richard Osman.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45APPLAUSE
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Now...
0:00:49 > 0:00:52You are known for tweeting your own name quite a lot,
0:00:52 > 0:00:53Ed, aren't you?
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Yeah, well, to be honest, what can you say about my name?
0:00:55 > 0:00:57- I mean...- Well, hey, hey, hey.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59- Get the dossier out.- Just wait.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01We've got a whole evening ahead of us.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05So, did you know that there's an Ed Balls Day?
0:01:05 > 0:01:07I knew that, cos it's my birthday.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09- Ed Balls Day is my birthday.- Wow. - Is it really?- Yeah.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12- That's amazing.- Your birthday falls on Balls's big day?
0:01:12 > 0:01:14- It falls on Balls's big day. - That means...- Which is...
0:01:14 > 0:01:15You must know which day it is?
0:01:15 > 0:01:17I do. The 28th of April.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20- Correct.- But she's got actually something to celebrate on that day,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23your birthday, whereas I've got nothing to celebrate other than...
0:01:23 > 0:01:24The nation celebrates you.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26You don't celebrate on Ed Balls Day. We do it for you.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30I know. It's become a bit commercialised in recent years.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33And also it starts earlier every year.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35There's Ed Balls merchandise in the shops in late March.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Let's move to our all-important question -
0:01:39 > 0:01:40which name is featuring tonight?
0:01:40 > 0:01:43They could be Diamonds, Pavlovas, Summers or Wintours.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Tonight's name is Anne.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51So, we are going to be discussing Annes
0:01:51 > 0:01:53of all shapes and sizes and variations.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57That's Anna, Anita, Angela and maybe the occasional Angelina.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Along the way, our teams will demonstrate their knowledge
0:01:59 > 0:02:01to collect as many Annes as possible.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03At the end, the winning team will have the honour of deciding
0:02:03 > 0:02:06who's officially the greatest Anne of all time.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Richard, have you got any early thoughts as to who that might be?
0:02:08 > 0:02:09I think I'd have to choose...
0:02:09 > 0:02:12There's famously two Annes who have got puddings named after them.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16There's Anna Pavlova and Anneka Rice.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Josh, any ideas who your favourite might be?
0:02:24 > 0:02:25My mum, Ann Widdecombe.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Not THE Ann Widdecombe?
0:02:29 > 0:02:31No, of course she's not my mum.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Um... She's my wife.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39She's not. We're just lovers.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Lovers, but still with the same surname?
0:02:50 > 0:02:52I genuinely... I met Ann Widdecombe, and I walked in
0:02:52 > 0:02:56and her first words were, "I knew this day would come."
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Was she stroking a cat on a chair?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Anyway, let's get on with the show.
0:03:04 > 0:03:05Time to pick an Anne, any Anne.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Behind each category lurks a famous Anne
0:03:07 > 0:03:11which our teams must then attempt to win. We've got...
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Richard's team, you're up first. What do you fancy out of that lot?
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- A scary Anne, I think.- You've picked columnist and TV presenter
0:03:22 > 0:03:25- Anne Robinson.- Ooh, Anne Robinson! - AUDIENCE:- Ooooooh!
0:03:25 > 0:03:28- Let's release her stats.- Gosh.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44That's essentially your entire team in trouble.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48- I've got a good trivia question about The Weakest Link.- OK.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Who was the winner of the first-ever Celebrity Weakest Link?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- Was it you?- Nearly!
0:03:54 > 0:03:56- Sue.- No!- Was I the first one?
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- Yeah, you were the first-ever winner.- Wow!
0:03:59 > 0:04:01I blocked that.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04- I blocked that.- Wow.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07So it goes to show I probably wasn't a very worthy winner.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Do you want to unblock it
0:04:09 > 0:04:12by watching a clip that the producers have given me?
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- ED:- No... - KATE:- I do.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16AUDIENCE CHEER
0:04:21 > 0:04:23I'm very surprised to have won because I thought
0:04:23 > 0:04:25I was lucky to be in the final round.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27I think I picked up and I had some good rounds,
0:04:27 > 0:04:29but I let people down quite badly in the other rounds.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32I was very, very nervous, but I'm delighted to have won
0:04:32 > 0:04:35because I really wanted the charity that I support to get the money,
0:04:35 > 0:04:37so it's nice. It's nice that I won and I'm still here.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39I look a baby in that!
0:04:41 > 0:04:43- KATE:- What a victory.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45God!
0:04:45 > 0:04:48To give you a clue of the quality of people I beat
0:04:48 > 0:04:51on Celebrity Pointless, in the final I beat Su Pollard.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Did you?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Josh, as you well know, it's not called Celebrity Pointless.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- It's called Pointless Celebrities. - Oh, I'm sorry.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03So, what made Anne Robinson the happy-go-lucky shrinking violet
0:05:03 > 0:05:05we see today? She grew up in Liverpool,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07where her mum ran a highly successful poultry business.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09When she moved to London,
0:05:09 > 0:05:11what did her mother give her as a going-away present?
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Chicken.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16No. Poultry isn't relevant to the answer.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18A turkey.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23I think she was given a coat.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26- She was.- A fur coat. - She was given a mink coat.
0:05:26 > 0:05:27Cos her mother got very rich
0:05:27 > 0:05:30being the biggest chicken dealer in the north.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34I don't think she was dealing chickens.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Chickens, chickens...
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Got any chickens? Have you got any chickens left? Please, I'm dying!
0:05:39 > 0:05:42You know, I had to come off chickens.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46I can't remember what they called the process but it was pretty hard.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- Oh, dear. - So she got very rich...
0:05:50 > 0:05:52- Yes.- So she bought her a mink coat so she wouldn't get cold
0:05:52 > 0:05:55hanging around on doorsteps, and some kind of sports car?
0:05:55 > 0:05:58She did. She got a mink coat and a sports car,
0:05:58 > 0:06:01which reeks, to be honest, of a panic buy.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Anne was the first female trainee to work for the Daily Mail,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08going on to marry the paper's deputy news editor.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10What did the Daily Mail give her when she got married?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13A mink coat and a sports car.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15She was given the sack.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16What, for getting married?
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Yes - the Mail operated a strict no-spouses policy.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Working with your spouse not an issue for you, Ed?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25I mean, it must have been in the past quite strange to be working
0:06:25 > 0:06:27so closely with your partner.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29We were the first-ever married couple to be in the Cabinet
0:06:29 > 0:06:32at the same time, and there's not been one since.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Did you ever bring, like, domestic arguments?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Yvette would go, you know,
0:06:36 > 0:06:40"I think there's too much money being put into the war in Iraq."
0:06:40 > 0:06:42You'd lean across the table and go, "Yeah, you would think that,
0:06:42 > 0:06:45"but you don't put the marmalade away."
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Well, the problem was she goes in the shower
0:06:48 > 0:06:50and she would always leave wet towels on the floor,
0:06:50 > 0:06:53and would never put them back on the rail.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55- Oh, Yvette!- And I raised it in the Cabinet,
0:06:55 > 0:06:58and it got no support for action by them.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- Oh!- Don't you think it's the worst thing?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03- It's when you hold...- No. - It's not the worst thing, is it?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- It's not the worst thing. - Short of infidelity,
0:07:05 > 0:07:08the worst thing in a relationship is...
0:07:08 > 0:07:11No, Ed, it doesn't go infidelity, then leaving towels on the floor.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15- Well...- Does it?- I can tell you, year by year by year,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17it accumulates, and it becomes an issue.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19What if, Ed, you picked up a wet towel
0:07:19 > 0:07:22and there was a man underneath that she'd been shagging?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Well, I would...
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- And this is a hypothetical. - That's a dilemma.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35During the making of a documentary in August 2017,
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Anne set up a Tinder profile.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40What did she say was her secret for attracting men?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Winking?- Is it to do with winking, yeah?
0:07:42 > 0:07:46It's not to do with winking but it's to do with something you might wear.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49What way is it that you swipe if you like them?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Right. Swipe right, I think.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54That was a trap. We really wanted to find out if Ed Balls was on Tinder.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58I don't know what Tinder is.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01- Oh, you would...- Well, listen, mate, the nightmare you had on Twitter,
0:08:01 > 0:08:02stay away from Tinder.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Nowhere near it.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10Don't do it.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- You don't know what Tinder is?- No.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15- It's a dating app. - I'm happily married.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Doesn't sound like it. - Until those towels get...
0:08:19 > 0:08:24So it's something that she wore that drew people in.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26- Wasn't it her red glasses? - Spectacles, yeah.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27It was her spectacles, yes.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29She said, "I've got one particular pair of glasses,
0:08:29 > 0:08:31"they're my red glasses, and I can pull in them."
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Here they are.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39- JAMES:- Where is she pulling people? At Hogwarts?
0:08:42 > 0:08:45All right, eyes down. Time to play for the Anne.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47I think we all agree the best thing about The Weakest Link
0:08:47 > 0:08:51isn't the host but the really awful, bad, wrong answers.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54So we're going to play a little game which I've snappily titled,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Can You Give Me The Correct Wrong Answer To The Following Questions?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58AKA The Wrongest Link.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Now, these are all genuine wrong answers from The Weakest Link.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04You are allowed to confer before giving your answer.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07If you're ready, we are going to play The Wrongest Link.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09WEAKEST LINK JINGLE
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Hello! Which...
0:09:11 > 0:09:14LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:09:17 > 0:09:18Very nice.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20It is so important to have a catchphrase.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25I forgot that The Weakest Link was hosted by Alan Partridge.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Erm... Richard, remember,
0:09:28 > 0:09:30you're looking for the wrong answer that they gave.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37The answer is of course Princess Anne.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40- What did they say?- I wonder if it's something like
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Prince Naseem Hamed or something.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Or Queen Mum would have been, like, spectacularly wrong,
0:09:44 > 0:09:46cos she probably wasn't very sporty.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50- We're going to say Queen Mum. - All right. They said...
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- JOSH:- That is great!
0:09:59 > 0:10:01That is amazing.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Josh, this is yours.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08We know the answer's Ambition.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09What did they say?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- JAMES:- James Blonde.
0:10:14 > 0:10:15I think it's Blonde Hair.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Yeah? OK, they said...
0:10:21 > 0:10:23All right, listen, guys, no-one's got one right.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25This is the tie-breaker. OK?
0:10:25 > 0:10:26In science...
0:10:29 > 0:10:31- JOSH:- Bottoms.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34The answer, of course, the right answer is plants.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36They did say bottoms.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Oh, yeah!
0:10:38 > 0:10:39Go, Josh!
0:10:41 > 0:10:42Well done, Josh.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44You are the Wrongest Link.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45Goodbye.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52OK, Josh, your turn to pick an Anne.
0:10:52 > 0:10:53We've got...
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Can we go for T tragic Anne, please?
0:10:57 > 0:11:01You've picked Henry VIII's second wife, and the first to be beheaded,
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Anne Boleyn.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Let's have a look at her stats.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Most of what we know about Anne
0:11:19 > 0:11:21is wild propaganda written 50 years after her death
0:11:21 > 0:11:23by a Jesuit called Nicholas Sander.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Blaming Anne for her husband's rejection of Catholicism,
0:11:26 > 0:11:28he painted her as a monster.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30What did he say about her appearance?
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Too much...
0:11:32 > 0:11:34of a head.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37She was meant to be really beautiful, wasn't she, Anne Boleyn?
0:11:37 > 0:11:40She was meant to be. He wasn't very flattering.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42- Do you know about this, Kate? - He was very unflattering.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44So a lot of them said she had beautiful eyes,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47but he said that she was very ugly.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50She looked like her skin had got jaundice,
0:11:50 > 0:11:53and he also said that she had a great big wart on her neck
0:11:53 > 0:11:54that she covered up.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Lots of the Protestants called him Nicholas Slander
0:11:57 > 0:11:59because he kept coming up with all these libels.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Oh, that's... Yeah.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Anne was born around 1501 to the Boleyn family
0:12:03 > 0:12:06and lived in the home Blickling Hall in Norfolk.
0:12:06 > 0:12:07It was rebuilt in the 17th century.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Now it looks like this.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13What poll did Blickling Hall top in 2007?
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Voted most what?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- LAUREN:- Sexiest chimneys?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20- Most haunted?- Yes, it was.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23It was voted the most haunted house in Britain.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- Yeah.- Oh, yeah, you can see those little ghosts in front of it.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Just standing around in the gravel.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Yes, they say that on the anniversary of execution,
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Anne Boleyn's ghost, carrying her head beneath her arm,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38arrives at Blickling Hall
0:12:38 > 0:12:41in a carriage driven by a headless coachman,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43which is what happens when you book an Uber.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45If I had been beheaded,
0:12:45 > 0:12:48the last thing I want is a coachman who's also been beheaded,
0:12:48 > 0:12:51cos I just think that would make you feel so self-conscious.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Also, he'd definitely see it as an excuse
0:12:53 > 0:12:55to really get a conversation going, wouldn't he?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Yeah. "Sorry, I've seen you...
0:12:58 > 0:13:00"I know you're probably reading.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03"I see you don't have a head. I don't have a head either.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05"How did you lose yours?
0:13:05 > 0:13:08"Do you mind... Sorry, do you mind if I listen to Talksport?"
0:13:08 > 0:13:10He's great for his blind spot.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Check your blind spot.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Has anyone seen a ghost?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Has anyone had any ghostly paranormal activity happen?
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- No.- I did see a ghost coming home from Brownies once.
0:13:20 > 0:13:21- Of course you did.- Sorry,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- were you coming home from Brownies, or was the ghost?- I was!
0:13:26 > 0:13:29"Just got my dead badge.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31"I'm fully dead now."
0:13:33 > 0:13:35- You must have played at the Lancaster Grand Theatre?- Yes, yeah.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Which is haunted.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39I played that. Do you know what happened?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41- What happened? - WHISPERS:- Nothing.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45But, to be fair, that often happens when you play gigs.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55In April 1536, keen to ditch Anne Boleyn and marry Jane Seymour,
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Henry had his wife arrested on trumped-up charges
0:13:57 > 0:13:59of adultery, incest and treason.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02What did he do a week before the trial?
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Do you know this, Kate?
0:14:03 > 0:14:07He hired this wonderful swordsman so that Anne could die quickly.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Well, he did. He hired an expert swordsman from France,
0:14:10 > 0:14:12known as the Sword of Calais.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15It's just another thing we won't be able to do after Brexit.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17All right, heads down and stick your necks out.
0:14:17 > 0:14:18Let's play for the Anne.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22What was Anne Boleyn doing when Henry VIII had her arrested?
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Wearing a hoodie in a town centre.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27- Was she hiding?- Watching tennis?
0:14:27 > 0:14:31No... She was. She was watching a tennis match, hence her final words,
0:14:31 > 0:14:32"Come on, Tim!"
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Not necessarily verified.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38- She was gambling, wasn't she, on a tennis match?- She was.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42Henry, then, when she was executed, he wasn't watching.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44He was playing tennis.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47- No!- And so that's why he married Jane Seymour so quickly afterwards.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49- What's going on up there? - And she died, didn't she?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- She did.- What is it, divorced...?
0:14:51 > 0:14:52- Beheaded.- Died.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55- Died, divorced, beheaded, survived. - I've got a rhyme.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57I remember my ex-girlfriends.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00It's dumped me, dumped me, dumped me, dumped me, dumped me, dumped me.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Catchy.
0:15:05 > 0:15:06Congratulations, Josh's team.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08You get the Anne. Well done.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14OK, your turn, Richard. Pick an Anne. We've got...
0:15:16 > 0:15:18We'll go for Princess Anne, please, Sue.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20All right, Princess Anne.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23You have selected Princess Royal, Princess Anne.
0:15:23 > 0:15:24Let's have a look at those stats.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Anne's status has varied over the years.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42When she was born, she was third in line to the throne,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44becoming second when her mum became Queen.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48Now 12th and in danger of dropping, I'm afraid, into the Championship.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51What was specifically set up for Princess Anne
0:15:51 > 0:15:54- when she was just eight years old? - Just everything.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56It's really sweet. I'll give you a clue.
0:15:56 > 0:15:57Her entire life.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59It was a way of her making friends.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Oh, Facebook!
0:16:03 > 0:16:05What would you do when you were eight?
0:16:05 > 0:16:08- What sort of things would you be involved in?- Scalextric?- No.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10- Oh, Brownies.- Brownies.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- There she is.- They set up Brownies?
0:16:12 > 0:16:16They set up the first Buckingham Palace company of the Girl Guides.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18She would say, "I promise I will always do my best
0:16:18 > 0:16:20"to do my duty to God, and to my mum."
0:16:22 > 0:16:25What milestone did she achieve in 1976?
0:16:25 > 0:16:27First-ever member of the Royal family to be
0:16:27 > 0:16:31- BBC Sports Personality of the Year? - Very close.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34- It's sporting-related. - First Olympic gold medallist.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36She was the first member of the Royal family
0:16:36 > 0:16:37to compete in the Olympic Games.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40She took part in the eventing competition
0:16:40 > 0:16:41in the Montreal Olympics.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45She rode the Queen's horse Goodwill and finished 24th out of 30.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Her love of horses, legendary.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Speaking of his daughter, Prince Philip once said...
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Royals have always loved horses.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57They've always been of the equestrian bent, Kate?
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Always. The Queen, a keen horse rider.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Still in her 90s riding a horse.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06But I think the greatest horse-lover was Caligula,
0:17:06 > 0:17:09who adored his horse so much that he gave it a special house
0:17:09 > 0:17:12made out of marble, an ivory manger,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15and pretty much made it a political adviser,
0:17:15 > 0:17:20like a SPAD, and was going to make it consul before it died.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24So his horse got higher up the political ladder than Ed Balls?
0:17:26 > 0:17:31Was it one of the ones that could do a one for yes, two for no?
0:17:31 > 0:17:34In the 1970s, Princess Anne became something of a hipster chick.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Here she is.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38I'm not sure which airline she's working for there.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Hello! March '74.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43What happened to her on the way back from a charity event?
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Didn't she almost get taken hostage?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49- She did.- By... And she got held up at gunpoint
0:17:49 > 0:17:51by a guy who jumped out
0:17:51 > 0:17:54and threatened the security people and tried to take her hostage.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- That's absolutely right, yes. - On the Mall, wasn't it?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Yeah. She was the victim of a kidnap attempt.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02Her Rolls-Royce was forced to stop by a white Ford Escort
0:18:02 > 0:18:05driven by a labourer called Ian Ball.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- The would-be kidnapper began to... - Unrelated.- Hold on a minute.- Yeah.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Unrelated. He only had one.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14The would-be kidnapper began firing a pistol,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16injuring Anne's bodyguard and her chauffeur
0:18:16 > 0:18:17before approaching the car.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19What did she say to the kidnapper?
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Was it literally something like, "Oh, piss off," something like that?
0:18:22 > 0:18:25- Along those lines. Do you know the answer to this?- Not bloody likely.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27"Not bloody likely," she said.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Eventually, a passing member of the public,
0:18:29 > 0:18:30a former boxer named Ron Russell,
0:18:30 > 0:18:33punched Ball in the back of the head and helped her escape.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- It's extraordinary.- This is like...
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Why hasn't Guy Ritchie made this into a film?!
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Interestingly, the kidnapper was planning to demand
0:18:41 > 0:18:42£2 million of ransom,
0:18:42 > 0:18:45which he was going to give to the National Health Service.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Nowadays we just write that on the side of a bus.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52She's clocked up loads of firsts in her time, Princess Anne.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54She was the first member of the Royal family
0:18:54 > 0:18:57since Charles I to do what?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59She was on A Question Of Sport, wasn't she?
0:18:59 > 0:19:02I don't think Charles I was, no.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05She was the first since Charles I to get a criminal record.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09- Really?- She appeared before in Berkshire Magistrates' Court
0:19:09 > 0:19:12in 2002. Do you know this story, Kate?
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Dottie the terrier did bite two children in the park,
0:19:16 > 0:19:17in Windsor Great Park,
0:19:17 > 0:19:20and she was told that Dottie needed to have obedience training.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23It's not the fairest courtroom drawing, is it?
0:19:23 > 0:19:26It looks like Sandi Toksvig's taking down the details.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30It looks like Princess Anne's wearing a gumshield.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Anyone here got in trouble with the law?
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Has anyone got a criminal conviction for anything?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38I saw a policeman once. I thought it was really exciting.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41He was hiding behind a tree like that and looking around,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43and I was like, "Oh, man, there's a robber
0:19:43 > 0:19:45"around somewhere or something."
0:19:45 > 0:19:46And then I looked and what it was,
0:19:46 > 0:19:49there was just another policeman walking down
0:19:49 > 0:19:51and he was waiting to jump out on him for a laugh.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54It was his mate. And when his...
0:19:54 > 0:19:57When his mate saw him, he just got the radio and went,
0:19:57 > 0:19:58"I can see you, John."
0:20:01 > 0:20:05- Like that.- It's time to crank it up as we play for the Anne.
0:20:05 > 0:20:06Princess Anne has a rather unusual hobby.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Does anybody know what it is?
0:20:08 > 0:20:10- Does she collect something? - It's more of a hobby.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12She likes to visit things.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Oh, is she doing the thing where she's trying to visit
0:20:14 > 0:20:16every single Greggs in Britain?
0:20:17 > 0:20:19I've almost succeeded in doing that.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21She likes particular buildings.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Does anybody know what buildings?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Leisure centres.- Not leisure centres.- Lighthouses?- HMV.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27Lighthouses it is.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Yes. She is a pharologist.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33She is a lighthouse enthusiast.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- Oh, wow.- In fact, she's the patron of the Northern Lighthouse Board
0:20:36 > 0:20:40and is on a mission to visit every one of the 209 lighthouses
0:20:40 > 0:20:41dotted around the Scottish coast.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44We think she's about halfway through visiting the 209 that exist.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48- It's only...- It's impossible to be halfway through visiting 209.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Unless as we speak she's halfway up one of them.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Well done, Josh's team, cos you win the Anne.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Time now to fire up our Anne-flavoured fruit machine.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Each time I spin, up are going to pop three of my favourite Annes.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09You must match the extraordinary fact to the extraordinary Anne,
0:21:09 > 0:21:11and it's also a chance to unearth more candidates
0:21:11 > 0:21:13for the greatest Anne of all time.
0:21:13 > 0:21:18So let's spin. We've got glamour model Anna Nicole Smith,
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Radio 1 DJ Annie Nightingale,
0:21:20 > 0:21:23and Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27The question is, which Anne claimed she'd had sex with a ghost?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Whichever one was in the Brownies.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35- So...- Well, Anna Nicole did have that very old husband.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Yeah, but I don't think,
0:21:36 > 0:21:38- that would be... - He wasn't dead, though. Was he?
0:21:38 > 0:21:39But he might be near...
0:21:39 > 0:21:42- Which is almost...- That wasn't how she announced he'd died.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45- RICHARD:- Yeah, to his children.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47"I have some bad news, I just had sex with a ghost."
0:21:47 > 0:21:49"He was not a ghost when we started."
0:21:50 > 0:21:52We haven't discussed Anne Hathaway.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55That doesn't sound like the kind of thing she'd say, does it?
0:21:55 > 0:21:58But then maybe that's why she's there. Maybe it is her.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59- Trick question? - And they've put two people
0:21:59 > 0:22:01who are more eccentric there and it's like,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04- we're not going to think it's her. - Maybe she had sex with Shakespeare.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Oh!
0:22:06 > 0:22:08You've got the wrong Anne Hathaway.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10This is a highbrow reference, isn't it?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- I'm going to believe that. - You think Shakespeare
0:22:12 > 0:22:15came back thinking that Anne Hathaway was HIS Anne Hathaway?
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Looked her up.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18And this Anne Hathaway thought,
0:22:18 > 0:22:20"Well, in for a penny, in for a pound."
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Who do you feel moved to pick?
0:22:22 > 0:22:23I think it's...
0:22:23 > 0:22:25I would be annoyed if I didn't go with Anna Nicole Smith,
0:22:25 > 0:22:26and it was Anna Nicole Smith,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28because it's surely Anna Nicole Smith.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30All right, so Richard's team.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32You must know Annie Nightingale.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33I've met Annie Nightingale.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35What a legend. She...
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Let me tell you, she has some fabulous stories.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40- Oh, she's brilliant.- But I can't think that that was one of them.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Cos I did a Q and A with her about...
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Imagine if that had been your opening question.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Annie, great to speak to you. Long career.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Have you had sex with a ghost?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54I call her Hathers. Shall we go for Hathers?
0:22:54 > 0:22:56- Let's go for Hathers. - We will go for Hathers, please.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57- I think it is her.- The answer is...
0:22:57 > 0:23:00It's Anna Nicole Smith.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Yes, Anna Nicole Smith. Apparently a ghost would visit
0:23:02 > 0:23:06her Texas apartment, crawl up her leg and have sex with her.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08The thing about having sex with ghosts is when
0:23:08 > 0:23:11they leave ectoplasm-covered towels on the floor.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12That's how you know.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16- That's the advantage of a ghost - no need for towels.- No towels.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19They're already wearing sheets.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Josh, you win the Anne.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30So, here are your next three.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33We've got German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
0:23:33 > 0:23:36the Russian tennis ace Anna Kournikova
0:23:36 > 0:23:38and the Scottish chanteuse Annie Lennox.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42So, which of these used to live in a squat?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Richard's team.- Well, look. When Annie Lennox came to London,
0:23:45 > 0:23:46she definitely was penniless.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48She was a waitress when she met Dave Stewart?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- Mm-hmm.- And they formed The Tourists.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52So, you know, it wouldn't be...
0:23:52 > 0:23:55That would have been the, you know, the '70s punk scene.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Pretty much everybody would have lived in...
0:23:57 > 0:23:59It's obvious, but maybe that makes it right.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01- Shall we say Annie Lennox?- Yeah.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04- She was in London at that sort of time, wasn't she?- All right, OK.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07So my initial thought is Anna Kournikova, cos I think she...
0:24:07 > 0:24:09It often is, to be fair, Josh.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11I think, trick question,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14it's all three of them at once and it was a sitcom.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Which is the most unlikely?
0:24:17 > 0:24:18- Well, Merkel.- Yeah, Merkel.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- Yeah, let's go Merkel. - All right, OK.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Let's see who the correct answer is.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Angela Merkel. Well done, Josh's team.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34During her 20s, Angela lived illegally in an apartment
0:24:34 > 0:24:37in what was then communist East Berlin.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Ed, talking of living in a squat,
0:24:38 > 0:24:42what's the most rebellious thing you've ever done, you rogue?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Gosh. I think actually the most rebellious thing
0:24:45 > 0:24:49was during a massive hurricane storm on the east coast of America,
0:24:49 > 0:24:52when we were supposed to be travelling from New York
0:24:52 > 0:24:53down to Washington.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56I was at the Treasury at the time with Gordon Brown,
0:24:56 > 0:24:59and it became a massively long journey,
0:24:59 > 0:25:01and about seven hours into this journey,
0:25:01 > 0:25:03because the weather was so bad,
0:25:03 > 0:25:05we stopped in Baltimore and got off the train,
0:25:05 > 0:25:07or at least I got off the train with his private secretary,
0:25:07 > 0:25:12and then they suddenly called for the train to depart again,
0:25:12 > 0:25:16and we didn't move fast enough to get back on the train.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17You're saying you got off a train
0:25:17 > 0:25:20to avoid spending seven hours with Gordon Brown?
0:25:27 > 0:25:30It is... It's pretty much exactly what the British electorate did
0:25:30 > 0:25:32soon afterwards, isn't it?
0:25:34 > 0:25:37So, congratulations, Josh's team, you win the Angela.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Right, everybody, let's play Finish The Facts.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46I'm going to start out by reading out an Anne-based gem,
0:25:46 > 0:25:48and you buzz in when you think you know how it ends.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52First up we've got American teacher Annie Edson Taylor.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Did she go over the Wayne Rooney age threshold?
0:26:05 > 0:26:07The rainbow?
0:26:07 > 0:26:11She actually went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and became...
0:26:11 > 0:26:13- BELL RINGS - Dead.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16BUZZER BUZZES
0:26:16 > 0:26:19The first person ever to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel?
0:26:21 > 0:26:24You said that she died. She didn't die, she actually...
0:26:24 > 0:26:27- Lived.- She survived the trip, yes.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30She was the first person to survive the trip.
0:26:30 > 0:26:31Yeah. Here she is.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34It was a very tense occasion, as the barrel floated towards the edge,
0:26:34 > 0:26:38broken only by the sound of urgent thumping and the frantic shouts of,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40"I've changed my mind!"
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Well done, though, Josh. You win the Anne.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Next up it's Tory grandee, Josh's favourite Anne and Josh's lover,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- Ann Widdecombe.- Oh, God.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Ed Balls.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Oh, was it a detective that investigates the curse of Strictly?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11So basically it was inspired by her time on Strictly Come Dancing,
0:27:11 > 0:27:13which featured a...
0:27:14 > 0:27:19Was it a jury that marked the guilt out of ten?
0:27:19 > 0:27:20You're on the right lines.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Is it a dancing detective or something?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Yes, a dancing amateur detective called...
0:27:27 > 0:27:30At least change the first name.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- It's called The Dancing Detective. Self-published.- Oh, wow.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35And if you want to know who committed the crime,
0:27:35 > 0:27:38it was Ann Widdecombe in her study with a typewriter.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Well done, Josh. You win the Anne.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47And so we've come to the end of the show,
0:27:47 > 0:27:50and I can tell you that tonight's winners with the most Annes,
0:27:50 > 0:27:51Josh's team.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58OK, a big moment, Josh.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Who are you going to name as the greatest Anne of all time?
0:28:01 > 0:28:04I'm going to go with Anne Boleyn.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Cracking choice. Let's put Anne Boleyn on the Insert Name Here
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Hall Of Fame. Up she goes.
0:28:08 > 0:28:13I hereby declare that Anne Boleyn is the best Anne of all time.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Congratulations to Josh's team.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22My thanks to all of my guests.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Special thanks to all the Annes here, there and everywhere,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26including my darling mum,
0:28:26 > 0:28:29and thanks most of all to you all at home for watching. Goodnight.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32CHEERING AND APPLAUSE