Episode 11 Len Goodman's Partners in Rhyme

# There's been rhyme from the start of time

# Get a word or a name one that sounds the same

# Poems, sonnets, limericks, verses

# Rhymes in love and rhymes in curses

# I've been rapping since a very young man

# But that was Cockney rhyming slang

# So, get yourself ready this is the time

# Are you up for the game? Are you up for the rhyme?

# Ready, steady let's go!

# Three, two, one let's get on with the show. #

APPLAUSE

Hey-hey!

CHEERING

Hey-hey.

Hello, and welcome to Partners in Rhyme,

where we're putting your rhyming skills to the test.

Let me show you how it works.

Take a look at this picture and find the rhyme.

It's a pig in a wig. Hey-hey.

If you've got the time...

-AUDIENCE:

-Len's got the rhyme!

-Hey, hey.

Tonight, two contestants will be teaming up

with their very own partner in rhyme,

so let's meet this evening's celebrity rhyme team.

In our first team - she must be top of the rhyming tree,

it's our northern star, it's Sally Lindsay.

-Oh...

-Oh, I got my own rhyme.

-APPLAUSE

You've got your own personal rhyme.

And with Sally - he's cool, he's funny,

I hope his rhymes are on the money, Tom Allen.

-Oh...

-You got a rhyme.

-Oh, thanks, Len.

-Oh, Tom, look...

-Thanks for my rhyme.

We said rhyme, she said, "I'll try it,"

our Pussycat Doll - Kimberly Wyatt.

APPLAUSE

And with Kimberly is a very sharp bloke

with a fine line in jokes,

it's Rick Edwards.

-Wahey!

-Thank you, Len. Thanks for my rhyme.

-Oh, yeah.

-Thank you, thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, our celebrity team.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now, let's meet tonight's contestants.

-Cece.

-Len! Mwah.

-Oh, we... Oh, it's a double kiss.

-Oh, yes, for you.

-You look great, Cece, honestly.

-Thank you, Len.

-Where are you from?

-I'm from South Africa.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-So, what do you do for a living?

I'm a dental nurse, I look into people's mouths all day.

Oh, I bet you have. I tell you what,

you've got a lovely set of railings...

-Oh, thank you.

-..I must say. Look at that.

-Railings!

-Yeah, no, you have, look at your smile...

-Oh, thank you.

-..gorgeous. Well, I'm wishing you all the best tonight.

-Thank you so much.

-OK.

-Do you know what?

-What?

-I have to tell you...

-Oh, go on.

-..you're more handsome in real life...

-Shut...

-..and I never knew it would be possible!

-Oh.

-Like, isn't he not?

-And g...

And the winner tonight is Cece.

Well, it's going to be Cece without a doubt, now.

-Don't give it away.

-Yeah.

-Sh.

-Jon, nice to meet you.

-Hello, Len.

-Where are you from?

-I'm from Norwich in Norfolk.

-Oh, that's a way.

-Yeah, quite a way.

What do you do?

Er, I'm a funeral director, Len.

CROWD GIGGLES Oh.

Well, let's move on, then.

Really?

-I'll do you a deal.

-What do you...?

LAUGHTER Well...

APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

What did you do before that, then?

Erm, I've done all sorts of things - I was a driving instructor,

I was a bingo caller and...

-..I was an Elvis Presley impersonator for a while.

-Never!

-Yeah.

-What's your favourite Elvis number?

-Love Me Tender, you know.

-The old ballads, yeah.

Yeah. Do you want to hear a bit?

No.

I like Love Me Tender, of course I do,

but what about All Shook Up?

-All Shook Up's all right, yeah.

-Yeah.

# Well, bless my soul what's wrong with me?

# I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree

BOTH: # My friends say I'm acting wild as a bug

# I'm in love, I'm all shook up. #

Wahey!

APPLAUSE

I'm wishing you both all the best.

-Thanks, Len.

-Thank you.

-Good luck.

-He'll need it.

Oi, fighting talk already.

-Oh.

-Yes.

-I'm joking.

Tonight, one of you could be walking away with a holiday.

Ladies and gentlemen, Cece and Jon.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Cece and Jon are about to be paired up

with one of our celebrity rhyme teams,

but to help them choose, let's see them in action.

I'm going to give you one rhyme each to solve.

Now, there's no points at stake,

it is just a chance to show who's hot and who's not.

Sally, you're first.

Think clear and the rhyme will appear.

OK, Len.

Dog stood on a hose in a b... Oh...

-What kind of dog?

-A Dalmatian in a fire station!

-Hey!

Tom, get ready to play, your rhyme's on the way.

Oh, it's a jumper.

Has... Oh... Er, a roll neck jumper...

-With - ooh, ooh, Ant and Dec.

-In a polo jumper.

LAUGHTER

-A roll neck goes better with it.

-A flannel jumper.

Is it something to do with the venetian blinds behind them?

PJ and Duncan in...

..in a jumper.

Good enough for me, everyone.

Ant & Dec in a roll neck.

-Oh, Ant & Dec in a roll neck!

-Yeah.

Now, later on, you're going to pick a team.

-Keep watching this.

-Oh...

Kimberly, the spotlight's on you, so what can you do?

OK.

Rick. Rick! Rick with a mic, Rick with...

Rick Edwards with the Jedwards.

Hey! Rick Edwards with the Jedwards.

-That's going to haunt me now.

-Yeah.

-It's horrible.

Rick, this is your time, please give us the rhyme.

Er, picture...

Is that an eagle's wing?

-No.

-What is that animal?

Well, it smells.

Skunk. Skunk in a suit...

Skunk... Skunk in a trunk!

Yes!

OK, I've put our celebrities to the test

but now it's Cece and Jon's turn.

Let's play Find the Rhyme.

This is a quickfire round

and whoever guesses most rhymes in two minutes

gets first pick of the team.

If you think you know, give it a go.

On your buzzers, it's Find the Rhyme.

Oh...

-Nicki Minaj on...

-Oh...

..on a...

-Oh, no. No, you've...

-Jon, what do you say?

It's Nicki Minaj on a barge.

It is indeedy, correctomundo.

Number two.

-It's a...

-Oh, a lettuce on a...

No, lettuce on a castle? That doesn't even go!

-No, no.

-Oh.

Cauliflower on a tower.

-Here you go, number three.

-Right.

BUZZER Oh, whose is it?

It's a frog on a log.

Good lad.

It's... It's a bird.

What type of bird?

-BUZZER

-Ugh!

-Yeah, go on, Jon.

Is it a crow in a row?

It is a crow in a row!

BUZZER Who is it, Jon?

Er, Jack Dee on a bungee.

Hey-hey-hey! Look out.

Let me win.

-Oh...

-Jon.

It's a dinosaur in a drawer.

It... Jon!

Next one.

-Go on.

-A horse on a golf course.

Correctomundo.

-You've been practising. I've...

-APPLAUSE

Well. Hey?

So, who's choosing the best and who's stuck with the rest?

It's time for the scores.

Cece, you've got none.

Jon, you have got six...

-Sorry.

-..which means the winner, of course, is Jon,

and you choose the team that you want to be with.

Now, is it going to be Sally and Tom, Kimberly or Rick?

Which two now?

Oh, it's a real tough decision, it really is.

-Erm, obviously they're very...

-Not in my world, it's not.

-No.

No, maybe not, but I'm going to go for, erm,

-for Kimberly and Rick, please.

-Right, there you go.

Thank you.

-Which means...

-Thank you.

-..Cece, you're with Sally and Tom.

So, it's team up time with your partners in rhyme.

Jon, do you think it's a wise choice?

Oh, absolutely. I mean, come on, look at this.

-Are you going to be the dream team?

-Well, I think so.

-Yeah?

-I think we're going to do it, yeah.

-Yeah?

-We're going to go for it.

-Nah.

THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER

We've already planned our holiday.

-We're going to have matching bathing suits.

-Oh, my God.

OK, now we've got our teams, we'll reset the scores to zero...

-Ooh, that's good!

-..as we play Mime the Rhyme.

In this round, I'm going to give some clues about famous people

doing something that rhymes with their names.

Jon won last round, so you go first.

-Lovely.

-In this round,

Kimberly must describe the celebrity in the rhyme,

-Rick must mime the action.

-Got it.

Each team will be given five clues

and you have 30 seconds to mime and describe each one.

Let's play Mime the Rhyme.

There we go.

Host of the One Show, girl, with Matt Baker.

-Oh, erm...Alex Jones.

-Yes!

-Alex Jones...

-is, erm...

skimming stones.

That... That was good.

Number two, here we go.

Er, singer, was in *N Sync, erm...

-Justin Timberlake?

-Yes.

-Is...

-Yeah.

-..is, erm, flipping a pancake.

Yeah! Woohoo! Woohoo.

That was without even seeing me pour the batter in.

No. And a beautiful wrist action.

You must've done plenty of tossing in your time.

OK, number three.

She's one of the nation's sweethearts

but she's Australian, she's a singer, big shows.

-Er, lots of costumes.

-I don't know this, by the way.

-She was in a soap. She...

-Erm...

-Oh, oh, Kylie Minogue.

-Yes.

-Kylie Minogue.

-Help me with the...

-Oh, is...is doing...

-..is doing vogue.

-Yes. Yes.

-Hey!

Oh, number four.

-A detective. You know, the code that you use...

-Erm...

-..erm, to speak to each other, military...

-Oh, oh, oh, Morse.

-Morse erm...

-So, another word for detective is...?

-Oh, oh, erm... Oh, it's...

-What's he called?

-He's checking for clues.

-He's not a detective, he's what?

He's... He's a...

A person. A person, a detective is also...

We've given you Morse, what's he doing?

He's Morse and he's riding a horse.

Yes.

I've been riding it for a while actually, Jon.

-I wondered what you...

-Eh!

-I thought you were dancing.

-I've got saddle sore.

-Let's have a look.

-There you are, Inspector Morse.

-Inspector Morse!

Riding a horse. We've got one more.

And it'll be a clean sweep.

-OK.

-Here we go.

-Come on, Kimberly.

He was in Face/Off, he's an actor.

-Erm, John Travolta.

-No, the other one.

-Nicolas Cage.

-Yes.

-OK.

-Now, is...

-Has got road rage.

-Boom.

-Wow!

Oh, wow.

Here we go!

If I might say, I'm getting a bit fed up with all the high-fiving.

On a sca.. No, don't.

Come on, Len.

I'll give you the knuckle one.

-Oh, OK. There we go.

-Booyaka...

-Well, Jon, come here.

-Yeah.

-Well done.

Thank you very much, thank you.

Go and rejoin your team.

-Brilliant. My team, as well - fantastic.

-Fantastic team.

They were great.

APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

OK, that was brilliant.

-Cece, your turn now. Please come and join me.

-OK.

Tom, you will be describing, and Sally, you are miming the actions.

Remember, you have five clues with 30 seconds on each.

Teamwork makes dreams work.

-Come on, guys.

-Let's play Mime the Rhyme.

Here we go, first one.

OK, a character in Star Wars...

Played by Harrison Ford.

He drove the...the thing

and he had a hairy friend called, er,

Chewbacca, I think.

Harrison Ford and, er, his... his surname means on your own...

-Watch me, watch me.

-Yeah, what's she doing? Look.

Riding?

-Playing golf?

-No, it's not...

-On a horse, like that on a horse.

-On a horse.

-Oh, that game on a horse!

-Yes. Yeah, what's that called? No.

-END OF TIME BUZZER

-Oh...

-No.

-..the game on a horse.

-The game on the horse, Cece, with a ball.

-Yeah.

-And a hammer.

Calm yourself down, come back, cos a bit out of time, we were.

-It got off to a flying start, though.

-It did.

-I think you'll agree, right?

-Han...

-Han Solo.

-..playing...

-Playing polo. Do I still get it?

-I tried.

-Course you don't. Yeah.

-I tried.

-Nearly got it. Cece...

-I tried really hard.

I know. Listen, we all love a trier.

Do we, though, Len? Do we really?

-Oh...

-You're going to do better, though, on this one.

Here we go, number two.

OK, singer, named after a colour -

a bright colour, erm...

-Pink.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Yes, great.

Right, Pink...

-Ssshhh-ssshhh.

-In a sink.

-Nearly.

-Unplugging a sink?

Yes!

-Yes.

-Oh.

-I got my first one!

-Well done!

-Yes, woohoo!

-High five!

-Yeah, high five.

-Boomshaka. Boomshaka.

-I love this.

Woo!

Yes!

Pink unblocking her sink.

Here we go.

OK, actor, was in The Talented Mr Ripley -

very, very beautiful man,

blonde hair, erm, he was also in...used to be...

Chainsaw?

Yeah, what rhymes with saw? An actor.

-Actor.

-Saw. Saw. Er...

-Er, er...

-Legal, think of legal.

If you break this, the police will come round.

-Law - Jude Law...

-Yes.

Ccssch, ccchh. ..thinging a saw.

-Yes.

-Yay.

-Yes, high five.

-Oh, here they go again. Oh.

Number four, here we go.

Oh, there's another one.

OK, was...is in One Direction.

Er, he...

He's probably going out with Cheryl, who was once Cheryl Cole.

-Liam Payne...

-Yes.

-..on an aeroplane.

-Yeah, there we go!

-Yay. Flying on an aeroplane.

-Flying a plane.

-Flying a plane, yes.

-Liam Payne.

You want to do your...?

-I keep coming...

-Yeah.

-Len likes it when we do this.

-Well, I don't.

Woo!!

Oh.

Can we stop for a bit and I'll have a sit down?

I'm worn out watching you all.

Never had so much excitement in here.

-OK, here we go.

-Neither have I, to be honest.

-We're doing fabulous.

-It's good.

OK, here, this is number five, your last one.

-You're on a...

-I am on a roll.

-..real great roll, and here we go.

Fingers crossed, everyone.

OK, a short actor, American,

was in Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

-GRUFF VOICE:

-He talks a bit like that all the time,

and he's not very - he's not very tall.

-He's quite short.

-Tom Cruise?

-No.

-No, shorter than that. Shorter...

-Shorter than that.

-Shorter than Tom Cruise?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Yeah.

-Is he the one that does this...?

-No, no, taller than that.

-What?

-His surname rhymes with...

-Er...

-Bzzzz.

-Look.

-Bzz-bzz.

-Oh, bee.

No, no, not a bee, what...

-A wasp.

-What bites you?

-Wasp.

-When it's summer, when it's summer.

When it's summer. And you're out in the fields.

-It's very itchy.

-A bee, a wasp.

-No. Mosquito.

-Danny DeVito.

-Danny DeVito, mosquito, it was...

-No high fives.

-Do we...?

-No high fives there, Cece, forget it.

-Oh.

-Forget it.

They get me all the time, and I don't get them!

-Ironic really, isn't it?

-How ironic.

-Yeah.

Oh, listen, your time's up, well done, go back to your...

So, let's have a look at the scores.

Well, Cece, you have now got a score.

Oh, yes!

-You've got three.

-Whoo!

-Well done.

Jon boy, five.

It's all still to play for as we go into round three, Rhyme Watch.

I'm about to show a short film starring a celebrity.

Hidden in the film are six pairs of rhymes to find.

As you spot the rhymes, please write them down.

There's a point for each correct pair.

Today, we're visiting former JLS singer JB Gill

who's swapping grooves and moves for farms and barns.

Here we go.

ALARM RINGS

Hi guys, I'm JB Gill, come and spend a day with me on my farm.

I always start my day with some yoga,

joined by one of my favourite chicks.

Some of you might think I'm the vainest thing around here,

but you'd be wrong. Check out this babe.

The animals always get hungry in the afternoon,

so I like to spoil them with a snack whilst I take some time out.

You'd have thought all this hard work would tire me out,

but I still find time for a quick workout.

And that's a day in the life of JB.

Now it's time for the commute home.

How many did you get at home?

Let's see if you were right. Here we go.

-Number one, sock...

-Yeah.

-..clock.

-Yeah, come on.

-Both got that, lovely. Number two.

-Oh...

-Smelly welly.

-You've got it.

-Oh, yeah.

-Jon's team got it.

-Kimberley.

-Cece?

-No.

-OK. Listen...

-No, we didn't get it! Again.

OK, no matter, no matter. Number three, here we go.

Hen and Zen.

-Oh...

-I mean, it doesn't rhyme per se, but I went with cock yoga.

Cock yoga.

-Yeah.

-No. Moving on.

-Moving on.

-Snout and pout.

-Oh...

-No-one's got it.

OK, next.

-Yeah!

-Yay, got it!

-Both of you, well done.

-Don't be so shocked.

Feeding and reading, I know you put that - it all works.

Next one, gate and weight.

-Yes!

-Yes?

-Yeah. Got that.

-Lovely jubbly.

Your scores for Rhyme Watch - Cece, three.

Three again.

John, four.

Oh, yeah. Well done, folks.

-Like it.

-Now, how does that leave the teams overall?

Cece, a very respectable six.

-Thank you very much.

-Jon, nine.

-Yes!

-Whoo!

But we have one more round before our champ is crowned.

Whoever is in the lead after this will go on to tackle

our endgame to play for the holiday.

Oh.

# Celebrate

# Celebrate... #

It's time for News At Len.

BIG BEN CHIMES

Good evening, I'm Len Goodman and this is the News At Len.

Tonight I have four news stories

and you must work out the rhyming headline that go with them.

Listen carefully, but don't buzz in until I ask you for the headline.

There are two points for each correct answer.

It's time for tonight's news.

First up, Hollywood news.

The latest pet craze sweeping Tinsel Town

is for large aquatic rodents.

Among the celebrities never seen

without their big-toothed dam-building pet

is an actress famous for her roles in Alien and Avatar.

She said, "Some people think these animals are unhygienic,

"but they're otterly wrong." What's the headline?

-Oh...

-Cece's in there like...

Sigourney Weaver with a beaver.

-Let's see if you're right.

-Sorry, baby.

Hey-hey-hey! Sigourney Weaver with a beaver.

What's next?

Defence news - all of our country's fighting ships are currently

out of action because 300 tonnes of beef-flavoured granules,

normally used for your Sunday dinner, fell into the water,

thickening the sea, so none of the boats can move.

An Admiral said, "We are taking stock of the situation."

What's the headline?

Oh, we knew it, we knew it.

Jon got in.

-Er...

-Did we?

We think that's, er, gravy in the Navy.

Let's have a look.

The Navy stuck in gravy.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-OK.

-You got the thought.

-Yeah?

-Yes.

-Next up - music news.

The former lead singer of Boyzone has revealed

he's now a registered gas engineer.

When installing boilers and radiators,

customers still ask him to sing on the job,

to which he replies, "No, I do it best when I say nothing at all."

What's the headline?

Oh, we got that.

-Jonny boy.

-Um, Ronan Keating, sorting out your heating.

Let's have a look.

Whoo, there he is.

And finally...

Cleaning news - this year, a top British rapper spent

March, April and May making his house absolutely spotless.

The star, famous for Read All About It and I Need You Tonight,

used the season of the year to dust grime rather than bust rhyme.

What's the headline?

-Oh-ho!

-Cece?

Professor Green having a clean.

Let's have a look.

There you go.

Whoo! I got it.

Professor Green is doing a spring clean. Well done indeed.

And that's all for News At Len. Don't have nightmares.

And now the headline everyone's been waiting for - the scores.

And who's going on to the final round to play for the holiday?

Cece, you've got 10, double figures, well done.

I know, thank you so much. Thank you.

Jon, you've got 13.

Hey! Woohoo! Mwah!

Which means, through to play for the holiday is Jon.

Well, Cece, you're going home with something

that will always fill your life with sunshine.

Your very own Pen from Len.

Yeah! Oh.

-Look at that.

-Oh.

-Oh, that is lovely.

-What I've always wanted.

There you are. Well, thank you, Cece, and your partners in rhyme.

-Thank you. Thank you, guys.

-Well done.

-Thank you. Thanks, Len.

-Thank you.

-Thanks, Cece.

-Thank you.

Jon, congratulations on making it through to our final round.

Come and join me in the middle for the final riddle,

it's Rhyme against Time.

Your partners have taken you this far,

but here's where you have to go it alone.

If you can rhyme against time, you'll be off to the Eternal City,

beautiful Rome.

-Wow!

-Whoo!

Yeah, lovely.

On the screen you'll see a clock split into six segments.

Each segment contains a three-part rhyme,

like Cher on a chair growing hair.

You must solve all six segments to win.

If you get stuck, you can move on,

but you must complete all six segments in the time.

Six on the board and you're going abroad.

-Are you ready?

-I'm ready, Len.

-Let's play Rhyme Against Time.

Um, oh, that's, um, oh, that's er, he's the rapper,

he's Kanye West in a nest with a vest.

Good, now, on you go.

Um, is that Meryl Streep?

Erm, with some sheep, erm...

-Yeah, yeah.

-Um, and...

-What's she dressed as?

-She's, er...

-Dressed as...

-Dressed as a...

-Little...

-As a Little Bo Peep.

Go on.

-Oh.

-Who's that?

-Er, is that the Prime Minister?

Oh, is it really? Oh, yeah. It's, erm...

That's, er, Theresa May playing croquet, with a beret.

Hey, go on.

That is... Who are they?

Er, that's... Oh, is that McFly?

-McFly.

-Is it McFly?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Playing darts. McFly eating a pork pie...

-Scoring what?

-Erm...

-What they scoring? McFly...

-They're scoring...

-Scoring a...

-A bull's-eye.

-Yes.

-With a pork pie.

Here we go.

Er, Albert Einstein.

-Yeah.

-Erm, doing some shoe shine.

-Yeah.

-Erm, at the finish line.

Hooray!

Here we go. Oh.

Er, that's Peter Crouch.

-Yeah.

-Erm, in the pouch.

-On...

-On a couch.

Oh! Oh! Ah-ha-ha-ha!

-Oh, well done.

-Oh, thank you, thank you.

-That's great.

Well, that's it for Partners In Rhyme for today.

A big thank you to Sally, Tom, Kimberley and Rick.

We'll see you soon, and remember,

if you've got the time, Len's got the rhyme.

Goodnight.

Oh, well done.

# There's been rhyme from the start of time

# Get a word or a name one that sounds the same

# Poems, sonnets, limericks, verses

# Rhymes in love and rhymes in curses

# I've been rapping since a very young man

# But that was Cockney rhyming slang

# This is the end We're all out of time

# You've had a good game You've had a good rhyme

# Join us again for more larks and mishaps

# That's the end for tonight And that's a wrap. #