Christmas Pointless Celebrities

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong. And a Yuletide welcome

to this special Christmas edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the game where we're always striving to find the lowest scores.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

And couple number one.

Oh, is it me? I'll go!

Yeah! My name is Idle Jack. Some people call me Keith Chegwin.

Yes, I'm taking part in Dick Whittington this year -

-can't wait.

-Well done. And I'm Natasha Hamilton.

Who?! No, I'm joking!

Keith! And I'm playing Jasmine in Aladdin

at the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.

-It's a good one.

-It's a good one.

Couple number two.

I'm Faye Tozer and, tonight,

I will be the Good Fairy at the Sunderland Empire.

Indeed, yes, yes, yes!

And I am her partner, I am Bobby Davro,

and I will be playing Buttons in Cinderella at the Wycombe Swan.

Couple number three.

I am Lesley Joseph and I am playing Wicked Queen Lucretia

at Plymouth Theatre Royal. Har!

And I'm Duncan James, also at the Plymouth Theatre Royal,

and I'm Prince Charming.

And, finally, couple number four.

Hello. I'm Wendi Peters

and I'm playing Wicked Queen in Snow White at the Sheffield Lyceum.

Hello, Xander. I'm Joe Pasquale

and I'm playing Muddles in Dartford,

in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, thank you very much.

Thank you very much, all of you!

A very warm welcome to Pointless Celebrities.

We'll get a chance to chat to each of you throughout the show.

So that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

He's like three wise men rolled into one.

It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya! Hey, everybody,

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

Ah! Goodness me.

I'll tell you something,

I did not realise this was a Christmas special!

It is very fortunate that I always come dressed as a reindeer anyway,

which is what I normally wear to work.

Who have you come as?

I... I've come as a festive Henry VIII.

You've come as Father Christmas after Movember.

Is that right? You've lost the beard.

We've got some Pointless legends on the show.

Cheggers is on the show. Cheggers has won a jackpot.

He's won jackpot on this show.

And on the next podium, he knows I'm going to say this, it's Bobby Davro.

Now Bobby Davro is a legend on Pointless for a different reason.

Of course.

He's got the highest score in the entire history of Pointless.

Bobby and Kenny Lynch played against Cannon and Ball.

It got to 600-all.

You almost certainly can't do worse, Bobby, which is fantastic.

-No. But I'll try!

-Welcome to you all.

Merry Christmas to everybody.

We'll have lots of fun. Lots of lovely questions.

I've got a couple of levers next to me.

-Oh, go on.

-Well, I'll show you what they do.

I'll show you. Look at that.

Oh, no! That's lovely!

That's nice - a white Christmas.

-That's really sweet.

-Isn't that lovely?

-Look at that.

-So you get the snow?

-Well, if you wanted snow,

-you should have asked for snow.

-Please may I have some snow?

-No, cos... It's not just...

-Oh, I've got to earn it, have I?

No, you don't have to earn it. You should have asked before the show.

I see. So I haven't got snow and you have.

Yeah. I'll be doing that at various times during the show,

-just to make it even more festive.

-Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now, as usual, all of today's questions have been put to

100 people before the show. Our contestants are looking

for those all-important pointless answers.

Just in case you've forgotten,

these are the answers that none of our 100 people have given.

If you find a pointless answer, we will add £250 to the jackpot.

As today's show is a celebrity special,

each of our lovely celebrities is playing for a nominated charity.

We're going to start off with a jackpot of £2,500. There it is.

Right, if everyone is ready, let's play Pointless.

OK, now, just to remind you,

the pair with the highest score at the end of each round will be

eliminated, so keep your scores nice and low and you should be fine.

The very, very best of luck to all four pairs.

No conferring, of course, until we get to the head-to-head round.

Our first category this evening is...

Can you all decide on your pairs, who is going to go first

and second? Whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

OK. And the question concerns...

-Richard.

-It's much less scary than it sounds, I promise you.

On each board we are going to show you seven film titles,

but we've rewritten the film titles using slightly different words.

Can you tell us what these film titles are, please?

Seven on the first board. Seven on the second board.

-14 in all to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.

-OK,

let's reveal our first board of Synonyms of Film Titles.

Let's see what it looks like. We have got...

OK, let's read those again.

Natasha, a warm welcome to Pointless.

Now, tell us what you're doing and where?

I'm playing Princess Jasmine in Aladdin at the Epstein Theatre

-in Liverpool.

-That's nice. You live near Liverpool?

I do. I live just outside of Liverpool,

so it's a nice one. I can go home every night,

and sleep in my own bed and see my kids every day.

-How many kids have you got?

-I've got four.

Christmas must be wild around your house, I should think.

Yeah. It is. It's crazy, messy,

-yeah.

-Do the kids ever come along to the pantomime?

-I suppose they come...

-Yeah, they do.

Once school is out, they'll come a few days in a row and just hang out

and generally annoy everyone

and try on costumes and have lots of fun, really.

Now then, Natasha, what are the titles we are aiming for

with these synonyms?

The only one, and it's going to be... I'm sorry Keith,

-it's going to be a high number.

-Yeah, just go for it.

The first one and that's going to be The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, says Natasha.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

went for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

It's right.

54. Not bad.

Not bad at all.

54. Good start to the show.

Yes, very well played.

It's got that very famous score by Ennio Morricone.

He'd been nominated for so many Oscars - he won an honorary one -

but The Hateful Eight is the first time he had ever won an Oscar.

-Really? His first one?

-Yeah.

I might take my hood off under the lights.

I was rather hoping that George Lucas might watch and go, "Hold on,

"I'm looking for a Wookiee for the next Star Wars movie.

"This guy, this guy has got it all."

-That would be nice, wouldn't it?

-Yeah. Thank you very much.

Faye, welcome.

Welcome, welcome. Sunderland you are this year?

I am, at the Empire.

Fantastic. How many pantos have you done?

This will be my fourth as an adult, cos I used to do it as a child,

and my first-ever celebrity was Davy Jones from The Monkees.

Wow. That's amazing.

-Yeah.

-Very good indeed.

Now, do they get you to sing Steps songs?

-They do.

-So you'll always have a Steps song.

-Which one are you going to do?

-Which one do you think?

Erm...

-That's a good question!

-Tragedy, would it be?

There we are, brilliant.

Now, Faye, what would you like to go for?

The first one I recognised was the top one, that she's gone for.

-Yeah.

-I'm going to make a guess - Today Is The End Of The World?

Doomsday.

-OK.

-Yeah...

Doomsday. Let's see what happens when we say Doomsday.

-Oh!

-I know.

I'm sorry. That may well not be the last incorrect answer of the round...

because Bobby's yet to go.

I'm afraid Doomsday's an incorrect answer, scores you 100 points.

Yes, sorry, Faye. A perfectly good answer to that clue,

but not a Martin Sheen movie from 1979.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now, Duncan, welcome to Pointless again.

-Last time you were here with...

-I was with Mummy.

-You were with your mum.

-Yeah.

-That was lovely.

-Yeah.

Now, when you were in a boyband,

presumably people keep asking you to be in pantomimes the whole time.

This is my third panto, actually, I've ever done.

I was with the lovely Joe Pasquale last year.

Aw, where were you? We were in Southampton together.

We had a wonderful time.

And this year I'm with the gorgeous Lesley,

so it's been wonderful actually to be with such incredible people.

Fabulous. And when do you finish? What's the...?

14th of January we finish.

Oh.

-Oh!

-Oh! That's a long run.

Then off to a hot beach somewhere.

-No, back to Hollyoaks.

-Back to Hollyoaks!

Now, Duncan, what would you like to go for?

I'm going to go for the only one that I can see on the board

that is probably going to get a lot of points,

but hopefully it's going to beat Bobby and Faye.

It's number three - Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark, says Duncan.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

54's our lowest score.

Look, it whizzed past it.

That's a great score.

-Well done.

-Very well played.

Well played, Duncan. And of course co-written by George Lucas,

the chief of Star Wars, who I think is a very, very talented man,

-very good talent spotter.

-Yes. There we are.

Thank you very much, Richard.

-Joe, welcome. Welcome back.

-Hello, Xander.

It's lovely to have you here. We could talk about pantomimes and

Christmas, but I want to talk about flying, Joe.

-You fly.

-I do fly.

I do have a plane. I don't just do that, I actually use a plane, yeah.

And this grew out of a fear of flying?

Yeah. I was petrified of flying - I hated it -

and then I did I'm A Celebrity in 2004 and they threw me out

of a plane, so I thought, "If I can jump out of one,

"I should be able to learn to fly one."

So I've got a PPL, private pilot license. I'm not commercial,

I can't fly to Malaga and what have you.

Imagine if I was, like, the pilot...

You've got such a good pilot's voice though.

Imagine me kind of going, "Hello, it's your captain speaking.

"Don't eat the nuts, they're out of date."

You wouldn't fly with me twice, would you, love?

Joe, what would you like to go for? This board's all yours,

if you want to go through it and fill in all the blanks.

It all depends on the age of the people that you've asked really,

because if you go for North By Northwest, which is the bottom one,

there'd be a lot of older people, because I'm a lot older than I look.

I think Monarch Of The Monarch Of The Beasts is probably

The Lion King, so I'm going to go, if that's all right,

for North By Northwest and hopefully you asked a lot of younger people.

North by Northwest, says Joe. Let's see if it's right and how many of

our 100 people said North By Northwest.

It's right.

Down it goes to 34.

Very well done indeed.

The lowest score of the round, Joe.

Well played, Joe.

You did well on some of the others.

You are right about Monarch Of The Monarchs of the beasts -

it is The Lion King.

That would have scored you 18 points.

Now, Today Is The End Of The World.

-Apocalypse Now.

-Apocalypse Now.

Yeah. That would have scored you 12.

A Dozen Blokes With Steam Coming Out Of Their Ears.

-12 Angry Men.

-27 points for that.

And the career of John Culshaw.

-The Imitation Game.

-The Imitation Game.

Yeah. And that's the best answer out there.

-Five points. Well done if you said that.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

We're halfway through the round. Let's recap those scores.

34, Joe, very well done, the best score of the pass.

Joe and Wendi looking strong contenders for Round Two.

40 is where we find Duncan and Lesley.

I think you'll be through to Round Two.

54, Natasha and Keith. Looking very good.

Now, Faye and Bobby, you're on 100 at the moment.

Now, Bobby, how did you find that board? Did you know...?

-I knew them all.

-Did you?

-I did, yes.

-I thought you did.

There was something about the way you were standing.

It looked like you knew. Very subtly you knew.

Find a nice low score and it might keep you in the game.

Really low score, that's what I'm after.

Very good. Best of luck. We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more film title synonyms up on the board

and here they are. We've got...

I'm going to read those all again.

Now, then, Wendi... Welcome back to Pointless.

Great to have you here again.

-Hello.

-Now, Wendi, you do a lot of one-woman shows

and obviously you do pantomime as well.

-It's sort of large ensembles.

-I've done a few pantos, yes.

Which do you prefer?

Oh, pantomimes are always really good for the company spirit and for

lots of audience participation, people shouting at me.

But the concentration for the one-woman shows is something.

Two hours on stage on your own is hard.

-I know. And you carry it all up there, I suppose.

-I do, yeah.

So, yeah. Are you a bit of a control freak?

You know me very well!

-No, it's good fun.

-Very good. Wendi, there you are on 34.

Great show from Joe on the first pass.

100 is the high score, so 65 or less keeps you very much in the game.

OK. Oh, it depends on who your audience is,

who you are answering the questions with.

I'm going to go for the top one.

-Yeah.

-And I think it's Sunset Boulevard.

Sunset Boulevard, says Wendi.

Here's your red line. If you get below this,

you are straight through to Round Two.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

It's right.

And you're through. Look at that.

-Well done.

-Yes.

Oh, down it goes.

Oh, look at that! Wendi!

Two!

Takes your total to 36, the lowest score of the whole round -

I can say that even at this stage.

-Wow.

-There we are. Very well done indeed.

Well played, Wendi. Terrific answer.

Nominated for 11 Oscars and it won Oscar for Best Screenplay,

-which is nice.

-That is nice.

-It's about a screenwriter.

There we go. OK.

OK. Now, Lesley, how did you manage

to combine Strictly with your pantomime preparations?

I don't know, but then it was weird cos last year

I was doing Birds Of A Feather, the whole series,

and I was job-sharing with Craig Revel Horwood in Annie,

so I was filming Birds in the week, and then on Saturdays,

when he went to do Strictly Come Dancing,

I would play Miss Hannigan for two shows.

In fact, the first time I did Annie, I job-shared with Paul O'Grady.

Does that tell you anything about me?

So...I'm sort of used to it.

It's just the way work goes into our business, isn't it?

It's either feast or famine and it's been feast.

That is feast! And how nice,

-you and Duncan together down in Plymouth.

-I know,

and it is a beautiful theatre, it is a fantastic theatre,

and you have got the Barbican and this sea, and it is a great show.

-Heaven.

-Lovely. Lovely. Anyway, there you are on 40.

Lovely low score from Duncan in the first pass.

59 or less keeps you in the game.

-Top one?

-The 4th of July, Independence Day?

Look, I'm holding this like this in case it's wrong.

-Is that a pantomime superstition?

-Yeah.

-Hold your sleeves?

There is your red line.

If you go below that, you are through to the next round.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Independence Day.

I bet it's high. Go on, go on, go on!

70. No, that's fine.

That is fine, takes your total up to 110.

I think you've done enough there, Lesley and Duncan.

Will Smith's one of the few stars of that who didn't sign up for the

-follow-up movie.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

-Now, then, Bobby.

-Oh.

The moment is with us. Bobby, you are playing Buttons.

Have you ever not played Buttons?

I have. I play lots of different roles,

but Buttons is my favourite because it has a bit of pathos in it...

-Yeah.

-..and I get to sing and do my funny impressions.

It's good fun, I love it. I'm with Louie Spence this year.

-MIMICS LOUIE:

-I've got to do Louie Spence,

who kicks his legs like that. Ooh, it's lovely.

He's going to have a little bit of the mickey taken out of him.

-Louie's with you?

-And Linda Robson, so it's going to be good.

-You'll have such a good time.

-We'll have a great time.

-Fabulous.

-Now, then.

-I'm not going to have a great time now.

It's going to have to be... Ideally you would be scoring nine or less.

I know one of them. I'm going to have to go with Infuriated Cow

and that is Raging Bull.

-Raging Bull, says Bobby.

-Ahh!

Now, did you hear that, Bobby?

-They hadn't got it.

-It won't bring me any comfort.

There is your red line. Listen, maybe...

Let's see how far down the column we get with Raging Bull.

Is it going to be enough to keep Bobby in the game?

It's right.

-Keep going, keep going...

-Still going down.

29.

It's a good score. But 129, that's a biggie.

Well played, Bobby, that is a very nice answer.

Put on four stone during the filming, De Niro.

Had to play the young LaMotta as a boxer

and then the older LaMotta as a bigger man.

-Thanks very much indeed. Keith...

-Wahey!

Lovely to have you back. Now, you've been in this business since how old?

Since I was ten, so it will be my 50th year coming up soon.

That's something, isn't it?

APPLAUSE

-I'm still doing panto!

-Still doing panto.

Can you remember how many pantos you've done?

-Over 30.

-Wow.

And how early in the year do you get the call?

By what month?

Years ago, it used to be sort of like May time, but now,

as soon as you are doing panto, you get asked for the following year

and the year after that.

-Fabulous.

-So it's great.

-You are on 54. If you can score 74 or less, you're in.

-Don't.

Mandibles is easy because that's Jaws, but that will be quite high.

Men With Manners is the Russell Crowe movie that was out this year

and I don't know what it is,

so I'm going to have to go for the one at the bottom.

Like Herding Cats,

it is Mission: Impossible, isn't it?

-Mission: Impossible, there we are.

-This could be a Mission: Impossible.

Let's see. There is your red line,

let's see if we can get below that red line with Mission: Impossible.

It's right.

You've done it!

Very well done, Keith.

Look at that, fine, room to spare!

17.

Gives you 71 as a total, seeing you through to the next round.

Well played, Keith. That's a very nice answer.

Men With Manners was a great film from 2016 with Russell Crowe...

The Nice Guys.

Really worth watching, as well, and would have scored you six.

Mandibles, you're quite right, is Jaws.

Doesn't score a huge amount, actually, 48.

-And Canines Of The Lake.

-Reservoir Dogs.

-Oh!

-Exactly.

That has gone down well, hasn't it? That would have scored 13 points.

The best answer on the board is Sunset Boulevard,

so well done, Wendi, and well done if you got that at home.

Very good indeed. Thank you, Richard.

At the end of our first round,

the pair we have to send home with the high score of 129,

that is not 600, Bobby.

-I've improved!

-Marked improvement.

-Marked improvement.

Come back and you will be winning the trophy!

Lovely to see you. Lovely to have you here as well, Faye.

Thank you so much for coming to play.

Have a wonderful run with your pantomime and happy Christmas.

And may I wish everyone a happy Christmas?

Bobby and Faye!

APPLAUSE

But, for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.

Three pairs remain. At the end of this round, very sadly,

we will have to say goodbye to another pair.

I don't know which pair it's going to be,

but best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going first and second?

And, whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

-Richard.

-We are about to show you 16 pictures

on this board of famous puppets.

We just need you to tell us the names of the puppets, please.

-That's nice, isn't it?

-Nice.

That is nice. Very nice.

OK, so we are going to put an image up of 16 puppets.

We won't be changing it halfway through the round.

Let's see who the puppets are.

There we go. You just have to shout out the name of any puppet you see

on that board.

Keith, what would you like to go for from our board of puppets?

-That's a really good board, isn't it?

-Isn't it?

It goes back to the past.

I'm going to go for the duck.

I'm going to say it's Edd the Duck.

Edd the Duck, says Keith.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Edd the Duck.

He's right!

Still going down.

Edd the Duck, look at that, finishing up on 20.

Very well done indeed.

I thought loads of people would get that.

-20 for Edd the Duck.

-Well played, Keith.

Legend of children's TV.

He was also the UK's official mascot at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

-That's not true!

-It is true.

OK, Lesley.

I've got a couple.

Look, the hands, I'm nervous.

I'm going to go with the one under Edd the Duck, Andy Pandy.

Andy Pandy. Let's see how many of our 100 people said Andy Pandy.

It's right.

20 is the only score we have at the moment.

58 for Andy Pandy.

I'm really surprised. They must've

been old people, then.

First appeared in 1950, Andy Pandy.

They brought it back in 2002.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Now, then, Joe.

-Hello, Xander.

Joe, hello. Who would you like to go for?

I know quite a lot of those, but I'm going to go for the third one down,

the monkey on the third row, I think he is Topov from Pipkins.

We've even got its pedigree!

Topov from Pipkins.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people said it.

-Yes!

-Look at that.

Look at that, 20 is our low score at this point - it isn't any more.

It's a pointless answer! It's a pointless answer.

And that's £250 into the jackpot, takes the total up to £2,750.

It scores you nothing and earns you our undying respect.

That is extraordinary. Very well done indeed, Joe.

Some Pointless snow needed for that, I think. Very well played, Joe.

-From the '70s and '80s, Pipkins, and that is great work.

-Brilliant.

Lovely to have a pointless answer on the Christmas show, isn't it?

We are halfway through the round.

Let's take a quick look at those scores.

Nothing was the best score,

Joe and Wendi once again looking like real swots.

Then up to 20, where we find Keith and Natasha, very good.

Keep it up and you'll be in the head-to-head.

58, Lesley and Duncan. A bit edgy there, Duncan,

-we need a low score from you.

-Yeah.

-OK, you know what we need.

I hope you know your puppets.

We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, now, Wendi...

-Yes.

-What are you going to go for on this board?

It is whether now I go for one I'm not certain but I think would be a

low score, or whether I just go for one I know on there.

I'm going to go for the puppet with the red hair

and I'm going to say it's Jim from Rosie And Jim.

-Yes!

-Jim from Rosie And Jim.

Let's see if it's right. Here is your red line.

If you get below that, you are through to the next round.

How many people said Jim?

Very well done indeed, it is Jim.

You are in the head-to-head.

Scores 23. Very well done.

Your total is 23.

Rosie And Jim was about two rag dolls that came to life.

That was absolutely squarely when my kids were little,

when Rosie and Jim was on.

Thank you very much, Richard.

-Now, then, Duncan.

-Yes.

You are on 58. You are still our high-scorers.

There are a few on there that I do know,

but I'm going to go for Gordon the Gopher.

Gordon the Gopher, says Duncan.

No red line for you because you are the highest scorer,

but let's see how many people said Gordon the Gopher.

It's right.

Still right.

There it goes, 37.

Taking your total up to 95.

-I think we are going home, love!

-You have given yourself a chance there,

Duncan, well done. He had a famous leather jacket, Gordon the Gopher,

he used to wear. Do you know who made that jacket and gave it to him?

-Andi Peters?

-No, it was Adam Ant.

-No!

-No!

-He was interviewed by him,

took a liking to him and made him a leather jacket.

Wow, there you go.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

I did not know that.

-Natasha.

-Hello.

Now, then, we have a contest on our hands here.

We need a score of 74 or less from you.

OK. So on the top row we've got Sooty

and is the next one Brains from Thunderbirds?

And I'm not going to play it safe, so we may be out.

The third along on the bottom row is Zig and Zag,

so that Zig from Zig and Zag.

Oh, that's bold. It's 50/50!

-I know! It's like, which one?!

-There is your red line.

If you get below that, you are through with Zig.

That's a punchy call.

Zig from Zig and Zag, says Natasha.

It is!

And you're through.

Oh, look at that!

There is your reward.

Nine for Zig, taking your total up to 29.

Very well done indeed.

That was very brave, wasn't it?

That was really brave.

So many people at home,

you will have solved so many family arguments by going for that.

People saying, "Is that Zig or is that Zag?"

The wonderful Zig and Zag.

On the top row, you have got Sweep - would have scored you 60.

Natasha, you're quite right about Brains, would have scored you 43.

Any guesses on the next one on the top row?

Is it Howdy Doody?

It is.

That would have been your second pointless answer of the round, too.

Very well played.

APPLAUSE

The next row down, you have Flat Eric, 10 points.

Lamb Chop would have scored you 23.

It is nice that this is the highest scorer on the board, this next one.

Orville with 67, the wonderful Orville.

You have got Animal from The Muppets, would have scored you 43.

There is Roland Rat for 54.

Monkey would have scored you 29 points.

And the last one is another pointless answer,

it's from the Conan O'Brien Show in the States,

it is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

Very well done if you said that at home.

Thanks, Richard. At the end of our second round,

the pair who are heading home with a high score of 95, I'm so sorry,

-Duncan and Lesley.

-Yay!

-I say heading home, heading to Plymouth.

Duncan and Lesley, superb.

APPLAUSE

But, for the remaining two pairs, it is now time for our head-to-head.

Congratulations, Joe and Wendi, Natasha and Keith,

you are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our

jackpot, which is now standing at £2,750.

This is where we decide who goes through to the final and plays for

that jackpot, and we do it by making you play head-to-head,

but the nice news is you can start playing as a team.

You can chat before you give your answers and

the first pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs for the head-to-head. Let us play it.

Here is your first question and it concerns...

-Richard?

-Yes, we are simply going to show you a list now of five singles

that were number one at Christmas in various years.

You just have to tell us which act recorded them, please.

-Best of luck.

-OK, now,

instead of me reading out the questions from the board,

I'm going to bring someone on who knows all about Christmas hits.

Please, ladies and gentlemen, a big welcome for Shakin' Stevens.

APPLAUSE

-Shaky, how are you?

-Nice to see you.

Nice to have you here. Now, do you want to read out your clue?

I took my glove off there. I don't know if I can do the Marigold trick.

These are the number ones, yes?

There we are.

Hallelujah, 2008.

Return To Sender, 1962.

Lonely This Christmas, 1974.

A Bridge Over You, 2015.

Can We Fix It? 2000.

There we are. There is a list of Christmas number ones.

Do you think, if we ask Shaky very nicely,

he might sing us out at the end of the show?

Would you sing us your Christmas hit?

-Absolutely.

-Thank you very much. Shakin' Stevens, everybody!

APPLAUSE

There we are. I'm going to read those clues out for everybody again,

one more time, so we can just put them up on the board.

Here are those clues, read slightly less impressively.

We want to know who had hits with these Christmas number ones.

Joe and Wendi, you are our low scorers, so you will go first.

The bottom one...

It is the one we said.

-What,

-2000? Yes, let's live on the edge, shall we?

-Do we live on the edge?

-Are we sure it's them, though?

-No, we're not sure. It's a risk, love.

-Oh...

Go for anyone.

Can I just wish everybody at home a very happy Boxing Day?!

-Happy New Year!

-Top one, then?

2008, Alexandra Burke.

Alexandra Burke, say Joe and Wendi.

Now, Natasha and Keith, talk us through that board.

Alexandra Burke, of course.

Return To Sender, Elvis Presley.

Lonely This Christmas, I reckon it could be...

Mud. So shall we try it?

-So we will go Lonely This Christmas, Mud.

-Lonely This Christmas, Mud.

I could be in it.

We have Alexandra Burke and we have Mud.

So, Joe and Wendi went for Alexandra Burke.

Let's see if that's right for Hallelujah 2008.

Let's see how many people said it.

It is Alexandra Burke.

That's lower than I thought.

It's a good score. It's a very good score.

22 for Alexandra Burke.

Joe hoping for something a little bit lower there.

-KEITH:

-That's a good score.

-Can I ask, Joe and Wendi,

what were you going to say for Lonely This Christmas?

I said Mud, but...

I thought maybe Showaddywaddy.

Let's find out.

Natasha and Keith have gone for Mud - Lonely This Christmas.

Showaddywaddy. Oh, no!

Let's see how mini people said it. Is it right?

It is Mud!

-What?

-It is Mud.

The twists and turns in this head-to-head!

40 for Mud, very well done indeed, Joe and Wendi.

That fell very nicely for you, Alexandra Burke was right,

and you are up 1-0.

Yes, chose very well. There is an even bigger score up there,

which is Elvis Presley, Return To Sender,

that would have scored you 66 points.

Now, Can We Fix It?

I think both teams thought it was Bob The Builder, it wasn't.

-It was Sepp Blatter.

-Of course it was!

LAUGHTER

-No, he can't!

-It wasn't really, it was Bob The Builder.

That would have scored you 58.

And the best answer, even though it was a very recent one,

in fact, it was last year's Christmas number one,

A Bridge Over You,

you remember it was the Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Choir.

-Ah!

-Oh!

Three points for that and that was the one where they were having a

battle against Justin Bieber,

one of them was going to be Christmas number one.

Justin Bieber tweeted and said, "Go out and buy that one,

"don't buy my record. It is only one week and this is going to charity,

"so I think you should make that Christmas number one."

That was a nice thing to do.

OK, here comes your second question.

Natasha and Keith, we need you back in the game.

You have to win this and you get to answer it first,

which is a slight advantage, I hope.

Our second question today is all about...

What?!

We are now going to play you five excerpts from songs

which were number two at Christmas.

We need you to tell us the artists who had number twos with the songs.

Thank you very much indeed.

OK, let's have a listen to our five number twos.

Here they come. We have got...

A.

# Young man

# There's no need to feel down

# I said, young man

# Pick yourself off the ground

# I said, young man

# Cos you're in a new town

# There's no need to be unhappy. #

OK, this is B.

# I remember one Christmas morning

# A winters light and a distant choir

# And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell

# And their eyes full of tinsel and fire. #

This is C.

# Sinatra was swinging

# All the drunks they were singing

# We kissed on a corner

# Then danced through the night

# The boys of the NYPD choir

# Were singing Galway Bay

# And the bells were ringing out

# For Christmas Day. #

This is D.

# She looked at me with big brown eyes and said

# You ain't seen nothin' yet

# B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet

# Here's something that you never gonna forget

# B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet. #

And this is E.

# Last Christmas I gave you my heart

# But the very next day

# You gave it away

# This year, to save me from tears

# I'll give it to someone special. #

Lovely. OK, so, Natasha and Keith, we come to you first.

The three we know were really commercial, so we are kind of stuck,

-but...

-OK.

-..I think we are going to go with C -

The Pogues.

The Pogues, say Natasha and Keith.

The Pogues for C.

Now, Joe and Wendi, do you want to talk us through the others?

-A is definitely YMCA by The Village People.

-Yeah.

And E is Last Christmas, Wham!

I think we just go for E, then,

because we are on a hiding to nothing here, really, aren't we?

We will go for E, Wham!.

OK, E, Wham!.

So, we have got C, The Pogues, and we have got E, Wham!.

So, Natasha and Keith said The Pogues for C.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people got it.

It is The Pogues.

There we are, 49 for The Pogues.

And, meanwhile, Joe and Wendi have gone for Wham! for E.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Wham!.

It's right.

It's close. Oh, look at that!

39 for Wham!

Wow, there is a sign of the times.

Joe and Wendi, very well done.

That means, after only two questions,

you are through to the final 2-0. Well done. Very well done.

The Pogues were the biggest answer of all, actually, on the board.

Shall we fill in the rest of these?

A, I think everybody knew, The Village People, YMCA,

would have scored you 35 points.

-Another lowish score.

-What?!

-No!

Now the second one, you are right, everybody knows the song,

but who's it by?

It is by Greg Lake

from Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Well done if you said that.

He has got a much older voice than a face, hasn't he?

He was a cool-looking dude, wasn't he?

And D, again, it is a song that everybody knows, but who's it by?

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

-Goodness me.

-17 points for that.

So, the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round

are Natasha and Keith. I'm so sorry. Do you want to stay?

It's just nice having you here.

We have to stay in here in the warm!

Would one of you like to volunteer?

Poor Xander hasn't had any snow for the whole show,

but I've got two levers here.

I've been using the black lever for me and there's a red lever as well.

-I knew...

-Would one of you like to pull the lever

-and give Xander some snow?

-You can.

-She's got high heels on.

Her feet are bit sore.

-You've just got lifts.

-LAUGHTER

So, this one, then, Keith.

When you're sitting down, I'm nearly your height!

I know, right?

So, especially from me to you, here's your Christmas snow.

There's no business like snow business.

Oh, no!

APPLAUSE

-Thank you, Keith.

-My pleasure.

-There you go.

-That is lovely, thank you for that(!)

This is great, as well, because now I know what you are going to look

like in 30 years' time.

Excellent. Thank you very much indeed.

Natasha and Keith, lovely to have you, thank you so much for playing.

Natasha and Keith. APPLAUSE

-Well done.

-Yeah, well done.

But, for Joe and Wendi, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Joe and Wendi, who have fought off all the festive

competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

-Thank you.

-You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for

your charities and, at the end of today's show,

the jackpot is standing at £2,750.

APPLAUSE

This is entirely meet and right that you are here,

playing for this jackpot, because you have contributed to it,

we had a pointless answer from you, Joe.

We've have had lovely low scores.

Let's hope there's something up here you like look of.

Today's board has four categories on, as usual, and the four are...

I'm quite intrigued by the TFL train stations.

I have no intrigue there whatsoever, love.

But if you want to busk it, you might be on your own.

Let's go with the good films.

OK, we are going to go with British comedy films, please, Xander.

-Thank you.

-OK, British comedy films it is.

-Richard.

-Very best of luck. Three great films here.

We are looking for cast members of any of the

following three films, please.

All Richard Curtis movies, in one way or another.

We are looking for any cast members of Notting Hill,

any cast members of About Time,

or any cast members of The Boat That Rocked.

According to IMDB,

anyone who was credited as appearing in any of those three films.

We wish you all the very best of Christmas luck.

Thank you very much indeed. As always, you have got up to

one minute to come up with three answers

and all you need to win the jackpot is for just one of those answers to

be pointless. Are you ready?

Yes, I think we are.

As ready as we are ever going to be, isn't it, really?

OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

OK, Notting Hill. Julia Roberts, Iwan Rhys.

-Is that his name?

-I think so.

Bill Nighy was in...

-He's in all of them.

-Is he in all of those?

About Time, I watched it the other week,

-and I'm trying to think who was in it.

-The ginger guy,

his dad is a very famous actor as well, he's Irish.

-His name...

-Ginger guy, Irish.

The Boat That Rocked, that's the radio one.

-I don't know.

-All we've got is Bill Nighy at the moment.

And he's not going to be a pointless answer.

The Boat That Rocked...

I've seen it.

Jack Black? No, he's not in that.

British film, it's the...

This is harder than it looks,

especially with 17 seconds to go!

Oh, no!

I'm trying to think of the guy's name, the ginger guy.

-Ten seconds left.

-He's in the new Star Wars film, as well,

-and his name is...

-Is Ewan McGregor in any of them?

Ewan McGregor?

No, I do think he is, no.

The Boat That Rocked...

OK, now, pressure off.

Pressure off because your minute is now up.

Just take a very deep breath, a nice deep breath.

What are your answers going to be?

-We are going to go for...

-Katherine Parkinson,

and I think she's in The Boat That Rocked.

Julia Roberts, obviously, in Notting Hill.

And Iwan Rhys, we are not certain that is the surname.

I'm not certain now you've said that,

but Iwan Rhys, we think he was in Notting Hill, the blonde guy.

OK, Iwan Rhys. So we have got Iwan Rhys,

we've got Katherine Parkinson and we've got Julia Roberts.

Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-Katherine...

-Katherine Parkinson.

OK, we'll put Katherine last. Least likely to be pointless?

-Julia Roberts.

-OK, Iwan Rhys in the middle?

-Yes.

-OK, let's put those answers up on the board in that order

and here they are. We have got

Julia Roberts, Iwan Rhys and Katherine Parkinson.

Well, one good answer up there.

LAUGHTER

Do you know? I reckon there is one answer up there that could just be

pointless. If it were to be pointless and wins you that jackpot

for your charities, which charities will you be giving it to?

Joe, I am going to ask you first.

I am going to the giving it to Diabetes UK

and I have just remembered his name is Rhys Ifans, it's not Iwan Rhys.

-It's the other way round. Too late now.

-Oh, well.

-Wendi.

-I'm going to go for When You Wish Upon A Star in Manchester,

which grants wishes for terminally ill children.

Wonderful.

APPLAUSE

Two fabulous charities. Let's hope one of these answers is pointless.

Julia Roberts is your first answer. I wonder if this will be pointless.

We were wondering if she was in Notting Hill.

Julia Roberts. If it's pointless,

it will win you £2,750.

Let's see how many people said Julia Roberts.

Well, it's right, which is good.

Down we go.

Julia Roberts takes us down through the 50s.

We are into the 40s.

41.

-Lower than I thought.

-Absolutely.

41, not bad.

It's looking very good.

Your next answer, also from the cast of Notting Hill,

we have gone for Iwan Rhys.

I bet there is an actor called Iwan Rhys.

We've got it the wrong way round. It is Rhys Ifans,

I think his name is. I might be wrong.

Let's find out. Is Iwan Rhys in Notting Hill and is it pointless?

It will win you £2,750 for your charities if it is.

No, bad luck.

Sorry, an incorrect answer there, for the reason I think you know.

But you have one more answer on the board.

I like the sound of this answer -

Katherine Parkinson. And in this case,

we were looking for cast members of The Boat That Rocked.

If it's pointless, if it's right,

it will win you £2,750 for your charities.

Let's find out what happens when we say Katherine Parkinson.

-She's in it.

-She's in it!

Julia Roberts was quite a high score, took us down to 41.

Iwan Rhys was incorrect.

Katherine Parkinson takes us into single figures,

down we go, still going down!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done. Fantastic.

We did it!

What about that?! Fantastic!

Katherine Parkinson was a pointless answer,

which means you go away with that jackpot of £2,750

for your charities! Superb!

CHEERING

Merry Christmas!

Amazing, very, very well done.

Yes, it is Rhys Ifans rather than Iwan Rhys.

He would have scored you 14 points, so it doesn't matter anyway.

Now, the gentleman you are thinking of, he is ginger-haired,

his father is an actor, he is in Star Wars, he is in loads of things,

he is going to be an enormous star.

His father is Brendan Gleeson and he is Domhnall Gleeson,

and he would have scored you two points.

So, there you go.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers in the different categories.

Maybe a bit of snow while we do.

We will start with...

This is nicer than yours!

We'll start with Notting Hill.

Loads of pointless answers there.

Emma Chambers, Sanjeev Bhaskar, everyone apart from Hugh Grant,

Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans, Clarke Peters,

Dylan Moore and Emily Mortimer and Hugh Bonneville.

It is getting hard to read now.

About Time now.

And for The Boat That Rocked, a familiar name here...

Chris O'Dowd, Katherine Parkinson's co-star in the IT Crowd.

Kenneth Branagh and January Jones are pointless answers.

Everyone pointless in that apart from Bill Nighy, Nick Frost,

Rhys Ifans again, Tallulah Riley,

Emma Thompson and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Very well done if you got any of those at home,

and Merry Christmas to you as well, and congratulations in the studio.

What a wonderful way to end our Christmas special.

Isn't that lovely? Thank you so much, Richard.

And thank you so much, Joe and Wendi, our winning players,

who go away with today's jackpot of £2,750 for their charities.

Well done.

APPLAUSE

Join us next time, when we will be

putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

Meanwhile, it's happy Christmas from Richard.

-Happy Christmas.

-And it's happy Christmas from me. But before we go,

playing us out with echoes of Merry Christmas Everyone,

it's Shakin' Stevens.

Merry Christmas!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Snow is falling

# All around me

# Children playing

# Having fun

# It's the season

# Love and understanding

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# Time for parties and celebration

# People dancing all night long

# Time for presents

# And exchanging kisses

# Time for singing Christmas songs

# We're gonna have a party tonight

# I'm gonna find that girl

# Underneath the mistletoe

# We'll kiss by candlelight

# We're gonna have a party tonight

# I'm gonna find that girl

# Underneath the mistletoe

# And kiss by candlelight

# Snow is fallin'

# All around me

# Children playing, having fun

# It's the season

# Love and understanding

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# Snow is fallin'

# All around me

# Love and understanding for everyone. #

Merry Christmas!