Music Pointless Celebrities

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Thank you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong

and a very warm welcome to this special music edition

of Pointless Celebrities, the show where we are always striving

to find the most obscure answers.

Let's meet today's Pointless Celebrities.

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And couple number one...

I'm Harvey from So Solid Crew.

I'm Pauline, lead singer of The Selecter.

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Couple number two.

I'm Michelle Heaton, ex-Liberty X-er.

Lee Latchford-Evans, actor, singer, fitness fanatic,

probably known more from being in Steps.

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Couple number three.

I'm Jonathan Ansell,

I guess best known as being the blond guy from G4.

And I'm Faryl Smith

- and I was on Britain's Got Talent when I was 12 years old.

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And finally, couple number four.

I'm Mick Foster.

I'm Tony Allen.

We're Foster and Allen.

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Thanks very much to all of you.

Very, very warm welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you all here.

We'll get to chat to each of you in the show as it goes along,

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

He's part punk, part hip-hop and he has a scar on his left buttock.

It is my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

-APPLAUSE AND LAUGHTER

-Hiya. Hey, everybody.

Good evening.

-Good evening to you.

-And to you.

-How are you?

-I'm very well, thank you.

-I am absolutely a combination of punk and hip-hop, I really am.

-Yeah.

-Genuinely, I think that sums me up.

Now, we're sort of collecting members of groups.

We've only had, we've had one in four of G4.

We've now had two of Liberty X.

We've had three of So Solid Crew, but there's about 800 of them.

HARVEY LAUGHS

And we are now on four out of five out of Steps, as well.

We've almost completed our Steps bingo.

And we are 100% now of Foster and Allen.

We've collected the whole lot, which we're delighted about.

It's going to be loads of fun, loads of lovely people on tonight's show,

going to be very competitive. The questions,

I don't think people are going to have... I think they're OK.

-Nothing too terrifying.

-They're OK, everyone. It's fine!

-That's the good news.

-They're OK.

-Sometimes stuff comes up

and you think, you look at the celebrities,

look at the questions and think, "This is going to be a long evening."

But I think the combination of you lot and the questions,

I think we're going to be safe.

-Wishful thinking.

-I think we're going to be safe.

Phew. Thank you very much.

All of today's questions have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants are looking for those all-important pointless answers,

these being answers that none of our 100 people gave.

Find one of those and we will add 250 quid to the jackpot.

Now, as today's show is a celebrity special

and each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity,

we are going to start off with a jackpot of £2,500.

There we are. WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE

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

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So, here's the rule,

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

will be eliminated.

That is it. That's all you have to remember.

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

Other than that, very, very best of luck.

Our first category this evening...

is...

-What about that?

-Yay!

-Celebrities.

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

who's going to go second? THEY CONFER

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

OK. And the question concerns...

Famous Brits Born Abroad.

-Famous...

-You fooled us!

Thinking it was about magazines!

It may be, it may yet be. Richard.

We're going to show you seven clues to famous British people,

all of whom were born abroad.

We're also going to show you the country they were born in.

Give us the most obscure answer you can, please.

Seven on the first board, seven on the second.

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

-OK.

So, who are these famous people who were born abroad?

And here is our first board of seven.

We have got...

I'm going to read those all again. We have...

There we go.

Pauline, welcome.

Ah, it's a great treat having you here,

from the Selecter, which is still going.

It is still going, yes.

-When did it form?

-We formed in 1979.

-In Coventry?

-In Coventry, yes. It was in Coventry, indeed.

Great, so you and The Specials, who was around first?

The Specials were around first.

-But not for long?

-Not for long, then we were soon after, yes.

-It was a huge scene.

-There was a huge scene, yeah.

Two-tone, that was what I come from, anyway.

Sort of serious kind of black-and-white clothing,

black people, white people on the stage together, all of those things.

-That was what we were all about.

-Fantastic.

And you now manage the band.

-I do, yes.

-So, how is that?

It can have its tricky moments, but, you know...

-How many of you are there now?

-There are eight of us in the band.

-How was it at its biggest? How big was it?

-Seven.

-So, we've got an extra, yeah. We added a horn section.

-OK.

There we are. That's nice.

Pauline, what would you like to go for from this board?

Erm, singer who represented the UK at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest,

aged 76, born in India.

Engelbert Humperdinck.

Engelbert Humperdinck, says Pauline. Let's see if that's right,

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

It is Engelbert Humperdinck.

Look at that, 21. Very well done indeed, Pauline.

-APPLAUSE Great start to the show.

-Yes.

Well played, Pauline. Tough on that first podium.

You started us off very nicely.

Born in Madras and lived there till he was 11.

-Michelle.

-Hi.

-Welcome back to Pointless.

Good to have you here. Now, Michelle, what about Liberty X?

You've never really disbanded, have you?

No, you're quite right.

We haven't quite disbanded completely.

We kind of keep coming back for the odd gig.

And Kevin suddenly doing so well in The Voice.

He is, very well. We'll let him do his thing.

-OK.

-He deserves his own time now to shine.

A bit of his own time, but you've also done some fitness things, haven't you?

-Yes.

-You've had a fitness DVD out.

I have, yeah. I've got a YouTube channel,

so I do a lot of fitness stuff,

blogging on there and I'm back on stage soon, acting.

I'm really excited to get back to work,

cos I think the last four years,

-I've predominantly been a full-time mum...

-Yeah.

..and I feel like it's time to get myself back.

-Back on stage.

-Yes, absolutely.

There you go. OK, Michelle...

-Yes.

-..what would you like to go for from this board?

I would like to go for none of them and I'd like some new questions,

but if that's not going to happen, I'm going to go for the actress

who played Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous,

cos it's the only one I really 100% know,

-and I bet you I get it wrong!

-Go on.

-Joanna Lumley.

-Joanna Lumley.

I bet you don't. Let's see how many of our 100 people

went for Joanna Lumley.

It's absolutely right.

-OK.

-60.

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-It's not a bad result, OK.

60 for Joanna Lumley.

Yeah, born in Srinigarth, Joanna Lumley.

Her first credited film role was in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Thank you very much indeed. Faryl, welcome to Pointless.

-Hello.

-Good to have you here. So, yes, you were 12 when you did Britain's Got Talent.

I was 12, yes. Very young.

Did somebody push you forwards for that, or did you...?

No, not at all. Probably the opposite. It was me, really.

My mum and dad were very scared. They thought I was a bit too young.

But I really wanted to do it.

-And so what are you doing now? What have you gone on to do?

-Still singing,

still performing and also studying at the moment, cos I'm still only 20,

so I'm still studying music.

So, what sort of direction do you think your singing will go in?

Hopefully, I would like to be in operas, when I'm older,

but it's a lot of training, so I'll have to work hard.

The old coloratura, how's that coming on?

-Mm.

-Yeah. Well, very, very best of luck with that, Faryl.

But good luck with this board, as well.

The easier ones are beginning to go.

I actually don't know any of these.

I mean, to be honest, most of them are before I was even born, in 1995,

but, erm, I actually have no clue, I can't answer any of them.

Which means, Faryl, you're going to have to make something up.

I'll have to make up a name?

-Yeah.

-I'm going to say Prince...

No, actually, no, that's weird. Erm...

I'm just going to say a prince.

I'm going to say Prince Edward,

cos I've met him a few times and he's a lovely man.

OK. FARYL LAUGHS

Slightly Oedipal, but there we go.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Prince Edward.

LAUGHTER

-Oh, no way!

-Not, I'm afraid, a correct answer.

-So surprised.

-I'm sorry.

-That's fine.

-That scores you 100 points.

Yeah, listen, I'm very aware that is before your time, but the Queen,

if she's watching, she did not marry one of her children.

-I know.

-LAUGHTER

That's why I said it was going to be weird...

-20-odd years. It would be so weird, wouldn't it?

-I know.

-So sorry.

-He would have to be his own father.

Yeah, he would have had to marry his mum 20 years before he was born.

It's all getting very weird.

-In a kind of Back To The Future type scenario.

-Yeah.

Well, listen, poor old Prince Edward.

Perhaps they're all watching at home now at Sandringham.

I mean, that is awkward, isn't it?

-That's awkward.

-Cos they'll know...

The royal family will know the answer.

-Yeah.

-All of them will.

-But Edward's going,

-"Oh, this is... Oh, can we...?

-FARYL AND ALEXANDER LAUGH

"Do you mind if we watch The Chase?"

That's what Edward's saying.

Thank you very much indeed.

-Allen.

-That's me.

What would you like me to call you? Tony?

-Tony would be great.

-Allen and Foster, I mean,

it's lovely, it means everyone then knows exactly who you are.

-It's just it's a bit like school for me.

-A little bit.

Tony, what a great treat to have you here.

So, how long have you been playing together?

41 years this year.

41 years! That is incredible. APPLAUSE

And how did it come about?

I joined a band when I was 16

and Mick was already a member of that band,

back in the middle of Ireland, in the Midlands.

And we were touring around,

not doing very much and Mick had an idea that we should be a duo.

Did you have a massive row with the others?

No, we just moved on.

Wonderful. Now, Tony, this board is all yours.

If you wanted to go through it and suggest some answers...

The only one I have a shot at is,

and I shouldn't say things like that, is, er...

Prince Philip.

ALEXANDER LAUGHS

If anyone would appreciate that gag, he would.

LAUGHTER

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Prince Philip.

There you are. 83. APPLAUSE

High score. But it's right.

Yeah, we finally solve the mystery of who the Queen married.

LAUGHTER

It was her husband, Prince Philip, all along.

Edward, you can turn back on now.

Yeah, Prince Philip, 83 points.

Now, the lead singer of The Clash, Joe Strummer, the answer there.

Would've scored you five points.

The first English author to receive the Nobel Prize for literature...

-Rudyard Kipling.

-Rudyard Kipling. Would've scored you nine points.

-The comedian?

-Eddie Izzard.

-Eddie Izzard.

Would've scored you 19. And the Lib Dem leader, they've had a few.

-Paddy Ashdown.

-This one was Paddy Ashdown.

Would've scored you 20 points.

So, the best answer on the board is Joe Strummer.

Very well done if you said that.

The worst answer on the board was Prince Edward. Prince Edward.

LAUGHTER

Thank you. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a little recap of those scores.

Pauline. Look at that!

A great score anyway, but now we see it in the context of all the others,

we realise what a truly great score that was - 21.

Pauline and Harvey looking very strong.

We hike quite a way up the mountain,

then we find Michelle and Lee on 60 - and then we go up to 83,

where we find Foster and Allen,

and then up to 100, Faryl and Jonathan.

The nice thing is, you're not that far ahead.

-It's all on me.

-Yeah, it is all on you.

-OK. Not Edward. Not...

-No, not Edward.

Why didn't I say Philip?

A low score from you and you'll be through to Round Two.

We'll come back down the line now. Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Let's put seven more

famous people born abroad up on the board

- and here they are.

We have...

I'll read those all one last time...

There we are. Mick, a very warm welcome to you.

So, yes, picking up the story...

-Thanks very much.

-You had huge success.

You've sold over 22 million albums worldwide.

Yeah, we had more success than we even expected.

Er... Plan A, in 1975,

was that we'd be able to make a living in Ireland

just playing music, without having to have a day job, as well.

-Yeah.

-And by '77,

we had achieved that and I'd far sooner

be playing an accordion now than answering these questions.

LAUGHTER

If, at any stage, if you want to get the accordion...

If I had it and I could choose, I would definitely do it.

Because I was just looking at,

at the 14 questions and the only one I knew was the one Tony had, so...

Erm...

And I can't confer.

The reason I put him on first

was because I said, "He surely knows something." I know nothing.

LAUGHTER

Erm...

You know, there's more brains in a hen's head than in mine

- and there's only an inch between a hen's ears.

LAUGHTER

Er...

Can we have Foster and Allen on every week?

-Every week...

-I would love that.

-Ah...

Erm... You probably had us on podium number four

because we're nearest the door to go home.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Not a bit of it. You might have to just make up a name.

Er...

The third one down, the name I come up with would be...

Is it Ken Livingstone?

Ken Livingstone, OK.

Ken Livingstone, says Mick.

There is your red line. If you can get below that with Ken Livingstone,

you'd be through to the next round.

-Let's see how many...

-Otherwise I'm going home.

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

Is it right?

I'm afraid not.

-See yous again.

-LAUGHTER

That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 183.

The round is not yet over though, Mick.

Don't you worry.

Yeah, he was a Mayor of London,

but not the answer to that clue, I'm afraid.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, Jonathan, welcome to Pointless.

-Thanks for having me.

-So, G4...

-Yes.

-G4 is still going, isn't it?

We are, yeah. We're back for good, we're touring again and it's

been great to have seven years away

- and now do it again and enjoy each other's company once more.

Did you just go off to pursue your own individual projects?

Exactly. Yeah, we weren't all having fun and we always said we wanted to

be enjoying everything we did, on and offstage,

so we walked away in 2007,

and in 2014, came back and it's been better than ever.

You're touring at the moment, are you?

Yeah, back for the tour throughout the year

and then back out at Christmas, new album next year.

It's really exciting, but in and amongst all our solo things,

so we get the satisfaction of pursuing that

and then come back together as a group, it's great.

Lovely. Now, Jonathan, you're on 100 points.

-The high-scorers are behind you...

-The pressure's all on me.

Listen, if you score 82 or less...

-OK.

-82 or less.

-82 or less?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Erm...

-JONATHAN LAUGHS

I'm not going to go for the hardest, or probably the best-scoring

one on here, but for the Harry Potter star,

I'd say Emma Watson.

Emma Watson, says Jonathan.

-Here is your red line.

-Is 82 below that?

Well, if you can get below that, that red line,

-you are through to the next round.

-Fingers crossed.

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

It's right... And you've done it. Very well done indeed, Jonathan.

Oh, not bad. Look at that!

Down it goes to 20. APPLAUSE

You are stepping through to Round Two, Faryl and Jonathan.

120 is your total.

Well played, Jonathan. Very nicely done.

Yes, she lived in Paris till she was five

- and then she lived next door to you.

-And then she moved next door to me.

-Yeah.

-Isn't that funny?

That's sweet. How old was she when she moved next door to you?

-Five.

-No way!

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Did you know they'd moved from Paris?

I didn't know then that they'd moved from Paris.

-But now you do.

-Now I do.

Yes. Very much.

-Now, Lee...

-Hello.

Welcome to Pointless.

Actually, do you know what? You also seem to have put your musical career

on hold and you've also pursued acting and fitness.

-What is it with you guys?

-Yeah, all sorts.

I did fitness from a kid. I've done martial arts since I was eight.

I've studied fitness all my life, so...

-You're a karate... What are you?

-Now I'm a second dan kickboxer.

-Wow.

-But I did karate from the age of eight.

-A second-hand...

-Second-hand?

-I'm not that bad!

-Second DAN kickboxer.

-Sorry, I misheard there.

-Basically means two above black belt.

But you've also been doing theatre, as well?

You did some West End stuff, Grease and stuff on the West End.

-Yeah.

-But you've now gone into just straight acting, as well?

Yeah, I did. I've done a few plays.

I've done Rita, Sue and Bob Too. That was loads of fun,

I did that as a play. More Creatures Great And Small, I did that.

I'll be at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, as well,

doing Eurobeat Moldova. Doing that, as well.

Excellent. Well, that's one not to miss,

if you're going up to the festival. Now, Lee, great news.

Doesn't matter what you score at this point,

-you're still going to make it to Round Two.

-Thank you...

You are. What would you like to go for?

None, really.

I'm just going to throw caution to the wind.

I haven't really got a clue, I'm going to go second one down,

Florence Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale.

OK. Well, no red line, you're already through.

Let's see how far down the column we get with Florence Nightingale.

-It's right.

-Ooh!

62. Not bad. APPLAUSE

And nicely balanced with Michelle's score in the first pass.

122 is your total.

Yes, born in Florence, of course, and she was on the £10 note

- and on the other side of the £10 note was the Queen, who...

-Yeah.

-We recently discovered married Prince Philip.

-LAUGHTER

-Prince Philip, she married.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-I think the right choice.

-I think so. Yeah.

-Yes.

Thank you very much.

-Harvey.

-How are you, sir?

It's great to have you here. I'm very well, thank you.

-Pleasure.

-So Solid Crew...

-Mm-hm?

-Now, how did that start?

What was the origin of So Solid Crew?

We've all grown up in the kind of same council estate in Battersea,

-South London.

-Yeah.

We was all, you know, had no idea that we all had this musical talent.

We was all off doing various different things

and it just started to form organically,

started to MC on a local radio station and a couple of years

later, Brit Awards, Mobos, millions of records sold.

-Random.

-I was going to say, what was the point you suddenly thought, "Actually, we're really good"?

You sort of kicked off the hip-hop grime scene.

Yeah, it was probably when I started walking down my local high street

and kids were chasing after me

and hearing people drive past me, singing 21 Seconds in their cars.

It was this weird... And obviously, at the point, like anyone,

when you win a Brit award and Michael Madsen from Reservoir Dogs

is telling you he likes your group, I was like, "I think I've made it."

-Yeah.

-It wasn't planned at all.

Good for you, Harvey. Again, good news for you,

you are through to the next round. Doesn't matter what you score,

but you're the last person to have this board,

so if you wanted to go down it and just have a shot at any of the ones

-that no-one's answered yet...

-All the ones I knew have gone.

Oh, gosh. I'm just going to do a random.

I don't know any of them.

I'm going to go for probably the former editor of the Spectator

who became Mayor of London. I've properly got this wrong

and everyone's going to laugh, but I'm going to say Boris, cos that's all I know.

-OK, you're going to say Boris.

-Yeah.

-The surname for him?

I don't even know Boris's surname, I just call him Boris.

LAUGHTER

The one that rugby tackled that kid, that one.

That's him. Yeah.

-Er, Boris.

-Boris Johnson.

Boris Johnson, well said.

No red line, you're already through.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Boris.

Not even looking.

It's right.

50 for Boris Johnson. APPLAUSE

Takes your total up to 71.

The lowest score of the round, I might add.

Well played, Harvey. Born in New York City, Boris Johnson.

-How did I pull that off?

-Real name, Alexander.

Same name as you.

-His real name, Alexander.

-Boris is just a nickname?

Yeah. I think he's called Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

That's right, yes...

Now, the creator of Downton Abbey?

-Julian Fellowes.

-Julian Fellowes.

He would've scored you 25.

The writer who introduced newspeak?

-George Orwell.

-George Orwell.

Would've scored you 17.

We'll go down to the bottom. The naturalist?

-Gerald Durrell.

-Gerald Durrell, 37 points.

Now, the best answer on the board,

is this next one - and it's Dorothy Hodgkin.

Very well done if you said that at home. One point for that.

So, at the end of our first round, the pair we have to send home,

this is just far too sad, it's Tony and Mick.

Thank you so much for coming to play.

-It's been a real treat.

-Thank you.

Thanks so much. Foster and Allen. APPLAUSE

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

And so three pairs remain.

At the end of this round, we'll have to say goodbye to another pair.

But well done. You survived that first round.

-That was a tough round.

-It was tough.

That was a tough round.

And, Jonathan, our lowest individual scorer of the round,

-so well done, you.

-Thanks.

-With Emma Watson there.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

UK Cities. Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

who's going to go second?

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

OK. Let's find out what the question is.

Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

..as they could.

UK cities with the letters U or K in their name.

-Richard.

-Simply looking for any city in the United Kingdom which has

a U or a K anywhere in its name, please.

Thank you very much. Now, Pauline, what would you like to go for?

Erm, I think that I'll go for a place with a K in it,

erm...

And I'm going to say...

-Wakefield.

-Wakefield, says Pauline.

Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Wakefield.

It's right.

I think that's going to go a long way down.

And it does. Look at that, Pauline!

For the second time running,

giving one of the best answers around.

-Three.

-That's very well played, Pauline.

One of those cities people don't perhaps quite realise are a city.

In West Yorkshire, on the River Calder.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Lee...

Yes, erm...

Tough one again.

I'm just going to shout it out there, Scunthorpe?

Scunthorpe, says Lee.

Let's see if it's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Scunthorpe.

-Ooh, Lee.

-What?!

-Never mind.

I'm so sorry.

-Great on the U front.

-Yeah.

-Less good on the city front.

I'm afraid that scores you 100 points. Sorry.

Exactly. Another one of those places people don't realise is a city

- and that's because it's not one.

LAUGHTER

Now, Jonathan.

Yeah, I was flummoxed,

trying to even just work out towns

and then I realised it actually did say cities.

I'm going to try Milton Keynes.

Milton Keynes, says Jonathan.

Look, that gets you a buzz.

That got you a buzz, Jonathan. Let's see if the buzz was right.

Milton Keynes. How many of our 100 people said it?

Ooh!

That can only mean one thing, I'm afraid. That scores you 100 points.

-Fair's fair.

-That is unlucky, actually,

cos they have places that apply to become cities every now and again

- and Milton Keynes has applied to become a city.

-Close.

-Not yet one. One day it will be.

-They should be.

I'll be there, then I'll get it right.

When this is repeated on Challenge, that will be a correct answer.

Play this next year, it'll be all right.

Yeah. OK, well, we're halfway through the round.

Let's look at those scores. Only two scores between our teams.

What a different couple of scenarios we have there.

Pauline, beautiful low score there.

Wakefield. Brilliant answer.

And then we travel up to 100,

where we find Jonathan and Faryl and Lee and Michelle.

Yes, Faryl and Michelle, you're going to have to jockey it out.

Good luck. I'm going to leave that in your hands.

We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. So, Faryl, remember,

we are looking for any city in the UK that contains either

the letter U or the letter K anywhere in its name.

I'm going to say something that's got a U in it, but I don't know...

Don't say that. Don't say that... LAUGHTER

Southampton.

Southampton, says Faryl.

No red line for you, you're joint high-scorers.

Sounds good to me.

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

-It's right.

-Hey!

-Yes.

It's a good one.

It is a good one.

Look at that. 15, Southampton. Very well done indeed, Faryl.

APPLAUSE 115 is your total.

Well played, Faryl. That's more like it, isn't it?

Yeah, the largest city in Hampshire, Southampton.

It's got the world's oldest bowling green, 1299.

No? That's cheap!

GENTLE LAUGHTER

Thanks very much indeed. Michelle, wow.

-You now have a target, Michelle.

-I know, what a nightmare.

14 or less.

Haven't... I was going to say yours, then I was going to say Faryl's.

So now I'm like, great...

I'm going to go for Sunderland.

-Sunderland.

-Please tell me it's a city, otherwise I'm never

going to be able to go home.

Here is your red line. If you get below that with Sunderland,

you are through to the next round,

into the head-to-head, whereupon you can start conferring.

It'll be marvellous. Let's see.

-Is it right, though?

-Yeah, I don't know if he's any help.

Sunderland, is it right?

It is right. Now, the question is, will it go below that red line?

Yes, it will. Seven, very well done indeed.

Seven for Sunderland. APPLAUSE

Taking your total up to 107.

Very well played, Michelle.

Yeah, Sunderland. It's got a U in it, just after the S.

-Thank you very much indeed. Now, Harvey...

-Yes, sir.

Great news, you're through. Doesn't matter what you score.

But I bet you've got a good answer there.

Of course. I'm going to go for Southampton's rivals,

I'm going to stay on the south coast,

I'm going to go for Bournemouth.

-Bournemouth, says Harvey.

-Yeah.

-Ooh, look, another buzz.

We're buzz rich in this round.

No red line for you, cos you're already through,

but let's see how many of our 100 people said Bournemouth.

Oh, wow.

Well, fancy... Isn't that a slap in the face for Bournemouth?

What about that? That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 103,

but it couldn't matter less. You're through anyway.

Not a city. I thought you were going to say Southampton's real rivals, Portsmouth.

-I know but...

-Portsmouth would've scored you nine points,

-would've been a terrific answer.

-Of course.

But you are safely through anyway, so it matters not.

There's actually two pointless answers out there.

In Northern Ireland, Lisburn, that was a pointless answer.

And Salisbury, also a pointless answer.

-Well done if you said either of them.

-You'd have got two points for Newcastle upon Tyne,

Wakefield is the next best answer you could've got, Pauline,

so very well played. Five for Peterborough, six for Gloucester,

seven for Canterbury and Truro, eight for Plymouth.

You'd have got 11 for Durham, 12 for Dundee,

13 for Stoke-on-Trent.

17 for Kingston upon Hull,

the only one that begins with one of those letters.

32 for York and 32 for Edinburgh.

Thank you very much, Richard. So at the end of our second round,

the pair we have to send home with their high score of 115,

it's Farrell and Jonathan, but please come back and play again.

It's been lovely having you here.

Thank you so much, Farrell and Jonathan.

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But for Pauline and Harvey, Lee and Michelle,

it's now time for our head-to-head.

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Congratulations, Pauline and Harvey, Lee and Michelle.

You're now one step closer to the final

and the chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £2,500.

This is where we decide who goes through to the final

to play for that jackpot for their charities.

We do that by making you go head-to-head.

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

Very best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.

Here's your first question and it concerns...

Wartime Songs, Richard.

We're going to play you extracts now from five songs

which were famous during the Second World War.

All you need to do is tell us the name of one of these songs, please.

Very best of luck.

OK, so we're looking for the song titles of these wartime songs.

And here they are. We have Song A.

# I'll be watching o'er you

# Tears at the parting

# May make us forlorn

# But with the dawn

# A new day is born... #

Song B.

# In a little honky-tonky village in Texas

# There's the guy who plays the best piano by far

# He can play piano any way that you like it

# But the way he likes to play is eight to the bar

# When he plays it's a ball He's the daddy of them all... #

Song C.

INSTRUMENTAL EXTRACT

Song D.

# Keep smiling through

# Just like you always do

# Till the blue skies chase those dark clouds

# Far away... #

And Song E.

# That certain night, the night we met

# There was magic abroad in the air

# There were angels dining at the Ritz... #

There we are. Now, then, Pauline and Harvey, you will go first.

You are our low scorers.

I think E is Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square.

Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square, say Pauline and Harvey.

Now, then, Lee and Michelle, do you want to talk us through the rest?

-Oh, yeah, of course.

-Oh, yeah.

Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know. Don't know.

We're thinking, "Oh, I don't know."

C, I think, might be "Something Waltz".

-Yeah, I think that's our best bet.

-I want to say Maritime Waltz.

-For

-C. For

-C. C, Maritime Waltz.

So we have Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square for E,

and C, Maritime Waltz.

Now, Pauline and Harvey,

Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square, E.

Is it right? How many people said it?

It is Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square.

33.

Now, then, Lee and Michelle have gone for Maritime Waltz for C.

Let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

-Oh.

-It was a guess.

-No, I'm afraid not.

Yeah, not in 3/4, not a waltz.

Which means well done -

after one question, Pauline and Harvey, you are up 1-0.

Yeah, let's take a listen to a little snippet of each of these

and give the answers.

The first one...

SONG A PLAYS

Know this one?

-Goodnight Sweetheart.

-Goodnight Sweetheart.

Yeah, that would have scored you 21.

The next one is the toughest one by an absolute mile.

SONG B PLAYS

It is 1 point if you said Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar.

Well done if you said that. The Andrews Sisters did a version of that.

-There we go.

-The next one,

the one that you thought was Maritime Waltz,

is a Glen Miller composition.

-Moonlight Serenade.

-Moonlight Serenade, yep.

Sent out to the troops in 1943, this song.

5 points for that.

And actually not the highest scorer of this selection

but the most famous wartime song of all.

-We'll Meet Again.

-We'll Meet Again, yup.

That would have scored 24.

I was singing that, as well - I thought, "How does it end?"

Thank you very much indeed. Here comes your second question now.

Lee and Michelle, you get to answer first,

but you have to win it to stay in the game.

-OK.

-Very best of luck.

Our second question this evening is all about...

-Richard?

-We'll show you five pictures now

of characters portrayed by two different actors.

One when they were younger, one when they were older.

We need the name of the film or film franchise

these characters appeared in.

Thanks very much indeed. So, let's reveal our five sets of characters.

Here they are.

There we are.

We just need to know what the film franchise is in each case.

Lee and Michelle will go first.

Do you know B?

-Um...OK, go for it.

-Do you know B?

-If you know A...

-I think it is.

-I think it is.

-If you don't, then do C.

OK, we'll go for C, I think it's quite obvious,

but it is the Star Wars franchise.

OK, Star Wars, say Lee and Michelle.

-For C, Star Wars.

-That is a mini Darth Vader, there.

Now, Pauline and Harvey, do you want to talk us through all the others?

OK. Obviously, A, I would say The Godfather.

E, Indiana Jones.

-D is Star Trek.

-D, Star Trek.

We are not too sure about B.

We would like to go for E.

-E?

-Yup, Indiana Jones.

OK, we have Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

So Lee and Michelle went for Star Wars for C.

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

It is Star Wars.

47.

47 for Star Wars. Now, Pauline and Harvey, meanwhile,

have gone for E, Indiana Jones.

Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many people got that.

It's right...

Not bad, 54.

But well done, Lee and Michelle, you're back in the game.

After two questions, it's one apiece.

Yeah, it's only B that would have won it for you

cos A is the Godfather.

That would have scored you 64.

D was Star Trek

and that would have scored you 74.

B, that is Rob Lowe

and it is Robert Wagner.

They both play Number Two.

-It is Austin Powers.

-MICHELLE:

-That's it! Oh...

Would have scored 24 points.

Rob Lowe did an impression of Robert Wagner for Mike Myers

on a golf course and he immediately offered him the part.

Brilliant. Thank you very much indeed.

OK, here is your third question. It all comes down to this.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final to play for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs. Our third question is all about...

LAUGHTER

We are going to show you five things you might find

in a full English breakfast,

but they are in the form of anagrams.

Can you unscramble them and give us the most obscure answer, please?

Mmm...scrambled English breakfast.

Mmm. Let's reveal our five anagrams. Here they come.

Now, then, Pauline and Harvey, you will go first again this time.

THEY CONFER

I am going to stay true to my name.

I am going to go for the fourth one down, the PADDLING BUCK one.

That is black pudding.

Black pudding, say Pauline and Harvey.

Now, then, Lee and Michelle, what are you going to go for?

Do you want to go through the others?

-I think top is hash brown.

-Hash brown.

-Scrambled egg is the third one.

-Yeah, scrambled egg, third one.

I can't work out the second one. Beans. Something beans.

Um...

-Can't really work that one out.

-I don't know.

Let's do scrambled egg.

We'll go with scrambled egg.

You're going to go scrambled egg for MISS CRAB LEGGED.

We have black pudding and scrambled egg.

Pauline and Harvey said black pudding.

Let's see how many of our 100 people got that.

It's right.

52.

52 for black pudding.

Meanwhile, Lee and Michelle have gone for scrambled eggs.

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

It's right. Is it going to beat 52?

Yes, it is. By a bit.

36. Well done.

That means, Lee and Michelle,

you are through to the final, 2-1.

Very nicely done.

The top answer was hash brown, you were right about that.

Would have scored you 58.

The biggest answer is certainly beans,

it is just baked beans.

-Of course!

-Would have scored 71.

The best answer on the board was the bottom one.

-Can you work that out?

-Oh. Yes.

-Pork sausages.

-Pork sausages.

Pork sausages. That would have scored 18.

-Very well done if you said that.

-Thank you very much indeed.

We are at the end of our head-to-head round

and at this stage, I'm afraid we have to say goodbye

to Pauline and Harvey.

What a brilliant performance across the show.

-Thank you very much.

-Low score after low score.

It has been lovely having you here. Thank you so much for playing. Pauline and Harvey.

But for Lee and Michelle,

it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Lee and Michelle,

you have fought off the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

-Yes! That's what I wanted.

-Cool.

-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 £2,500.

Well, what about that? Pop has prevailed.

-It has.

-Who'd have thought?

You have sent the others all walking.

Complete and utter fluke.

What would you like to see come up in this last round?

Four things that'll appear on the board behind?

-Um...

-Films maybe?

-Yeah, maybe films,

or food-related questions.

Very best of luck. Let's hope there's something you like

the look of up here on today's board - we've got...

Winners could be anything.

-Um, OK.

-Shall we go for...? Winners could be anything.

-Think we'll have to go for Winners.

-Poetry, no idea.

-Absolutely no idea.

-No.

-Slam tennis, I'd know a few men's tennis players,

but it depends what the question is going to be.

We might have a better chance, going for Winners.

-Yeah, let's just do Winners.

-Let's go Winners.

-OK, Winners it is.

-I think probably the best choice.

Three very different questions, so hopefully one of them,

at least, will suit you.

We are looking for any of the following, please.

Any team that has won the Super Bowl from 1967 until 2016.

Any film or any individual who won a Bafta in the 2016 awards.

Or any song or album

that won a Grammy

in the 2016 Grammys.

Super Bowl winners,

films or individuals who won Baftas in the 2016 film awards

or any song or album which won a Grammy in 2016.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

You've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that jackpot

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-OK, yeah.

Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time starts now.

OK. Super Bowl.

Idris Elba for Bafta. I don't know if he's won one or not.

I think he did, but I am not 100% sure.

I know that Meghan Trainor just won a Grammy.

I think Meghan Trainor is a good one cos it's not an obvious one.

OK, shall we go with the Miami Dolphins...

-OK...

-..for the Super Bowl?

Miami Dolphins. Your call on the second.

Meghan Trainor on third.

Songs or albums for the Grammys.

Oh, songs or albums.

What was the song? Meghan Trainor.

No, she won best newcomer or artist.

Grammy songs or albums.

THEY CONFER

Bafta... Films...

This is tough.

It'd have to be Leo DiCaprio.

-Bafta?

-Did he win a Bafta?

He did. He definitely did. I am sure he won a Bafta for that.

He recently won an Oscar because there was big news about that.

Those two that you just said, for Baftas,

forget about the Grammys.

OK, that is your time up, I'm afraid.

I need your three answers. Say which category you are answering.

Super Bowl would be the Miami Dolphins.

Miami Dolphins.

The Bafta... Guessing a bit on this. We're going to say Idris Elba.

-Idris Elba.

-And...

-Leonardo DiCaprio.

-You want to say Leo?

-I think so.

-OK, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Definitely won an Oscar, but did he win a Bafta?

-Go on, then.

-Those are the three you want to go for?

-Yes.

-Which of those do you think is...?

-I think put Leo first.

-You think he's least likely to be pointless?

-Not sure.

Leo first. Most likely to be pointless, best shot?

-Yeah.

-Super Bowl last?

-Yeah.

-Miami Dolphins last.

-OK.

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

Here they are, we've got...

Very best of luck. Three good answers on the board.

If one of these turns out to be pointless and wins you that jackpot,

your charities will be the richer for it.

What charities are you playing for? Lee, you first.

My wife suffers majorly at the moment with Crohn's disease,

so I am doing Crohn's and Colitis.

Very good. Michelle?

-I am doing Haven House, which is a children's hospice.

-Wonderful.

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Two fantastic charities there.

Let's hope one of these answers will be pointless

and will win that jackpot for you to split between them.

Your first answer was Leonardo DiCaprio.

In this case, we were looking for Bafta film award winners in 2016.

Only one of these answers has to be pointless

for you to win that jackpot.

For £2,500, let's see how many people said Leonardo DiCaprio.

It's right.

It just has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot

for your charities.

Leonardo DiCaprio taking us down through the 30s. Into the 20s.

-Oh!

-Ooh, 19.

Good score.

That would be a great score in a normal round,

but sadly, in this round, we only are interested in pointless answers.

Best of luck with your next two answers.

Idris Elba was your second answer.

You were not entirely sure if this is correct.

Once again, we were looking for film Bafta award winners for 2016.

For £2,500, let's see how many people said Idris Elba.

Is it right? Is it pointless?

Oh! Bad luck.

Not on this occasion,

which means everything is riding on your third and final answer,

which is the Miami Dolphins.

In this case, we were looking for any Super Bowl winner

from 1967 to the present day.

To win that jackpot of £2,500 for your charities,

the Miami Dolphins has to be a pointless answer.

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

It's right.

Your first answer, Leonardo DiCaprio,

took us all the way down to 19.

Your second answer, Idris Elba, was incorrect,

but your third answer, Miami Dolphins,

taking us down through...

Oh!

11. Another good score.

-We tried, we tried.

-We definitely did try.

Two nice, low scores there.

Sadly, no pointless answers.

I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot

of £2,500 for your charities.

However, as today's show is a celebrity special,

we are going to donate £500 to each celebrity pair

for their respective charities.

Fantastic. Thank you so much.

You have been superb - and you get to take home a trophy each,

so very well done for that.

Yeah, really good effort throughout.

Idris Elba was nominated but didn't win one of those Baftas.

Very good answer. Let's take a look at the pointless answers

in all of the different categories.

Start with Super Bowl winners. Five pointless answers.

Baltimore Ravens have won the Super Bowl three times...

..and The Oakland Raiders,

who've won it twice, as well.

The only pointless answers there.

Let's go on to the Bafta award winners.

Brie Larson won for acting in Room.

Room also a Pointless answer.

Ennio Morricone did the music for Hateful Eight -

Hateful Eight also pointless.

Mark Rylance in Bridge Of Spies.

That was also pointless.

Spotlight.

You could've had Brooklyn. Inside Out was a pointless answer.

Mad Max: Fury Road was a pointless answer,

Steve Jobs and The Big Short, all of those were pointless answers.

Well done if you said any of them.

And the Grammy-winning songs and albums.

Just one big album down the bottom there.

Born To Play Guitar, Buddy Guy.

Alabama Shakes, Don't Wanna fight.

The Kendrick Lemar album

To Pimp A Butterfly

was also a pointless answer - terrific album, as well.

Well done if you got any of those at home.

Thanks very much indeed.

And thank you so much, Lee and Michelle,

fabulous performance across the show.

-Thank you.

-Thank you - thanks for having us.

Join us next time when we will be putting

more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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