Talent Shows Pointless Celebrities

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

A very warm welcome to this special Talent Show edition

of Pointless Celebrities,

the show that makes big winners out of the lowest scorers.

Let's meet today's Pointless Celebrities.

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And couple number one.

My name is Nina Myskow. I'm a journalist and broadcaster.

I write for national newspapers and I work for Radio 2 and Radio 4.

I was the judge on New Faces in the 1980s.

My name is Patti Boulaye and...

I won New Faces in 1978, I think it was -

gosh, feels like 100 years ago.

And I also have my own charity which has built five health care clinics

in Africa and a school.

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Couple number two.

My name is Danielle Hope,

and I won Andrew Lloyd Webber's BBC's Over The Rainbow

about five years ago now.

And have since been in various West End shows.

My name is Ben Forster.

I won Andrew Lloyd Webber's search for Jesus.

I won that competition and played Jesus Christ Superstar,

and I'm currently in Phantom Of The Opera

in the West End.

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Couple number three.

My name's David Grant. I'm a vocal coach,

a record producer, TV presenter,

and I was a coach and judge on Fame Academy

and Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.

My name's Richard Park, and I was with David Grant on Fame Academy.

We had four or five tremendous years.

I'm also a director of broadcasting for Global Radio,

which includes Classic FM, on which you broadcast.

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And finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Ashleigh and this is Pudsey,

and we won Britain's Got Talent back in 2012.

And hi, I am Jamie Raven. I'm a magician,

and I came one place lower than Ashleigh and Pudsey

on Britain's Got Talent in 2015.

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Thanks very much to all of you, lovely to have you here, as ever.

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

as it goes along, of course.

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

opportunity knocks, but this man uses the intercom.

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

Hiya. Hi, everybody.

Good evening.

-Good evening to you.

-Good evening.

-How are you?

-I'm very well.

-Excellent.

Did I take it, in amongst the introductions there,

that somebody here is essentially your boss?

-Yep.

-So Richard Park could fire you if things go badly here.

Yep.

That's going to be interesting.

-Yep.

-So it would be useful for you if I was helpful as well,

and all that kind of stuff? Well, let's see if I am!

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We've got a couple of people who've done very well on the show before.

Danielle's been through to the head-to-head,

and Nina's been through to a Final.

But a couple of people who are looking for redemption.

Ashleigh and Pudsey, knocked out in the first round last time, as was Ben.

Should be a lot of fun. First round,

something for everyone in this first round, I think.

Something for everybody.

Your boss should do well in the first round.

Oh, you've got to hope! For so many reasons.

And that's not deliberate.

Certainly, if your boss does badly in the first round,

it's not going to put him in a good mood, I would suggest.

It's almost like an episode of Terry And June, this, isn't it?

Very, very similar to an episode of Terry And June.

Thank you very much, Richard.

As usual, all of today's questions have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our lovely contestants here are looking for those

all-important pointless answers.

These are the answers that none of our 100 people gave.

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

As today's show is a celebrity special,

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

we're going to start off with a generous jackpot of £2,500.

There we are.

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

Only one thing you have to remember,

and it is this - the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated.

The highest score.

So, no conferring for the first two rounds.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category today is...

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. And our question concerns...

Yep, we're going to show you a board of 12 bands,

we need you to tell us anyone who was a member of one of these bands

when they released their debut album, please.

OK. So, as Richard said,

we're going to put a board up with 12 band names on.

That's going to stay up for the whole round.

That won't be changing.

So you just need to throw out the name of somebody

who was in one of those bands

when they made their debut album recording.

Very best of luck. Here is the image with the 12 band names on.

Now then, Nina.

When were you doing New Faces?

In the 1980s. Three years in the 1980s.

New Faces launched huge comedy careers, didn't it?

Absolutely. It was a wonderful opportunity for people.

How else are they going to get a chance?

You can do your act down the local pub,

but if no-one sees you and says,

"Come on the telly," how are you going to do it?

So they're great opportunities.

Fantastic opportunities.

Now let's talk about Jackie, because you used to edit Jackie?

The teenage magazine.

I was editor in the 1970s.

And now, decades later, they've turned it into Jackie The Musical,

which is extraordinary, which is doing brilliantly.

And you're advising on that, or...?

They've made me - fancy title - editor in chief.

But all it means is I'm a kind of consultant.

I'm a kind of mascot.

How exciting. Now, Nina, into the round.

-Right.

-There we are, 12 bands.

We just need the most obscure member you can think of

of one of those bands.

-John Taylor.

-John Taylor, says Nina.

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

Well, it's right.

Still going down, Nina.

Look at that, still...

Six for John Taylor!

Cracking start to the show there, Nina,

very well done.

Yeah, the Duran Duran bassist, John Taylor. Born Nigel Taylor.

Now, Ben, welcome.

Great to have you here.

So, Superstar - because it must have been quite stressful,

because, obviously, you know what it's like, doing a show,

you share all the elation,

you share the nerves with all the other people you're doing it with.

The pool gets smaller and smaller each week

until you're literally just left with your arch-rivals.

-And that's really hard.

-Yeah, it was.

It was a terrifying experience, really.

If I knew now what I know, I don't think I'd be able to do it again.

But it was incredible.

Shall we ask Ben what he now knows?

Ben, what do you now know?

Do you know, sitting in my dressing room,

and then watching them on TV live,

and thinking, "I'm just going to literally really pop into the TV,"

and then they would knock on my door and say,

-"Come on, we're ready for you."

-That's why I never,

ever watch the television in my dressing room.

Yeah, terrifying. Anyway, Ben -

how are we feeling about this board of bands?

I don't know whether to play it safe,

because I made a real fool of myself

the last time I was here.

I'm going to say Ana Matronic.

Ana Matronic, says Ben.

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

Ana Matronic.

It's right. Six is our only score at this point.

One for Ana Matronic.

Very well done indeed, Ben.

That's more like it, Ben, isn't it?

Yeah, one of the singers in the Scissor Sisters.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, David, a very warm welcome to Pointless to you.

Great to have you here. My goodness, you've done some amazing things.

I've been very fortunate, because, you know,

all I wanted to do when I was a kid was to be in the music business,

be connected with music.

And to sort of still, 30 plus years later,

be connected with music,

it's really a bit of a dream come true.

Fabulous. Now, when you're coaching,

what's the bare minimum you require from a voice?

Anyone can sing.

If you can talk, you can sing.

But to become a singer, you need vocal identity.

So if somebody's heard your record once, or your music once,

or your performance, and they hear you again,

they know exactly who it is.

Yeah, that's it.

OK, now, David, back to the bands.

Now, I'm thinking...

I'm going to go for Keavy Lynch.

Keavy Lynch, says David.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's a right answer.

I have a funny feeling I might know where this is going.

Six is our high score, which is passed...

It's a pointless answer, very well done indeed.

David, our first pointless answer of the show.

That adds £250 to the jackpot,

takes the total up to £2,750.

It scores you nothing

and earns you eternal respect.

Very well done indeed.

That's terrific work, David, very well played.

Yeah, Keavy Lynch, she, of course, was in the Rolling Stones.

No, she was in B*Witched.

-Have you worked with Keavy?

-I have, yeah.

-Well, there you go.

That turned out nicely.

You should give her her money back. Say, "Look, you've helped me out."

Thanks very much indeed. Jamie, welcome.

-Thank you.

-Very good to have you here on the show.

Now, going on Britain's Got Talent as a magician is tough.

I mean, you've got to win over that huge, huge hall

-very, very quickly.

-It's pretty terrifying, yeah.

And you've got to do something that looks amazing close up as well

-as it has got to play to the...

-Yeah, when I did my audition,

the thinking behind it was to do something

that would be right underneath the noses of the four judges

that they would find just as amazing as everybody

watching in the 2000-seater Dominion Theatre, where we did it.

It was a challenge, but thrilled to have done it.

Absolutely incredible. Have you got any tricks you could do?

I could right now, if you'd like.

-Really?

-Yeah, would that be all right?

Come and do one here. Come on.

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I thought, as Ashleigh and I were representing

Team Britain's Got Talent,

I'd share with you one of the tricks I actually did for the judges

on my audition of Britain's Got Talent.

These are the Bank of Britain's Got Talent banknotes.

That is actually legal tender in the Bahamas.

-Absolutely right. Have a look. Check it out.

-Yeah, look at that.

Sadly, now that we've finished the show

they are obviously of no use to me

so I thought, with your help,

I could change this into English sterling.

I need two things from you.

I need the index finger on your left hand,

if you could point it just there for me.

-OK, there we are.

-And I need a magic word.

You can have anything in the world except abracadabra or pointless.

-What would you like?

-Richard Osman.

Richard Osman. No problem. On three, watch the nail.

-One, two, Richard Osman.

-Look what you've done!

There is £250 in English sterling, which...

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-I can keep it for you.

-OK.

Fantastic. Wow.

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I tell you what, and just after we saw David Grant

turn Keavy Lynch into £250, as well.

It's very impressive.

So, then, Jamie.

-Yes.

-What would you like to go for on this board?

It's a gentleman who I know was in one of these bands,

I don't know if he was in it when they released their debut album,

but I'm going to guess, I'm going to say Charlie Watts.

Charlie Watts, says Jamie.

Charlie Watts. Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

It's right. Well, six remains our high score at this point,

zero our low score.

Seven for Charlie Watts.

Not bad at all.

Down in the zone there.

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That's terrific work, Jamie. Very well played.

A lot of pressure on everybody now, isn't there?

No big scores at all.

Very impressive stuff. Yeah, the drummer from The Stones.

Very good. We are halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores.

Nothing, the best score of that pass, David.

Very well done indeed to you.

David and Richard looking pretty strong at this point,

as are Ben and Danielle on one.

Then up to six, where we find Nina and Patti.

Then up to seven where we find Jamie and Ashleigh.

It's incredibly close.

Ashleigh, you happened, just by a trick of numerics,

to be out in front, but, I mean,

not by anything significant, but we do need a low score from you.

Oh, well, no pressure there, thanks.

Just a bit. Pudsey can help you a bit, if you like.

So, good luck with that. We're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Remember, we are looking for the name of any band member

of any of these 12 bands.

And obviously you are going to try and find the most obscure

one you can think of. Now, Ashleigh.

-I'm so nervous.

-Don't you worry.

You can't be anything like as nervous as you were doing BGT.

Well, that was pretty nerve-racking,

but I had Pudsey helping me out a bit there.

It's crazy to think that it was four years ago, well, soon.

Yeah, it has just been amazing, an amazing experience.

I mean, there has been a tour, there's been a film.

-Yeah.

-A book.

A book. And what else is in the pipeline?

Who knows? Like, we've done so many incredible things,

it's like, what can we possibly do next?

-Maybe a musical?

-We might team up with you.

-I think we should.

-There you go.

Do some magic with Pudsey.

Fabulous. Now, look.

There you are. You're on a high score of seven.

That's the kind of round it's been.

We need to have a lower score

than everyone else is going to give, Ashleigh.

I think I'm going to have to just play it safe because I have no idea,

and I'm so sorry.

I don't know why I came on this show again!

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But I'm just going to have to say Freddie Mercury

because that's just playing it safe and I'm just going out there.

OK, Freddie Mercury, says Ashleigh.

No red line for you as you are the high-scorers at the moment.

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

It's right.

66.

Now, that is brand recognition, isn't it?

66 taking your total up to 73.

Yeah, a big scorer, but you know what, someone might get 100.

There's big scorers out there.

So, much better than getting a wrong answer.

Yeah. Very good indeed.

Now, Richard.

-Good evening.

-Richard, a very warm welcome.

I've sort of got two questions for you, actually.

As the headmaster of Fame Academy,

how many of your alumni have gone on to achieve great things?

Do you know? Many, in so vastly different ways.

I think David is as excited as I am

about some of them turning out to be great songwriters.

Others like David Sneddon, number one in the charts.

Lemar, a brilliant career,

a song that went, you know, worldwide megahit.

We've all wound up extremely proud of what they were accomplishing.

And the second question I was going to ask you is, as my boss,

would you like us to put your trophy in your dressing room?

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Surely, Richard, if anyone can find a pointless answer on this board,

surely it's you?

I'll toss one in. Tom Parker.

Tom Parker, says Richard.

Tom Parker. Here is your red line.

Nice and high. If you can get below that,

you are through to the next round

but, next round, we want a pointless answer.

Let's see how far down the column we get with Tom Parker.

It's right.

You're through.

Oh, no! One!

One person got Tom Parker.

Taking your total up to one.

I let him down.

He's very good, isn't he?

-Brilliant.

-He's very good.

-When's your contract up?

-Oh, he's very good.

Quite soon. Quite soon. He's very good.

Yeah, singer in The Wanted, Tom Parker.

-Very good answer.

-And Danielle.

-Welcome back.

-Thank you.

Great to have you here.

Now, obviously,

Over The Rainbow was the show that landed you in to The Wizard of Oz,

how long did you then go on and do The Wizard of Oz?

For a year in the West End at the London Palladium

with Michael Crawford and many other wonderful actors.

Just incredible. And do you imagine you might have ended up

where you are now without the show?

I have no idea.

I'm so thankful that I took the path I have,

and hopefully, I would have still been doing what I'm doing now,

but who knows to what degree.

And then you've gone on and done other things.

-What are you up to at the moment?

-I'm currently doing,

with Phillip Schofield, A Knights Of Music tour

-which is great fun.

-Well done, what fun.

Danielle, there you are on one.

The high-scorers at the moment, Ashleigh and Jamie, on 73.

So 71 or less is what we want from you.

A lot of the ones I had have been taken,

so I'm going to go for Roger Taylor.

Roger Taylor, says Daniel.

Roger Taylor. There is your red line.

Let's see if you can get below that red line with Roger Taylor.

I'm sorry if I don't. I'm so nervous.

It's right. Well done.

You are through.

19.

19, taking your total up to 20.

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-That's great work, Danielle.

And that's an interesting answer because..?

Well, because there are two Roger... Rogers Taylor.

-There are. They're both on the board.

-Yeah.

They're both drummers. They're both drummers.

One in Duran Duran, and one in Queen.

Yeah. Both Roger Taylors.

How did we arrive at that?

Or did they both score the same?

Anyone who mentioned Roger Taylor, that's the point.

I'm guessing Queen's Roger Taylor is scoring more of that

-than Duran Duran's Roger Taylor.

-I think that's true.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

-Now, Patti.

-Can I go now?

No. By no means, Patti.

Absolutely not. Now, you won New Faces in 1978.

-That's right.

-I think you got unanimous top scores.

I think it was the only time in the show's history

or something like that that everybody said, right, ten, ten.

It was one of those moments.

But before that, I mean,

you'd been dabbling in the West end, hadn't you?

Yes, I had done a few musicals.

The first musical I did was Hair.

And then I went on to Two Gentlemen Of Verona,

I did Black Mikado,

I played Yum Yum.

But I had to change my name because I had a hit with a song

called The Sun And I,

and the DJs would go that was Patricia N... N...

That was Yum Yum from the Black Mikado.

So I thought, that name has got to go.

So my husband met the gorgeous Evelyn Laye,

her friends call her Boo Laye.

So I stole that name as my second name.

-And kept Patti as my first name.

-Never looked back.

Fantastic. Now, Patti, you're on six.

The high-scorers on 73 are Ashleigh and Jamie,

which means 66 or less keeps you in the game.

OK, I'm going to play it safe

because I'm completely blank on that board right now.

I'm going to go for Bill Wyman.

Bill Wyman. Bill Wyman, says Patti.

Here is your red line. If you can get below

this red line with Bill Wyman,

you are into the next round.

How many people said Bill Wyman?

It's right.

You are through to the next round.

Very well done indeed.

24 is what it scores.

Lovely round 30 is your total.

Very well done indeed.

Yeah, the bassist of The Stones, Bill Wyman.

24 points. Very good.

Have you got an answer up on that board?

I was going to go for Mat Osman.

That's my brother. My brother's in Suede.

It would be bragging rights at Christmas

if he's a pointless answer, wouldn't it?

Oh, that would be beautiful.

He is. He's a pointless answer.

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Well done, you. Unlucky, Mat.

There it is. Them's the breaks, right?

That's bassists for you.

Let's take a look at some other pointless answers, shall we?

Andy Rourke of The Smiths is a pointless answer, amazingly.

Bernard Butler, the guitarist in Suede, a pointless answer.

Butch Vig, better known as a producer.

Produced a lot of Nirvana stuff.

He was in Garbage. He was the drummer on that first Garbage album.

And Donna Matthews from Alaska,

all of Alaska apart from Justine were pointless answers.

Jay McGuiness from The Wanted.

In fact, Tom Parker is the only member of The Wanted

who wasn't a pointless answer. There's Keavy Lynch.

Her sister scored one point.

Matt Healy from The 1975.

All of The 1975 were pointless answers.

Mike Joyce from The Smiths also a pointless answer, as well.

And Paddy Boom From the Scissor Sisters.

Let's take a look at the top three answers,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

Brian May would have scored you 32.

We've seen Freddie on 66.

And Mick Jagger right at the top on 71.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our first round,

the pair we are sending home with their not that high score,

it just happens to be a high score of 73,

it's Ashleigh and Jamie, I'm afraid.

Again.

You just keep coming back as many times as you like

until you get through to Round Two.

I will get past the first round.

It's been lovely having you both on.

Ashleigh and Jamie. Brilliant.

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

Well done, everyone.

Here we are in Round Two.

Now, you will have noticed one of our pairs has just disappeared.

At the end of this round,

another pair will have to disappear, I'm afraid,

in time for our head-to-head round.

But well done, all of you.

Particular praise to my boss, Richard,

for the best answer.

It wasn't the lowest score of the round

but it was the best answer of the round

by some margin.

Well done, you.

Best of luck to all three pairs, mainly Richard.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going to go first, who's going to go second?

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

OK, and our question concerns...

-Richard.

-Oh, man, Pudsey would have loved this round.

-I know.

-Can you imagine?

On each board we're going to show you

six quotations from Shakespeare plays.

We've missed one word out of each quotation.

Can you fill in that word, please?

12 in all to have a go at, at home, so very best of luck.

Thanks very much indeed.

OK, so we're looking for the missing words from these quotations.

Here is our first board of six.

And we have got...

"And BLANK me, Kate, we will be married a Sunday."

LAUGHTER

The Taming Of the Shrew.

I don't know what else I could have said there, but...

Yeah. I'm going to read those again.

And "BLANK me, Kate..."

LAUGHTER

.."we will be married a Sunday," The Taming of the Shrew.

Nina.

I'm going for the one from King Lear and I think the word is serpent.

Serpent. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth

"it is to have a thankless child."

Let's see if that's right.

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

It is absolutely a serpent's tooth.

That was a great answer.

Very well done indeed.

-You star, you!

-8 for serpent.

Very well played Nina. Nice answer.

It doesn't work when you are telling your kids off, that quotation.

Thanks very much. Now, Danielle.

All of a sudden everything you ever learned in English and drama class

just disappears. I'm sorry, all of my teachers at school.

I think I'm going to go for "A pair of star-cross'd lovers

-"take their life.

-Lovers, says Danielle.

Let's see if that is right,

let's see how many of our 100 people went for lovers.

It's right.

But it's 79.

Still, it's a lot better than 100.

And you might well have taken something off the board

that David knew. So, tactically, not a bad thing to do.

Yeah, delivered by the Chorus in the prologue.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, David, this board is all yours,

if you wanted to go through it and fill in the blanks,

you'd be very welcome.

The ones that are left, three of them are well-known,

one of them less so,

and it's the one that's less so that I'm not 100% certain on.

So do I go for broke or play it safe?

Or maybe don't confer.

I don't know, you could do anything you fancy.

I'm not allowed to confer?

That the first time I've ever seen Xander not tell someone off for

-conferring. Weird. I don't know why.

-LAUGHTER

So odd.

Why would you let that slide?

I'm so sorry, I was miles away.

OK, I'm going to go for...

"He that hath no reputation is less than a man."

"He that hath no reputation is less than a man," says David.

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

No, I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, David.

It scores you 100 points.

That's a good one, though.

It's actually better than what Shakespeare wrote,

I'm going to be honest with you.

It's a weird one this, they could have this outside coffee shops

-in Shoreditch, I think.

-XANDER LAUGHS

It is, "He that hath no beard is less than a man."

Would have scored you one point.

As you say, the other three are the more obvious ones.

Let's see what they would have scored. A pound of... ?

Flesh. Yeah, Merchant of Venice.

65 for that.

-"To be or not to be, that is the...?"

-Question.

And that is the answer. 98 points for that.

98 points.

-And...?

-Kiss.

-"Kiss me, Kate, We will be married a Sunday."

Thank goodness for that. 33 points for that.

There we go. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So, we are halfway through the round.

Let's take a quick look at those scores.

Eight the best score of the pass,

Nina and Patti. You are looking very, very strong

as contenders for our head-to-head at this stage,

I must say. 79, Danielle and Ben.

And 100, David and Richard.

You're not that far ahead, you see.

Thank goodness it's Richard because that will just save the day.

Richard will find a lovely low-scoring answer.

-Very bright man.

-Incredibly bright.

And handsome.

Well, we are going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium.

OK, now, let's put six more incomplete quotes up on the board.

And here they are.

"I cannot tell what the BLANK his name is,"

The Merry Wives of Windsor. LAUGHTER

I'm going to read those all one last time.

-Now then, Richard.

-Yes.

You're the highest scorers so we need a low score from you.

We do, don't we?

I think, upon balance, I will go for -

"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse."

Kingdom, says Richard.

No red line for you as you are the highest scorers

but let's see how far down the column we get with kingdom.

90.

90 for kingdom.

Taking your total up to 190.

Ooh, that is awkward.

-That is awkward.

-THEY LAUGH

You very much just sent your boss home in Round Two of the show.

-I have. I have.

-Well done.

It looks like you will be on this show for a few more years, then.

Ben. Now, good news.

It doesn't matter what you score,

you are still through to the next round.

But you will know loads of these, I'm sure.

I know one, I think.

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

OK. Ben is going to go for smooth.

Smooth. No red line for you as you are already through, remember,

so don't worry. But smooth sounds good to me.

Let's see if it's right.

Absolutely right.

71.

Takes your total up to 150.

Yeah, and it's yet another bit of pro-beard propaganda

-from Shakespeare.

-Thanks very much. Now then, Patti.

Again you are through to the head-to-head even if you score

-100 points, so with that pressure off...

-Yes.

..would you like to take us through the board and fill in as many blanks

-as you dare?

-Oh, my goodness.

The ones I know are gone, so I'm going to go for...

"But I will wear my heart upon my...

-"sleeve."

-Sleeve, says Patti.

No red line for you either because you're already through.

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

It's right. 88.

My goodness, these are high-scorers.

Takes your total up to 96.

Now, we will leave the second one down for a minute.

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

51. It doesn't really mean anything, Shakespeare, that in my opinion.

This is my favourite Shakespearean speech of all.

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on."

"And our little lives are rounded with a sleep."

23 points for that.

And it is, "I cannot tell what the..."

-Dickens. I cannot tell...

-It is, What the Dickens.

I cannot tell what the Dickens. No, it's famous for being that.

Two points for that.

Long time before Charles Dickens.

There we are. Before Charles Dickens.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So at the end of our second round, the pair we have to say goodbye to,

I'm afraid, Richard and David, I'm so sorry.

Ah...

I... I don't know what to say. It's been lovely having you on.

Will you please come back and play another time? It's been great.

Thank you so much. Richard and David. Superb.

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But for Ben and Danielle, Patti and Nina,

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

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Congratulations, Patti and Nina, Ben and Danielle.

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

jackpot which currently stands at £2,750.

So, we have to decide who is going to go through to the final

and play for that jackpot and we do it by making you go head-to-head.

But the big news is you're now allowed to confer.

You can talk before you give your answers out.

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

This is exciting.

It is New Faces versus Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.

Brilliant. I wouldn't want to call that one.

PATTI LAUGHS Nuh-uh-uh-uh.

Very exciting indeed. Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

Here is your first question.

And your first question concerns...

We are going to show you five pictures now of actors

who celebrated their 40th birthday in 2016.

Can you identify the most obscure of these?

Thanks very much. Let's reveal our five actors.

And here they come.

We have got...

There we are. Five actors who celebrated their 40th birthdays

in the last 12 months, at time of recording.

Now, Patti and Nina, you've been our low scorers so far,

so you will go first.

-Right, which shall we go for?

-THEY WHISPER

We are going to go for E.

And we are striking out because this is a tricky one.

Mark Gatiss.

Mark Gatiss say Patti and Nina for E.

Mark Gatiss. Now then,

Ben and Danielle.

-Are you sure?

-Yes.

-Benedict Cumberbatch.

-For?

-B.

-B.

-B. Benedict Cumberbatch for B.

So Patti and Nina have gone for Mark Gatiss for E.

Mark Gatiss. You say Mark Gatiss.

I say Gay-tiss, you say Gatt-tiss.

I think you can probably say what you like.

Let's see if it's right, let's see how many of our 100 people

went with Mark Gatiss for E.

I'm sorry. It's not Mark Gatiss.

-Isn't it?

-No, there is a link.

But it's not Mark Gatiss.

Ben and Danielle, which means you merely have to be correct

with Benedict Cumberbatch for B,

and you win the point. Let's see.

Is Benedict Cumberbatch right?

It is. Very well done indeed.

You see, that paid off.

41.

And it means, Ben and Danielle, after one question, you are up 1-0.

Yes, it's literally Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of Mark Gatiss.

Benedict Cumberbatch is Sherlock Holmes,

Mark Gatiss is Mycroft Holmes.

He plays his brother.

And this is Andrew Scott.

He plays Moriarty.

He plays his arch nemesis.

Five points for that. Very well done if you said that at home.

I know Sherlock fans would have got it.

-A is...

-Reese Witherspoon.

-..Reese Witherspoon.

Would have scored you 19.

C is Naomie Harris.

Naomie Harris which would have scored you three points.

Terrific answer if you got that. And D is Colin Farrell.

Would have scored you fewer points than Benedict.

Would have scored you 27 points.

Thanks very much indeed. Here comes your second question.

Ben and Danielle, you get to answer this one first,

but Patti and Nina, we need you to win this one to stay in the game,

so very best of luck. It concerns...

-Richard.

-We are going to play you five songs now from Disney films,

we need you to tell us the name of the films that these songs

-come from, please.

-OK, let's have a listen to our five songs.

And here they come. We have got - A.

# Flipping your fins you don't get too far

# Legs are required for jumping, dancing

# Strolling along down a... What's that word again?

# Street

# Up where they walk Up where they run

# Up where they stay all day in the sun

# Wondering free

# Wish I could be

# Part of that world. #

We were tempted to play the whole film, in fact.

Let's go to B.

# Conceal don't feel

# Don't let them know

# Well, now they know

# Let it go

# Let it go

# Can't hold it back any more

# Let it go

# Let it go

# Turn away and slam the door... #

C.

# I want to be a man, man cub

# And stroll right into town

# And be just like the other men

# I'm tired of monkeying around

-# Oh-oobee-doo

-Ooh-do-wee

-# I want to be like you-oo-oo

-Hoop-do-oobee-do-wa

# I want to walk like you

# Talk like you, too. #

D.

# I can open your eyes

# Take you wonder by wonder

# Over sideways and under

# On a magic carpet ride

# A whole new world

# A new fantastic point of view... #

And E.

# Mmm, I'm almost there

# People down here think I'm crazy

# But I don't care

# Trials and tribulations

# I've had my share

# There ain't nothing going to stop me now

# Cos I'm almost there... #

That was sweet, wasn't it? Watching Ben and Danielle knowing

all the words and all the moves to every single one of those.

Which one would you like to go for?

All of them are wonderful and very well known.

I'm going to go with my opinion of the most obscure which is E,

which is The Princess And The Frog.

E, The Princess And The Frog, say Ben and Danielle.

-Do you need the song title?

-No, we do not.

Now, Patti and Nina... PATTI AND NINA GROAN

..talk us through the other songs.

B is Frozen.

Was that right, yeah?

Yeah, and A is Little Mermaid.

C is Jungle Book

and D - Aladdin?

I think I'll go with you. I'll go for D.

OK, D, Aladdin.

So we have The Princess And The Frog and we have Aladdin.

Now then, Ben and Danielle said The Princess And The Frog.

Let's see if that is right for E and let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

Down it goes to three.

Fantastic! Very well done indeed.

Now...

..Patti and Nina

have said that D was Aladdin.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It is indeed Aladdin.

Where is that going to go down to?

-33.

-Well done, guys.

And that means, very well done indeed, Ben and Danielle.

After only two questions, you're through to the final 2-0.

That turned out very nicely, didn't it?

I think everyone knew everything there,

but you couldn't have beaten the Princess and the Frog.

It is a terrific answer. The next best answer was A,

which was The Little Mermaid.

that would have scored you 11.

You would have got 49 for Frozen.

Let It Go, the song there.

And the biggest scorer was The Jungle Book.

That would have scored you 60.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

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

I'm afraid, Patti and Nina,

you have been our low scorers up to this point.

I should have said Colin Farrell, I knew it.

-I apologise.

-No, no, no.

You did the right thing, you did exactly what we want people to do

which is to just test yourselves and go a little bit...

-You have to find something obscure.

-Absolutely.

You sort of must have known, you knew it was Andrew Scott, I'm sure.

Anyway, it has been lovely having you on again, Nina.

-Wonderful to have you on for the first time, Patti.

-Thank you.

-Please come back and play again.

-It has been great fun. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Patti and Nina.

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But for Ben and Danielle, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Well, congratulations, Ben and Danielle.

You have seen off all the competition and you have won

our coveted Pointless trophy.

-BOTH:

-Yes!

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your charities.

At the end of today's show the jackpot is standing at £2,750.

What about that? In our 'talent show' show, you have seen off

Britain's Got Talent, you've seen off New Faces

and you've seen off Fame Academy.

Does that mean we are officially the most talented?

-I think it does.

-We will just go with it.

-I'll take that.

Fantastic. Brilliant. 2-0 in the head-to-head.

As always, what happens in this round is we put four

impossible-seeming categories up there,

you know that behind each one of those will be three subsections.

So there will be more questions and at least one of those three,

I hope, will be kind. But let's see what today's choices look like.

We've got...

For me, it would be between US Soul Singers

and the Year 2012.

That's my two things as well.

Although the Olympics might be in that and I'm not that...

I'm not good on the athletes' names and things but then I'm not good at

names in general.

I feel like I don't know enough about US soul singers,

whereas 2012 might not just be the Olympics.

I know. OK, let's do that.

It's just so open cos I don't know enough about the rest.

-OK. 2012 it is. Richard.

-OK, three very different questions here.

I hope one of these suits you.

We are looking for,

any of the 18 players named in the Team GB football squad for the 2012

Olympics. We are looking for any act or artist on the 2012 album

Now That's What I Call Music! 82.

And we are looking for any of the 25 towns shortlisted

for the 2012 city status upgrade.

So players in the GB football squad from 2012,

artists on Now That's What I Call Music,

or any town shortlisted to become a city in 2012.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Now, as always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three

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

-answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Think so.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

I don't know anything about football.

Neither do I. OK, so you won Jesus Christ Superstar 2012,

can you remember what you were listening to on your iPod

-or singles that came out?

-Not particularly.

-Emeli Sande brought out the Olympics song...

-Yes.

-..and that was her big single in 2012.

-Yeah.

-Read All About It.

-Yeah. So I would say Emeli Sande.

-I know that is going to be popular but...

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Any town shortlisted for a city status upgrade.

-I wouldn't really know that.

-We need to hit some more artists.

-Let's do artists.

-OK.

So we've got

Emeli Sande.

It doesn't even have to be new artists. Let's do one...

One Direction is kind of...

We've only got ten seconds.

-One Direction.

-They would have been on that.

-Ariana Grande, was she around then?

-Probably, yeah.

Shall we go for those three?

-Can you think of...

-? Yeah. Adele was before that, wasn't she?

Er...Sia?

Ten seconds left.

Shall we swap One Direction for Sia?

So Emeli Sande, Sia, and what was the one I just said?

OK, that is your time up.

Let's have your three answers.

-OK.

-And if you say which category you are answering.

OK, so we are answering - Artists on the 2012 album

-Now That's What I Call Music!

-For all three of them?

-All three.

OK, and your artists are?

-Emeli Sande.

-Emeli Sande.

-Sia.

-Sia.

-And Ariana Grande.

-Ariana Grande.

OK. Of those three, which do you think is your best shot

-at a pointless answer?

-Maybe Ariana Grande.

Yeah, because she was quite new.

Ariana Grande we will put last.

Least likely to be pointless?

-Emeli Sande.

-Emeli Sande was the big one.

OK, we'll pop those up on the board in that order. And here they are.

Well, three good answers on the board there.

Now, if one of these turns out to be pointless and you win that jackpot,

which charities are you playing for?

-Ben first.

-My charity is an incredible small charity

called Scotty's Little Soldiers,

which supports the bereaved children of our military personnel

if they are lost in the field during war or on call.

So it's a lovely charity and I'd really like to support them.

-Excellent. Danielle?

-Mine is the Make A Wish charity.

I was lucky enough to go and perform at one of their events whilst I was

doing The Wizard of Oz.

And they do incredible parties,

events and trips and things for all different kinds of children

who may be sick or disabled.

And for their whole families it's a real amazing chance to bring

-them all together.

-Wonderful. Two excellent charities there.

Fingers crossed one of these answers will be pointless

and will win that jackpot. It's a lovely jackpot.

£2,750.

Fingers crossed. Your first answer was Emeli Sande.

In all three cases we are looking for artists who featured on

Now That's What I Call Music! 82,

which was the one relevant to 2012.

The one you thought was probably least likely to be pointless

was Emeli Sande.

Only one of these has to be pointless, remember,

for you to win that jackpot. Let's find out, for £2,750,

how many of our 100 people said Emeli Sande.

Is it pointless?

It's right.

Emeli Sande absolutely right.

Now, if Emeli Sande takes us down to zero, you will leave

with that jackpot for your charity.

Down goes Emeli Sande into single figures.

Still going down, still going down, still going down.

Got it!

-Very well done.

-Oh, my God.

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Oh, brilliant.

Look at that! Congratulations.

Emeli Sande is a pointless answer,

which means you go home with that £2,750 jackpot for your charities.

Brilliant. Ben and Danielle.

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That is amazing.

Congratulations.

Very, very well played.

Yeah, My Kind Of Love was the Emeli Sande track on that album.

Sia and Ariana Grande both wrong.

-Oh.

-So thank you very much, Emeli Sande.

Terrific stuff.

Lots and lots of pointless answers on that first category.

Actually, lots of pointless answers on all of these.

Let's take a look at some of them.

Also could have had Craig Dawson,

Jack Cork, Jason Steele and Neil Taylor.

Very well done, football fans who got any of those at home.

Let's move on now.

You could have had Azealia Banks, Carly Rae Jepsen, David Guetta,

Janelle Monae, John Newman, Labrinth, Lawson, Nicki Minaj,

Paloma Faith, Plan B,

Rudimental, Scissor Sisters were there,

like they were at the start of the show.

As are The Wanted, actually. will.i.am, Wiz Khalifa,

Swedish House Mafia, Taio Cruz. All of them pointless answers.

Well done if you said one of those.

And the towns that tried to become cities in 2012.

Bournemouth, Corby, Craigavon, Croydon, Dorchester, Dudley,

Gateshead, Goole, St Austell and Stockport.

Loads of pointless answers in all the categories there.

There's only one we care about, and that's Emeli Sande.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you very much indeed and thanks once again to our

winning players, Ben and Danielle,

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

Very well done indeed.

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Well, join us next time when we'll 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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