Soaps Pointless Celebrities

APPLAUSE

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

warm welcome to the special soap edition of Pointless Celebrities.

This is the show where all the questions have been asked

to 100 people before the show.

All our celebrities have to do

is come up with the answers they couldn't think of.

Let's meet today's Pointless Celebrities.

And couple number one.

Hello, I'm Adele Silva and I play Kelly Windsor in Emmerdale.

Hi, I'm Chris Bisson

and I currently play Jai Sharma in Emmerdale.

Couple number two.

Hi, I'm Gemma Merna and I play Carmel McQueen in Hollyoaks.

Hi, I'm Nicole Barber Lane

and I currently play Myra McQueen in Hollyoaks.

Couple number three.

My name is Paul Henry

and in 1975 I joined Crossroads to play a character called Benny.

Hello, I'm Shaun Williamson

and for ten years I played Barry Evans in EastEnders.

And finally couple number four.

Hello, my name is Kevin Kennedy and I played Curly Watts.

And my name is Amanda Barrie, and I used to be Alma.

Thanks very much, all of you, a very warm welcome to the show.

It's lovely to have you here. We'll get to chat to each of you

throughout the show as it goes along.

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

He has been party to more kitchen sink dramas

than the MasterChef plumber.

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

-APPLAUSE

-Hiya. Hi, everybody.

Good evening.

Good evening to you.

-Good evening.

-How are you?

-I'm very well.

-Excellent. What a lovely line-up today,

some proper soap legends on tonight's show.

-Oh, yes.

-Which is fantastic.

But also a couple of Pointless legends as well

because people here have been on before.

Adele has been on before, got all the way through to the final.

So, tough to beat. On a normal show, tough to beat.

But we have the greatest Pointless celebrity legend of all,

Shaun Williamson, on as well.

He has not only won twice. On the last show,

he got three pointless answers in the jackpot round as well.

-CONTESTANTS MOAN

-I know, imagine such a thing.

But Paul has been on before.

Paul got knocked out in the first round.

Joined the 200 Club as well.

So, podium three is going to be fascinating.

We shall see exactly what happens there.

It is going to be great fun. The first two questions,

I think there's something for everyone in the first two questions.

Nothing too terrifying.

Very good. Thank you, Richard. Now, as usual, all of today's

questions have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants here are looking for those all-important

pointless answers. These are 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're going to start off with a jackpot of...

There it is.

-AUDIENCE:

-Ooh!

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

So, all you have to remember is this.

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

eliminated. That's it. So just make sure you're not that pair.

Keep those scores as low as you possibly can.

No conferring until we get to the head-to-head round.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category today is...

Music. Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first,

who is going to go second?

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Repeated words in song titles.

Richard.

On each board, we're going to show you

the titles of seven UK top 40 hits,

all of which have got repeated words in their titles,

but we have left those repeated words out.

Can you tell us what they are, please?

Seven on the first, seven on the second,

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

-Thanks very much.

So what are the repeated words that are omitted from these song titles?

And here is our first board of seven.

-This is so hard to read out...

-Without saying...

-Yeah, without saying the words.

-You're doing very well.

We made it through. Now, Chris, welcome to Pointless.

-Hi.

-Very good to have you here.

Now, on Emmerdale, what is your scheduling like?

How many hours a day do you film?

How many hours a week, I should say, do you film?

It varies wildly.

Some days we are in from dawn till dusk all week,

and then other weeks you get a more relaxed schedule, so...

Do you have a sort of rehearsal schedule and a filming schedule that

-run concurrently?

-No, we go too fast. We rehearse as we shoot.

-Ha-ha! That's fun!

-So we go on set,

we rehearse the scene, and you shoot it.

But of course, you are shooting a soap,

so you're familiar with the other characters,

with the sets, you know how it all works,

-you know how it's probably going to pan out.

-Yeah.

How far in advance of transmission do you shoot?

We're about six to eight weeks.

OK, do you have to sort of bite your tongue and just...?

You can't tell anyone what's about to happen.

Yeah, I think you get used to it.

-People are always asking you what's going on.

-Yeah, I'll bet.

Now, these song titles, Chris.

Yes. I am having a blank-blank moment!

LAUGHTER

-Because I should actually know all of them!

-Yeah, you should.

And because I'm first I'm going, "Panic, panic!" Right, OK.

There is the really obvious one,

but it is going to be really high-scoring.

And I don't know whether to take a bit of a chance...

I think number two.

I think that is Mo Money, Mo Problems.

Mo Money, Mo Problems, "mo" being the blank word.

-Yes.

-Adele giving you a firm nod there.

Let's see if she's right, let's see if you are right,

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

It's right.

That's 4!

What a start to the round, Chris. Very, very well done indeed.

Mo, for the Notorious BIG.

Very well played, Chris, great start to the show.

Always tough on that first podium, very good answer.

Very nice indeed. Gemma, welcome to Pointless.

-Hi.

-Wonderful to have you here.

Now, you exited Hollyoaks in a sort of huge explosion and a train crash.

-Yes, I did.

-That is how you leave a soap opera, isn't it?

I know. I didn't die, actually, in the explosion,

I still had all my death scenes, didn't I?

So the train exploded,

but then I still had about five scenes to say goodbye to everyone.

-Oh, that's nice.

-Like you do.

I had like a scratch on my cheek and that was it.

All internal. But if you went back into soaps...

-Yes.

-..is there one that you look at?

Which is the soap you would like to go back to?

-Corrie would be the one.

-Corrie, of course.

Yeah, cos I am a Northerner, I'm from Manchester,

so it is kind of...

It's where I got brought up, so...

Yeah, definitely Corrie, surely.

Now, Gemma, repeated words in song titles.

What would you like to go for?

It is awful, but the only one I do know,

which is the one that's going to get the highest score...

I'm just going to have to say it, The Shoop Shoop Song.

The Shoop Shoop Song.

OK, let's see how many of our 100 people went for

The Shoop Shoop Song.

It's right.

It's not bad, look at that, down it goes, still going down.

-44, it's fine.

-Oh, OK.

-Not bad at all.

-Not too bad.

Yeah, not a bad score at all, Gemma,

well done. A number one single from '91. She had for number one singles,

-Cher.

-Amazing.

Yeah. Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Paul.

-Yes.

Lovely, gosh, Paul looks well, doesn't he?

He has definitely pulled the short straw, you know.

Well, you say that. Yes, it was 200 Club last time.

Thank you very much for repeating what Richard said, yes.

Yeah.

Do you all know now I was in the 200 Club?

Look at that, Barry and Benny.

-Yeah, yeah.

-I used to love ABBA.

-Yeah.

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Now, then, Benny...

I mean, how did that come about?

How did you get into that?

Well, I was sharing a dressing room at the Birmingham Rep with a man

called John Rollinson, and he was writing this particular story,

and he said, "Paul, do you fancy playing this part?"

And I went into it for six weeks, and I came out of it in '87.

Never! So how many episodes did it run for?

I only did six months a year

because I used to go off and do other things.

-Very nice.

-But I did quite a bit.

I read somewhere that Ronnie Barker was considering you for Godber in

-Porridge.

-Yes, we did Midsummer Night's Dream together,

with Amanda as well, and he wanted me for Godber.

And he always used to say to me,

"You were very good in that part you nearly got."

LAUGHTER

-Now, Paul.

-Yes.

-Repeated words in pop songs.

What are you going to go for?

Well, being a Brummie, I've got to go for UB40, haven't I?

Red Red Wine.

Red Red Wine, says Paul.

OK, let's see how many of our 100 people got that.

Shaun not looking thrilled!

LAUGHTER

It is right and it is 88.

I'm not in the 200 Club!

-There you are.

-Yeah, another number one single, written by Neil Diamond.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

Thank you very much, Richard.

-Kevin!

-Hello.

-A very warm welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you.

-Curly Watts!

-Yeah.

-Now, what became of Curly Watts?

Curly went off up to Newcastle with his police lady wife

and their young son in '90...

No, in 2004, I think.

Do you think, will he ever come back?

Well, I think there is a story in the newspaper about at least twice a

year, but I can actually tell you that,

if and when it does happen, I will be the last to know.

Oh, really? But you've been doing musicals since then, haven't you?

Yeah, I've become a bit of a West End Wendy.

-Yeah.

-I suddenly found myself doing a lot of musicals,

which was very nice.

I did Chicago, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,

We Will Rock You,

which I just finished, and so I suddenly find myself in that world,

-which was great.

-Fabulous. OK, now, Kevin, this board is all yours.

If you wanted to go through it and fill in all those blanks,

you'd be very, very welcome.

Well, I think I'll have to go with Cheap Trick, I Want You To Want Me.

I Want You To Want Me, says Kevin.

Let's see if it's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people went with "want".

Oh, that's a good answer.

4 is our low score at this point...

31 is where you get with "want".

Not bad.

Yeah, well played, Kevin. He knows his music,

that was the UK debut single, still their biggest hit as well.

31 points. Now, the top one is Bye Bye Love by the Everly Brothers,

would have scored you 28.

Do you know the Black Eyed Peas one?

Boom Boom Pow.

Boom Boom Pow.

13 points for that.

-And it is...

-Hippy.

Hippy Hippy Shake. By the Swinging Blue Jeans,

that would have scored you 62.

So the best answer on the board, Chris, is mo.

-Well played.

-There we are. Thanks, Richard.

Well, we're halfway through the round, let's look at those scores.

Chris, superb, 4.

Chris and Adele, I think you shall go to Round Two on the back of that.

Then up to 31, where we find Kevin and Amanda.

Then up to 44, Gemma and Nicole.

And then 88.

Paul, luckily, though, you've got Shaun.

-Yes.

-So let's see how you do.

Shaun, you know exactly what your task is here.

Good luck with that.

Yeah, we're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, so let's put seven more song titles up on the board with repeated

words in them and here they are...

I'm going to read those again.

-Now, then, Amanda, welcome to Pointless.

-Yes.

It is lovely to have you here.

Now, when you started in Corrie, your character was a sort of,

was a smallish part, and then you went away,

and about seven years later you came back, your part was huge.

A really important central character.

And I think, I remember you saying you thought your mum was responsible

-for that.

-Oh,

my mother... I was only in it for a very short time,

but when I was out of it, she couldn't believe it,

so she got the telephone number of Bill Podmore...

..in the production office,

and apparently she used to ring up and put on an accent and go, "Hello,

"this is Mrs O'Malley from Ireland.

"We love Alma Sedgwick so much that she must be in the show!"

And she did it with every accent under the sun until eventually

Bill Podmore rang me, he said,

"Would you please ask your mother to stop ringing the office?"

I nearly killed her!

Now, Amanda, you are on 31.

The high-scorers, on 88, are Shaun and Paul,

which means 56 or less gets you through.

I haven't a clue, isn't that awful?

It's The Beatles.

Love Love Me.

Love Love Me, says Amanda.

Here is your red line.

-Can't be.

-You have to get below that red line with Love Love Me...

I'm not getting anywhere near a red line.

..to stay with us.

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

No.

I'm just not good at that sort of thing.

Oh, I'm sorry, Amanda.

Well, the round isn't over yet.

That scores you 100 points, takes your total to 131,

but brings Shaun and Paul very much back into the game.

Yeah, Shaun, if you had just...

Get a close-up of Shaun when that answer was given,

just straight back into assassin mode.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Shaun, phew.

You might make it to Round Two, Shaun.

-Who knows?

-Who knows?

Now, you trained at Webber Douglas,

one of the finest classical acting schools in London.

-What went wrong?

-No!

Then Barry came up, you know, a dearly loved part.

When it was offered to you, did you at any stage think, "Well, no,

"I hear the call of Shakespeare"?

The thing is that Webber Douglas were very down-to-earth and...

..they sort of... They always told you during training,

if you can get a part that can give

you a little bit of fame or notoriety,

it won't hurt you. And then, you know, however long you stay in it,

you can't moan about being typecast cos you're doing that to yourself.

Certainly if you get in and out within a year or two,

but it suited me at the time to stay in it for ten years,

-that's the way it was.

-Absolutely, and amazing scripts.

-I mean, it's a fantastic soap.

-I was lucky. The thing about Barry,

I either had a great story or I just wasn't up there,

so I either made a big impression or I was at the local pub

or walking the dog, really, so I had the best of both worlds, really.

Now, Shaun, you are on 88.

If you can score 42 or less, you are through to the next round.

It's whether to play safe or go for one that, if it's right,

will definitely get us through.

I'm going to go for Vera Lynn, My Son My Son.

My Son My Son, says Shaun.

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

My Son My Son, you are through to Round Two.

How many people said it?

It's right.

Well done, Shaun.

That's a great answer!

It's a pointless answer, Shaun. Look at that!

A pointless answer, of course, adds £250 to today's jackpot,

takes the total up to...

It scores you nothing, it leaves your total at 88.

It is absolutely everything you needed to do, Shaun.

Beautifully done. Of course,

it means you've given four pointless answers in a row, Shaun.

Very, very impressive. Yeah, My Son My Son.

Nicole, welcome to Pointless.

-Hi.

-Lovely to have you. Now, you played Gemma's mum.

-I did.

-Did you have two age up for that?

Yeah, they used to put broken veins on me and dark circles.

Now they don't have to, unfortunately.

You have been in LA recently, haven't you?

-What have you been doing over there?

-Yeah, I did some acting classes,

saw some friends, just sort of experienced the life over the pond,

-and ran back to the UK!

-Oh, really? I was going to say - how was it?

You won't be going out there in a hurry to find an American...?

Well, when I went to New York, I went to New York,

and they are very serious about acting.

-Yeah.

-LA, everybody is a little bit more chilled

and it is like, get this job, get that job.

It is a really different world,

but I just decided that family and friends came first,

so I just came back into the arms of Hollyoaks, thank goodness.

Well, nice to have you back. Now, Nicole, there you are on 44.

The high-scorers at the moment are Amanda and Kevin on 131,

so 86 or less keeps you in the game.

I'm going to go for Donna Summer.

Love To Love You Baby.

Love To Love You Baby, let's see if that's right,

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

There is your red line, nice and high.

It's right, and you're through, very well done.

49, taking your total

up to 93.

Very well played, Nicole, safely through.

Yeah, a number four hit for the queen of disco.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Adele.

-Hello.

Welcome back.

-Thank you.

-Now, then, great news, you're through.

-You are through to the next round, whatever you say...

-Thank goodness.

..which is marvellous.

What I want to ask you, tell me about this wine thing you did.

-You had a sort of wine website thing.

-I brought out a wine.

OK, so I did Hell's Kitchen with Marco Pierre White.

-Yeah.

-And I was a runner-up, so I came second,

and from that I got the opportunity to bring out my own range of wine.

-Amazing!

-What sort of wine was it?

I did a red, a white, and a rose.

How amazing. Well, you just tasted lots of them?

I did that as well, but I got to go to like Italy, France, yeah,

with a master sommelier or however you pronounce it, but, yeah.

How amazing, you could choose

any wine you wanted to be in your collection?

It was amazing. My mum and dad loved it cos we've got loads stocked up

-in the garage. So they were like, "Yeah, great job."

-Fabulous.

Well, as I say, you're through to the next round.

But if you wanted to go through this board and fill in all those

-blanks, it would be great.

-I don't think I can fill them all in.

I'm going to go for the second one,

Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper.

-Time After Time...

-I think it's a high one, though.

..says Adele. No red line, you're already through,

but let's see how many people said Time After Time.

It's right.

54, not bad at all.

Your total is 58, the lowest total of the round.

Yes, very good answers from everybody there.

Well played. Now, let's fill in the rest of these, shall we?

This top one, Bananarama, also had a hit with this.

-Hey, Hey.

-Yes, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.

22 for that.

It's not Love Love Me, it's Please Please Me

by The Beatles, I'm afraid.

53 points for that.

-The Who?

-You Better You Bet.

You better You Bet...would have scored 28.

Can you work out the Justin Bieber one?

I know you're not a huge admirer of his canon.

I'm not. I should be, shouldn't I?

-I should.

-Well, these days, he's very cool.

-This is back when he was less cool.

-Erm...

Shall I tell you?

-Yes.

-Never Say Never.

-Of course.

-Of course. And that would have scored 11 points.

So obviously, son, the best answer there - well played, Shaun.

Thank you very much indeed.

Well, at the end of our first round, well done, everyone,

but I'm afraid we do have high-scorers,

which means we have to send home Amanda and Kevin

-with their high score of 131.

-My fault, I apologise.

I'm so sorry. It's been lovely having you here.

Far too brief, I might say.

But come back and play again.

It's been great. Amanda and Kevin, wonderful.

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

Well, what about that? Three pairs remain.

At the end of this round, we will have to say goodbye to another pair,

obviously. Shaun, the big story of that round.

Very well done indeed.

Just a head full of nonsense.

Heroic effort there. Yes, best of luck to all three pairs.

Two pairs will be going through to the next round, when you can confer

before giving answers, which will be nice.

Our category for Round Two this evening...

..is Honours. Honours.

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

who's going to go second?

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

And the question concerns...

2016 New Year's Honours.

-Richard?

-Yes, we're going to show you 16 pictures now of people who

are recognised in the Queen's 2016 New Year's Honours list.

Can you identify the most obscure of the people, please?

Oh, that's a relief, isn't it? You get a picture!

So we're going to put the picture up.

It will stay up for the whole round.

Here is the picture.

Ah-ha.

There we go. We just need you to name

the most obscure person you can on that picture.

Chris will go first.

Right, OK, I need to start thinking very quickly, then, don't I?

I'm really bad at remembering people's names,

so I'm going to have to go with one that I don't think

is going to score me a lot of points,

but I'm going to go with Goldie.

Goldie, says Chris.

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

It's right.

Not bad at all. Very well done indeed, Chris.

12. Great start to the round.

Well played, Chris, top left there.

Goldie, MBE for services to music and young people.

There you go. OK.

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

Well, I am absolutely atrocious with names.

Even the really famous person in the middle with the blonde hair,

I can't remember her full name right now, and it's not Dolly Parton!

I think that that is an actor called, if I say his name wrong,

I'm going to go...aren't I?

-Not me.

-I don't know what you'll do, but I, I...

Is that that Idris Elba?

-Is that how you say his name?

-OK, you're going to go for Idris Elba.

Idris Elba, says Nicole.

Let's see if that's right and let's

see how many of our 100 people went for Idris Elba.

It's right.

Well, 12 is what we've got on the scoreboard at the moment.

Idris Elba takes you to 38.

-Look at that.

-Oh, my God, I can't even tell you.

There he is on the bottom row.

He got an OBE for services to drama.

Thanks very much indeed.

Now then, Paul.

I watch a lot of snooker,

so it's Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Shaun, looking good.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Not bad, 41 for Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Well done.

Yeah, an OBE for Ronnie O'Sullivan for services to, guess what?

-Snooker.

-It was for services to snooker, yes.

In the 2015 World Championships, his shoes were uncomfortable,

so he played in his socks. You can't do that in most sports, can you?

-No! Thank you.

-It's a pleasure.

-We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores before we head back up the line.

12, the best score of the pass, very well done.

Chris and Adele looking very strong at this point.

Then 38 is where we find Nicole and Gemma.

Only three points ahead, Paul and Shaun, but Shaun,

you're out front at the moment, we need a low score from you.

So best of luck with that.

We're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. Shaun,

these are all the faces of people who were honoured

in the 2016 New Year's Honours.

We need a low score.

This is a nightmare. Totally.

I know all the well-known ones.

Let's go for...Damon Albarn.

Damon Albarn. Damon Albarn, says Shaun.

No red line for you as you are out front at the moment,

but let's see how many of our 100 people went with Damon Albarn.

It's right.

Still going down. Still going down.

Look at that, 15. I think that was a good choice, Shaun.

Tactically, very strong.

56 is your total.

Well played, Shaun. OBE for services to music.

He's been made a king, or a local king in Mali, for his...

He's worked a lot with musicians over there.

-I think that's fair.

-It's nice, isn't it?

He does a lot of extraordinary things, doesn't he, Damon?

He does do a lot of extraordinary things.

There we are, thank you very much indeed. Now, Gemma,

you have a target here, which is 56.

17 or less is what you have to score.

Don't think that's going to happen.

Well, I know one person,

but I know she's just going to have a really high score.

I know the guy in the corner at the bottom,

but I only know his second name.

Oh, I'm so sorry!

I'm just going to have to go with the only person I know on there,

-Barbara Windsor.

-That's it!

-Barbara Windsor.

It's going to be really high, though,

cos everyone knows who she is!

Barbara Windsor. There's your red line.

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

Oh.

77 for Barbara Windsor.

Takes your total up to 115.

Dame Barbara Windsor now, of course.

-Oh, Dame.

-Goes to show what can happen if you are in soaps for a few

years. Just goes to show.

-No excuses!

-True.

Stick at it.

Statistically, we'll have a dame or a knight amongst our six here

-at some point.

-Oh, I hope so.

-That would be nice.

-My money's on Shaun.

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Thanks, Richard. Now, Adele, the good news is you're through.

-OK, cos I kind of want to do a gamble, but I'm not sure.

-Go on.

Because there's some that I think are really obvious,

like Imelda Staunton,

Sue Barker, James Nesbitt.

I want to go for, next to Barbara Windsor,

I'm going to do a gamble and say Jacqueline Gold.

Jacqueline Gold, let's see if it's right and let's see how many of

our 100 people said Jacqueline Gold.

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

It is Jacqueline Gold!

-Keep going.

-That's a great answer,

look at that, down it goes to 1!

Very well done indeed, lowest score of the round goes to you,

Adele.

Once again, 13 is your total.

-It's the lowest total of the round.

-How about that? Very nice.

-Adele Silva, Jacqueline Gold, very, very good answer.

-There you go.

CBE for entrepreneurship and women in business.

Now, let's fill in the rest of these.

Top line, there's some low-scorers up there.

Next to Goldie is Tracey Neville,

head coach of the England netball team.

Next to her, the captain

of the England football team, Steph Houghton.

Both would have scored 1 point, so terrific answers if you

got either of those. Imelda Staunton, who you knew,

would have scored you 7 points.

Now, the next row, John Surtees,

motorcyclist and racing driver, would have scored you 5 points.

Sue Barker would have scored you 59.

Now, the next row, you've got Chris Froome, the cyclist.

He would have scored you 8 points.

Next to him, the only pointless answer on the board,

the choreographer Matthew Bourne.

Very well done if you said that.

Bottom row, Sian Phillips,

would have scored you 2 points.

Simon Weston would have scored you

27. And you're quite right,

James Nesbitt there, in the bottom

right, and he would have scored 23.

Thanks very much indeed.

So at the end of our second round,

the pair we have to say goodbye to do with their high score of 115...

I'm so sorry, Gemma and Nicole, it is you.

-OK.

-Oh.

-It's been a pleasure.

Now, Nicole, when you hear all their names, you suddenly think,

"Oh, of course, I know that person!"

-Did you?

-Not...really!

-Really?

-Neither did I!

-I've got such a bad memory, I really have.

Oh, well, listen, come back and play again.

It's been lovely having you here.

-Gemma and Nicole, wonderful! BOTH:

-Thank you.

But for Shaun and Paul, Chris and Adele,

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

Well, congratulations, Chris and Adele, Shaun and Paul,

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

jackpot, which currently stands at £2,750.

-AUDIENCE:

-Ooh!

Well, this is the point where we have to decide who goes through

to the final to play for that jackpot,

and we do it by making you go head-to-head.

But the difference is you can now confer

before you give your answers.

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

Chris and Adele have been our low-scorers in both rounds so far.

Shaun, the only person to score a pointless answer.

I mean, it couldn't be tighter, I'd say, this.

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

Here is your first question

and it concerns dance music.

Dance music, Richard.

We're going to play five songs now,

all of which contain the word dance or dancing in their title.

We need the name of any

of the artists you're about to hear, please.

-Best of luck.

-OK, so let's listen to our five excerpts

and here they come.

We have got... A.

# I'm in the mood for dancin'

# Romancin'

# Ooh, and givin' it all tonight

# I'm in the mood for chancin'

# I feel like dancin'

# Ooh, so come on and hold me tight... #

Here's B.

# Oh, I'm gonna be there

# When they're dancin' on the ceiling

# Oh, what a feeling

# When we're dancing on the ceiling... #

Here's C.

# So you can dance

# You can jive

# Havin' the time of your life

# Ooh, ooh, see that girl

# Watch that scene

# Diggin' the dancing queen... #

Here's D.

# Dancing, yeah!

# Watcha doin' on your back?

# Watcha doin' on your back?

# Hey

# Get dancin', yeah!

# I'm dancin', yeah... #

And here is E.

# Everybody dance

# Clap your hands, clap your hands

# Everybody dance

# Clap your hands, clap your hands... #

OK. Now, Chris and Adele.

-Bee Gees?

-OK.

-D, Bee Gees.

D, Bee Gees, say Chris and Adele.

D, Bee Gees. Now then, Shaun and Paul,

-do you want to talk us through the others?

-We know them all.

Paul has very kindly given me power of attorney here.

But Paul knew, seriously,

Paul knew the Nolans, which...

This might come back to blow me up in the face

and I'll crawl out of here.

I just think the hardest one is going to be E, which I think...

..is Chic.

We're going to go for E and Chic.

E, Chic.

So, we have...

..D - Bee Gees and E - Chic.

Chris and Adele said the D was the Bee Gees.

Let's see that's right and how many of our 100 people said the Bee Gees.

It's right.

54.

Well, Shaun and Paul have gone for E and are saying that E is Chic.

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

It is Chic.

Look at that, you're right.

Wow, look at that!

7!

There we go, Shaun and Paul.

Very well done indeed.

After one question, you are both up 1-0.

Yeah, the best answer on the board. That could not have been beaten.

With Luther Vandross on backing vocals on that track.

The first two are actually surprisingly low scores.

-So A...

-The Nolan sisters.

The Nolans. That would have scored 19 points.

I would have thought that was really obvious!

And B...

Lionel Richie, 20 points.

Amazing.

And C...

Of course is ABBA.

That would have scored you 84 points.

-How about that?

-There we are.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard. So here comes your second question.

Shaun and Paul get to answer it first. But, Chris and Adele,

you have to win this one to stay in the game, so very best of luck.

Our second question is all about male actors in female roles.

Male actors in female roles, Richard?

Going to show you five pictures now of male actors in female roles,

can you identify the most obscure of these, please?

Thanks very much indeed.

Let's reveal our five actors and here they come.

We've got A.

B.

C.

D.

And E.

There we are.

Five actors in female roles.

Shaun and Paul will go first.

Because, even though it's recent, because he looks so different,

going to go for Eddie Tremayne, C.

OK, you're saying Eddie Tremayne for C?

Eddie Tremayne. Now then, Chris and Adele, over to you,

-do you want to fill in the board?

-Shall we just say it?

-Eddie Redmayne.

-Oh, well done, I'm so sorry, mate.

OK, yep, you... You might have let him down gently there, Chris,

is all I'm saying!

To be honest with you, we were a bit stuck!

OK, Chris and Adele are saying C, Eddie Redmayne.

So we have Eddie Tremayne, Eddie Redmayne.

Only one of them can be right.

Let's see what happens when we say Eddie Tremayne.

Yep. Which means you only have to be right, Chris and Adele,

and you're back in the game.

Eddie Redmayne.

It's right.

Wow, surprisingly low score.

35 for Eddie Redmayne, but crucially it was right,

which means, after two questions, it's 1-1.

Very well played. You remember, Shaun, in that first round,

when Amanda let you back in and you had that brilliant poker face?

Adele did not have that poker face when you said Eddie Tremayne.

We celebrated!

Just the delight on both their faces there was something to behold.

Let's fill in the rest of these.

-A...

-Dustin Hoffman.

Is Dustin Hoffman.

Tootsie. 50 points for that.

-B...

-Is Quentin Crisp.

It is Quentin Crisp, yes, playing Queen Elizabeth from Orlando.

3 points.

Now, D is a pointless answer.

And D is Hugo Weaving.

Oh, do you know? I'd be tempted to say Matt Damon there, but no.

Oh, it does look a bit like Matt Damon.

Very well done if you said that, it's a pointless answer.

And John Travolta. Actually,

a slightly better score than Eddie Redmayne, 33 points.

There we are. Thanks very much indeed.

So here comes the third question.

Of course this was always going to come down to three questions.

Whoever wins this one goes through to the final and plays for that

jackpot, so best of luck to both pairs.

Our third question is all about electrical circuits.

Electrical circuits, Richard?

Yes, we're going to show you the names now of five items

that can make up parts of an electrical circuit,

but we've put them in anagram form,

I'm afraid. Can you unscramble them and give us the most obscure answer?

Whoever does that is going through to play for the jackpot.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed.

So, let's reveal our five items from electrical circuits

and we have...

Chris and Adele.

THEY WHISPER

OK.

Oh, this is not good!

This is not good at all.

We don't like this.

And I'm having a bit of a panic and I'm trying to decrypt

the top one, and I can't do it.

-We just know the obvious ones, don't we?

-Yeah.

-Unfortunately.

-Go on, you say it.

Shall we do lamp?

-Yeah.

-The bottom one.

OK, you're going to go for lamp.

-Chris and Adele are going for lamp.

-That's rubbish.

Shaun and Paul, it's over to you.

Well, we knew lamp, didn't we? We knew battery.

Diode, which I think might beat lamp,

but because it's such a short word,

I think we're going to have to take a slight risk.

The second one down is a capacitor.

-A capacitor. Capacitor, say Shaun and Paul.

-I think.

So we have lamp and we have capacitor.

Now, Chris and Adele went for lamp.

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

99.

It's right.

Not bad, 73 for lamp.

Now then, Shaun and Paul have gone for capacitor.

Let's see if that's right,

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

It's right.

Very well done indeed.

It's another good answer.

Look at that, Shaun. And Paul.

17. It means, Shaun and Paul, after three questions,

you are through to the final, 2-1.

Best answer on the board again, capacitor.

Battery, you were correct about.

Battery scores 42.

Diode, you're also right about, which would have scored you 45.

And the top one, do you know the top one?

-Do you know? I haven't...

-It's quite a tough anagram to work out.

-It's a resistor.

-Oh!

-24 points.

-There we are. Well, thank you very much.

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

I'm afraid... Oh, Chris and Adele, I'm sorry.

You've been an amazing... A tour de force

is what you've been the whole way through.

Low score after low score,

but I'm afraid this is where we have to say goodbye.

Just come back and play again, that's all I can say.

It's been lovely having you on.

-Chris and Adele, brilliant!

-Thank you.

But, for Shaun and Paul, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Shaun and Paul,

you have fought off the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

Well, 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.

-AUDIENCE:

-Ooh!

But, I mean, well done, brilliant answers we've had from you so far.

Vera Lynn, My Son My Son.

I just learnt the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles

about 20 years ago and some of it stayed in, that's all it was.

Very well done. But great teamwork, actually.

Ronnie O'Sullivan, you came in there, Paul,

-absolutely.

-He knew the Nolans as well.

There you are.

-Thanks, mate.

-Well, you know what happens in this round.

We put four subjects up on the board, we hope there is something

you quite like the look of up there.

Today's selection looks like this.

We've got Russia, Modern Rock Groups,

Romantic Poetry and Sherlock Holmes On Screen.

Wow.

Shall we just go for Sherlock Holmes On Screen? Because we're actors,

we might know actors who have been in the films,

we might know who has played them.

Romantic poetry - do you know the Wordsworth and Byron stuff?

No, no, let's go Sherlock Holmes cos I've got a mate who was in that.

-OK.

-OK, well, let's go for Sherlock Holmes!

OK, very best of luck.

Three different iterations of Sherlock Holmes here,

hopefully one of them suits you.

We are looking for any of the cast of the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes,

please, according to IMDB.

We're looking for any feature film

that featured Basil Rathbone as Holmes.

Or we're looking for anyone who's appeared in two or more

episodes of the BBC TV series Sherlock

up to the end of January 2016, please.

So, cast of the 2009 film,

any film where Basil Rathbone played Holmes

and anyone appearing in two or more episodes of Sherlock, again,

according to IMDB.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, as always,

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?

-Yes, we are, sorry.

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

There we are. Your time starts now.

Well, my mate wasn't in any of those!

LAUGHTER

OK, in the cast of the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes,

I know a friend of a friend who was in it,

he's a boxer and he's called Joe Egan.

I don't know if he was credited, but he had a line.

Joe Egan, yes. The Irish boxer, yes?

Yes, yes, because it's Robert Downey who people are going to know.

Now, in the episodes of Sherlock, who is the lovely lady who plays

the housekeeper who was in To Death Us Do Part?

Playing the daughter?

-Una?

-Una Stubbs.

Una Stubbs, I think she's the housekeeper.

There's no point in saying Martin...

-Er, the two leads.

-No, no.

-And also there's... Have you been watching Sherlock?

-I have, yeah.

Cos there's the foxy lady, do you know the one I mean?

She was naked in one episode and she's come back since.

I missed that one.

LAUGHTER

Ten seconds left.

Basil Rathbone,

there was a film where Sherlock Holmes,

and I don't if it's Goes To Washington or In Washington.

-OK, that's your time up.

-Goes To, I think.

Let's have your three answers.

OK, please can we have, as our most likely, starting from the top,

-Una Stubbs?

-Una Stubbs.

Sherlock Holmes Goes To Washington.

Sherlock Holmes Goes To Washington.

And Joe Egan.

And Joe Egan. So one from each category.

-Thank you.

-OK, well, let's put those answers up in the board

in your order, then, and here they are.

We've got Una Stubbs, we've got Sherlock Holmes Goes To Washington,

and we've got Joe Egan.

Well, very best of luck. Three great answers up there on the board.

If one of these happens to be pointless and wins that jackpot

for you, you will win that 2,750 quid for your charities.

What charities are you playing for?

I'm playing for a small charity in Kent called AMEND,

from Tunbridge Wells,

and they deal with a complaint called multiple endocrine neoplasia,

which basically is a hereditary disease

and means you're much more likely

to develop multiple cancers than anyone else,

so they're looking into that.

Right you are. Paul, how about you?

I live in a small market town in Shropshire called Whitchurch

and there's a small hospital there, the Whitchurch Community Hospital,

that caters for a lot of people that won't come out.

It's a marvellous place,

all self-funding, and I would like to give my money to that,

if I'm lucky enough.

-Well done.

-APPLAUSE

Well, two excellent charities there.

Let's hope that at least one of these answers is pointless

so you can win that jackpot and split it between your charities.

Well, your first answer was Una Stubbs.

In this case, we were looking for any cast member from Sherlock.

It has to be pointless to win the jackpot. So, for £2,750,

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

It's right. Now, if Una Stubbs takes us all the way down to zero,

you will leave with that jackpot for your charities.

Down it goes, Una Stubbs,

through the 20s, through the teens,

into single figures, still going down.

6 is where we stop.

Well... Even when you said Una Stubbs,

"We'll put her as our least likely,"

so you weren't really expecting that one to be pointless?

No, but we knew that was right. The second two we're not sure

if they're right, that's the difference.

OK, well, there we are. Two more shots at today's jackpot.

Again, very, very best of luck.

Your next answer was Sherlock Holmes Goes To Washington.

In this case, we were looking for any Basil Rathbone

Sherlock Holmes film.

It has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot. So, for £2,750,

let's see how many people said Sherlock Holmes Goes To Washington.

-No.

-Sorry, mate.

Bad luck. An incorrect answer, which means everything is now riding

on your third and final answer,

the one you thought was your best shot at a pointless answer.

Joe Egan.

In this case, we were looking for any cast member of the 2009 film

Sherlock Holmes.

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

Let's find out, for £2,750, if it's correct

and then let's find out if anyone said it.

Joe Egan, is it pointless?

-It's right.

-Oh, hello!

-Joe Egan is a correct answer.

Now, Una Stubbs was correct, took us down to 6.

They might have asked Joe Egan's mum.

Down goes Joe Egan through the teens,

into single figures, passes 6,

still going down... You've done it!

Oh, superb! Very well done indeed!

Well, congratulations, Joe Egan was a pointless answer,

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

for your charities.

Very well done indeed.

And of course, you kept us waiting until the last answer as well,

like the pros that you are. Thank you for that.

It was Sherlock Holmes In Washington.

-In Washington.

-That would have been a pointless answer as well.

It would have been an lovely one, but Joe Egan.

So Joe Egan's a friend of a friend?

He ran a pub in Birmingham.

Well, you owe him a drink.

Now, let's take a look at the pointless answers.

Loads and loads of good answers in these categories.

Let's look at the Sherlock Holmes film.

Bronagh Gallagher is a pointless answer.

Eddie Marsan, James Fox, Miles Jupp

is a pointless answer there. Geraldine James,

who played Mrs Hudson, she was a pointless answer.

Everyone apart from Robert Downey Junior, Jude Law,

Rachel McAdams and Mark Strong.

Everyone else in that film was a pointless answer.

Let's take a look at some of the films,

some of the Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone.

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, Terror By Night,

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, The House Of Fear.

You also could have had Dressed To Kill,

Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon,

Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror, The Pearl Of Death,

The Spider Woman and The Woman In Green.

There are some big names in this BBC Sherlock category as well.

Amanda Abbington. Andrew Scott as Moriarty.

Lara Pulver is Irene Adler.

And Louise Brealey, who is Molly.

In fact, everyone pointless there apart from Benedict Cumberbatch,

Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Mark Gatiss and Rupert Graves.

So very well done, especially big Sherlock fans,

for anyone who got a pointless answer there.

But congratulations, once again, in the studio.

-Terrific work.

-Thanks very much indeed.

And thanks once again to our winning players, Shaun and Paul,

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

Very well done.

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.