Episode 9 Pointless Celebrities

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

A very warm welcome to a special female soap star edition of Pointless,

the quiz show that puts obscure knowledge to the test.

Every question on tonight's programme

has been asked to 100 people before the show.

To be in with a chance of winning our jackpot

our celebrities must find the answers

that the fewest of those 100 people could think of.

Let's meet our Pointless celebrities.

APPLAUSE

First up, we welcome Rula Lenska and Wendi Peters from Coronation Street.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now, Rula, we've seen you in lots of roles since the '70s.

You played Claudia Colby on the Street,

and Wendi, you played Cilla Battersby-Brown in the soap

until your character left for Vegas,

leaving your children Fiz and Chesney to fend for themselves.

-Oh, no, it's tough.

-The shame!

-They've done all right, though.

They're doing better without me, to be honest.

And Wendi. Wendi, Wendi, you've been on Celebrity MasterChef...

Oh, yeah! Yeah, that was great. Great experience.

-A bit of a nightmare.

-It must have been!

-Hard work.

I'm hoping this might be a little bit easier...

-No...

-LAUGHTER

Don't count on it!

-Plenty of food and drink questions.

-OK, they'd be good for you...

Rula, what would be good for you?

Umm... Subjects-wise, wildlife, languages...

Yep...

-We're all right!

-Languages?

How many languages do you speak, Rula?

-Four.

-Wow!

Polish, French, Italian,

a bit of English...

LAUGHTER

..German and a tiny bit of Swahili.

Bedroom Swahili!

Do you speak Lithuanian?

-No.

-Oh, that's a shame! That is a shame.

LAUGHTER

Anyway, a warm welcome to you, Rula and Wendi.

Lovely to have you on the show.

Next, please welcome Adele Silva and Verity Rushworth from Emmerdale.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You are known best as Kelly Dingle and Donna Windsor-Dingle,

my favourite name from any fiction, ever,

-from the soap, where you played half-sisters.

-We did.

Yes, yes, we had the same dad, didn't we? We lost him.

-He died, yeah.

-Well, they all did.

-Smashed his head off a freezer.

-Off a freezer?!

-As you do. Yeah.

-These things happen in Soap Land.

-Yes.

And Adele, I said Celebrity MasterChef is hard.

-You were on Hell's Kitchen...

-I was, yeah.

-Oh, how was that?

-Very hard.

Very hard, and very hot! Really hot in the kitchen!

-You came second.

-I came second, yes.

Now, what do you hope will come up today, Verity?

Anything to do with theatre and the arts, maybe actors, actresses...

Musical theatre is my passion, so anything like that would be great.

How about you, Adele?

-Not wildlife...

-Not wildlife.

-..and not languages.

-OK.

-Please.

LAUGHTER

-That would help.

-Brilliant.

Do you want to add to that, Verity? Anything you don't want to come up?

Just anything I don't know, which would be a bit long...

Fair enough. Good request.

Well, best of luck, Adele, Verity, lovely to have you on the show.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

Next, please welcome Alex Fletcher and Sue Jenkins from Brookside.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now, Alex, we know you as Jacqui Dixon,

and you joined the cast at the age of 12.

And Sue, we know you from various soaps, but most notably,

-you played the long-suffering wife Jackie Corkhill.

-I did.

-Alex, you're now in Hollyoaks...

-I am, yes.

..and another Celebrity MasterChef!

Well, yeah, I was a quarter-finalist, and it was...

Actually, I feel more scared today than I did on MasterChef...

-Really?!

-My heart's pounding out of my chest. We've deep breathed...

-Yes, we've...

-Oh, dear!

-Really?!

-Yeah!

-What is it?

-I don't know why!

-What possibly could it be?

-You can be quite frightening.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, a little bit.

No, it's not you, I promise.

I tell you what, quizzes do get tougher than this,

-I can tell you that.

-Yeah.

Well, as long as it's not like Mastermind...

OK, who's done Mastermind?

-How was that?

-That was scary.

Black chair and a very shiny floor. Ooh!

-And that music...

-Yeah.

So, Alex, what do you hope will come up?

Well, we're hoping that geography won't come up, aren't we?

We're not great with the old geography. I think music...

I'm setting myself up for a fall now, aren't I,

if a music question comes up and I don't know it?

-Not cricket or rugby.

-OK.

-We'll have to leave if...

Not geography, not cricket, not rugby...

-The arts would be nice.

-OK.

-Or scuba-diving.

-Scuba-diving would be good.

The worst fear is knowing the answer

and not being able to bring it to the fore.

Yeah. Well, I'm sure that won't happen.

Best of luck to you, Alex and Sue. Lovely to have you here.

And finally, we've got Anna Karen and Laila Morse from EastEnders.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now, Anna and Laila, we know you best as Aunt Sal and Big Mo,

and you've each been part of Walford for over a decade.

I mean, you've been on that for a long time, haven't you?

-12 years.

-Blimey!

And Anna, you were Olive on On The Buses...

Yes, for my sins.

Do you know, you were on a comedy show that Richard wrote.

-I know, he told me!

-Yeah.

-Yeah...

Boyz Unlimited.

-She was very good, as well.

-Thank you.

-I've written her some lines for this evening as well.

-Oh, thank you.

-She's got all the answers.

-Oh, great.

-Oh, hallelujah!

-Not necessarily the correct ones, just...

-Oh!

And Laila, acting very much in your blood.

-You, of course, are Gary Oldman's sister...

-Yeah.

What do you hope will come up today, Laila?

Anything that I can answer.

-That's fair enough.

-That's...yeah.

-Fair enough.

Are there any particular things you're hoping we don't ask you?

Geography, maths, history...

-Sport.

-Sport...

-I don't mind tennis.

-You don't mind tennis?

-I like tennis.

-OK, tennis.

-Are you OK with tennis, Laila? Can we agree on tennis?

-No.

LAUGHTER

Brilliant. Well, lovely to have you on the show.

A warm welcome and best of luck.

We look forward to discovering all your hidden knowledge.

There's only one person left for me to introduce.

The inside of his head is like a massive encyclopaedia

with a few things underlined

and a copy of Nuts magazine hidden in the back.

He is my Pointless friend, Richard.

Hiya.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

This is fun, isn't it? It's our first ever all-female episode of Pointless.

-Woo!

-You noticed!

But I don't think we're going to give you

anything too terrifying on the show.

It's stuff you should know, so it should be quite a good battle

between these four pairs, I think.

Look forward to that very much indeed.

-What soap would you be on, if you could be on one?

-Um, I...

And Downton Abbey isn't a soap. LAUGHTER

I'd be... I'd be...

Yeah, I'd be on Emmerdale, I think.

I think I see myself in the Woolpack.

-Really?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

LAUGHTER

How about you, Rich? What would you be?

I think I would have to be on EastEnders.

You'd be a big hard man on EastEnders?

Well, I think... A) I'm from Essex...

Yeah.

..B) if Ian Beale can pull, then surely I can...

LAUGHTER

..and C) I just killed my brother and married his wife.

LAUGHTER

-OK.

-So I think I fit right in.

-You carry that off very well.

-Yeah.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, all our questions have been put to 100 people before the show,

but we are looking for the obscure answers they didn't get.

To stay in the game and be in with a chance of winning our jackpot,

our celebrities need to score as few points as possible.

Of course, what everyone is trying to do is find a pointless answer.

This is an answer that none of our 100 people gave,

and each time that happens, 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 start off with a jackpot of £2,500. There you are.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

Now, in this first round, each of you must give me one answer,

and you cannot confer with your partner.

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

will be eliminated, so try and make sure that's not you.

OK, our category for Round One is...

-OK...

-Fictional families.

Can you decide in your pairs who will go first

and who will go second?

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

OK, our question concerns...

Fictional mothers and their children. Richard.

Yes, in a moment, Xander is going to show you a list

of five famous mothers from TV programmes.

We need you to give us any birth son or daughter of any of these mothers on those TV programmes, please.

So, you will see five famous mothers.

Any of the children, any son or any daughter of these mothers on those programmes.

We only need first names on this one. Very best of luck.

OK. Now, Rula and Wendi, you all drew lots before the show,

and you are going to go first.

OK, so here are our five fictional mothers and they are...

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

And remember, we are looking for the children of these fictional mothers.

Any child of any of these mothers.

Obviously, you want the one

you think the fewest of our 100 people could think of.

Wendi's suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

I'm going to go back a bit to my...

I won't say in my youth, but my younger days,

and I'm going to go with Madge Bishop...

..and I'm going to say Henry.

Henry, says windy... Windy?!

LAUGHTER

Sometimes!

LAUGHTER

Henry, says Wendi. Let's see if that's right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said Henry.

It's a great answer.

5!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well played, it's a great score.

Five for Henry.

Yeah, terrific answer, Wendi.

Henry Mitchell, who was Henry Ramsay as well, played by Craig McLachlan.

-Also had a very short-lived pop career.

-He sure did.

-Now then, Adele.

-Hello.

Adele, how's that board for you?

There are some that are really, really obvious,

but I kind of don't really want to go for the obvious,

so I'm going to go for something that's come into my mind,

but it could be wrong.

Right, OK, I'm going to go for Clair Huxtable.

-I'm going to say Theo.

-Theo, says Adele.

Let's see if Theo's right, and if it is, how many people said it.

-Oh, well done!

-Absolutely right.

6!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Another great answer.

Theo.

Very well played. Theo Huxtable, played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

-Very good start, isn't it?

-Isn't it?

-We should do more of these all-female shows.

-We should.

-We should be replaced by females.

-Yeah, we should.

It's not a bad idea, is it? Let's start with you...

and if that works, seven or eight years later, replace me!

LAUGHTER

Now then, Alex.

Right, I am going to go for a pretty obvious one...

because, if I'm dead honest, I would never have got those two.

So, hats off to you.

So, I'm going to go for the Simpson family

and I'm going to say Lisa.

Lisa, says Alex. Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said Lisa.

Absolutely right.

APPLAUSE

64!

Yeah, big score for Lisa Simpson,

but a correct answer and so much better than 100.

-It's damage limitation if it's a tough board.

-Yeah.

-Now then, Laila.

-Yes...?

Yes...?

Remember, we're looking for the first names of any of the children

of these fictional mothers.

Well, to be quite honest, I don't know any of them there, only one.

So...

I'm going to go with Ellie Ewing.

Bobby.

Bobby Ewing. Let's see if Bobby is right,

and if it is, how many said Bobby.

25!

APPLAUSE

Very good. 25 for Bobby Ewing.

Well played, Laila. Good answer.

Bobby Ewing was famously in one of the more absurd soap plot twists of all time,

where they made an entire series of Dallas a dream so he could come back,

and Victoria Principal woke up and found him in the shower.

Our second and third series, I think, were a dream, weren't they?

That's exactly what happened.

That's why the producer was filming you in the bath that time.

LAUGHTER

-Although, weirdly, they never showed that on telly.

-Strange.

We're halfway through. Let's take a look at the scores as they stand.

Very best score of the pass was yours, Wendi. Look at that!

Wendi and Rula looking very strong on 5.

Then up to 6, where we find Verity and Adele,

then up to 25, where we find Laila and Anna,

and then 64, Alex and Sue.

-Sue, we need a really low-scoring answer from you...

-No pressure!

A bit of pressure, but we have to hope that you can find a score

low enough to keep you in the game. Best of luck.

We'll come back down the line now.

Can the second players please take their places?

OK. We're looking for the children of these fictional mothers.

Anna, you're going to try and find the one

you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.

You're on 25, after Laila's brilliant score in the first pass.

The highest scorers, on 64, are Alex and Sue.

If you score 38 or less, Anna,

you will avoid becoming the highest scorers.

I only know one of them,

and that's Ellie Ewing. JR.

JR, says Anna. JR.

-There's your red line.

-Sorry, Laila.

Maybe JR will get you below that red line.

If it does, you are through to the next round. Let's find out.

JR, how many people said it?

It's right.

Oh, not bad! Look at that!

You've done it!

APPLAUSE

29 takes your total up to 54.

You're in Round Two.

Very well played.

-Didn't score that many more than Bobby...

-No.

..so safely through on podium four.

Now then, Sue, you're the highest scorers on 64.

You know what you need to do.

I know. I was so there with Bobby,

but he's gone.

Umm...I was there with JR as well.

I really don't know who Clair Huxtable is,

and I don't know who Susan Harper is,

so I'm going to have to say

the really obvious sky-high answer of Bart.

-Bart.

-I'm so sorry, yeah.

How many people said Bart Simpson?

76, I'm afraid!

APPLAUSE

Bad luck, Sue.

That takes your total up to 140, I'm afraid.

An unbeatable high score. Richard.

Again, it's a correct answer.

Two correct answers, you can't say fairer than that.

Voiced by Nancy Cartwright, Bart Simpson.

Now then, Verity. We're looking for the first names

of any of the children of these fictional mothers.

Verity, you are through to the next round, whatever happens.

-Oh!

-This is good news.

That's great! Oh, I'll take that punt. Right.

Yes, do. Take a punt. There might be a pointless answer there.

This is a punt...

I think Susan Harper, if it's the same one,

is possibly Desperate Housewives.

I'm going to go for it and say...Maggie.

Maggie, says Verity. Let's see if it's right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said Maggie.

No red line, you're already through. Maggie.

It's right!

APPLAUSE

63 takes your total up to 69.

I'm going to put that in the file marked "Luck".

It's not Susan Harper from Desperate Housewives,

but Maggie is a correct answer in this round because, of course, of Maggie Simpson.

-Oh!

-Which is why it's such a high score.

-Oh!

-Ah, clever.

-That is clever.

Very clever, Verity.

Thank you, yeah. Oxford degree.

Now then, Rula, you're through. This is good news.

I'm afraid I'm Polish...

I don't know any of them.

All the ones that I knew have gone, so...

it will just have to be a stab in the dark,

because I absolutely have no idea.

Clair Huxtable...

-Miss Lucy Huxtable?

-I like the Miss...

SHE CHUCKLES

Lucy Huxtable, says Rula. Let's see.

Is it right, and if it is, did anyone say it?

Lucy Huxtable.

Oh, bad luck! No Lucy Huxtable.

It scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 105.

You are through to the next round anyway.

Yes, you're safely through.

Clair Huxtable is the mother in The Cosby Show,

married to Bill Cosby in that show.

There are only two pointless answers in this whole round,

and both of them are Huxtable children.

Let's take a look...

Denise played by Lisa Bonet.

Susan Harper is the mother in My Family.

Oh! I love My Family!

ADELE LAUGHS

-I can't believe that!

-You know what?

-I love my family too...

-Only my fictional families...

..despite the thing about my brother. And the Harper children...

Michael Harper would have scored 4, Janey Harper 5,

and Nick Harper, 7. Well done if you said that.

Some lower ones, though, Vanessa Huxtable would have scored 2.

There was a Lucy Ewing, of course,

but she was Miss Ellie's granddaughter,

Gary Ewing's daughter.

Gary Ewing would have scored you 2 points.

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

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

We've actually heard all three of them.

Verity accidentally gave us Maggie Simpson, 63.

Alex give us Lisa Simpson, 64.

And Bart Simpson up the top there, 76.

Thank you. So, at the end of our first round, our losing pair,

with a high score of 140, is Sue and Alex.

-Oh, well, thanks for having us.

-We've had a lovely time.

-You've been brilliant.

-Now I can breathe.

Two brilliant answers there and lovely high scores...

-LAUGHTER

-All right, don't rub it in.

Now, for fun, Sue and Alex, we asked our 100 people

to name which soaps they would like to see return.

Guess which came top of the poll?

-Come on!

-Brookside...

Brookside, ahead of Crossroads and El Dorado. What about that?

APPLAUSE

-Lovely having you on the show. Thank you for playing.

-Thank you.

Sue and Alex, wonderful!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

But for the remaining three celebrity pairs,

it's now time for Round Two.

Now, obviously, there will only be room for two celebrity pairs

in our head-to-head,

so one of the pairs here will be leaving us at the end of this round.

Anna and Laila, on the basis of that first round,

I don't think it's going to be you. Lovely low scoring, there.

JR. Brilliant answer, as it turns out.

-We both thought it was going to be top!

-Well, we forget...

I was thinking that as well, but it's no longer the '70s...

-That is true.

-Is it?!

People will have forgotten about it. I think that's it!

Pretty low scoring from the other pairs as well.

Miss Lucy Huxtable. Lovely bit of invention there.

But Wendi's answer was so brilliant, it saw you through.

So, fantastic. Very well done.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for Round Two is:

Ooh!

You're meant to say "Yes!"

Pop music. Can you 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 the question concerns...

Richard?

On each pass, we're going to give you the names of six top 40 hits.

The artist in each case is better known as an actor than as a singer.

We need you to tell us that person.

Give us an obscure answer, and you're going to score fewer points.

Give us an incorrect answer, and you'll score 100 points.

It's going to be 12 songs across two passes.

12 actors to guess at home. Good luck.

OK, so we are looking for the actors who sang these songs.

And we have got on our first board...

I'll read those all one last time.

Now then, Wendi, you're the first person to have this board.

What do you think about that?

Yeah, not one of my big things, pop music.

-Not mine!

-SHE LAUGHS

There are a few I know. I'm trying to think which is the most obscure.

Erm, I'm going to go with MacArthur Park,

and I'm going to say Richard Harris.

Richard Harris, says Wendi, for MacArthur Park.

-Let's see if that's right, how many knew that answer?

-Richard Harris?

Absolutely right, Wendi.

Oh! It's a great answer, very, very well done!

Seven.

Brilliant.

That's another terrific answer, Wendi, very well played.

He was the first person to have a hit with MacArthur Park, in 1968.

Of course, Donna Summer had a hit with it as well.

Perhaps more famously.

Verity, now then, Verity, over to you.

There's no Barbra Streisand on there, is there?

Nightmare.

Right, OK. I know the song.

# She's like the wind. #

But I don't know who...sings it! So that's difficult.

I think this will be quite high.

I'm going to have to say Crocodile Shoes, Jimmy Nail.

Jimmy Nail, says Verity, for Crocodile Shoes.

Let's see if it's right, how many people said it. If it is Jimmy Nail?

Absolutely right.

40.

That's all right, yes!

40, for Jimmy Nail.

Yes, a good answer, Verity, very well played.

He played Oz, in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He had 7 top 40 hits.

-OK, Laila.

-Yes?

LAUGHTER

We're looking for names of actors who had hits with these songs.

You're the last person to have this board, Laila,

you can talk us through it, if you like? Fill in the blanks?

Yeah. I know She's Like The Wind.

I just can't think of the guy's name.

-The Drifters, Under The Boardwalk, I'll try that one.

-The Drifters?

-I don't even know if it's them.

-OK, the acting band(!)

LAUGHTER

No! It's just that I can't think of the guy's name.

I will, in a minute, it'll come to me.

The Drifters.

RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER

Let's see if that's right. How many people said The Drifters?

Bad, bad luck.

The name's going to come to you any second. A wrong answer, as you knew.

I'm afraid that scores you 100 points.

-Richard?

-Absolutely. The Drifters did do Under The Boardwalk.

But the actor who had a hit with it in that year was Bruce Willis.

Bruce Willis. When he was famous for Moonlighting.

I'm forgetting about the acting bit!

THEY LAUGH

I forgot about the acting bit on that one. Oh, God, see.

Do you ever say that on EastEnders?

"I forgot about the acting on that one?"

-I've forgotten quite a few lines!

-SHE LAUGHS

She's Like The Wind, I think you know,

-lots of you know this, it's from Dirty Dancing.

-I know.

-It's Patrick Swayze.

-Oh, I can't believe it!

-I could hear him singing it.

-Oh, that was low!

That would have scored 14 points

as well, a very good answer.

Every Loser Wins, the EastEnders

question on the board, Nick Berry.

-Yes.

-Yes!

It would have scored you 20.

-Don't say "yes" now!

-I know.

-We have to confer, though.

-She knows. I'm just pretending.

The last one is a pointless answer,

Are You Looking At Me.

I'd be very surprised

if anyone got this, even at home.

You might have done.

By Ricky Tomlinson.

Had a number 28 hit.

Would have been a pointless answer.

He had one other top 40 hit as well, with Christmas, My Arse.

That was his other top 40 hit.

-Lovely song.

-A beautiful carol.

-Yeah(!)

LAUGHTER

Thanks, Richard. We're halfway through the round.

Let's look at our scores once again.

Wendi and Rula, looking so strong.

Lovely, lovely answering from you, Wendi. A score of seven.

Then, up to 40 where we find Verity and Adele.

Then, I'm sorry, I'm afraid to say it's up to 100, for Laila and Anna.

But Anna gets first pick of the next board.

Maybe you'll find a brilliant answer there to keep you in the game.

Best of luck with that.

We're going to go down the line.

Can the second players please take their places at the podium?

OK, we're going to put six more hits on the board.

Here they are. We've got:

I'll read that all one last time.

Remember, we're looking for actors

who released these UK top 40 hits.

Anna, you're going to try to find

the one you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Can I go with Grandad?

And I think it's Clive Dunn.

Clive Dunn, says Anna, for Grandad.

You're the highest scorers, so no red line for you.

You just have to hope this goes down as far as it can.

Clive Dunn, is that right? How many people said it?

Absolutely right.

-34.

-APPLAUSE

134 is your total.

Well played, you may have kept yourself in it.

It was a number one for Clive Dunn.

Now then, Adele.

The high scorers are now Anna and Laila, on 134. You're on 40.

If you can score 93 or less,

you are through to the head-to-head.

Oh. Now, one's really obvious to me.

But I think that's going to be

really, really high.

Right, I'm going to go...

-I'm sorry if this is wrong.

-Don't worry.

I don't really know whether I should admit

to thinking I know this answer,

but, I Breathe Again,

Adam Rickett, who was in Coronation Street.

-I Breathe Again, Adam Rickett?

-Yeah.

He was really oiled up, I remember.

Sorry!

-Pecs of steel.

-Yeah.

OK, let's see.

Here is your red line. Nice and high.

Adam Rickett, I Breathe Again. Is that right?

If it is, how many people said it?

It's right! And you're through.

THEY SQUEAL

Oh, well done.

That's pointless!

That's a pointless answer. It adds £250 to today's jackpot.

Takes the total up to £2,750.

It scores you nothing, and it leaves your total at 40.

We don't get that reaction nearly enough, do we?

We don't get that reaction nearly enough.

-Maybe because we don't have actresses on all the time.

-We don't.

I was looking down all the questions, Adele, and I saw it was Adam Rickett.

-I thought, "No-one in a million years was going to get that."

-I remember it.

Don't you remember his eight-pack, and blond spikes.

-It was a top five hit.

-Was it?

-Yeah.

-Wow.

-THEY SING

-# Breathe again, breathe again. #

Top five hit.

Now, then, there we go. Rula.

The names of the actors who had UK top 40 hits with these songs.

You are through to

the next round, by the way,

-even if you score 100 points.

-You're being ever so cruel to me!

No, I've just said you're through, even if you score 100 points.

Or, is that what you mean, you want to leave?

The trouble is, I can't remember the surname

of one that I know for certain.

Talk us through it.

Do your thinking out loud.

Wand'rin' Star, I know

the first name, but not the surname.

It's just gone out of my head.

Don't Give Up On Us

has got to be a pair, surely?

Anyone Can Fall In Love.

I think she was at drama school with me.

Anita Dobson?

Anita Dobson, you're saying, for Anyone Can Fall In Love.

If it is, how many people said it?

It's right! Very well done, Rula.

13. Brilliant.

APPLAUSE

It takes your total up to 20,

very well done.

-Now, look at that score, that's good, isn't it?

-Yeah.

It's interesting how Adele and Verity scream at every single score,

no matter who it's for.

It's a terrific answer.

Anyone Can Fall In Love, that was the EastEnders theme tune, with words.

-If you remember that.

-Oh, yes.

Let's have a look through the rest.

Wand'rin' Star, Rula, was Lee Marvin.

20 points that would have scored you.

Don't Give Up On Us. David Soul.

16 points.

And, Jump In My Car,

-do you know that?

-Hasselhoff.

David Hasselhoff, absolutely.

And seven points.

Very well done if you got all of those.

Unless you got Adam Rickett, in which case...come on!

LAUGHTER

-You're just jealous!

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

The end of Round Two, our celebrity pair with the highest score,

it's Anna and Laila. Anna and Laila.

We asked our 100 people to name

the catchiest theme tune to a soap opera.

It was EastEnders! There we are. It came out top.

-APPLAUSE

-Yeah.

Someone should put words to it! LAUGHTER

-I tell you who they should get to sing it.

-Who?

-Leila and Anna.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

Anyway, it's been lovely having you on the show, Anna, Laila. Brilliant.

-Lovely contestants, thanks so much.

-APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

But, for the remaining two celebrity pairs,

things are about to more exciting now, as we enter the head-to-head.

Congratulations, Adele and Verity, Rula and Wendi.

You are now one round from the final,

and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at:

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

You are now going to go head-to-head.

The first pair to win two questions will play for the jackpot.

The big difference is you are now allowed to confer.

So, Adele and Verity, you are our low scorers.

Mainly, thanks to that brilliant pointless answer.

Adam Rickett, who'd have thought?

-Adam Rickett.

-Oiled up, old Adam.

Have you been tempted to release a single?

I think I'd need lots of auto-tuning!

Verity's a really good singer. I'm terrible.

I'd like to do an original London cast recording

of some fabulous musical, that'd be good.

Rula, you must have been on an original London cast recording?

Um, I've done musicals.

Probably the best one I did was Little Night Music,

-singing Send In The Clowns.

-Excellent.

Have you ever done a single in your own right?

-Not one I'd care to talk about!

-LAUGHTER

Wendi? You've been very quiet there.

Have you maybe got a single to your name?

No, absolutely not.

But we're going to do one together, called, Pointless.

LAUGHTER

-We could all do that, actually.

-That'd be good.

We could do it after the show.

I tell you who we should get to join us.

I tell you who would look good. Me, you, Adam Rickett.

LAUGHTER

Me and you in suits. Him, oiled up, in-between us.

LAUGHTER

That's a hit, isn't it?

Right there. A top five hit.

HE LAUGHS

Now, then.

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

APPLAUSE

OK, here comes your first question. And it concerns...

LAUGHTER

What's your problem? I've got hobbies. What?

What do you think I do on this laptop all day?

We're now going to show you five pictures of famous women wearing false moustaches.

Can you identify them, please? That's the women, not the moustaches.

Are they going to have real moustaches?

OK, thanks very much, Richard. Let's reveal our five women with moustaches.

And here they are. We have got...

OK, there we are.

Five women with moustaches.

Now, Adele and Verity, you've played best

throughout the show so far so you go first.

It's deciding who is the least popular

-that's hard.

-No, or perhaps...

I'm thinking if my mum and dad looked at them, they'd be like...

-Which one?

-You say, you say.

OK so, C, Natalie Casey.

Natalie Casey. C, Natalie Casey,

say Adele and Verity. Now, then, Rula and Wendi.

-Talk us through the board.

-I was going to go for that one.

THEY LAUGH

OK, A's Sarah Beeny.

Now we're getting into young pop star thingies

and I don't know a lot about them.

Is B Katy Perry?

Oh, maybe.

It's not Verity?

LAUGHTER

Is it me?!

-WENDI:

-In some musical? No.

And I don't know who D is, absolutely no idea who D is.

-Is E...? Is it Demi Moore?

-It could be Demi Moore or Keira Knightley.

-Very thin. No, it's not Keira Knightley.

-I think it's Demi Moore.

-It's a very, very slim Demi Moore.

-I think you're right.

Let's go for A, Sarah Beeny.

A, Sarah Beeny.

So we have Natalie Casey and we have Sarah Beeny.

Adele and Verity said Natalie Casey. Let's see if that's right

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said Natalie Casey.

It's right.

Oh, it's a good answer. Oh, look at that! One!

THEY SHRIEK

Very well done.

-Natalie Casey scores you one.

-Brilliant.

Rula and Wendi have gone for Sarah Beeny. A, Sarah Beeny.

Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said Sarah Beeny for A.

It's right.

-That's lower than I thought.

-Oh. 16.

That's lower than I thought.

Which means, Adele and Verity, after one question, you are ahead 1-0.

Two good answers there. We've got two very strong teams here,

I think, judging by the show so far.

Let's go through the rest of the answers.

B, you're absolutely right, was Katy Perry, it's not Verity.

-I wish!

-But that would have scored 41. So you did well to avoid it.

Natalie Casey, terrific answer. D is Debra Messing from Will & Grace.

-And Smash.

-Yeah, and Smash.

-And Smash.

And that would have scored you three points.

And, E, you're absolutely right, was Demi Moore,

but would have scored more than Sarah Beeny,

it would have scored 36 points.

Very well done if you got all five of those.

Thanks very much, Richard. OK, here comes your second question.

Rula and Wendi, you have to win this second question to stay in the game.

It concerns...

-Richard.

-Yeah, it gets worse as well.

We're going to give you the titles of five James Bond films now

but they are all in anagram form.

Can you unscramble the anagrams and pick the most obscure?

-Very good luck.

-OK.

So let's reveal our five anagrams of James Bond films. And here they are.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

And Rula and Wendi,

-you go first this time.

-Thanks(!)

There's no Octopussy.

There's no For Your Eyes Only.

There's no...For Your Eyes Only. Is there an F there? There's no W.

-The one with the Q, that's got to be...

-Q?

-The one with the Q in it has got to be...

-Quantum Of Solace.

-Is that the latest one?

-Quantum Of Solace.

-That's the one.

-No outface qualms.

-Yes.

-Let me

just check the... Q, N, N, T, I.

-Solace. Absolutely.

-OK. No outface qualms.

-OK.

-Quantum Of Solace.

-Quantum Of Solace.

-Quantum Of Solace, you are saying.

Quantum Of Solace. No outface qualms. Adele and Verity.

Yeah, we thought that one too and we also think we know radiated honey.

-Radiated honey.

-We think it's Die Another Day.

-Die Another Day.

I think that's quite common.

-Yeah.

-I'm trying to work out...

-BOTH: Vile koala wit!

Right, OK. Let's think out loud of James Bond films.

-Goldfinger, To Russia With Love...

-Goldfinger, To Russia With Love.

What's one with a K in the title and a V?

VERITY SIGHS

-Yeah, we're going to have to go with radiated honey.

-Die Another Day.

OK, you're going to say Die Another Day for radiated honey.

So we have Quantum Of Solace and we have Die Another Day.

Rula and Wendi, you've gone for Quantum Of Solace.

Let's see that's right and if it is, let's see how many of our 100 said it. Quantum Of Solace.

It's right.

Keep going.

-Keep going, keep going, keep going.

-18.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

18. Very well done.

Now, then, Adele and Verity, you've said, for radiated honey,

you've said Die Another Day. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said Die Another Day.

It's right.

Will it beat 18?

-Yes, it will!

-THEY SCREAM

And it's pointless!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Very well done. That's a pointless answer.

It adds another 250 quid to the day's jackpot,

takes the total up to £3,000.

Very, very well done.

It wins you the question and it means,

after only two questions, you are through 2-0 to the final.

-Oh, my God!

-Very, very well done.

-I've just worked out what the top one was. A View To A Kill!

-But I don't think that is...

-Yes, it is.

-And Diamonds Are Forever.

-ADELE SHRIEKS

Love it!

I have to say, that's genuinely a very difficult board.

-Really hard.

-I looked at radiated honey

for 20 minutes this afternoon.

I could not work it out. Die Another Day,

it's a terrific answer, well done.

I think you just worked out vile koala wit, which is A View To A Kill.

That would have scored 11 points.

I think, Wendi, you might just have worked one of them out.

Diamonds Are Forever.

Diamonds Are Forever, absolutely, is a dad moreover infers.

That would have scored 13. And a flower visitor hums?

-From Russia With Love!

-From Russia With Love. Absolutely right.

That would have scored eight points.

So anybody who got all five of those, that's terrific work,

-they were really difficult.

-Yeah.

Wow. There we are.

So our losing pair at the end of the head-to-head,

I'm really sorry, Rula and Wendi.

Two brilliant answers from you.

Fantastic play the whole way through the show. Rula and Wendi,

we asked our 100 people to name the soaps

with the most attractive casts...

..and Corrie came top!

-No!

-Of all the ones we had today, yup.

-APPLAUSE

How's about that? Brilliant, brilliant. Lovely having you on.

-Thank you so much for playing. Rula and Wendi. Excellent.

-Well done.

CHEERING

But for Adele and Verity, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Adele and Verity, you fought off all the competition

-and won our coveted Pointless trophy.

-Who would have thought it, eh?

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot,

and at the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £3,000.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You've done so well.

So did you ever think, when the show started,

that you were going to be through to the final,

not with one, but with two pointless answers?

-Absolutely not.

-No, not at all.

I was really prepared to be embarrassed, to be off first,

-to be watching from the sides.

-Absolutely brilliant. Very well done, you.

The rules are very simple. To win that money, all you have to do is find a pointless answer.

We've had two pointless answers on the show so far - from you.

You only have to find one more now

and you'll go home with that money for your charities.

First, you've got to choose a category.

You can choose from these five options. They are...

OK, well, state visits, it's the Jubilee year,

there's been lots of visits from the Queen.

-Yeah.

-BOTH: Caribbean pop divas.

So that could be like Rihanna.

Oh, yeah, Rihanna.

-Rihanna.

-That's not a great topic for us.

-Formula 1.

I think it's pretty obvious

we should go for acting brothers.

-We're acting sisters! Shall we?

-Oh, I didn't realise that. Of course!

-Let's do that.

-Acting brothers, please.

Acting brothers it is. OK, well, let's find out what the question is.

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

Ohh.

..as they could.

-Richard.

-Yes, we're looking for any feature film made for cinema release

for which any of the Baldwin brothers -

that's William, Alec, Daniel and Stephen -

have received an acting credit up to May 2012, please.

No TV films, short films or documentaries but voice performances will count.

So any film starring any of the four Baldwin brothers up to May 2012.

-Very best of luck.

-Thank you.

OK. You now have up to one minute to come up with three answers

and all you need to win that £3,000 for your charities

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-BOTH: Yes.

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

There they are. Your time starts now.

OK, so there was one that was on Big Brother

and he kept going on about the film, and I can't remember what it was.

-I didn't see Big Brother, no help to you whatsoever.

-What do you think?

Umm... I'm trying to think of Alec Baldwin.

Has he not done loads of gangster films and stuff like that?

-Stephen Baldwin.

-Ooh, Steve Baldwin.

-Yeah.

-Erm...

No, I'm thinking of Roxanne.

-Um...

-That Steve Martin!

-LAUGHTER

-Oh, God, this is awful.

-I know. We need three films.

-Alec Baldwin.

He's in 30 Rock. OK, so... Alec Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Alec Baldwin.

-Who's the other one, Ben Baldwin?

-No.

-That's not obscure enough.

Oh, we've only got 20 seconds left. We need to think. Alec Baldwin.

-I can see his face but I don't know the films.

-Something with Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin...

-Um...

Oh, he's got such a lovely happy face

-and I can't think of the name of the films he's done.

-Ten seconds left.

Alec Baldwin, Alec Baldwin.

He must have done a comedy, like a rom-com. He must have done a rom-com.

I'm really sorry, your time is up.

So we were looking for Baldwin brothers movies.

-I now need three answers.

-The one you said...

-No, I don't...I don't know.

-I haven't got one.

-You said one.

-No, I didn't.

-I thought you did.

-No!

-Third Rock or something?

-No, 30 Rock is a TV show.

-Oh, we can't say that.

LAUGHTER

OK, well, just think of three films.

-OK, I'm just going to say Sleepers.

-Sleepers.

-We just...we don't know.

-Fight Club. I don't know.

-Fight Club.

-Yeah.

Sleepers, Fight Club. And?

Shall we just go for, like, Gangs Of New York or something that's quite...?

-Yeah, fine. Big cast.

-And Gangs Of New York.

-That's quite a large cast.

Yeah! It's got to have one of the Baldwins in it, surely?

OK, now, of those three, shall we put one last?

The one you think is most likely to be a pointless answer.

-We think they'll all be...

-Pointless, but in the wrong way.

-Erm...

-Sleepers.

-Sleepers. We'll put Sleepers last.

Which shall we put first? Your least likely.

-Erm, Gangs Of New York.

-Gangs Of New York we'll put first.

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

And here they are. We have got...

BOTH LAUGH

Your first answer, Gangs Of New York, you thought was probably your least confident answer.

You only have to find one pointless answer.

-He might have been a supporting artist in the background.

-He might have been.

-Yeah.

OK, so for £3,000, let's see how many people said Gangs Of New York.

Is it right, is it pointless?

-Oh, bad luck.

-AUDIENCE GROANS

Unfortunately, not a pointless answer,

which means you only have two more chances to win today's jackpot.

-What are your charities? Adele, what's your charity?

-We're doing the same one, actually.

-It's the Alzheimer's Society.

-Very good indeed.

APPLAUSE

Well, let's just hope that maybe one of your two remaining answers,

maybe there's a Baldwin brother in one of these two answers you have left on the board.

Fight Club is the next one.

Again, this has to be correct and it has to be pointless.

If it's both of those things, you leave here with £3,000 for your charity.

Let's see, Fight Club, is it right, how many people said it?

-Oh, bad luck.

-AUDIENCE GROANS

-They're all going to be wrong, aren't they?

-Adam Rickett, it's his fault.

Yeah, it is Rickett's fault.

-You know, it is his fault, actually, yes.

-Yes, it is.

-LAUGHTER

You only have one more chance to win today's jackpot. Everything is now riding on your last answer,

which is Sleepers. That sounds like a really good shot.

I can't remember exactly who was in Sleepers.

Well, if one of the Baldwins wasn't in it, they're meant to be.

LAUGHTER

Now, the jackpot is £3,000. We want your charity to win that £3,000.

It will only happen if this is correct and if nobody said it.

Sleepers. Is it pointless?

-Oh, no! Bad luck.

-BOTH: Oh!

-I'm sorry.

-Aw, never mind.

Well, unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £3,000

-but you do both go home with a Pointless trophy. So there we are.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

And as it's a celebrity special,

we are going to donate £500 to each celebrity pair for their respective charities.

-So there you are.

-Thank you so much.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

-Amazing.

-Yeah, that was unlucky.

You played so brilliantly throughout the whole show

and just the last category tripped you up.

It's a tough one when you only have 60 seconds.

Let's take a look at some of the answers. There'll be some you know.

You were talking about romantic comedies.

The first one is a romantic comedy,

Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston

starred with Alec Baldwin in Along Came Polly.

Stephen Baldwin is in Born On The Fourth Of July.

William Baldwin is in Flatliners, of course,

with that very young cast from the '80s.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - William Baldwin plays Billy Baldwin in that.

Glengarry Glen Ross - I think one of the best films of all time,

I would say - Alec Baldwin in that.

My Sister's Keeper, another Alec Baldwin movie.

The Aviator - the Martin Scorsese film - again, Alec Baldwin.

The Royal Tenenbaums - Alec Baldwin is the narrator in that.

And he's Melanie Griffith's cheating boyfriend as well in Working Girl.

The biggest scorers were Backdraft and Hunt For Red October,

those were the biggest films on the whole list.

-Before our time.

-Too young.

-Did you know any of those pointless ones?

-No.

-Well, that's a relief.

-We didn't know any of the pointless ones, so...

Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to you.

-It's been brilliant having you on the show.

-Thank you.

-Thank you for having us.

-Thank you so much for playing. Great contestants.

CHEERING

So all that remains for me is to say thank you to all our celebrity pairs -

Alex and Sue, Anna and Laila, Rula and Wendi, and, of course,

our brilliant finalists, Adele and Verity.

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.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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