Sport Pointless Celebrities

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

and welcome to a special sport edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the show where the aim of the game is to avoid the obvious answers

and find the obscure ones.

Let's meet today's Pointless Celebrities.

-And couple number one...

-Hi, I'm Gail Emms.

I'm an Olympic silver medallist in badminton.

Hi, I'm Dwain Chambers and I'm a British sprinter.

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And couple number two...

Hi, I'm Louise Hazel, Commonwealth gold medallist.

Hi, I'm Sharron Davies, Olympic silver medallist

and super-busy mum of three.

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Couple number three...

Hi, I'm Ugo Monye, a Harlequins and England rugby player.

-Whoo!

-LAUGHTER

Hi, I'm Phil Vickery, former England rugby union star.

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And finally, couple number four...

I'm Bobby George. I'm a professional dart player and I'm a BBC pundit.

And I'm a legend,

-but you've got to be old to be a legend.

-LAUGHTER

And I'm Dennis Taylor.

I used to knock little coloured balls around for a living

and I now commentate on snooker for the BBC.

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And these are today's contestants. Thank you all very much.

We'll get to know you as the show goes along.

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

Cut him and he'll bleed knowledge.

In fact, in the kitchen this morning he nicked his finger

and there are splodges of long equations all over the worktop.

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

-Hiya. Hi, everybody.

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-Good evening.

-Good evening.

-How are you?

-Really well.

-Looking forward to this.

-Yes, it's going to be great.

The sports ones are always good

cos they're properly competitive with each other. In a very nice way.

We've had a few people here on before. We've had Phil on before.

Sharron has been on before. Dennis has been on before.

The most successful person we've had on before is Louise

who got through to the head-to-head.

She's going to be tough to beat. But I am very worried about podium four.

LAUGHTER

Cos Dennis has been on before. And he came on with John Virgo.

OK, now, John Virgo, I think it's fair to say let you down, Dennis.

You had to name Mr Men characters

and John Virgo said Mr Potato Head. LAUGHTER

So that was sort of the end of Dennis' career.

But the nice thing on this show is you can come back a second time.

So the idea is then you pick somebody different to come on with

if you haven't done very well.

So John Virgo has gone, and Dennis has chosen Bobby George.

I think it's an interesting replacement.

We shall see, but it should be an absolute cracker, shouldn't it?

It must be, yes. Surely. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

All our questions on Pointless

have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants are on the hunt for the obscure answers

our 100 people didn't get.

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer -

an answer that none of our 100 people gave

and each time that happens, we will add £250 to the jackpot.

As today's show is a celebrity special

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

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

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

OK. For all of those who haven't played before,

all you have to remember is that the pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be eliminated, so go low.

Do everything you can to keep your scores low.

Best of luck, all four pairs.

Our category for the first round today is...

Pop Music. 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 the question concerns...

Music men and women. Richard.

On each board, we're going to show you the names

of seven top 40 UK hit singles.

They've all got the word "man" or "woman" in their title.

We just need you to tell us the name of the act

who had a UK top 40 hit with the following records,

so very best of luck.

There'll be seven on each board, 14 in all to have a go at, at home.

OK, so we are looking for the artists who had hits

with the songs in the years shown.

Here's our first board of seven.

I'll read those all one last time.

Dwain.

-A very warm welcome to Pointless Celebrities.

-Thank you.

Good to have you here. Now, Dwain.

You started off as an athlete, as a sprinter.

A champion sprinter, no less.

Then you went into American football a little bit.

-Little bit of rugby league.

-Yeah.

-How do you change? If you're...

Presumably, if you're an athlete, you have to be very, very focused.

It has to be very much... You know, you're on your own.

It is difficult because obviously over the years and time, you get

accustomed to conditioning your mind and your body to a particular sport.

-Yeah.

-So when I went into these gentlemen's domain,

-I realised how fragile I really was.

-A little butterfly you were.

-Smaller than that. An ant.

-An ant.

-Yeah. And I got crushed.

Oh. But you're a team player now. A team player.

-This is good news, isn't it, Gail?

-Yes. Yes!

Dwain, how do you find this board?

Very confusing.

I know a few of them. No Woman No Cry.

-Bob Marley.

-Bob Marley, says Dwain. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

-Ooh. That's high.

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67 for Bob Marley.

Yeah, Bob Marley And The Wailers.

First appeared on the album Natty Dread as a very up-tempo song,

No Woman No Cry.

But the single version, much slower.

-A huge, worldwide hit.

-Mm. Thanks very much.

-Now, Louise. Last time you were on the show, you'd retired.

-Yes.

-You'd hung up your heptathlon...

-Spikes.

-..gloves.

-Trousers.

-Trousers, spikes, jacket, the lot.

-Yes. Now you've not.

-You've gone back.

-Yes, I'm in training.

-You turned around.

-What was it? Was it Pointless that did it?

-To be honest, yeah.

I kind of realised I wasn't great at quiz shows,

so I thought I better get back to training.

Back in. How long did you have off in total then?

Erm, I think it was about a year.

It's hard work second time round, though. I will say that.

It's harder than it was the first time round.

I'm no spring chicken anymore.

-So actually, we're giving you an evening off...

-Exactly.

..by having you here. Good. Well, now, board.

So, I'm going to go with Ain't No Other Man.

If I'm right, it's Christina Aguilera.

Christina Aguilera, says Louise. Let's see if that's right and,

if it is, let's see how many of our 100 people said Christina Aguilera.

It is right. 67 is our only score at this point.

You've passed that.

By a long way, look at that. Very well done indeed, Louise.

-Good score.

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-Good. Strong.

-10 for Christina Aguilera.

-Well played, Louise.

We said you were the player to beat.

A number two hit for Christina Aguilera.

-Mm-hm. Ugo.

-Good evening.

-Now then. Great to have you here.

No-one in the history of the Harlequins has scored more

-tries than you.

-Yeah.

I'm not sure whether

it's cos Harlequins have got a really bad history

or I'm actually a half-decent player.

-I suspect...

-I'm proud of it.

-It's probably a bit of both, actually.

Probably both of them actually, Ugo, yeah. Now there you are.

You're standing next to a World Cup winner.

-When's that going to happen again?

-Erm...

I mean, not when you're going to stand next to Phil again, I mean...

Well, 2015's the World Cup and it's in England,

so we've got a year to go. The guys are going pretty well.

We've had a fantastic Six Nations and everything's in check.

-2003, just over ten years ago.

-Yeah.

-The boys did us proud in Australia.

No better place to do it. If we can replicate that in England then...

-I think we'll be a happy country.

-Wouldn't we just? Now, Ugo.

-What do you make of this board here?

-Erm... I'm struggling.

I'm going to say Man In The Mirror, 1988, Michael Jackson.

It's the only answer I can give.

Michael Jackson. Let's see how many people said Michael Jackson.

It's right.

-I tell you what, it's beaten Bob Marley And The Wailers.

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That is a good answer, Ugo. 50 is your score.

That's a surprisingly low answer, isn't it?

I think perhaps the title is not

so immediately recognisable as No Woman No Cry perhaps.

-But a very famous song.

-Mm. Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

-Dennis, welcome back to Pointless.

-Thank you, Alexander.

It was Round One last time. That simply cannot happen again.

-It looks like it might happen again!

-No! Not a chance, come on, Dennis.

Now, Dennis, 1985, when you potted that winning black

at the end of the World Championships,

18.5 million people were watching you.

What do you do? How do you cope with that?

Were you aware that those were the sort of numbers?

Well, the pressure at the end with Steve and myself

in that last frame was...

It can be summed up - Steve under pressure used to get whiter

and whiter and when I was under pressure,

I used to get redder and redder.

So there was a thing going on with the colour

on people's television sets, but you just had to try and cope with it.

To finish on the last ball after 17 days was...was crazy,

and I was the lucky one to knock the little black in.

Now then, Dennis. This board's all yours.

Talk us through it, if you can.

Well, I should know Son Of A Preacher

and When A Man Loves A Woman, should know that as well.

But I'm going to have a guess at When A Man Loves A Woman.

I'm going to go with Otis Redding.

Otis Redding, says Dennis, for When A Man Loves A Woman.

Let's see if that's right,

and if it is, let's see how many people said Otis Redding.

Bad luck, Dennis. Bad luck.

Unfortunately an incorrect answer

which means you score the maximum of 100 points.

Yeah, sorry, Dennis. Not a bad guess at all, Otis Redding.

-It was actually Percy Sledge.

-Oh, yeah.

-Percy Sledge.

Would have been a good scorer as well.

Would have scored you 28 points.

Son Of A Preacher Man was Dusty Springfield.

-GAIL:

-Oh, was it?

-And that would have scored you 38.

What Makes A Man was Westlife.

-Oh, yes.

-8 points for that.

-I was trying to guess the sixth one.

And Your Woman was a number one single.

It was written and recorded in this guy's bedroom.

-And it was by White Town.

-Oh, I remember that.

-2 points.

Very well done if you said that. Terrific answer.

Thank you very much. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores. See how everyone's doing.

-10, Louise. What about that? Score of the pass.

-Star, girl.

-I'll take that.

-Superb. By quite a long way.

Then we travel up to 50 where we find Ugo and Phil.

Looking quite confident there. Then up to 67, Dwain and Gail.

-Little bit of work to do maybe there, Gail.

-Thanks.

And then up to 100. Bobby, you have a mountain to climb.

But if anyone can do it, Bobby, it's you.

You get first pick of the next board as well,

so you can help yourself, find a nice low score

and maybe it'll keep you in the game.

Best of luck. We're going to come back down the line.

Second players, please, step up to the podium.

OK, let's put seven more songs on the board and here they come.

We've got...

I'll read those all again.

There we go. Now, Bobby. Welcome. Good to have you here on Pointless.

-I don't feel very happy at the moment.

-Really?

-No.

You have pick of the board. But before we answer that, Bobby...

you were, I like to think, the Liberace of darts.

Oh, thank you.

Now, am I right in thinking that you played a final with a broken back?

Yeah, I played in the Embassy and I think, in the quarterfinals,

-I broke me back.

-You broke the back in the quarterfinals?

-Yeah.

In the last game. I didn't know I'd broke me back, but...

How do you break your back?

I just jumped up in the air and I come down wrong and snapped me back.

-Easy as that.

-Very dangerous sport, darts.

-Well, evidently.

Well, I used to dig tunnels, you see. I worked hard.

I used to actually dig tunnels. So I was very physically strong.

And I must have damaged me back in the tunnels

but my muscles took the place of me spine.

Very strong. And just come down wrong and snapped it.

-Blimey.

-So I'm all metal now.

-Bo-Bo Cop, I am.

-LAUGHTER

Bobby, what are you going to go for on this board?

Er, well, I've got to go with the bottom one, really, because...

I know it's going to be high, Roy,

but I've got to go for the easy one and get some points.

So I've got to go Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison.

Roy Orbison, says Bobby. Roy Orbison.

Now, you're the high scorers on 100.

No red line for you,

but you've just got to hope this goes a long way down the board.

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

It's right.

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Well, that keeps you in, Bobby, for now. 156, your total.

Yes, it's a good answer, Bobby.

-Sold seven million copies in 1964 alone, Pretty Woman.

-Hey!

-That'll do.

-How about that?

-Oi...

-Oi.

-Indeed. Thank you very much.

Phil.

Welcome back to Pointless. Good to have you here.

So tell me, that day in Sydney. 2003.

-How long after that final whistle do you remember?

-Erm...

I don't remember much from when the actual game was going on,

to be honest. I only actually watched the game through recently

at the ten year anniversary. And, hand on heart,

that's the first time I'd actually watched the whole game.

So it was great to watch. Listen, I think we can all relate to...

I mean, the eight and a half million people who were watching

that man win the World Championship final, I was one of them.

You know, and I think sport and sporting memories,

as we can all relate to, it's just a real privilege

to have been part of it and you do feel like you're in a dream.

-Those are the things that now I'm retired, that you remember.

-Yeah.

Just real special moments like that.

Fantastic. Well, listen, there you are on 50.

Doesn't matter even if you score 100 points.

You won't overtake the high score of Dennis and Bobby.

But I bet you've got a good answer from that board.

Well, Bobby took my banker. The only one I can think of is

Man! I Feel Like A Woman but I only remember Shania Twain singing

that one, so I'm going for

Man! I Feel Like A Woman by Shania Twain.

-Ugo, are you not happy with that?

-I'm delighted with that.

-Oh, phew!

-I'm really pleased.

-Phew. OK, Shania Twain, Man! I Feel Like A Woman.

Let's see if it's right.

No red line for you for the nice reason that you're already through.

It's absolutely right.

-Look at that. Very well done indeed. 85, your total.

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Well played, Phil. Terrific answer.

We have had quite a few World Cup winners on the show.

In fact, a little known fact, no-one has ever scored a goal

in a World Cup final for England who hasn't been on Pointless Celebrities.

How about that? I'm not saying that it's because of us that we won

the 1966 World Cup, but it just seems a coincidence, you know.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard. Sharron.

Sharron, listen, I've got great news for you. You are also through.

Also through.

Now, since you were last on, which we've been working out,

we think was 2011 when you came on. Back in the, oh, the very...

-Back in the day.

-Yeah.

But since then, of course, you were a big part of the 2012 Olympics.

Absolutely, yeah. Part of the bid, sort of nine years previous,

which was fantastic.

So it was lovely to actually stand back and go,

"See? We told you so, that we could do a good job."

But you were right there. Right there, the poolside.

What are your greatest memories of that wonderful...

Standing on the side of the pool, being in position number one,

the first time that's ever happened in the interview zone

in all the years I've been doing it.

And getting to speak to Michael

after he became the most successful Olympian in history

with 18 gold medals. That was pretty cool, to have that special moment.

At any stage were you tempted just to run down

and just bomb into the pool?

I did. You just didn't see it. It was... Yeah.

-Excellent, now...

-My bombing is better than my diving these days.

You're through already,

-but you could top that off with a nice low score.

-Well...

There's a fantastic version of this, so I don't know

if it's the original one, but I'm going to have a go for it.

Mr Tambourine Man, Nina Simone.

Nina Simone, 1965, Mr Tambourine Man. Let's see.

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

Is that the Nina Simone version? If it is, how many people said it?

-It's not, I'm afraid.

-It's a good remix though.

-But good tip, though.

-I'm going to listen to it.

-It's a really beautiful, beautiful version.

That scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 110,

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

Yeah, sorry, Sharron. As you say, did do a version of it,

but not a top 40 hit in that year.

But it is a lovely version.

-Thanks very much. Now, Gail. Welcome.

-Hi.

-Now, you're almost through.

-Yes.

-You're almost through. You're on 67.

You have to score 88 or less. Now, badminton.

-Yes.

-I want to ask this.

If you can play one racket sport,

do you reckon you can pretty much play anything?

-Erm, I'm not bad at tennis. I've got a pretty good volley.

-Squash?

Squash, the walls freak me out a little bit.

I mean, it's just a bit claustrophobic, isn't it?

Table tennis, I just want to smack it really hard.

I've got to learn to like...

Obviously, with badminton, you can hit it really hard.

And a shuttle goes over 200mph, but of course, it doesn't go really far.

The trouble is, when you do that with table tennis...

It's in the next county.

..you've got to walk really far cos it just goes miles,

doesn't it? So that's the one good thing about badminton.

It's walking, isn't it? You've got to cut down on that.

-Well, there you are. You're on 67.

-OK.

Do you fancy talking us through all the things you can on that board?

Right. Well, I know the songs

for Stand By Your Man and Mr Tambourine Man.

But I think I'm going to go with The Man Who Can't Be Moved.

I think that's The Script.

-The Script.

-Yeah.

-The Script. Ugo, happy with that?

-UGO:

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Ugo is our arbiter here. Yes. There is your red line.

-OK.

Get below that red line, you're in Round Two.

Let's see if The Script is right and let's see how many people said it.

It's right

and you're through. Very well done indeed on podium one.

-Oh, look, look.

-Still going down.

-Still going down.

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Second-lowest score of the whole round. Very well done indeed, Gail.

Great total, 79.

Brilliant, Gail. Very well played. Huge hit. Number two hit.

Now, let's clear up who had hits with these songs.

Mr Tambourine Man was a hit in 1965 for The Byrds.

That was their version. That was the biggest hit it's been. 24 points.

Stand By Your Man was Tammy Wynette.

36 for that. Hard Headed Woman was Elvis.

Elvis Presley and the Jordanaires, in fact. 4 points.

And Man Of The World is Fleetwood Mac and that's 14 points.

So Elvis is the best scorer there.

-Look at Dennis again.

-I know.

-Look at all these sports stars.

I knew three of those. The Byrds, Tammy Wynette. But there you go.

At the end of our first round, the pair heading home again,

high score of 156, it's Bobby and Dennis.

It's been such a treat having you here.

You'll just have to come back another time.

It's been Pointless, but I've enjoyed it.

Well, we have, so much. Thanks so much. Bobby and Dennis, everyone.

-Wonderful contestants.

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

So we're down to three pairs. Obviously, at the end of this round,

we'll have to say goodbye to another pair. Dwain and Gail, superb.

Our low-scoring pair.

Sharron and Louise,

Louise the lowest score of the whole round there.

-Have it.

-She's looking after us.

-Christina Aguilera.

And Phil and Ugo.

-You were fine. You were fine.

-LAUGHTER

Best of luck to all three pairs. Our category for Round Two is...

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

who's going to go second?

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

OK. Let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

..as they could.

O-L-L. Richard.

Simply looking for any word which has its own entry

in the Oxford Dictionary Of English that ends O-L-L, please.

As always, no proper nouns, hyphenated words, anything like that.

Any word that has its own entry

in the Oxford Dictionary Of English that ends O-L-L. Very best of luck.

OK, thank you very much indeed. Dwain. Now, Dwain.

-Dwain...

-You should have gone first.

-I don't know.

-It's always tough.

Words rounds, you don't want to go first in a Words round really.

I'm struggling.

-Struggling.

-PHIL:

-You're not the only one, son. Don't worry.

-Doll?

-Doll. Dwain is going...

-LAUGHTER

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OK. Dwain's gone for doll.

-GAIL:

-I'm actually crying.

-Wow.

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

It's on there. It is on there.

-You've beat your score!

-That's fine.

-I'll take that.

-APPLAUSE

-That's all right.

-66 for doll.

There's Dwain Chambers. He's been through

every bit of pressure you can, Olympics, Worlds, Europeans...

-I can't think of a word!

-..he's absolutely gone to pieces.

Absolutely gone. That's what Pointless can do to you.

Yeah, definitely.

Fabulous. Thanks very much indeed. Now, Sharron.

Well, there's a few kind of obvious ones,

but we want the lowest score,

so let's go with toll.

Toll. Toll, says Sharron. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

-It passes 66. 61 for toll.

-Oh, wow.

-APPLAUSE

-I thought it would be lower than that.

That's close. That keeps things interesting for the second pass.

-It certainly does.

-Toll, it can be a charge made for something

or it can be an adverse effect of something.

If something takes its toll.

Thank you very much. Now, Hugo.

I want to go for a word which is used on social media.

-Troll.

-Troll.

Very good. OK. Let's see if that's right.

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

It's right.

-Look at this. All moving in the right direction, Ugo. Well done.

-APPLAUSE

-58 for troll.

-Well played, Ugo. Big scorers as well though, isn't it?

And troll is a big scorer.

Yeah, it can be an ugly folkloric creature or, as you say,

more commonly these days used on social media.

Thank you, Richard. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at those scores.

Hugo and Phil on 58. Looking very strong.

Up to 61 where we find Sharron and Louise.

Up to 66 where we find Dwain and Gail.

Once again, Gail, you just have to find a nice low-scoring word

-for us at the end there.

-Thank you.

-Just a little bit of pressure,

just to keep things exciting at the end of the round.

Best of luck. We're going to come back down the line.

Second players, step up to the podium.

OK, now, Phil. Words ending in O-L-L.

I'm going to go for scroll.

-AUDIENCE: Ooh!

-Scroll.

That gets the first "ooh" of the whole night.

It's because I'm very...

I know I look a bit of a dumbo,

so I think they feel a little bit sorry for me.

-It's like, "Well done, Phil."

-LAUGHTER

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

There is a red line for you there. That's kind of what you aim for.

Well, 58's our low score.

You've passed that with ease. Look at that. Down you go. Look at that!

-APPLAUSE

-Oh, Phil, this is ridiculous.

12 takes your total up to 70.

Surely there's a place in the head-to-head on the back of that.

Great answer, Phil. Very well played. Means a piece of parchment.

It also has a more modern computer meaning.

You know, moving down a screen on a computer.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Louise.

You have to score eight or less.

-No pressure then.

-My heart is beating really fast.

OK, I'm going to risk it for a biscuit.

Happy with that?

I'm going to go payroll.

There is your red line.

Payroll. You have to get below that red line.

Then you are in the head-to-head.

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

It's right.

Oh!

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-Did well. Wow.

-12 for payroll.

The same as scroll. Takes your total up to 73.

It's a great answer, Louise.

It's going to be very tough for Gail on this last podium now,

but two very good answers on this pass.

OK. You have to score six or less, Gail. Six or less.

The high scorers are Louise and Sharron.

Words ending O-L-L.

The only thing that I can think of is moll. As in a gangster's moll.

-Moll.

-Yeah.

-There's your red line.

-Come on.

-I don't think this is going to beat it.

-Come on, moll.

Let's see if it's right. Let's see how many people said moll.

It's right.

-Oh, I'm sorry, Gail.

-Not bad.

-APPLAUSE

98 is your total.

-That was tough.

-Sorry, Gail.

I tell you a couple of answers that would have seen you through.

Six points, you could have said enroll, to enroll in something.

You could also have said unroll.

For six points. And for four points, you could have said plimsoll.

Would have been a very nice answer.

There's only two pointless answers on the whole board. Let's take a look.

If you get more votes than somebody else, you outpoll them.

And, of course, there's a North American bird called a redpoll.

I can't believe nobody went for that. The redpoll.

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

A couple of these might be familiar.

Toll is the third biggest answer of all, 61.

Doll, 66.

So it wasn't the biggest scorer.

The biggest scorer was roll. With 74.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So at the end of our second round, the pair heading home

with their high score of 98, I'm sorry, Gail and Dwain.

Oh, such memories.

I tell you what, at the end of this show, we'll have a little...

We'll play a montage of our top moments over a Snow Patrol song

or something like that.

Um, and that...that doll moment, Dwain, is going to be there.

It's, erm...

Caught me off guard. Under pressure right there, man.

-It's been lovely having you.

-Thank you.

-Thank you so much.

-Gail and Dwain, everyone.

-Thank you for having us.

-Tremendous.

-APPLAUSE

But for Phil and Ugo and Louise and Sharron,

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

Congratulations, Phil and Ugo, Sharron and Louise.

You're now one step closer to the final and a chance to play

for our jackpot, which currently stands at £2,500.

So now we have to decide who's going to play for that money

and to do that, you're going head-to-head.

The difference is you're allowed to confer before you give your answers.

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

It's going to be white hot, this. Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

OK, here is your first question and it concerns...

Cities struck by lighting, Richard.

We're about to show you five pictures of cities being struck by lightning.

You just need to tell us the type of lightning you're...

No, you have to tell us... LAUGHTER

You have to tell us the name of the city, please.

The name of the city, please.

OK, let's reveal our five cities and here they are. We've got...

There we are. Five cities being struck by lightning.

Phil and Ugo, you will go first.

(We've got to go for D or E. Do you know? Definitely?)

OK, we're going E and we think it's London.

E, London.

OK, now Sharron and Louise.

You can talk us through the board if you like.

-We think that C might be Washington.

-And D Kuala Lumpur.

A, New York and B, Paris.

-Let's go B.

-A, New York. Are you sure? Because B is definitely...

B, Paris.

B, Paris, say Sharron and Louise. B, Paris.

-So Phil and Ugo have said that E was London.

-It's not.

I know what it is now.

It's... It's Toronto, I think.

Let's find out. Is it London?

No. Not London, I'm afraid.

Which means, Sharron and Louise, you merely have to be correct

when you say that B is Paris...

-Allez, les bleus!

-..and you have won this point.

Let's see. Is it Paris?

It's Paris.

-91 people knew it.

-APPLAUSE

But it's right. You nicked it. Very well done, Sharron and Louise.

After one question, you're up 1-0.

You see, that's exactly what happens in these sports ones.

Sports people, they sense weakness in others.

-Look at that, they knew that Ugo was injured there...

-So we kicked him.

..literally, just went for the most obvious one.

Even worse, on that board, Ugo, I think you know what it is now,

-don't you?

-Is it Toronto?

It's not! It's Shanghai, I'm afraid. LAUGHTER

-It's a pointless answer.

-I'm redeemed, anyway.

It's a pointless answer as well. So well done if you said that.

I'd say it's also the best lightning up there.

-It's amazing lightning.

-It's cracking lightning.

Let's look at the scores for the others.

Paris is obviously the biggest scorer up there.

New York, you were right about and that would have scored you 63.

-That's quite cool.

-That's pretty good lightning as well.

-Disappointing lightning on C.

-Very!

-Which is Washington. Very poor show.

Bitterly disappointing.

41. Yeah, kind of... Eh.

You know what? Why even bother? Why bother, right?

-It looks a little bit slow.

-And even more so, I would say, D.

-I mean, that's just...

-That's just a sparkler.

That could be a bird or something.

And that is Kuala Lumpur, so a terrific answer.

The best answer of the ones you knew, actually. 17 points for Kuala Lumpur.

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

Phil and Ugo, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

Very best of luck. It concerns...

-Film maths.

-We're about to show you a series of pairs of film titles.

We've left a number out of both of the titles.

You just have to add together what those numbers are, please.

OK. Now, thanks, let's reveal our mystery board.

And here are five things that will become perfectly clear

when we see what they are.

I've got it.

I'm going to read those all again.

Now, Sharron and Louise,

you have to decide which of those sums you want to do.

-(You don't know it then?

-No, I don't know that one.)

We're going to go...

I think it's called 72 Hours in 2010

and we're going to go with 0 Degrees Of Separation.

OK. So that's 72 plus...?

-Zero.

-Zero.

-Equals?

-72.

-Your answer's 72. We got there.

Now, Phil and Ugo, do you want to talk us through the board

and fill in the sums?

I think it's 8 Mile and Ocean's 12.

Lock Stock And Four Smoking Barrels... No, hang on!

Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Four Weddings And A Funeral.

Erm... We don't know any others.

-So we're going for the top, which is...

-8 Mile.

-8 Mile...

-(Ocean's 12.)

-..and Ocean's 12, please.

-Which is 20.

-I can do that quick.

-OK, 20. 72, we had from Sharron and Louise.

20, we have from Phil and Ugo. OK.

Let's see. Sharron and Louise said 72.

Is that right? Let's see how many people said it, if it is.

I'm afraid that's incorrect.

Phil and Ugo, you just have to be correct

with this and you'll win the point.

Let's see. You've gone for 20. Is that right?

I'm afraid you haven't got that right.

Which means, after two questions, Louise and Sharron,

you're still up 1-0.

Pretty good stuff. Pretty good stuff all round.

Yeah, 8 Mile is right, but it's the original Ocean's film,

which is Ocean's 11.

Ours was 10 Degrees Of Separation, wasn't it?

-It was not 10 Degrees Of Separation, no.

-Wahey! Good.

Let's get to what it was. It was 127 Hours, for a start.

It's the right film you're thinking of.

And it's 6 Degrees Of Separation.

So 133 would have been the answer there.

2 points. Would have been a terrific answer.

8 Mile and Ocean's 11 would have been 19.

And that would have scored 29 points.

It's 24 Hour Party People plus 3 Amigos, so 27.

That would have scored you 40.

It's 12 Angry Men and 12 Monkeys, 24. And that would have scored 13.

You knew the bottom one.

It's Two Smoking Barrels and Four Weddings And A Funeral. So six.

Would have been 56, but would have got you the point.

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

Again, Phil and Ugo, you have to win this one to stay in the game.

Best of luck. It concerns...

Bobby Moore, Richard.

We're going to show you five clues now to facts

about the footballer Bobby Moore.

Can you give us the most obscure answer? Good luck.

OK, let's reveal our five clues and here they come.

We have got...

I'll read those all one last time.

Now then, Phil and Ugo, you will go first.

Well, what we need to decide is what do we know definitely?

-That one, definitely.

-That one.

-And I think they'd get it wrong.

-Yeah.

Go on, then.

I'm going to go player he swapped shirts with.

And it was Pele.

Pele say Phil and Ugo. Now, Sharron and Louise.

Do you fancy talking us through the rest of the board

-and seeing how far you get?

-The Pele one was the one we thought we knew.

-Yeah.

-The 1981 film... It's a prison film, isn't it?

-Which we think is The Longest Yard, something like that.

-So...

Basically, we don't know.

Yeah, we're going to go with The Longest Yard.

OK, The Longest Yard being the 1981 film.

OK, so we have Pele from Phil and Ugo.

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE

32 for Pele.

Now, Sharron and Louise,

you're going to say the 1981 film is The Longest Yard.

Let's see if that's right

and, if it is, let's see how many people said that.

No, I'm afraid. Not The Longest Yard. Very well done, Phil and Ugo.

You're back in the game eventually. After three questions, it's one all.

Yeah, well played, gents.

Funnily enough, Pele also appeared in this bottom film, 1981,

and it's Escape To Victory.

Oh, Escape to Victory.

Would have scored you 19 points.

Now, the North London football stadium is simply Wembley.

Would have scored you 21 points.

The team he played for in the FA cup final was against West Ham,

and he played for Fulham.

5 points for that. And the shirt number, was number 6.

And would have scored you 10 points. So Fulham, the best answer there.

As so often.

Thanks very much indeed. Here comes your fourth question.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final

and plays for that jackpot for their charities.

Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns...

Places of religious pilgrimage, Richard.

We're going to show you the names

of five places of religious pilgrimage,

but we've left out alternate letters from their names.

Can you fill in the gaps? Good luck.

OK, let's reveal the five places of religious pilgrimage

and here they come. We have...

OK, there we go. Now, Sharron and Louise. You will go first.

THEY WHISPER

We think we've got about three. But we're going to go for the last one.

Yeah. We're going to go with the Ganges River.

The Ganges River, say Sharron and Louise. The Ganges River.

Now, Phil and Ugo, the board is all yours.

-Talk us through as much of it as you can.

-I've got Mecca.

We had the Ganges River. Erm...

The top one's far too many letters for me

to even contemplate trying to sort out.

-We just need to get an answer.

-Yeah, we've got to go for it. Yeah.

-Er, Mecca.

-Mecca. So we have the Ganges River and we have Mecca.

Sharron and Louise said the Ganges River. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many said that.

It's right.

APPLAUSE

34 for the Ganges River. Now, Phil and Ugo, meanwhile, have said Mecca.

Let's see if Mecca's right and,

if it is, let's see how many people said that.

-It's ri... Ooh. 97 for Mecca.

-APPLAUSE

Well, very well done, Sharron and Louise.

After four questions, you're through to the final, 2-1.

Yeah, very well played. Let's fill in those gaps. The top one?

-Santiago de Compostela.

-Is the right answer.

Would have scored you 6 points.

The second one is a pointless answer. It's a Buddhist pilgrimage site.

-It's a tree.

-It's the Bodhi Tree.

-Ah, there we are.

Well done if you said that at home.

And the next one is the Christian pilgrimage site, Lourdes.

And 71 points for that.

Thanks very much indeed.

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

I'm afraid it's Phil and Ugo.

You've done so well though, all the way through the show.

Very good, consistent low scoring.

-This show is tough.

-It is.

When you're here and when you see, you can't think straight.

And then you worry because then you stop thinking about the opposite

and if we'd have just...

Hey. Great show. Thank you very much.

Well, it's been wonderful having you on. Phil and Ugo, come back again.

It's been brilliant. Thank you. Phil and Ugo.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

But for Sharron and Louise, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Sharron and Louise.

You fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

for your various charities.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot stands at £2,500.

That was hard fought. What a tough game that was all the way through.

Very well done. As always, you get to choose your category

for the final round. There are four options for you on the board.

Let's hope there's at least one up there that you like. Here they are.

I think the one we both felt really comfortable with was

-Hollywood Williams.

-Well, more comfortable is the word.

-Not comfortable with.

-Yeah.

OK, you think that's the one you're going to go for.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Hollywood Williams it is.

-OK, good luck.

Three different questions. Take your pick of any of these.

Take your answers from any of them.

We're looking for any film made up to the end of 2013 starring

Will Ferrell - so any film he's been credited for.

Any film credit for Billy Crystal.

Or any feature film credit for William H Macy.

So any film starring one of those three. Very, very best of luck.

OK, now as always,

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

All you need to win that jackpot for your charities is

for just one of them to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-OK, let's put 60 seconds on the clock. There they are.

Your time starts now.

-So we've got Will Ferrell, Elf.

-We've got Elf for that.

-Billy Crystal, do we know any? Er, When Harry Met Sally.

-City Slickers?

-Was that one?

-City Slickers is another one.

-That's good.

-That's three.

-That's three we've got there.

-What else? Will Ferrell.

-Broadcast News, the...?

-Anchorman.

-Anchorman. And Anchorman 2.

I think so.

I don't know William C Macy films, they're a little bit further back.

Yeah, I don't know any of his.

Er... Will Ferrell, Will Ferrell, Will Ferrell...

-He's a funny guy, isn't he?

-He's very funny.

-I wish he'd made more movies. Erm...

-Erm, what about...? Ooh, gosh.

He was definitely in City Slickers.

No, there was one recently I watched where...

-They go to the funerals. What's that called?

-Not like, Wedding...

-Hijackers.

-Yes, Wedding Something-or-other.

-Crashers.

-Wedding Crashers, is that what it's called?

-Ten seconds left.

-Wedding Crashers. Something like that.

-He's in that.

-But a small part. So...

-Wedding Crashers.

-You're sure it's Wedding Crashers?

-Pretty sure.

-But they don't...go to funerals.

-OK, that's your time up.

I now need your three answers.

-Will Ferrell.

-Yep.

-Wedding Crashers.

-And Elf.

-Yeah, we'll go Will Ferrell, Elf, as well.

-Elf.

-And then City Slickers.

-OK. So the three are Elf, Wedding Crashers and...?

-City Slickers.

City Slickers.

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

-City Slickers.

-OK. City Slickers goes last.

Least likely to be pointless?

-Elf.

-Elf, we'll put first.

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

and here they are.

We've got Elf, we've got Wedding Crashers

and we've got City Slickers. Well, very, very best of luck.

Your first answer, you went for a Will Ferrell film, Elf.

Now if this is right and it is pointless,

you will win that jackpot for charity.

What are your charities? Sharron, what's yours?

My charity's called Heidi's Heroes.

A very good friend of mine who I shared a room with in 1978

when I won the first of my Commonwealth gold medals,

died a year ago from breast cancer.

So her husband set up a charity called Heidi's Heroes.

Half the money goes to help the hospice and half the money

goes to teach deprived children who can't swim to swim.

-Excellent.

-A very personal charity.

-Louise?

Mine will be the British Heart Foundation.

As their running ambassador,

I support them in memory of my late father.

And they help fund heart research into heart disease.

-Very good. Two fantastic charities there.

-APPLAUSE

And two lovely personal connections as well, so let's hope at least one

of these answers is pointless to win that jackpot for those charities.

Elf was your first answer. It has to be correct,

then it has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

So let's find out, for £2,500,

how many people said Elf was a Will Ferrell film?

It's right.

OK, now all it has to do is go down to zero

and you can leave with that jackpot for your charities.

It's going down through the thirties...

-Ooh.

-APPLAUSE

-What are the chances for City Slickers?

-OK, 30 for Elf.

Not a pointless answer. Only two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your second answer was Wedding Crashers.

In this case, we were looking for Will Ferrell films again.

Let's see, for £2,500, how many people said Wedding Crashers.

-Oh, it's incorrect, I'm afraid.

-Oh, no!

-An incorrect answer.

Which means only one more shot at today's jackpot.

Everything now has to ride on your third

and final answer which is City Slickers.

In this case, we are looking for Billy Crystal films.

For £2,500, is City Slickers pointless?

It's right. OK, your first answer, Elf, took us all the way down to 30.

-Go on, go on, go on.

-Wedding Crashers was incorrect.

Now, City Slickers takes us down,

through the t... Ooh! No, 13.

-APPLAUSE

-Never mind though.

Two very good answers there,

but I'm sorry to say you didn't manage to find that vital

pointless answer, so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £2,500.

However, as it's a celebrity special, we're going to donate £500

to each celebrity pair for their respective charities.

And we have loved having you on the show.

You've been just wonderful the whole way through.

And you get a Pointless trophy each to take home, so very well done.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

Yeah, it's been great fun. Everyone's been wonderful.

It's been lovely having you here.

City Slickers 2 would have scored you 2 points.

But still wouldn't have won you money.

Will Ferrell does have an uncredited cameo in Wedding Crashers.

-So he is there.

-But he was in it, wasn't he?

-He was in it, absolutely.

A few of our 100 people did say it,

so it wouldn't have been a pointless answer

even if we'd taken it as an answer, but you're not going mad.

He is in it.

Let's take a look at some of the pointless answers.

Will Ferrell films first. Casa De Mi Padre.

Curious George, he plays a voice in that. Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back.

With Mark Wahlberg in The Other Guys as well,

which was a big hit movie a couple of years ago.

That was a pointless answer. Billy Crystal.

Co-wrote and appears in America's Sweethearts with Julia Roberts.

-He's in the Woody Allen film Deconstructing Harry.

-Off the train.

Forget Paris with Debra Winger and Throw Momma From The Train.

And let's look at William H Macy.

He been in lots of big films, William H Macy.

Including Air Force One, Murder In The First, Radio Days

and the John Grisham adaptation, The Client.

So very well done if you got any of those at home.

Thank you so much for entertaining us so royally in the studio

and sorry you didn't win the jackpot all to yourselves.

But at least everyone has shared in it.

Thanks. Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye, Sharron and Louise,

but it's been fabulous having you.

Thank you so much for playing. Brilliant contestants.

-Thank you for having us.

-Sharron and Louise.

-APPLAUSE

Join us next time

when we'll be putting more knowledge to the test on Pointless.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.