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

Welcome to this special soap edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the quiz where the aim of the game

is to find the most obscure answer possible.

Let's meet today's Pointless Celebrities.

APPLAUSE

-And couple number one.

-I'm Laila Morse and I play Mo in EastEnders.

I'm Zainab Masood in EastEnders and I'm meant to be in Pakistan

but they let me out for the day.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Couple number two.

I'm Deena and I was Viv Windsor in Emmerdale for 18 years.

I'm Claire King and I played Kim Tate in Emmerdale twice.

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Couple number three.

I'm Stefan Dennis

and I'm from a little-known Australian drama serial

called Neighbours.

I'm Rebekah Elmaloglou, I play Therese Willis,

his boss, on Neighbours.

-I thought I was your boss...

-I'm your boss.

-APPLAUSE

And finally, couple number four.

I'm Ray Quinn and I played Anthony Murray in Brookside back in the day.

I'm Louis Emerick and I played Mick Johnson in Brookside for 12 years.

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

We'll find out more about each of you throughout the show.

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

Ruling over the show like trivia's answer to Kim Jong-un,

our glorious leader and a close Pointless friend of mine, it's Richard.

APPLAUSE Hiya. Hey, everybody.

-Good evening to you.

-Good evening.

-This is fun, isn't it?

We've done soap specials before and they're always good fun.

I'll tell you who does well at soap specials, by and large -

don't want to put any pressure on the last two podiums,

but EastEnders and Emmerdale

historically very good at these soap specials.

But I think on podium three, we should give a special welcome

because they've come all the way from Australia

-to see us today, so that's nice.

-They're only over here for a week.

-Let's get on with it.

-Yeah, we better had.

Um, but you know I think it'd be nice if people let them

-get through a couple of rounds at least, don't you think?

-Yeah.

Be a nice thing to do.

Ray has been on before, the star of the class.

He got all the way through to the head-to-head,

so, Louis, you've got yourself a very good partner there.

Should be a cracker. Round One should be good for everyone,

we're going to give you a nice, easy Round One.

I'm assuming everyone here

is interested in 19th century neurobiology?

LAUGHTER Yeah? You're going to love it.

Thanks very much indeed.

All our questions on Pointless are put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants need to find the obscure answers

those 100 people didn't get.

Everyone's trying to find a pointless answer,

an answer 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,

each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity.

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

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

OK, all you have to remember

is that the pair with the highest score at the end of each round will be eliminated

so do everything you can to make sure that's not your pair.

Our first category today is...

Pop music. Can you all decide in your pairs

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

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

OK, and the question concerns...

Debut number ones, Richard.

On each pass we're going to show you the names

of seven UK number one singles.

They were all the first number ones for various acts or bands.

You just need to tell us the name of the artist

who had a number one single with the songs you're about to see.

Seven on each pass, 14 in all to have a go at at home, so very good luck.

We just want the names of the artists who got to number one

with these singles and here's our first board of seven.

We have got...

I'll read those again.

-Now. Nina. Welcome.

-Hi.

So yes, you've temporarily... You haven't left EastEnders,

you sort of HAVE left EastEnders, but your character remains alive.

-Yes.

-So at any stage, you could be wheeled back in.

-Yes, I could, yes.

I'll probably come back in a coma or something.

-That'd be fun.

-That'd be great fun.

-No lines to learn.

-Get to lie down all day long.

-Fantastic.

But you've done lots of comedy, notably Goodness Gracious Me.

-Yeah, we've just done a one-off special again.

-Have you?

Yeah, with a view to maybe a series, so it'd be great.

-When can we look forward to seeing that?

-Very shortly.

-Excellent.

But I always think that soap operas are kind of...

they're kind of comedy dramas, aren't they?

When you were doing EastEnders,

did you find that you used your comedy chops more than your acting chops

or was it much the same? Do you approach it differently?

I've done both. This was my mentor, by the way.

Yes, Mo was my mentor when I joined. She had to show me the ropes.

Um, but I found with 'Enders, when they asked me to join,

they said, "Can you do Pauline Fowler but...

-"funny?"

-LAUGHTER

Now, that's a brief! I've never had a brief like that before.

So I found the key to it and that was to make her really blunt.

So Zainab's grumpy but if somebody says to her,

"Does my bum look big in this?" She'd go "Yes."

And the audience would find that funny and she'd go "What?

-"She asked me, I told her." There you go.

-LAUGHTER

I don't know if I'm allowed to say that, by the way.

Too late, you've just said it.

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

Um... I'm going to go for...

Real Slim Shady.

And I really hope it's Eminem.

Eminem, says Nina for Real Slim Shady.

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

It's right!

-Ooh. 68.

-That's not good, is it?

-APPLAUSE

-Not a bad start.

-Yeah, well-played, Nina.

The Real Slim Shady, one of Eminem's many aliases.

-In fact, Eminem is an alias.

-Of course, Marshall Mathers.

Thank you very much indeed. Now, Deena.

Deena, welcome to the show. Now, Emmerdale you were on.

Emmerdale, when did it stop being Emmerdale Farm?

I know it was a long time ago.

I suppose it was about 1994, was it?

There was a big plane crash that smashed into the village

and instead of Beckindale, it became Emmerdale and they dropped the Farm.

They just dropped the Farm, just like that.

-They just dropped the Farm.

-Wow. Right, good.

Sorted now. So, Deena, what are you up to at the moment?

I'm in a play called Untidy Endings,

it's in the West End, Tristan Bates Theatre.

It's a fantastic play, very, very well written by Harvey Fierstein,

30 years old and it's got humour, touching and it's very dramatic.

So this is its first ever performance?

Yes. It's the debut into England from America.

Excellent. OK, now, Deena, what are you going to go for on this board?

I think I'll go for...

-Coz I Love You, Slade.

-Slade, says Deena.

Let's see if that's right and if it is,

let's see how many people said Slade.

It is right.

68, our high score, you passed that.

-19.

-Wow.

-APPLAUSE

Very well done, Deena.

19 for Slade.

With spelling like that,

it could only be Slade.

Yes, written in 20 minutes, says Noddy Holder.

-That long?

-LAUGHTER

Thanks very much indeed. Now, Stefan, welcome.

You were in the very, very first episode of Neighbours.

I was in scene one, day one of Neighbours, 1985, yeah.

Now...

what did Paul actually do?

I mean, obviously, I know he ran Lassiter's, but really...

He's just a cad! That's what he does best, I think.

But in the office, with all that paper shuffling...

I'm very good at putting things away, not having a clue...

I have never seen a person busier doing stuff

that I've never quite been able to define.

And walking purposefully.

-Yeah. But you're back in Neighbours now.

-Yes, I am.

I came back for two weeks and believe it or not,

I've been back in ten years.

-Fantastic.

-Two week guest-y, I came back for.

What day did they come up and say, actually,

would you mind just staying?

Uh, it sort of grew.

Two weeks became three months, which became six months, which...

became ten years.

-And ongoing.

-And has it changed much? I suppose it must have done.

Dramatically.

From when I first came, again, the thing I say is,

it's probably not so much that the audience would know the change

so much, but me as the actor, coming in from the early days to now,

-significant technological changes.

-Of course.

And obviously, when I came in, I was the new kid on the block,

even though everybody was like,

"Psst, psst, legend, Neighbours, Paul Robinson,"

going through the corridors,

but I was like, "I don't know anybody here."

Extraordinary.

It's all changed now, though.

Are you the senior statesman of Neighbours these days?

-I'm the king.

-The king, yeah. As it should be.

She's my queen, actually.

There was a bit of a contretemps over who was whose boss.

We'll come to that in a moment.

Stefan, what are you going to go for?

I, uh, well...

I safely only know one because they're all UK hits I think.

You Really Got Me is running through my head and I know,

but I can't think of the singer

so I'm going to go Heart Of Glass, Blondie.

Blondie, says Stefan, for Heart Of Glass.

Let's see if that's right, let's see how many people said Blondie.

It's right.

-56.

-Not bad.

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-Not bad.

Well played, Stefan.

From an entirely different country, couldn't be from further away,

and still gets a great score.

Number one in the UK for four weeks,

number one in the US as well, that song.

-Thanks very much indeed. Now, Ray. Welcome back.

-Hi.

-You were a head-to-header last time.

-Yeah.

-With your wife.

I was really clever.

-HE LAUGHS

-Yeah. Did really, really well.

-Not my doings whatsoever.

Come now. Ray, now, listen, either, EITHER, and I'm not...

Either you have an extraordinary gift

or you do an awful lot of preparation for everything you appear on

because you always go through to the finals.

-I'm a really good blagger, that's the thing.

-But you can dance!

On ice!

-Yeah, pretty much.

-You can't blag that.

In fact, you were champion of champions of Dancing On Ice.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

It was an amazing experience the first time round,

to get asked to come back and do it again, I just grasped it really, I loved it.

-I absolutely loved it.

-Had you ever done it before?

-Erm... No.

I mean, obviously, the first time round, a couple of lessons before.

But that was it?

Yeah, and then jumped straight into rehearsals

and straight into training and, of course, Chris and Jayne,

can't ask for better coaches,

I had Maria by my side who was my professional skating partner

and, of course, Mark and Robin and Nicky,

they all put a hand in somewhere.

Yeah, I was learning from the best. What can I say?

-I was soaking it like a sponge.

-Yeah. Well, fantastic. Good for you.

Ray, you're the last person to have this board.

If you wanted, you could talk us through all of the gaps and fill them in.

Well, I'm a bit like that, really.

You Really Got Me is going through my head

and I just don't know who it is, I can't...

It's wrecking my brain and I was going to go with Shady

because I like rap and I knew but that's gone.

So I'm going to go Someone Like You, and I think it's Keane.

Keane, says Ray for Someone Like You.

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

Oh, I'm afraid not Keane, Ray.

-I'm afraid that's an incorrect answer, scores you the maximum of 100 points.

-Who was it?

Yeah, sorry, Ray. I think you're thinking of Somewhere Only We Know, the Keane song.

-Someone Like You, you'll know it as well, it's Adele.

-Ah!

-Of course.

-It would have been a good answer as well.

I had the lyric in my head and that was what it was.

Would have scored you 26 points.

You Really Got Me, I'm sure lots of people at home are singing

-along to that. Louis?

-The Kinks.

-The Kinks, absolutely.

-Would have scored 37. Country House, Xander?

-Blur.

-Blur, yep.

Would have scored 37. And do you know Setting Sun?

-Best answer.

-Chemical Brothers.

-It is The Chemical Brothers.

Well done if you said that, the best answer up there.

6 points.

Thanks very much. We're halfway through the round, let's look at the scores.

19, Deena, the best score of that pass.

Very well done, Claire and Deena, sitting pretty at this stage.

Up to 56 where we find Stefan and Rebekah.

68, Nina and Laila, and then up to 100 where we find Ray and Louis.

You're not miles ahead, so a good answer from you, Louis...

-HE LAUGHS

-He was right about his wife being the brains.

-I told you.

LAUGHTER

Anything can happen in this next pass, a low score from you, Louis,

could keep you in the game so best of luck.

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

OK, let's put seven more singles up on the board

and here they come, we have got...

I'll read those one last time.

Remember, Louis, you're looking for the artists who got to number one with these singles.

You're going to try and find the one you think the fewest of our 100 people knew.

Louis, a warm welcome to Pointless. Now, when you were on Brookside...

There was a rumour that Brookside... It was filmed

-in a real close, wasn't it?

-That's right, yes.

You had to film it during the day

-and then the people who lived there would come back every night?

-No, no.

-Phil Redmond, the owner, he went and bought...

-Oh, I see, he bought them.

..ten houses and so they were exclusively for Brookside.

-So when did you stop?

-I stopped in 2001.

What do you do now, Louis?

I'm just about to start later this year,

-I'll be working on the forthcoming tour of The Full Monty.

-Fantastic.

Which is going to be a national tour so I'm looking forward to that.

Will that be coming into the West End at the end?

-No, it'll be finishing in Sheffield where it first started out.

-Perfect.

-But we're going all over the major cities.

-Lovely.

Best of luck with that.

There you are, you're the high scorers on 100,

we need a low score from you, Louis. How do you feel about this board?

-I've got to get the answers then, have I?

-Come on!

Let me think.

There's a couple that I know

and I'm just trying to think which one might be lower.

Erm..

I'll try...

Massachusetts. Bee Gees.

Bee Gees, says Louis, for Massachusetts.

No red line for you cos you're the high scorers.

But let's see how far down the column you get with The Bee Gees.

It's right.

40.

-40 takes your total up to 140.

-APPLAUSE

Well played, Louis. Given yourself a chance.

Extraordinary songwriters, The Bee Gees,

they actually wrote that song for another band, an Australian band

called The Seekers, but The Bee Gees said,

"Why don't we do it ourselves?" And the rest is history.

I'd love to see the letter they sent to The Seekers

after they got to number one.

Thanks very much. Now, Rebekah.

-Oh, hi.

-Welcome here. Rebekah.

Now, you were in Home And Away and Neighbours.

The two big bookends of Australian television

as far as we're concerned over here.

Which do you prefer?

-Oh!

-Come on.

Summer Bay, all that water.

Look, they're so different,

but I get asked that question all the time and the thing is

that it's been 25 years between gigs,

between those two particular shows,

so it's really hard to say, but Neighbours, of course.

Of course, at the moment.

You have acting in your blood.

While you're over here,

I gather you've been hobnobbing with your cousins, the Denches.

-Who are probably sitting at home, watching this.

-Are they?

-Yes.

-Really? Does Dame Judi watch Pointless?

-Dame Judi does, yes.

-Well, I believe she does.

Of course she does, Dame Judi loves it.

Yes, she watches with Dame Maggie, Dame Maggie and Dame Judi.

All the dames come round, in fact it's Dame Judi Dench,

Dame Maggie Smith and, strangely, Dame Kelly Holmes, they all...

-All together?

-They all watch together.

-Eileen Atkins does it on catch up.

-Yes, exactly.

-Very good.

-Eileen Atkins records it, watches it

and then pretends she gets the right answers

and Dame Judi says she can't come round any more.

-Fair enough.

-Yeah.

-Fair enough.

You are... You've got it pretty easy, you have to score 83 or less.

83 or less and you're through to the next round.

-What do you make of this board?

-Well... I only know one.

And it's fairly obvious. So, that's not going to be great.

But I'm just going to have to go with it, because it is the only one that I know.

So, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Wham!

Wham! says Rebekah. Here comes your red line.

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

Let's see how many people said Wham!

Let's see if it can get Rebekah and Stefan into Round Two.

It's right.

And you're through, very well done.

-70. Good enough.

-APPLAUSE

126 is your total.

Well played, Rebekah, that's all you had to do.

The first of many, many, many number ones for Wham! and for George Michael.

Written by George Michael but based on a note left for him

by Andrew Ridgeley.

-Apparently.

-Oh, right.

-It was nearly called "Get Milk Milk."

-I was going to say, yeah.

Thanks very much, Richard. Claire.

-I have great news for you. You're in Round Two.

-Marvellous.

You are straight through. Now, Claire, aside from acting,

what's your biggest passion?

-Horse racing.

-It is, isn't it?

-It is.

Do you own a horse, do you have a share in a horse?

Yes, on the flat because the vet bills aren't as extreme

as they would be if they were over the sticks.

Of course. But not only that, you've ridden as well.

-You've done a bit of amateur jockeying.

-I had an amateur jockey's licence in the early '90s,

when I was doing Emmerdale.

-That was always flat, was it, or did you do jumps as well?

-Flat.

-Not completely stupid.

-Wow.

Wow, but, yeah, you raced at Windsor as well.

I won a race at Windsor actually, but that was a charity race.

I nearly ended up in the Thames

because I couldn't pull up at the end.

God, very exciting.

Well, as I say, you're through,

but let's see how low down the column you can get.

OK.

What are you going to go for?

I'm not 100% sure,

so I'm going to have to go for another fairly obvious one.

Sound Of The Underground with Girls Aloud.

Girls Aloud, says Claire.

Hoping there's loads of old people been asked about this.

-Like me.

-Well, there's no red line for you for the lovely reason that

you're already through but let's see how many people said Girls Aloud.

It's right.

-59.

-I thought it'd be high.

-APPLAUSE

59 taking your total up to 78.

Well played, Claire. Yes, the first of Girls Aloud's 21 top ten hits.

Really? Good for them.

-Wow, they snuck them in.

-Didn't they?

-21?!

Yeah, while you weren't looking.

-HE WHISTLES

-That's... Wow.

-Yeah.

-That's 21 more than you and I. Isn't it?

-I know.

-Between us.

-At time of recording.

-Nicely said.

-You never know.

-Yeah. OK, thank you very much indeed. Now, Laila.

-Yes.

Laila, welcome back.

Now, I think you're one of the longest-serving actresses,

actors full-stop, in EastEnders, aren't you?

-One of them. Not the only one, no, I'm...

-You're one of them.

-One of them, I'm not the only one.

-No, not the only one.

-There are seven of you, I think, is that right?

-Yeah, about that.

I hope you get privileges.

-I hope you get a nice place to park.

-THEY LAUGH

I don't think so, no.

Is it not a nice big comfy seat

with "Laila" written on the back that's very close to the set?

-I wish.

-Really? We've got it here.

Yeah, you've got to be quite old to get one of them.

Ah, yes, many years hence.

Now, Laila, you're on 68. This is where you have to score 71 or less.

Do you fancy talking us through the board?

Um...

No, not really.

LAUGHTER

It's All Over Now and Oh Carolina.

Just hoping I've picked the right name to go with it.

Let's go with Oh Carolina,

-Shaggy.

-Shaggy, says Laila. There's your red line.

If you can get below this red line, you're in Round Two.

Let's see if Shaggy's right, let's see how many people said it.

It's right.

And you're through. Very, very well done indeed.

36 takes your total up to 104,

gets you into Round Two. Very well done.

Well played, Laila, that's a great answer. Safely through.

Were you tempted to go for It's All Over Now?

Yeah, I thought it was The Stones.

It was The Stones, yeah, it's actually a better scorer.

Believe it or not. It doesn't matter, you're safely through.

Would have scored you 20 points.

Written by Bobby and Shirley Womack, that song.

What Makes You Beautiful, anyone?

One Direction.

-Of course, it's One Direction, our favourites on the show.

-Indeed.

Lovely Zayn. 29 points for that, all right. Zayn watches as well.

Zayn loves the show.

-NINA:

-He's my son in real life. Not really.

LAUGHTER

And the best answer on the board, So Sick?

-RAY:

-Ne-Yo.

-Ne-Yo, Ray, absolutely.

-Should have gone the other way around.

That's such a shame. You both got terrific answers on each other's boards.

Such a shame. 8 points for Ne-Yo, best answer up there.

We're not going to talk about this moment again, we're going to...

-Put it to bed, I think, aren't we?

-No, I will, I'll talk about it.

-LAUGHTER

Thanks very much, Richard.

At the end of Round One, the pair heading home with a score of 140,

I'm really sorry, Louis and Ray.

Oh, you'd be the low scorers had it just been the other way round.

-Oh, well.

-Oh, well.

You'll just have to come back, come back again and do better.

-Thanks so much for playing, Louis and Ray!

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

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

We're down to three pairs.

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

to another pair in time for our head-to-head round.

Well done, all three pairs.

Claire and Deena, very well done, our low scorers there.

-Slade, a particularly good answer from you.

-Old rockers, you see?

You never lose it.

And Stefan and Rebekah, congratulations,

you navigated your way through a very UK-centric board there.

I was hoping that Don't It Make You Feel Good?

would have been there but, you know.

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

-Aussie number one, obviously.

I've got bad news to you about where that got to in the charts.

Anyway, best of luck to all three pairs.

Let's hope there's a more Antipodean-friendly round coming up.

Our category for Round Two is...

Can you decide 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...

GROANING

Olympic gold medallists.

Look how delighted everybody seems(!) That's nice.

We're going to show you a board with five Olympic events on it,

we need you to tell us the name of anyone who's ever won a gold medal in one of these events,

that's from the 1948 Olympics, right through to the 2012 Olympics.

So anyone who's won a gold medal in any of the five events

you're about to see from 1948 all the way through to 2012.

So as Richard just said,

we're going to put five Olympic events up on the board.

We're looking for any post-war gold medallist

in any of these five events and these events are...

I'll read those all again.

There we are. Now, Nina.

I... Actually...

Hang on, Men's 10,000 metres, wouldn't that be Mo Farah?

Mo Farah, says Nina.

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

-It's right.

-Whoo!

There we are. 25.

APPLAUSE

Good work, Nina.

Well done, Nina. That's what happens when A, you don't panic

and B, you go first.

-Yeah, he won the 2012 10,000 metres.

-Thanks, Richard. Now, Claire.

-Mmm.

Erm...

I know one stands out but I'm going to go a little bit random,

a little bit way back in time.

And go for the All Round Individual in Women's Artistic Gymnastics.

Yeah?

-Olga Korbut.

-Olga Korbut says Claire.

Let's see if Olga Korbut is right.

Let's see how far down the column we get with Olga Korbut.

-Oh, what?

-Oh, no.

I thought that was really good.

I'm afraid, for some reason that's an incorrect answer.

we'll be told why in a second. That Scores you 100 points, I'm sorry.

-Was it not very artistic?

-Yeah, that's unlucky,

I think plenty people would have said Olga Korbut.

Very famous gymnast, she did win medals

but she didn't win the overall best gymnast of the Games unfortunately.

-But that's a tough 100. Well done for going for an obscurer answer.

-Yeah.

Stefan.

I'm in a bit of a hole here because I'm not a watcher of sports,

I'm a doer.

-As you can tell.

-LAUGHTER

Have you won gold in any of these disciplines? LAUGHTER

Ah, dear, dear, dear.

See I was going to go for the Artistic Gymnastics

but I'm going to have a crack at Men's 100...

It's probably a high-scorer, I'm going to go Linford Christie.

Linford Christie, says Stefan.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said Linford Christie.

It's right.

-REBEKAH:

-Oh, yes.

Look at that! 14.

-APPLAUSE

-Very well done indeed, Stefan.

14 for Linford Christie.

Well played, Stefan. Yeah, won in 1992 in Barcelona.

The great Linford Christie.

Thanks very much. Let's take a look at those scores as they stand.

14, the best score of that pass, Stefan and Rebekah.

Looking pretty good at this stage.

Up to 25 where we find Nina and Laila,

then up to 100, Claire and Deena.

-Now, Deena, anything might happen in this next pass.

-And probably will.

A low score might keep you in the game, so yes, get thinking.

We're going to come back down the line.

Second players, please, step up to the podium.

-OK, Rebekah.

-SHE GIGGLES

-Rebekah...

-HE LAUGHS SMUGLY

Oh, shush.

I can't, I really can't tell you.

What happens now, if I don't...?

If you genuinely can't think of anything,

you're going to have to make up a name

-which is my favourite thing ever.

-LAUGHTER

That's funny. All right. Erm...

Oh... June Whitford.

June Whitford.

June Whitford. OK.

Here's your red line, nice and high.

Get below that with June Whitford and you are in the head-to-head.

Let's see if it's right,

let's see how many people said June Whitford.

Oh.

I'm sorry, that's an incorrect answer, Rebekah. Scores 100 points.

Takes your total up to 114, but you might still be through.

Stefan's score in the first pass was incredibly low.

Yeah, sorry, Rebekah. June Whitford.

Two silvers, four bronzes, no golds, I'm afraid for June Whitford. LAUGHTER

My favourite bit, when someone makes a name up,

is statistically someone at home will be called June Whitford

and literally, you would have just made the last 60 seconds of her life. LAUGHTER

Imagine the people she's ringing right now.

Now then, Deena.

-Yes.

-The high score at the moment is 114, you're on 100.

If you can score 13 or less...

13 or less, Olga Korbut will be forgotten.

Not by me.

Um, right.

Equestrian Eventing, Princess Anne.

Princess Anne.

Princess Anne. There's your red line.

If you can get below that red line with Princess Anne,

that's brilliant.

-SHE LAUGHS

-I don't know, let's find out. Is that right? Princess Anne.

How many people said it, if it is?

Oh, no!

I'm afraid that's another incorrect answer,

scores you 100 points, take your total up to 200.

-Oh. Bye.

-Bye.

LAUGHTER No, she won many things in her career,

including Sports Personality Of The Year

but not an individual gold in Equestrian Eventing.

Now, Laila. You're going to be in the head-to-head for the second time running.

-Yes.

-See, you're not surprised.

But that's a great achievement.

Anyway, you're on 25, doesn't matter what you score.

Do you want to talk us through your thoughts?

-Um, no, I'll just say Usain Bolt.

-Usain Bolt, OK.

-LAUGHTER

-Fair enough.

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

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

It's right.

-27.

-APPLAUSE

52, your total.

That's how to play Pointless, such a professional.

Straight in there with Usain Bolt. Won two golds in 2008

and 2012 in the 100 metres.

Claire, was there another gymnast you were maybe going to go for?

-Lyudmila Turischeva, was it?

-It's a pointless answer.

-No.

That was my toss up.

Let's take a look at all the pointless answers,

Nadia Comaneci would have been 7 as well.

Nadia Comaneci.

Let's have a look at the pointless answers.

Alberto Cova, the Italian, won the 10,000 metres.

Hasely Crawford, the sprinter

was a pointless answer, as was Jim Hines.

You could have had Jackie Joyner-Kersee for the heptathlon,

also Carolina Kluft for the heptathlon.

There's Lyudmila Turischeva for you.

And Larisa Latynina as well.

Leslie Law, who won an equestrian medal.

You also would have got a pointless answer for Mark Todd

and for Richard Meade, well done if you said either of them.

A few more, Mary Lou Retton who won a Gymnastics gold.

Miruts Yifter, they used to call him "Yifter the Shifter",

won the 10,000 metre title as did Khalid Skah who was also a pointless answer.

And another Gymnastics winner there, Yelena Davydova.

Let's take a look at the top three.

Ones that most of our 100 people said.

Jessica Ennis, 18 points, Heptathlon gold and, of course,

we've seen the first two from that first podium, Mo Farah on 25 and Usain Bolt on 27.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So the pair who are heading home

with their high score of 200, I'm afraid, Deena and Claire.

And what makes it all the more galling is that you might have got a pointless answer.

Yeah, I know, it's hedging your bets though.

You have a little bit of a gamble and if it pays off it's great,

if it doesn't, well...

-Bye.

-Well, you'll have to come back, come back and play again.

-We will.

We'll look forward to that

but thanks very much for playing.

Deena and Claire!

APPLAUSE

But for Stefan and Rebekah and Nina and Laila,

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

Congratulations, Nina and Laila, Stefan and Rebekah,

you are now one step closer to the final

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

APPLAUSE

Here's the point where we decide who gets to play for that money.

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

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

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

Nina and Laila, Laila, you've been here before.

-Look at that, just the confidence of Laila.

-It's extraordinary.

-Takes it all in her stride.

-No mucking about.

-She's got so many gears still to go through.

-Oh, yeah.

-Oh, yeah.

-You never know, I might be in reverse.

THEY LAUGH

And Stefan and Rebekah.

Well done, your first, only, appearance on Pointless

and you're through to the head-to-head.

It all takes a bit of pressure off here because now you can chat.

You can, to coin a phase, be there for one another, in fact.

We can start being like a cucumber now. Cool, not long and green.

Cool as a cucumber.

OK, well, best of luck to both pairs, let's play the head-to-head.

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

-Well, there you go.

-LAUGHTER

-People who've made appearances in Coronation Street.

-Richard.

We're going to show you five pictures of people who have appeared in Coronation Street.

Just tell us which of these is the most obscure.

Thanks, Richard.

Let's reveal our five people who've made appearances in Coronation Street and here they come.

We have got...

There we are.

Five people who've made appearances in Coronation Street.

Now Nina and Laila, you will go first.

Um...Andrew Sachs, number E.

OK, Andrew Sachs, say Nina and Laila for E.

-Stefan, was that yours? Were you about to say that?

-That was mine.

Um...

Yeah, the only other one I know,

and no disrespect to anybody on Coronation Street,

but I've never seen an episode.

I'm so sorry. Um...

Boyzone, but I don't know his name.

None of those are June Whitford, are they?

LAUGHTER

-That's funny.

-I really don't know the others.

I know the woman who's C but I can't remember her name.

-It's June Whitford!

-LAUGHTER

-Uh...

-No...

-Without Andrew Sachs, I'm stumped.

Got no idea, I don't know his name. Boyzone.

Do you want to make up a sort of Boyzone type name?

You can make this one up.

Jonathan...Zilmont.

LAUGHTER

For which one? For A?

-For A, yeah.

-OK, Jonathan Zilmont.

So we have Andrew Sachs and we have Jonathan Zilmont.

Nina and Laila went for Andrew Sachs for E,

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

It's right.

APPLAUSE

I tell you, that phone line to the Zilmont household

is going to be engaged for the next hour.

Jonathan Zilmont.

Your time has come, A. Is it right?

No.

I'm afraid an incorrect answer, which means,

Nina and Laila, very well done, after one question you're up 1-0.

Yeah, I'm really, really sorry. Let's go through the rest of these.

A is not Jonathan Zilmont, he was in one of the very,

very early versions of Boyzone but not in the later ones.

It's Keith Duffy.

-That was it.

-Would have scored you 28 points.

So wouldn't have seen you through.

The best answer on the board is B.

-Roy Hudd.

-Roy Hudd.

-Gosh.

-Would have scored you 24.

C is the wonderful...

-Patricia Routledge.

-Patricia Routledge, yes.

She would have scored you 35.

And D?

-Bernard Cribbins.

-Bernard Cribbins, of course.

And he would have scored you 37.

So honestly, for British people, a very simple board.

For anyone not in Britain, probably one of the hardest boards you could ever find.

Thank you very much indeed.

OK, Stefan and Rebekah, here comes our second question.

You get to answer this one first, but obviously,

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

It concerns...

Groups of animals.

Yes, we're going to show you the collective nouns

which describe different types of animals,

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

Fill in the gaps and give us the most obscure answer.

Thanks very much, let's reveal our five collective nouns

and here they are.

I'll read those all again.

Stefan and Rebekah will go first.

Um...

Unfortunately...

-No, did you say that you know one?

-No.

WHISPERING

Yeah, we're going to go for one, but unfortunately

we think it might be a bit high, which is the gaggle of geese.

A gaggle of geese. Gaggle of geese.

Now, Nina and Laila, do you fancy talking us

through the rest of the board?

Um... Sure.

Uh... I think it's a crash of rhinos.

For some reason I think it's a condor of cats.

Ugh, owls...

Er...

I think we should go for the crash of rhinos, I think,

but do you think it's crash of rhinos?

-Don't know.

-All right.

-I'll leave this one to you.

-Go on, Nina.

-Crash of rhinos.

-Crash of rhinos.

-It's probably wrong.

So, we have gaggle of geese, we have crash of rhinos.

Now, Stefan and Rebekah went for a gaggle of geese, let's see

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

It's right. Ooh, look at that.

Ooh!

93 for a gaggle of geese.

Meanwhile Nina and Laila have gone for a crash of rhinos.

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

It's right, well done.

APPLAUSE

29. Very well done, Nina.

After only two questions, Nina and Laila are through to the final, 2-0.

Well played, Nina. Terrific work.

Let's go through the rest of these.

-Do you know that top one? It's not one I'd heard before.

-A chowder?

It looks like chowder, doesn't it?

It's not a million miles off it, it's a clowder of cats.

And it would have scored you 6 points.

Comes from an old word meaning a jelly-like mass apparently.

A clowder of cats. Well done if you got that at home.

-Cobras is a quiver.

-Oh, of course.

-A quiver of cobras.

Would have scored you 5.

-And owls?

-A parliament.

-A parliament.

-Oh, of course it is.

A parliament of owls, despite their wisdom,

they're called a parliament of owls. LAUGHTER

21 points if you said that.

Thank you very much, Richard.

So the pair leaving us, I'm really sorry to say,

it's Stefan and Rebekah.

You've done so well, though. So well.

Massive respect to the pair of you.

It's been lovely having you,

a real treat to have you on the show, thank you for playing.

Stefan and Rebekah.

APPLAUSE

Good luck, guys.

But for Nina and Laila, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Nina and Laila, you fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy so very well done.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

for your nominated charities and

at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at...

APPLAUSE

Well, Laila, you've done it,

you've done one better than you did last time.

All the way through to the final and 2-0 in the head-to-head.

-Yeah. That's good.

-Very impressive.

You saw off Brookside, you saw off Emmerdale,

you've just seen off Neighbours, and here you are.

Anything you'd like to see come up in this last round, Nina?

Um...

-EastEnders?

-LAUGHTER

That would be a fine thing. Laila, how about you?

I don't care, as long as it's easy.

-LAUGHTER

-Fair enough.

You get to choose your category

and there'll be four categories to choose from and here they are.

I think we should go for the actors. I think that's about as...

As close as we're going to get, or contemporary novelists, I don't know.

-No, I don't read a lot.

-OK.

-Let's go for alliterative actors.

-OK, Richard.

OK, take your answers from any of these three categories,

we're looking for any feature film made for cinema release for which...

Doris Day received an acting credit,

for which Vince Vaughn received an acting credit

or for which Susan Sarandon received an acting credit.

So any feature film made for cinema release

for which any of those three received an acting credit.

No TV films, anything like that, but voice performances do count.

Very, very best of luck.

Thanks very much. Now, as always you've got up to one minute

to come up with three answers and all you need

to win that jackpot for your charities

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

Are you ready?

-Um, OK.

-Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock, there they are.

Your time starts now.

-Um...

-Doris Day, Calamity Jane.

Susan Sarandon... Witches Of Eastwick.

-And Vince Vaughn...

-Um... Can we go for DodgeBall?

-You can keep guessing.

-Oh, we've got a minute, oh, I see.

-What's an older Doris Day film than...

-The Love Boat?

Erm...

Susan Sarandon films,

didn't she do one about a step-mother with Julia Roberts?

We could do that.

Um... Vince Vaughn, er...

He's done loads, oh my gosh, I can't believe I've...

Erm...

-Susan Sarandon.

-Thelma And Louise?

Yeah, but that would be very popular, wouldn't it?

-Well, we've just got to keep saying them.

-How about Doris Day?

-Let's keep going back to her.

-Once I Had A Secret Love.

-Ten seconds left.

-Pillow Talk?

-That'll be very popular.

-Well, we'll just keep saying them.

-OK.

Uh...

OK, that's your time up.

I now need to know what your three answers are going to be.

Oh, Susan Sarandon...

-The Witches Of Eastwick.

-OK, Witches Of Eastwick.

And then two of Doris Day.

-Which ones would you want to go for?

-Um...

Calamity Jane.

-It's very popular though, isn't it?

-But...

-OK.

-Well, you say your one.

-Pillow Talk.

-Right, Pillow Talk and Calamity Jane.

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

-I think the Susan Sarandon film.

-Witches Of Eastwick?

We'll put that last. Least likely to be Pointless?

Calamity Jane.

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

and here they are, we've got...

Very best of luck. Your first answer was Calamity Jane.

You thought this was the least likely to be Pointless.

It just came to me quick.

Three good answers on the board there.

Let's say one of those wins that jackpot for you,

-what are your charities? Nina?

-Mine is the National Kidney Federation.

It's run by ex-kidney patients

or families involved with kidney failure

and it's basically to look after them

throughout their dialysis and transplant etc.

-Excellent. Laila?

-Breast Cancer UK.

Very good, excellent, two great charities.

APPLAUSE

Well, three excellent answers up on the board.

Let's hope at least one of those will win that jackpot for you.

Calamity Jane, your first answer.

We were looking for Doris Day films.

It has to be right and pointless for you to win,

but for £2,500, let's find out how many people said Calamity Jane.

Is it pointless?

It's right.

If this goes all the way down to zero,

you will leave here with £2,500 for your charities.

Calamity Jane now going down through the 20s, into the teens, 18.

APPLAUSE

OK, so not a pointless answer unfortunately.

Two more shots at today's jackpot.

Your next answer was Pillow Talk, again a Doris Day film.

Has to be right, has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.

Let's find out how many people, for £2,500, said Pillow Talk.

It's right.

Your first answer, Calamity Jane, took us all the way down to 18.

Pillow Talk now going down through the 20s, passes 18,

down and 11.

APPLAUSE

So close, so close!

11 for Pillow Talk so only one more shot at today's jackpot.

Let's find out. Your last answer.

The Witches Of Eastwick, in this case,

we were looking for Susan Sarandon films.

This has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot. Let's find out.

For £2,500, how many people said The Witches Of Eastwick.

Is it pointless?

It's right.

Well, Calamity Jane took us down to 18, Pillow Talk took us down to 11.

The Witches Of Eastwick, now taking us past 18, passing 11,

down in single figures,

down it goes, oh, 4.

-APPLAUSE

-Oh, that's a great answer though.

Three brilliant answers in that last round.

Unfortunately, none of them pointless.

You didn't find that all-important pointless answer

which I'm afraid means you don't win today's jackpot of £2,500,

however, as it's a celebrity special

and each of our celebrities is playing for a charity,

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

So very well done, we have loved having you on the show.

BOTH: Thank you.

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

You've been great fun, it's been terrific having you here.

I'll take you through the pointless answers.

I'm sure some people at home would have got some of these.

We'll start with Doris Day.

You could have had...

There's more. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon,

It Happened To Jane, you could have had Lullaby Of Broadway.

Tea For Two, The Thrill Of It All, there's also a film I confess

I haven't seen you could have had, called Young Man With A Horn.

LAUGHTER

Pointless answer, apparently.

Vince Vaughn films...

The follow-up to Get Shorty, Be Cool was a pointless answer.

Mr And Mrs Smith, the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie movie,

The Dilemma he's in with Kevin James.

The Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World.

You also could have had Domestic Disturbance, Into The Wild,

Lay The Favourite, all pointless answers.

Well done if you said those.

And Susan Sarandon, there's quite a few pointless answers for her.

She's in the film of The Lovely Bones.

You could also have had Bob Roberts, she's in Cats And Dogs,

she's in Cradle Will Rock, In The Valley Of Elah,

James And The Giant Peach, Little Women, Moonlight Mile, Rugrats In Paris

or Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Well done if you said any of those.

Thanks, Richard. Unfortunately we have to say goodbye, Nina and Laila,

it's been fantastic having you on the show, thank you for playing.

You've been brilliant contestants. Nina and Laila.

APPLAUSE

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.