Countdown - Friday 30th September 2022
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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. A very warm welcome to Friday Afternoon in Countdown.
00:34We're always in a good mood on a Friday afternoon.
00:36Rachel Riley's show finishes, dump the kids at a family member's house
00:40on pub crawl. If only!
00:42They'll come on the pub crawl, actually.
00:44They'll be quite happy with that. Brilliant.
00:47Listen, on this day in history, 1984,
00:51the premiere of one of my favourite family TV shows of all time.
00:56They're hard to make, those.
00:58If I said Cabot Cove, where am I?
01:02Murder, She Wrote. Yes, yes.
01:04And I don't mind saying this, cos I like making a fool of myself.
01:07I don't mind.
01:08You know, before you know about the birds and the bees,
01:11or you grow up, you always have innocent childhood crushes.
01:14I loved Jessica Fletcher.
01:16I really did. Wow. I really was sweet on her.
01:19And randomly Cilla Black as well.
01:21So I think it was maybe cos my granny was ginger, you know?
01:24And it was when I was innocent,
01:26so I just automatically loved red-haired women in television.
01:30And Angela Ransby, absolute legend.
01:32I'll have to call into her age and get her in Dictionary Corner.
01:35Oh, my God, that would be a dream come true.
01:38What about you?
01:39If we put your childhood crush into Dictionary Corner?
01:42Oh, well, we've had his cousin, actually,
01:45cos it would be Joseph Fiennes from Shakespeare In Love,
01:49the lead actor in there,
01:50who then turned into a bit of a baddie in The Handmaid's Tale.
01:53Did you tip Bex's name onto your pencil case?
01:55No, I had his name etched into my calculator.
02:01Love it.
02:02Well, you can have a think about that at home,
02:04it brings back really nice memories.
02:06Well, let's move over to Dictionary Corner.
02:08And I asked before we came on air, so this is a gospel truth.
02:11Please welcome, of course, our J of the D,
02:13whose childhood crush was Robert Redford.
02:16Susie Dent.
02:19And our Olympic hero,
02:20back to throw our last stone in Dictionary Corner for this week,
02:23whose childhood crush was Shane from Westlife.
02:26Aimee Reyes.
02:30I love it.
02:31Well, listen, yesterday's show was just absolutely sensational.
02:34We made a little bit of history.
02:36I say we, that's the royal we.
02:38It was Tom Stevenson who made it the highest score
02:40in the history of Countdown.
02:42154.
02:44I mean, you're such an unassuming, lovely young lad at 20 years old,
02:48but you came in today, you demanded a limo,
02:50you had blue M&Ms in your rider,
02:52you were trying to pass champions with you and everything.
02:55So, you know, you've changed.
02:56No, seriously, what's it been like sort of letting that sink in?
02:59It's been, yeah, it's been certainly an experience.
03:03And I'd just like to say that I've met some lovely people.
03:06Stay humble, just like Eve.
03:08All the great champions do, so that's wonderful stuff.
03:10Unfortunately, Andy Keeble from Cheshire was watching.
03:14I was.
03:16Very unfortunately.
03:17In a way, it takes the pressure off a little bit.
03:20You know, you just give it your best shot today.
03:22What, because I don't expect to win?
03:24Well, you say that, but he's hiding his light under a bushel
03:28because you have five wins already.
03:31This is not your first time in Countdown,
03:33but this is what I love.
03:3436 years ago.
03:38It's BSD before Susie Dent.
03:41Yeah.
03:42But it was with the great Richard Whiteley.
03:44Tell me about that experience.
03:45Oh, it was fantastic, yeah, because it was very different.
03:48I had Carol Vorderman on numbers and Kathy Heitner on letters,
03:52so it was separated and it was shot in Leeds, not here.
03:55Yeah.
03:56But, yeah, it was great.
03:57Really good.
03:58It was brilliant.
03:59So, listen, he might have just got the highest score
04:01in the history of Countdown, Tom,
04:03but you've got one less win, as it stands, than challenger Andy.
04:07Good luck to both of you.
04:11You can really say the sky is the limit
04:13as Tom gives us the first nine letters.
04:15Hi, Rachel.
04:16Hiya, Tom.
04:18Let's start today with D.
04:23S.
04:26Z.
04:29I.
04:31E.
04:34M.
04:38O.
04:41N.
04:44And a final A.
04:45At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
05:16Time is up.
05:18There's no way we can hit the heights of yesterday.
05:21The highest score ever.
05:22Tom, how did you do?
05:23I'll go for an eight.
05:24And Andy?
05:26A seven.
05:27Cool, what's a seven?
05:28Demons.
05:29Demons.
05:30And Tom?
05:31Domains with an E.
05:32Yes, French vineyards.
05:33Very good.
05:34Good.
05:35Well, listen, we judge you now by the very highest of standards.
05:38Let's go over to the Dictionary Corner.
05:40Anything beyond an eight?
05:41Susie and Eve.
05:42Oh, I think you missed a nine.
05:45Yes.
05:46Nomadises.
05:48If somebody nomadises, they live life as a nomad.
05:55There you go.
05:56Still an eight in the very first round.
05:58Andy, a chance to say hello to Rachel.
06:00Hi, Rachel.
06:01Hi, Andy.
06:02Consonant, please.
06:04Start with L.
06:05Consonant.
06:06R.
06:07And another.
06:08D.
06:09And another.
06:11P.
06:12A vowel.
06:14O.
06:15And another.
06:16E.
06:18And one more vowel.
06:20I.
06:21A consonant.
06:23S.
06:25And one more consonant, please.
06:27And a final R.
06:2930 seconds.
06:43MUSIC PLAYS
07:01Mr Keeble.
07:03Six, please.
07:04A six for Mr Keeble.
07:05Mr Stevenson?
07:06A seven.
07:07And a seven.
07:08The sixes?
07:09Prides.
07:10And the seven?
07:11Spoiler.
07:12There you go.
07:13Spoiler alert.
07:14We're good with that?
07:15Yeah, we certainly can go with that.
07:17Excellent.
07:18Eve, how did you get on?
07:19Yes, spoiler, we also got a couple other sevens.
07:21Soldier periods.
07:22Very good indeed.
07:23Right, 15-0 for Tom.
07:24Let's get our first numbers round of this Friday afternoon.
07:27What's all?
07:28Two from the top, please, Rachel, and four from anywhere else.
07:31Thank you, Tom.
07:32Two large and four smalls.
07:34And the first numbers of today's contest are four, four, seven,
07:40eight.
07:41And the large, 250.
07:42And 75.
07:43And the target to reach, 840.
07:46It for zero.
07:47Numbers up.
08:10840, Andy.
08:19837.
08:20Three away, Tom.
08:22841, perhaps, not written down.
08:24Perhaps not written down.
08:25You need to go first.
08:26Eight plus seven is 15.
08:28Eight plus seven, 15.
08:30Multiplied by the 50 for 750.
08:32750.
08:34Add the 75 on, 825.
08:36825.
08:37And then four fours is 16, and add it on.
08:39Yeah.
08:41Gets you to one away.
08:43Very good, and that'll take seven points.
08:45Now, when it's a zero at the end, I always think,
08:47great, this will be easy.
08:49It wasn't, Rach.
08:50How do you do it?
08:51Well, I've not had much to do, but by Tom's standard,
08:53he's missed one, because with this method, kind of,
08:56you can just say four divided by four is one,
08:59and then nick the rest of it.
09:01Eight plus seven, 15.
09:03Before you times it by the 50, add the one here.
09:06And then you get to 765, and you can add on the 75.
09:12840.
09:13Wow, quite good, quite good.
09:15APPLAUSE
09:17All that champagne, you're having a limousine in the way here.
09:20Right, let's get tea time tea,
09:21so as we take the end of our first break.
09:23Here it is.
09:25Moody Man, Moody Man.
09:27It's got an I, by the way, for those who can't see it.
09:30It sounds like I'm very cross with the old fossil, Moody Man.
09:34It sounds like I'm very cross with the old fossil.
09:52There you go. Revealed, Moody Man becomes Ammonoid,
09:55and a very clever clue.
09:57It sounds like I'm very cross with the old fossil.
10:00So what type of fossil is an Ammonoid, Susie?
10:03It is an extinct one, for a start,
10:05and it's got a flat-coiled spiral shell.
10:07OK, wonderful, thank you.
10:09Let's move on with the game today.
10:1122-0, not a surprise that our champion is out of the blocks very quickly.
10:16Long time to turn it around.
10:18Andy, five-time champion from 36 years ago.
10:21Let's get some letters.
10:23Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:25Thank you, Andy. M.
10:27And another.
10:29G. And another.
10:32S. And one more.
10:35T. And a vowel, please.
10:38U. And another.
10:40E. And a vowel.
10:43U.
10:45Consonant.
10:47S. And another vowel, please.
10:50And O.
10:52Thank you, Rachel.
11:01MUSIC PLAYS
11:23That's time. Tom?
11:25Six. And Andy? Six.
11:27Yeah, what's a six, Andy? Gusset.
11:29Tom. Yep, same word.
11:31Gussets for six. What else have we got?
11:33We got outguess for eight.
11:36Outguess.
11:38Yes, you were outguessed. There you go.
11:40Let's get some more letters now from Tom.
11:43A vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tom.
11:45A. And a second.
11:48O. And a third.
11:51I. Consonant, please.
11:54K. And another.
11:56L. And a third, please.
11:59R. A vowel.
12:02E. A consonant, please.
12:05Y. And a final consonant.
12:07And a final H.
12:09Start the clock.
12:11MUSIC PLAYS
12:27MUSIC CONTINUES
12:42Andy's now on the board.
12:44Let's see if he can double up. What have you got?
12:46Six. And what about yourself, Tom?
12:48Yeah, I'll go for six as well. OK, what's a six, Tom?
12:50Holier. Holier, yes.
12:52And Andy? Haler.
12:54Eve Muirhead. Why me?
12:56We actually got a seven, didn't we, Susie?
12:58We did, yeah.
13:00With horily. H-O-A-R-I-L-Y.
13:03You know, a hory joke is a really kind of trite one,
13:06or one that you've heard over and over.
13:08So if something is horily unfunny,
13:10it's just the worst kind of joke.
13:12Why are you looking at me like that?
13:14I don't know. Well, I don't know.
13:16OK, I'm going to move on. Let's get some numbers.
13:18Andy, it's your first choice of the day.
13:20Two large, please, Rachel. Four small.
13:22Bang, you're indeed two from the top four.
13:24A little coming up for you.
13:26And for the second time today,
13:28the selection is two, seven,
13:30one, ten,
13:3350 and 100.
13:35And the target to reach...
13:37958.
13:39958. Numbers up.
13:52MUSIC PLAYS
14:12Time is up, Tom. Yeah, 958.
14:14How did you do, Andy? 959.
14:16959, so a big ten points for Tom, a fee's nailed it.
14:19OK, ten times 100 is 1,000.
14:22He's definitely nailed it. 1,000.
14:24Take away the 50. 950.
14:26And then add the seven and the one on.
14:28Lovely. 958.
14:30APPLAUSE
14:3244 plus 12, but anything less than 155 is a failure in my book, Tom.
14:37So we'll see how it goes. We'll pause for a second.
14:40Eve, you've been regaling us with stories all week,
14:42but on a Friday, we like to just let you relax
14:45and we're going to ask you questions of things
14:47that we've been dying to ask you.
14:49So we'll ask you two or three now. Susie?
14:51OK, well, my question has always been about the sweeping in curling
14:55because I cannot believe that it makes such a difference
14:58that it's that crucial.
15:00Because surely the ice is so smooth anyway
15:02because so much of it goes on all the time.
15:05Yeah, it's a good question.
15:07So the ice surface that we curl on is actually very different
15:10to the likes of skating ice.
15:12So before we play, the ice technicians, they pebble it
15:16so it's basically like a watering can
15:18and they put thousands of tiny droplets all over the ice
15:21and then that allows the stone to glide on it
15:23so there's less friction.
15:25And then the sweeping, what that does
15:27is it slightly, like, lubricates the top of the surface
15:30and actually allows the stone to travel further.
15:33You can't slow it down, though? You can't, unfortunately.
15:35So if you throw it heavy, you've just got to stand and watch it.
15:38Oh, you can kick it when nobody's looking? Yes.
15:40That's brilliant. Thank you.
15:42Rachel?
15:43Well, loads of athletes or people at the top of their field
15:46that I've met are perfectionists
15:48and they always look back on their performances
15:50and don't really enjoy the wins,
15:51they just pick apart the little things that went wrong
15:53and I was wondering how your mentality fits on that scale.
15:56Yes, I'm very much someone like that
15:59and I don't think I've ever come off a curling game
16:03and not found something that I want to get better at,
16:06even win or lose.
16:08And I always find that if you win,
16:11they're sometimes the games that you actually take the most out of
16:14that you can still carry on and do better.
16:16I watch so much curling on TV to learn
16:19and maybe get some more ideas for my own game.
16:22Dedication, that is.
16:23My question sounds simple, but I think it's very important, actually.
16:27How are you handling retiring at 32?
16:30Yeah, I took the tough decision a few weeks ago
16:35to hang up my curling shoes.
16:38Being at four Olympics, it's hard, hard work
16:41and my dream was to always get that gold medal
16:44and I managed to get that just there in Beijing.
16:47So I decided that this was the right time for me to retire
16:52and I think just experience life away from curling
16:55because I've never experienced anything else
16:57apart from curling, going to school
17:00and, yeah, I'm really looking forward to the future and what it holds.
17:03It's been so good to have you here
17:05and, you know, you'll have the memories forever.
17:07So will we of that gold medal.
17:09It really is one of my favourite, favourite, favourite of all time
17:12in Olympic history.
17:13It's been so good to have you here.
17:19OK, back to the game.
17:2044 plays 12.
17:22Tom, it's your letters.
17:24Consonant, please.
17:25Thank you, Tom.
17:26P
17:27And another.
17:28B
17:29And a vowel.
17:31A
17:33And another.
17:35E
17:36A consonant.
17:37M
17:38And a second, please.
17:40N
17:41And a vowel.
17:43O
17:44A consonant.
17:46F
17:47And a final consonant, please.
17:49A final G.
17:50Kite.
18:03MUSIC PLAYS
18:20Andy?
18:21Er, I'll go for a six, not written down.
18:24Good on you. Tom?
18:25Six written down.
18:26And the six not written down?
18:28Bog man.
18:29Bog man!
18:30And Tom?
18:32Yeah, I'm not bemoaning bemoan, but I'm not sure about bog man.
18:35I want it to be in.
18:36It is.
18:37Yes!
18:38Full explanation, please.
18:39It's Irish.
18:40Derogatory, though.
18:42A person from a rural area.
18:44Good stuff.
18:45What have you got over there, Eve?
18:47Just another six.
18:48Mandule.
18:49A type of tree.
18:50Yes, a tree from New Zealand.
18:52With tough, light brown wood.
18:54Great. OK, 50 plays 18.
18:56Let's get some more letters now.
18:58And it's Andy.
18:59Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
19:01Thank you, Andy.
19:02S.
19:03And another.
19:05L.
19:06And another.
19:08D.
19:09And one more.
19:11H.
19:12And a vowel, please.
19:13E.
19:14One more.
19:16I.
19:17And one more.
19:19O.
19:20And a consonant.
19:22T.
19:23And one more consonant, please.
19:25And the last one, R.
19:26Here we go.
19:29Andy.
19:59Seven.
20:00And Tom?
20:01Seven as well.
20:02The seven for Tom.
20:03Dithers.
20:04Dithers.
20:05And Andy?
20:06Soldier.
20:07Soldier.
20:08Dithers.
20:09It was just...
20:10Take your pick out of those letters.
20:12What else have we got in Dictionary Corner?
20:14Just a couple of sevens as well.
20:16Slither is another one.
20:17Yeah.
20:18Otherwise we'd be dithering as well.
20:20Sevens all round.
20:21Nice and easy.
20:22Right.
20:23OK.
20:2457 plays 25.
20:25Tom, what's the tactics going to be in the numbers?
20:28One from the top, please, Rachel.
20:30You're not going for the challenges,
20:32you're going for the points, aren't you, Tom?
20:34Right, let's get some more for you.
20:36Five little ones this time.
20:37Four.
20:38Two.
20:39Six.
20:40Five.
20:41Ten and a large one, 75.
20:43And the target to reach...
20:45477.
20:46477.
20:47Numbers up.
20:58MUSIC PLAYS
21:18477. Tom?
21:20477.
21:21And Andy?
21:22476.
21:23OK, Tom, for ten points.
21:2575 add four for 79.
21:2879.
21:30Multiply it by six, 474.
21:32474.
21:33And then five take two for three, and add on.
21:35Lovely.
21:37477.
21:38APPLAUSE
21:41Guys, I think we'll leave now as we head into our second break
21:44with main goal as our tea time teaser.
21:46Main goal.
21:47Your main goal here is to spot the paint colour.
21:50Your main goal here is to spot the paint colour.
21:53MUSIC PLAYS
21:58APPLAUSE
22:06How did you get on with the tea time teaser?
22:08Main goal.
22:09Your main goal here is to spot the paint colour,
22:11and that paint colour was, of course, Magnolia.
22:14Let's get back to it again.
22:1567-25, Andy, back 36 years later.
22:19How are you finding it compared to the first time around?
22:22Erm, a lot harder.
22:24OK.
22:25It all goes a lot quicker.
22:27Listen, six rounds still to go when it's your letters.
22:30OK, thank you. Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:32Thank you, Andy.
22:33L.
22:34And another one.
22:36C.
22:37And one more.
22:39D.
22:40And one more, please.
22:42N.
22:43And a vowel.
22:45A.
22:46One more.
22:48I.
22:49And another one, please.
22:51A.
22:52And a vowel.
22:54A.
22:55And a consonant.
22:58T.
22:59And one more vowel, please.
23:01Lastly, E.
23:03Let's go.
23:04MUSIC PLAYS
23:24MUSIC STOPS
23:34How did you get on, Andy?
23:35Six.
23:36And Tom?
23:37Eight.
23:38Let's try the six first.
23:39Candle.
23:40Yeah, and Tom?
23:41Dentalia.
23:42Let's get over dentalia.
23:44Yes, dentalia.
23:46It's another word for...
23:48It's the plural first vowel of dentalium.
23:50And that is another word for the tusk shell,
23:53a burrowing mollusk with a slender tusk-shaped shell.
23:57APPLAUSE
24:01That's as good, I'm assuming, as there is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
24:05Absolutely. Yeah. Incredible.
24:0775 plus 25.
24:09Let's get nine more letters this Friday afternoon from Tom.
24:12Vowel, please, Rachel.
24:14Thank you, Tom.
24:15E.
24:16And a consonant.
24:18F.
24:19And a second.
24:21G.
24:22A vowel.
24:24I.
24:25A consonant.
24:26N.
24:27And a second.
24:29S.
24:30All in alphabetical order.
24:32And a consonant, please.
24:34You've ruined it.
24:35B.
24:37Vowel.
24:39A.
24:40And a final consonant, please.
24:42A final.
24:43W.
24:4430 seconds.
24:45MUSIC PLAYS
24:52MUSIC CONTINUES
25:15Tom?
25:16Six.
25:17And Andy?
25:18Six.
25:19The six for Andy?
25:20Begins.
25:21Binges.
25:22Binges.
25:23And begins.
25:24Rarely have the I-N-G out there and not get it at all from the two choices.
25:28Let's see if we can better it in Dictionary Corner.
25:31Couldn't get anything beyond, actually, Colin.
25:33Oh. Strange. Strange, that.
25:35More difficult than it looks.
25:37Six points as good as we can do here as we take a little break.
25:40We put our guns back in our holsters
25:42and head over to the Robert Redford-loving Susie Dent.
25:46I say that because it must have been Boots Cassidy
25:48and the Sundance Kid did it for you.
25:50Because my mum loved those movies.
25:52So, strictly speaking, Robert Redford was her crush,
25:54but I kind of took it over for her.
25:56And it was quite the innocent one, just like yours.
25:59Yeah.
26:00OK, so I'm going to talk about crushes.
26:02And the word crush itself first came into English about 1398.
26:07It's the first record that you'll find in the Oxford English Dictionary.
26:10And we think it came from an old French word,
26:13classir, which means to break or to crack and to make a lot of noise.
26:18And that element of noise was soon lost to another verb, which was crash.
26:22So that kind of took it over.
26:24But the romantic sense of crush, as you might expect,
26:27came about much later, and that's 1884, the first record that we have.
26:32And it was in the journal of someone called Isabella Maude Rittenhouse,
26:35and it referred to the object of her infatuation.
26:38So, you might think that, you know,
26:40asking someone who's your crush is a really modern thing.
26:43But, no, in 1884, we hear,
26:45Winty is weeping because her crush is gone.
26:48Oh.
26:49And then within a decade, crush also described the infatuation itself.
26:53So, you know, it was a crush rather than he was a crush.
26:58And that was in 1895.
27:00So that's the crush bit, as I say.
27:02I mean, it can be overwhelming, so it sort of makes sense.
27:05The word for the overwhelming sense of infatuation,
27:09that kind of first exhilarating rush of love, is limerence.
27:14That was a deliberate coinage, actually, by a psychologist
27:17who wanted a term for the first rush.
27:19And there's one I love from the Philippines, giggle,
27:22which is to find someone or something so irresistibly cute
27:25you want to squeeze them.
27:27But word of warning also, from Italy,
27:30we have a word for the attempt to revive a lost love
27:33because you completely forget all the things that were wrong about it,
27:37and it's cavoli riscaldati, which means reheated cabbage.
27:41It may seem like a good idea, but it really is,
27:44unless it's Robert Redford.
27:5081 plays 31. Four rounds left today.
27:53Andy, let's get some letters off you, my friend.
27:55A consonant, please.
27:57Thank you, Andy. P
27:59And another consonant.
28:01S And another.
28:03N And one more, please.
28:06N And a vowel.
28:08I And another one, please.
28:10I And another.
28:13E And a consonant.
28:16R And one last consonant, please.
28:19And one last S.
28:21Well done.
28:41THEY CONFER
28:52Andy? Eight.
28:54And Tom? Also eight.
28:56OK. Andy? Primness.
28:58Primness. And Tom?
29:00Inspires. Inspires.
29:02Both excellent. Inspiring words. Brilliant.
29:04Anything better than eight?
29:06There is a seven that you definitely wouldn't want from your crush.
29:10We'll move on from that.
29:1289 plays 39.
29:14One round left in terms of the letters, and it's going to be Tom.
29:18Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:20Thank you, Tom. V
29:22And a vowel.
29:24A And a consonant.
29:26T And a vowel.
29:29O Consonant.
29:32G And a vowel.
29:35E A consonant.
29:38R A vowel.
29:42I And a final consonant, please.
29:45And a final D.
29:4730 seconds.
30:09THEY CONFER
30:19Tom? Eight.
30:21And Andy? Eight.
30:23Let's have the eight.
30:25Audative. Audative.
30:27And Tom? Deviator.
30:29And deviator. Over to Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent.
30:32Yes, deviator is absolutely fine.
30:36There's all native, but not all dative, I'm afraid, Andy.
30:39Sorry. Still points to gobble up, though, Andy.
30:42Let's have the last numbers of the day.
30:44Two from the top and four small, please.
30:47Thank you, Andy. Two large, four little.
30:50Coming up for the final one of the week.
30:52And this last selection is seven, three, five, ten,
30:58and the big one's 50, and 25.
31:01And the final target, 764.
31:04764, last numbers.
31:35764, the target. Tom?
31:39764. And Andy?
31:41765. Tom, for ten points to take you over the century again.
31:4550 and 25 is 75.
31:4750 and 25, 75.
31:49Multiply by ten for 750.
31:51We almost always do it the same way, you know. 750.
31:54And then five minus three is two. Yeah.
31:57Times by seven for 14. Lovely.
32:00And add it on. Brilliant. 765.
32:02APPLAUSE
32:06At this stage, yesterday on Countdown,
32:08we were on the verge of history,
32:10cos Tom had to get ten points to break the all-time record,
32:13which was 154. He managed it.
32:16We can't quite do that, but after the conundrum,
32:18let's see how it goes. I have quite a stat for you.
32:21But for now, let's have the fingers on the buzzers.
32:24Tom and Andy, ten points.
32:26Let's reveal today's Countdown conundrum.
32:33Tom. Replicate. Let's have a look.
32:40Well, it is a repeat performance from our champion, Tom Stevenson,
32:44who gets his fifth win today.
32:46And here's something you might not have realised.
32:48In fact, I'm sure you haven't.
32:50You've played 75 rounds of Countdown.
32:53Do you know how many you've lost?
32:55A couple, maybe. I don't know. Zero.
32:57Zero.
32:59Not a single round lost.
33:03So it's history worth seeing every single day.
33:06Unbelievable.
33:10And you've got the weekend to bask in the glory.
33:13Time to bed, yeah.
33:15Listen, I was hoping old age and treachery would outwit youth and skill,
33:19but it wasn't to be 36 years later.
33:21Back to the golf course for you, mate?
33:23Back to the golf course.
33:25Just don't tell your mate she came back on, I'll be all right.
33:29Been really nice to have you here, mate. Appreciate it.
33:32And listen, your retirement is the likes of Countdown's gain,
33:35because it's been so good to have you. Have you enjoyed it?
33:37I've loved it, every minute of it. It's been great.
33:39Thank you for having me.
33:41And you've seen a lot in the history of Countdown, Susie.
33:43Tom's something else, isn't he?
33:45I know. It is really quite something in my 30 years.
33:49Yeah, so congratulations.
33:51I love the fact we're coming back here Monday going,
33:53will he lose a round?
33:56And here's something, we're talking about the different ages.
33:59What were you doing, Rachel,
34:01when Andy Keeble made his debut appearance on Countdown?
34:05In 1986, it was the year I was born.
34:08Sorry, I might be feeling a bit old, but 36 years ago, yeah.
34:13Brilliant. Love the history of Countdown, but I tell you what,
34:16we really love the present day.
34:18Some fantastic champions, the competitors getting better than ever.
34:22So if you enjoy it, don't forget to tell your friends.
34:24We'll be back here same time, same place on Monday.
34:27Rachel, Susie and I, you can count on us.
34:30You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com
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34:48Jimmy Carr is putting it on a plate for you,
34:50just pay attention and the prizes could be yours.
34:53I literally just told you all you tonight at 10.
34:56And New York are next with 250k for a place in the sun.