Countdown - Friday 21st October 2022
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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:19APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody, and welcome to the last Countdown of the Week
00:34as we weigh in with 15 more rounds of letters and numbers
00:38on October the 21st.
00:41Rachel, very important day, as you know,
00:44because the late, great Carrie Fisher was born this day.
00:47That's not the only reason.
00:49Kim Kardashian was born in this day as well.
00:52Was she? Anything else?
00:54It was my due date last year.
00:56Your due date is etched on your brain.
00:58My little Noahkins was due on the 21st of October.
01:01So, ignorant statement of the week coming up,
01:04if a baby is overdue, does that mean they weigh more?
01:07In general, would you find it's a bouncing baby?
01:10I think they're supposed to be about half a pound a week
01:13towards that kind of final stage.
01:15She was a mathematician's baby.
01:17She came out at 3.456 kilograms, so she wasn't massive.
01:20Oh, kilograms. Oh, how things have changed.
01:22I've never heard a baby weighed in kilograms.
01:24I think bananas, kilograms.
01:26Babies, pounds and ounces.
01:28Do you know your weight?
01:30I think I was around 6'11", somewhere around there.
01:32I wouldn't put any money on it.
01:34I was 8'9", quite big.
01:36My little brother, not so little, he was 9'4".
01:39My nephew was even bigger, so we're all really, really big babies.
01:42You know, you've just reminded me, though, just before Noah was born,
01:45I read a story about a baby born in Liverpool,
01:4814 pounds, 15 ounces, this little one.
01:51Well, I shouldn't say little one, should I? It's quite a big one.
01:54You'd be apologising to your mother for the rest of your life,
01:57wouldn't you, for that?
01:59Well, there you go. Let's bounce on over to Dexenry Corner.
02:02Susie Dent, of course, ready to give birth
02:04to another episode of Countdown.
02:06Yes, and my big baby, and she was quite big,
02:08is going to be 15 tomorrow, so happy birthday to me.
02:11And what weight?
02:13She was 9'3". 9'3".
02:15Anything else you'd like to tell us about her?
02:17No, I was that big too. No, just I love her.
02:19You're a big doll. Beautiful. There you go.
02:22And congratulations, everyone, it's a boy.
02:24John Thompson is here with you.
02:29Well, we've got a young'un as champion,
02:3119-year-old Christy Cooper from Manchester.
02:33We always say people love Countdown and they love quizzes.
02:36Christy takes it to the next level.
02:38If you want to host your own quiz show in university,
02:42pitch it to me.
02:44So, it's a show that revolved around a giant prop staircase
02:49and each stair corresponds to a question,
02:51so you get a question right, you move up a stair.
02:53If you get it wrong, you go straight back to the beginning.
02:56I'm thinking about funding it, but it has to have a good name.
02:59Back To Stair 1. Back To Stair 1, yes!
03:02APPLAUSE
03:04I like it. I mean, many channels would commission that right now.
03:07We're coming up against Lewis Castling-Morey,
03:10which is a beautiful name. Welcome to the programme.
03:12Bit of a mouthful. 21.
03:14You didn't think you'd be the senior citizen?
03:16No, I didn't.
03:17You're just out of university
03:19and you're quite an interesting living arrangement.
03:22Tell me about that.
03:24Yeah, so my final two years of university,
03:26I moved into a student house with six girls.
03:28I'm struggling to think of any disadvantages,
03:30but loads of advantages to that.
03:32I'm thinking, well, they're obviously more mature,
03:35more intelligent, what else?
03:37I mean, they smell a bit better than boys would.
03:39Right, absolutely. Boys stink.
03:42I'm trying to think of a negative.
03:44We had two showers, both of them, full to the brim.
03:47Every time I went to use it.
03:49Hopefully your house is in order today.
03:51Let's see how you get on. Everybody, Lewis and Christy.
03:54APPLAUSE
03:57I just realised it's back to the Los Angeles Olympics, isn't it?
04:01Lewis against Christy.
04:02Let's sprint straight into our first round. Off you go, sir.
04:05Hi, Rachel. Hi, Christy.
04:06I'll start with a consonant, please.
04:08Thank you. Start today with N.
04:10Vowel.
04:12A.
04:13Consonant.
04:15C.
04:16Vowel.
04:18E.
04:19Consonant.
04:21D.
04:22Consonant.
04:24T.
04:25Vowel.
04:27U.
04:29Vowel.
04:32O.
04:33And a final consonant, please.
04:35A final P.
04:37At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
05:02MUSIC PLAYS
05:10Time's up. Lewis?
05:12A seven. And Christy?
05:13A seven.
05:14Good start. Lewis, what have you got?
05:16Counted.
05:17Counted. And Christy?
05:19Pounced.
05:20Really strong start. Seven points each.
05:23Hawaii, 5-0. How do you get on?
05:25Well, I'll start with out-keyned, but I don't know if it's a word.
05:30Decay-knit more than someone else. No.
05:32Good, cos then I went for out-paced.
05:34That is excellent. Good. Very good.
05:40Anything else, Susie?
05:41Yes, there is another eight there. Out-dance.
05:43Oh, out-dance. A good old dance-off.
05:45Yes. Love that. Love that. You'd be good at that.
05:48You wouldn't tip me on. I wouldn't.
05:50Oh, no, I probably wouldn't. Rachel might.
05:52Rachel, I throw the gauntlet down to you.
05:54We're off air at three.
05:55I'm going to get my husband in to lead. We'll smash you.
05:59Game on. Get your dancing shoes on, you're going down.
06:02Right, let's get your first letters, Lewis.
06:05Hi, Rachel. Hi, Lewis.
06:07Can I get a consonant, please? You can, indeed.
06:10F
06:11Another.
06:13S
06:14And another.
06:17R
06:18Another consonant.
06:20C
06:21One more consonant.
06:23S
06:24A vowel.
06:26A
06:27Another.
06:28I
06:30Another.
06:32I
06:34And a final vowel, please.
06:36And a final E.
06:38Thanks, Rach.
06:58MUSIC CONTINUES
07:09Christy?
07:10Er, six. And Lewis?
07:12A six. Good. What have you got, Christy?
07:14Faces. Yeah, Lewis?
07:16Er, fierce. All good, Susie?
07:18Only two Es for fierce, unfortunately.
07:21Sorry. Susie, any better?
07:23Yes, there is a nine there, believe it or not.
07:25If you are into gardening, and I think you are, Colin,
07:28scarifies, and to scarify is to cut up a lawn
07:32and remove debris if you want to replant your grass, etc.
07:36To scarify. I'm not that into it. Well done.
07:38APPLAUSE
07:41All the gardeners are like, yes, 18 points.
07:43Let's move on to our first numbers of the day.
07:45It's always the champions' choice.
07:47Two large and four small, please.
07:49Thank you, Christy. Two big numbers, four not,
07:52and the first numbers of today's contest are...
08:03172. 172 numbers up.
08:06MUSIC PLAYS
08:23MUSIC CONTINUES
08:36OK, Lewis, how did you get on there?
08:38173.
08:40You won away, Christy.
08:42173. And won away as well.
08:44OK, Lewis?
08:46So I did 25 times 3.
08:4825 times 3, 75.
08:50Add 100.
08:52175. And 9 take away 7 is 2.
08:55Yes, won away.
08:57Christy? The same way.
08:59Both minds went exactly the same way.
09:02Rachel's going to make you a little bit angry.
09:04Do you want this one, Colin?
09:06Well, you just say it or you don't.
09:087 multiplied by 9 plus the 9 plus the 9.
09:107 by 9, 63. Another 9, 72. 172.
09:13Well done. Unlucky, everyone.
09:15Right, so Mathematical Gardeners have had a very good first part
09:18and now let's take our first break.
09:20Ring Cogs.
09:22Ring Cogs.
09:23Give someone a mouthful and take a hike.
09:25Give someone a mouthful and take a hike.
09:43Welcome back. Ring Cogs becomes Scroggin'.
09:46Give someone a mouthful and take a hike.
09:49Let's try and place this on the map.
09:51Scroggin'. I'll go Scotland.
09:53I was going West Country. We're way off. It's Australia.
09:56Where Scroggin' is a mixture of dried fruit nuts
09:58and other food eaten by hikers.
10:00There you go. Love it.
10:02Right, let's get some more letters now.
10:04Lewis, our challenger, within six.
10:06Please, Maya, have a consonant.
10:08Thank you, Lewis. R.
10:10And another.
10:12G. And another.
10:14S. And another.
10:17T. And one more.
10:20H. And a vowel.
10:23O. And another vowel.
10:26E. And a third vowel.
10:29I. And a final vowel.
10:32And a final E.
10:35Thanks, Rach.
10:45BUZZER
11:06Time's up. Christy?
11:08Just six. And Lewis?
11:10A seven. OK. The six?
11:12A girth. Let's see if this comes off, Lewis.
11:15A goriest. Goriest.
11:17Very nice.
11:19Any other frighteningly long words from you, Susie?
11:21Not frighteningly long, but there was an eight there with theories.
11:24Theories. There you go, theories.
11:26In reality, one point lead to your challenger.
11:29And, Christy, you're picking the letters.
11:31Vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Christy.
11:33A. And another.
11:35O. A consonant.
11:37W.
11:39Another consonant.
11:41M. Consonant.
11:44D. Vowel.
11:46E. Consonant.
11:49R. Vowel.
11:52A.
11:54And a final vowel.
11:58Final U.
12:0030 seconds.
12:11BUZZER
12:31Lewis?
12:33A six. And Christy?
12:35I'll try a six.
12:37Or what are you trying?
12:39And Lewis?
12:41Warmed. Susie?
12:43No more, I'm afraid. Not in the dictionary. Sorry, Christy.
12:46John? You've heard of a marauder?
12:48Yes. Well, he must undertake the act of being able to maraud.
12:52Exactly. Yes, that will give you a six.
12:55Very good indeed. Difficult round as we move back to the numbers now.
12:59And you get to pick them for the first time, Lewis.
13:02OK, can I have three large, please?
13:04You can indeed. Three large.
13:06The letter spotted, three large, three small.
13:09And the three small ones are one, nine and two.
13:13And the three large ones, 50, 75 and 25.
13:17And the target, 218.
13:20218 numbers up.
13:37BUZZER
13:52Time's up, Lewis. What are you declaring?
13:54I think I've got 223, but not written down.
13:56Five away. Christy?
13:58218, not written down.
14:00Let's go with the 218, not written down.
14:02Two plus one is three.
14:04Time, 75.
14:06225.
14:07And then 50 divided by 25 is two.
14:10Yes.
14:11Take that away from the nine and take it away.
14:14Well done. 218.
14:15Yeah, very good.
14:19OK, John, love Fridays when we take a bit of time with Dictionary Corner,
14:23cos you can step back, we've got a couple of questions for you.
14:26Susie?
14:27OK, so I'm going to ask you about the title, Cold Feet.
14:29OK.
14:30Cos I know in English it's supposed to come from gamblers
14:33who would use the excuse of cold feet to leave the table if they were losing.
14:36Right.
14:37But what does it mean? Has it got lots of different...?
14:40I'm guessing the connotations of Cold Feet, written by Mike Bullen...
14:43Yeah. ..at the time,
14:45was that we were at an age where we were encroaching on adult life
14:51and we're supposed to behave like adults in an adult way
14:55and we're reluctant to put away our youthful past.
14:59Right.
15:00So I'm presuming it was cold feet in every area of that part of life.
15:05Yeah.
15:06Of moving forward.
15:07The nerves.
15:08That's really nice. Thank you.
15:10I have a friend called Steve Bonson,
15:12he's one of the best boxing pundits in the world and presenters,
15:15and he wears Hawaiian shirts. Yeah.
15:17And he always has a story for each shirt,
15:19so this could be the worst question in the world,
15:21but I want to ask you about your shirt,
15:23cos I wonder, are you going to have a story?
15:25This is the shirt Elvis wears in Blue Hawaii that I bought,
15:29not in Hawaii, but in Memphis.
15:31I love it. And has it got proper coconut buttons?
15:35Do you know what? I believe it has.
15:37Yeah? Yeah. That's how you know. That's how you know.
15:39Right, this is cutting-edge stuff.
15:41LAUGHTER
15:43Rachel?
15:44From coconut buttons to...
15:46I was going to ask, you do all kinds of action,
15:48you do impressions, comedy, serious stuff, stage screen,
15:51what's the most fun?
15:53Sketch shows. Fast show.
15:55Because you get to show your versatility
15:58and you can play so many different characters.
16:01Sketch comedy is very expensive, though,
16:03that's why you don't really see it any more.
16:05As much.
16:06But the beauty of lockdown, as I got bored, is the filters.
16:09You can create instant characters without the need for make-up.
16:14Yeah. You can't get past Susie's kid
16:16without being in a filter of some sort.
16:18That's true.
16:19And having a part of your body mutated is unbelievable.
16:22Right, brilliant. Thank you very much, John.
16:24APPLAUSE
16:27Right, perfect game for a Friday, a really close call so far.
16:30Christy, let's get some letters.
16:32Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:33Thank you, Christy.
16:34D
16:35Vowel.
16:37E
16:38Another vowel.
16:40A
16:41Consonant.
16:43H
16:44Consonant.
16:45G
16:46Vowel.
16:48I
16:49Consonant.
16:51T
16:53Consonant.
16:55L
16:56And a...
16:58Consonant.
17:00Lastly, B.
17:01Kite.
17:23How did you get on, Lewis?
17:34Er, seven.
17:35And Christy?
17:36Just six.
17:37What's the six, Christy?
17:38Er, halted.
17:39And the seven, Lewis?
17:40Delight.
17:41Fantastic.
17:42Like that.
17:43Delight.
17:44And loads of possibilities in there.
17:47He's still riding.
17:48That must be a minute and ten seconds you got.
17:50Well, I started with lighted.
17:51Yes.
17:53Stick it on eight.
17:54Yes.
17:55Fantastic.
17:56APPLAUSE
17:59Matthew Moore.
18:00I lighted.
18:01Yes.
18:02I lighted from a train, but, yeah, excellent eight.
18:04OK, seven points for Lewis, and you're picking the letters.
18:07Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:08Thank you, Lewis.
18:09T
18:10And another consonant.
18:12R
18:13A third consonant.
18:16F
18:17And another consonant.
18:19J
18:20Another consonant.
18:22R
18:23And a vowel, please.
18:25E
18:26And another.
18:28O
18:30And another.
18:32E
18:33And one last vowel, please.
18:35And lastly, I.
18:38Start the clock.
18:51CLOCK TICKS
19:10How did you get on, Christy?
19:12Just four.
19:13No worries. And Lewis?
19:15I'll go for a four.
19:16OK.
19:17Yours, Lewis?
19:19Wrote.
19:20Thought.
19:21Very, very difficult round.
19:23Yeah, it really wasn't easy.
19:25Refit for five, but there is a seven there from Zoology.
19:29A rotifer.
19:30R-O-T-I-F-E-R.
19:31A minute multicellular aquatic animal.
19:34Lovely.
19:35All right, another numbers round now, Christy.
19:37You're getting to pick the six.
19:39Two large and four small again, please.
19:41Thank you, Christy. No gambling just yet.
19:43And these four little ones are three.
19:48Four, seven and ten.
19:51Big ones, 50 and 100.
19:54And the target to reach, 410.
19:57410, numbers up.
20:19Right, not sure this will be worthy of ink.
20:22Christy?
20:23410.
20:24And Lewis?
20:25Yeah, 410.
20:26Off you go, Christy.
20:27100 times four plus ten.
20:29Yeah.
20:30Lewis?
20:31Yeah, same.
20:32Seven plus three.
20:34LAUGHTER
20:35Just to lift it slightly.
20:37That's the weirdest heckle.
20:39Yeah.
20:40So, Lewis?
20:41I'll go for a four.
20:42Four.
20:43Four.
20:44Four.
20:45Four.
20:46Just to lift it slightly.
20:47That's the weirdest heckle.
20:48Yeah.
20:49Just seven plus three.
20:50Seven plus three.
20:51In the dictionary corner.
20:52We need a break until everybody calms down.
20:54OK.
20:55Eric's nib.
20:56Eric's nib.
20:57Eric used the nib of his pen to make his mark.
21:00Eric used the nib of his pen to make his mark.
21:11APPLAUSE
21:17Welcome back, Eric's nib.
21:19Yes, inscribe.
21:20Eric used the nib of his pen to make his mark.
21:23Exactly what Lewis is doing so far.
21:25It's his first time here as challenger.
21:27Four points to the good with six rounds left.
21:30And, Lewis, you're picking them.
21:32Can I have a consonant, please?
21:34Thank you, Lewis. T.
21:35And another.
21:37K.
21:38And a third.
21:40S.
21:41And another consonant.
21:43G.
21:45Fifth consonant, please.
21:47N.
21:48And a vowel.
21:50E.
21:51And another vowel.
21:53I.
21:54And another.
21:56A.
21:58And a final vowel, please.
22:01A final U.
22:03Here we go.
22:14MUSIC PLAYS
22:35Can't wait for this.
22:36Christy?
22:37Eight.
22:38And Lewis?
22:39An eight.
22:40OK, what have you got for an eight?
22:42Unitages.
22:43Gunkiest.
22:44Big scores, got to check them, Susie.
22:46OK, I'll start with gunkiest.
22:50That's not there, I'm so sorry.
22:53But unitage is there.
22:56I wasn't sure it would be, actually, and you can put an S on it.
22:59A unitage is an amount regarded or expressed in terms of units.
23:02As simple as that. Well done.
23:03Brilliant.
23:04APPLAUSE
23:06I'll be honest with you, Christy, I thought you'd made it up.
23:09So that's fantastic. Big eight points.
23:11With the I-E-S-T and the I-N-G's,
23:13I thought we might have had a nine, but no.
23:15I know, it would have been lovely, but no,
23:17otherwise we would have been down to sevens with things like tasking.
23:20No worries. And Christy, you're picking the letters.
23:22Vowel, please, Rachel.
23:23Thank you, Christy.
23:24A.
23:25Consonant.
23:27S.
23:28Another consonant.
23:30R.
23:31Vowel.
23:32E.
23:33Consonant.
23:35X.
23:36Vowel.
23:38A.
23:39Consonant.
23:40N.
23:41Consonant.
23:43S.
23:44And a final vowel.
23:47A final E.
23:49Half a minute.
24:10MUSIC PLAYS
24:21Christy?
24:22Just five.
24:23And Lewis?
24:24A six.
24:26Five, please, Christy.
24:28Sixes.
24:29Lewis?
24:30Arenas.
24:31Yeah, excellent.
24:32Well, we can all stand back and admire arenas.
24:35Who wouldn't want to be in the middle of that?
24:37Two points in it now.
24:39We've got our challenger back in front, four rounds to go.
24:42And we're going to make you even more nervous
24:44because you're going to have to wait a little while
24:46because it's Origins of Words time.
24:48It is.
24:49Now, I don't know if we'll have a turn up for the books today.
24:52Mm-hm.
24:53And that is the idiom that I'm going to try and explain.
24:56So turn up for the books is something unexpected, obviously,
24:59usually something that is good and positive.
25:01So it's a piece of good fortune, if you like.
25:04And you have to go back to the early 19th century
25:07for turn up meaning a surprise, or that's a turn up,
25:10an example of good fortune, as they say.
25:12And the reference was very specifically not just to cards or dice
25:16but cribbage.
25:17I don't know if you've ever played cribbage.
25:19But obviously the turn up is that cards are turned up by chance.
25:22It's usually random.
25:23But at the start of a game of cribbage,
25:25one member of one team cuts the pack
25:28and a member of the other turns up the top card.
25:32And if it's a jack, then the second team gets extra points.
25:35I hope this is right.
25:36And it's called two for his heels, for the jack's heels.
25:41And holding the jack of the suit that's turned up also merits a point.
25:45And that's one for his nibs.
25:47And his nibs, obviously, the jack is a member of the royal family
25:50and his nibs is someone of importance.
25:52So you'd think that's straightforward enough.
25:55A turn up was usually a jack.
25:56It was something that was quite lucky.
25:58But what about a turn up for the books?
26:00And there are lots of idioms involving books.
26:02You can cook your books, you can go buy the books,
26:04you can buy someone's bad books or in their black books, indeed,
26:07which goes back to the dissolution of the monasteries,
26:09where if you did something wrong and went against Henry VIII,
26:14then you would be in his black book for misdemeanours.
26:17It was not a good place to be.
26:18But back to turn up for the books.
26:20And you have to go back to 18th and 19th century race meetings,
26:23horse racing, where bets were placed by the punter's name
26:28and then they were entered in a notebook.
26:31And this process was called making a book.
26:33And then we have the bookmaker as a result.
26:35And if a race was won by a horse that the bookmaker had no record of
26:40in his book because it just wasn't a favourite,
26:42then he had a turn up.
26:44And that is how it worked.
26:46So it's a stroke of luck for the bookmakers as much as the book
26:50because go back to this example from 1863.
26:53Hat tip to Gary Martin, actually, the linguist, for finding this.
26:56The Leeds Intelligence and Newspaper.
26:59And it's about the success of a horse called Blackdown
27:01at the Doncaster races.
27:03And it says, it talks about a rare turn up for the book
27:06because Blackdown run and the majority of the bookmakers
27:09had never written Blackdown's name in their books.
27:12So it was a real turn up for them and their books.
27:15APPLAUSE
27:19Right, let's get back to the game.
27:20So, so close.
27:22And it's Lewis picking the letters.
27:25Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
27:27Thank you, Lewis. R.
27:29And another.
27:31M.
27:32And a third.
27:35L.
27:36And another.
27:38D.
27:39And another consonant.
27:41N.
27:42And a vowel.
27:44O.
27:45And another.
27:46E.
27:48And another.
27:50I.
27:51And a final vowel, please.
27:53A final O.
27:56Good luck.
27:59MUSIC PLAYS
28:02MUSIC CONTINUES
28:28Lewis?
28:29A six.
28:30I'll try a seven.
28:31OK, the six for Lewis.
28:33A modern.
28:34And this is a bit Christy.
28:35A lunier.
28:36Lunier!
28:38Er, it is in the dictionary, it's specified, yes.
28:41APPLAUSE
28:45Anything above a seven?
28:47Yeah, there's a lovely musical eight there, a melodion,
28:50spelled D-I-O-N.
28:51You can spell it with two Es.
28:53Small accordion, especially played in folk music.
28:55That is a great spot.
28:57APPLAUSE
28:59Now we go again.
29:00Christy is back in the lead, 59-54.
29:03What a game this is.
29:05One more letters round left.
29:07Three rounds to go in total.
29:09And picking these letters is Christy.
29:11Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:13Thank you, Christy. T.
29:15And another.
29:17V.
29:18Vowel.
29:19E.
29:21Consonant.
29:23N.
29:25Vowel.
29:26U.
29:27Another vowel.
29:29A.
29:30Consonant.
29:32W.
29:33Consonant.
29:35S.
29:36And a final vowel.
29:39A final U.
29:42Last letters.
29:57MUSIC PLAYS
30:13Time's up. Christy?
30:15I'll stick with a five.
30:17And Lewis?
30:18I'll go with a five.
30:20OK, the five, Christy.
30:22Veins.
30:23And Lewis?
30:24Wants.
30:25Five-point seats keeps it so close.
30:27Anything better than that in dexterity corner?
30:29I'll have veins. Yeah?
30:31Yeah, suave. And vaunts would give you a six.
30:33OK.
30:34But definitely not easy, that one.
30:36OK. Very tense indeed.
30:38Final numbers round.
30:40And, Lewis, you get control of it.
30:42Can I have four large, please, Rachel?
30:44You can indeed. Grabbing this one by the big numbers.
30:47And two little ones, final numbers of the week.
30:50An important one.
30:51The littles are six and one.
30:53And the big four, 25, 50, 75 and 100.
30:59And the target to reach, 896.
31:02896, last numbers.
31:04MUSIC PLAYS
31:24MUSIC STOPS
31:35Under such pressure, 896.
31:37Christy?
31:38No, 850, too far away.
31:40Yeah, Lewis?
31:42899.
31:43That'll be a huge seven points.
31:45Let's have it.
31:4675 divided by 25.
31:49Three.
31:50Add it to the six.
31:52Nine.
31:53Times by 100.
31:54900.
31:55And take away the one.
31:56And you've taken the lead for the crucial conundrum.
31:59Well done.
32:02896, though.
32:03This one, not under pressure, particularly over here.
32:06You could have said 100 plus 50, 150.
32:09Times that by six for 900.
32:11And then 75 over 25 gives you three
32:14and you have another one to take over.
32:16Take away, rather.
32:17896.
32:18APPLAUSE
32:20I've lost count of how many times the lead has changed hands today,
32:24but here we are.
32:25Lewis has 66, our champion Christy has 64.
32:28For either Lewis, Cassidy, Maury, or for Christy Cooper,
32:32this will be their last dance, as we reveal today's crucial
32:37Countdown Conundrum.
32:39MUSIC PLAYS
32:48MUSIC CONTINUES
33:10No luck, Susie.
33:12Workspace? Let's have a look.
33:14Is it workspace?
33:16APPLAUSE
33:19Wow, the upshot of it all is we have a new champion in Lewis.
33:23He's moving into Christy's space on Monday,
33:26but we've really enjoyed our week with you.
33:29And, Christy, I know you've not far to travel home,
33:32but just be careful, don't drop the teapot,
33:34and thank you so much for being here.
33:36APPLAUSE
33:39Lewis from Coventry, back on Monday, one went under the belt.
33:42How did you find the experience?
33:44Because that was really tense. You needed a bottle.
33:47Yeah, it was really good.
33:48Yeah, it was a lot more intense than I thought it would be.
33:51Good. Don't drink too much at the weekend.
33:53Clear ahead Monday. Happy days.
33:55Thank you very much, John.
33:56My pleasure. Thank you for having me.
33:58APPLAUSE
34:01Please enjoy your weekend. Thank you, you too.
34:03But we have some unfinished business.
34:06Yeah, we're going to clear the workspace.
34:08We're going down, Murray.
34:10You're going to keep the high heels on, then?
34:12No, I've got my dance shoes ready for you, Murray.
34:14Come on, kick them off, bring it on.
34:16We'll cut some more rug on Monday.
34:18Rachel, Susie and I, you can count on us.
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