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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:20APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody, it's Friday, the last show in the first week
00:35of Countdown in 2023 and our first champion of champions
00:39in five whole years.
00:41The standard this week has been magnificent and all Rachel
00:44with the brilliant Richard Osman in Dictionary Corner.
00:47He casually dropped in yesterday that his brother is more talented
00:50than he is because, of course, his brother is the bass player
00:53Matt Osman with Suede.
00:55Has your brother got a claim to fame that when people go,
00:58you're Rachel Riley, your brother, and go, well, hold on a second?
01:01Well, my brother has been on Countdown as well.
01:03He once got a conundrum that the contestants didn't get,
01:06won himself a mug and has a screenshot of himself next to
01:09the word, his winning word, which was simpleton.
01:12Congratulations, Alex Riley, simpleton.
01:15Well, let's formally introduce Dictionary Corner.
01:18Susie Dent and the first of three beards on the show today,
01:22the brilliant Richard Osman.
01:24APPLAUSE
01:27So, who have we got today?
01:29Well, it's Tom Stevenson.
01:31Nice to meet you for the first time.
01:33Who are you and where do you come from?
01:35I'm 21, I come from Burford-in-Tropshire and I'm a student.
01:38Mate, I feel like you and I, I've seen you more times
01:41than my friends over the last six months or so.
01:44But what a whirlwind for you.
01:46Just for people that don't know, 165 rounds.
01:49He's only lost one, that was in the final of the last series,
01:52and that was because Ed Byrne got a nine, right?
01:55That's what we're talking about.
01:56Well, this will be the only time you've got no poit today,
01:59I'm sure of that.
02:00You're going up against another familiar face to me,
02:02so my heart's ripped in two today, really.
02:05It's going to be emotional.
02:06Adam Latchford is back, he won Series 83 of Countdown.
02:10How are you, mate?
02:11Yeah, I'm doing well, it's good to see you again.
02:13So what's new with you?
02:14Because it's been quite some time.
02:16In these turbulent times, I believe you're a homeowner now.
02:19I am, yeah.
02:20I've just purchased my first property.
02:22It went through finally before all the mortgage rates went up,
02:25so my timing is impeccable, as always.
02:28That's my biggest achievement outside of Countdown, I think.
02:32I was going to say, getting a house is nothing
02:34and winning Champion of Champions, let me tell you, sir.
02:36Well, winning Champion of Champions is a far cry from right this moment.
02:39I've got one of the best players of all time next to me, so...
02:42Let's find out what happens today. Tom and Adam, everyone.
02:47Mr Stevenson, you know the drill.
02:49Hi, Rachel. Hi again, Tom.
02:51A vowel, please.
02:52Thank you. Starter today with A.
02:54And a consonant.
02:56T
02:57And a second.
02:59R
03:00And a vowel.
03:02I
03:03A consonant, please.
03:05C
03:06A consonant.
03:07T
03:08A vowel.
03:10A
03:11And another vowel.
03:14I
03:16And I'll go for a consonant, please.
03:18Lastly, N.
03:20That'll hold mine in the studio. Let's play Countdown.
03:41MUSIC PLAYS
03:53That's time, Tom. I'll play a safe six.
03:55And Adam?
03:56I will try a seven.
03:58The six is, Tom?
03:59Attain.
04:00Attain, that's definitely safe.
04:02What is the seven you're trying?
04:04Try a Titanic.
04:05Oh, yeah.
04:06Titanic, as in something is titanic.
04:08And that's surely not capitalised.
04:10It's not in the sense of being of exceptional strength or power.
04:13Very good.
04:14Wow, that is a Titanic start to today's show!
04:19Anything else in Dictionary Corner?
04:21No, we had Titanic, we had it intact, and also Tricia is there.
04:24That's not going to be in the dictionary.
04:26Yeah, but it was nice to see it there.
04:28If you were sitting at home and you were called Tricia,
04:30you would have seen your name in there,
04:32and for no-one to mention it, I think, would be remiss.
04:34Well, you didn't mention Aunt, but OK. Let's get more letters.
04:37Adam, it's on you.
04:38Hi, Rachel.
04:39Please can we start with a consonant?
04:41We can indeed. Start with L.
04:43And a consonant.
04:45N.
04:46And a third.
04:48T.
04:49And a fourth.
04:51W.
04:53A vowel, please.
04:55A.
04:56And a second.
04:57E.
04:58And a third.
04:59I.
05:02A fourth.
05:04A.
05:06And we'll finish with a vowel, please.
05:09Finish with I.
05:1130 seconds.
05:36MUSIC STOPS
05:44Time's up. Adam?
05:46I'm stuck on six.
05:47And Tom?
05:48I'll go for a six as well.
05:49OK, what have you got there, Adam?
05:51Entail.
05:52Entail.
05:53And Tom?
05:54Off the block.
05:55Yeah, same word.
05:56Just before Richard tells us what he has,
05:58I just want to say hello to Al, Talia and Walt.
06:01What have you got?
06:02Can't believe you missed out Tina.
06:05We only got entail as well.
06:07Fantastic. Tom has six, Adam has 13.
06:10Ten points up for grabs.
06:12Our first numbers round of this Champion of Champions,
06:15last 16 tie.
06:16And, Tom, you're picking them, my friend.
06:18Four from the top.
06:19The first time you have ever been behind
06:21and you don't want to be in this position for too long.
06:24Four large. Let's see if this changes things.
06:26Two little ones, three and seven.
06:28And the big four, 50, 100, 25 and 75.
06:32And the target to start, 311.
06:34311. Numbers up.
07:03311, Tom.
07:05I didn't get it. I got 310.
07:07One away, Adam.
07:08311. Let's hear it.
07:10100 plus 3.
07:12100 plus 3, 103.
07:14Times by 75.
07:15Times by 75 is 7,725.
07:20Add the 50.
07:22Add the 50.
07:247, 7, 7, 5.
07:26And divide it by 25.
07:27And divide it by 25.
07:30Divide it by 25.
07:32And you get...
07:34300.
07:35And...
07:3711.
07:38Wow.
07:39APPLAUSE
07:43I love the fact Tom just went...
07:45LAUGHTER
07:46I'm not kicking myself over that one.
07:48Brilliant stuff.
07:4923, 6.
07:50Very early on in the show.
07:52But Richard Osman, not only Quiz Show royalty,
07:54but also a good friend and a huge Countdown fan.
07:57Yes.
07:58I'm going to invite you, but you don't have to say yes.
08:00Because I think we'd all like to see it.
08:02Would you like to host Five Minutes?
08:04Yes.
08:05For reals?
08:06For reals.
08:07Um...
08:08Coats?
08:09Er, yeah.
08:10Good. I just think... Really?
08:11Yeah, absolutely. I'd love to see you do it.
08:13I'm sure everyone else would love to see you do it. Right.
08:15OK, well, I'll give you the tea time teaser.
08:17Richard will pick up at the other side of the break.
08:19Ref rants. Ref rants.
08:21Will the football player make a move to Manhattan?
08:24Will the football player make a move to Manhattan?
08:27APPLAUSE
08:41Hello there. Welcome back to Countdown.
08:43My name's Richard Osman. I am the new host.
08:46Your tea time teaser.
08:47Will the football player make a move to Manhattan?
08:50Ref rants becomes transfer.
08:52Gentlemen, what a champion of champions we are having.
08:57Adam, your turn to choose some letters.
09:00Thank you, Richard.
09:02Rachel, please can I start with a consonant?
09:04You can indeed.
09:05X.
09:07And another?
09:09R.
09:10A third?
09:11L.
09:13A vowel, please?
09:14U.
09:16And another?
09:17I.
09:18And another?
09:19O.
09:21And a fourth?
09:23E.
09:26A consonant, please?
09:28S.
09:31And we'll finish with a vowel, please.
09:34Finish with?
09:36O.
09:37And here's your 30 seconds.
09:56MUSIC CONTINUES
10:09Time is up. Adam, what do you have?
10:11I'll stick with a seven.
10:13Stick with a seven. Tom?
10:15Yeah, a safe seven.
10:16Seven as well. Adam, what's your seven?
10:18Lousier.
10:19Lousier. Tom?
10:20Yeah, lousier as well.
10:21Lousier as well. Seven points each.
10:23I assume that's all right, Susie.
10:25Yeah, it's totally fine.
10:26Dictionary Corner, Tiny Colin.
10:28I'll level with you, this chair's a lot lower than it used to be.
10:31But I didn't want to change it, cos it's...
10:34And this one's a lot higher.
10:36And also, you got a little booster pad, Karl, I didn't know.
10:40Well, lousier counts, but you remember earlier in the week
10:43we had Mariners, which is a baseball team,
10:46so we had the Seattle Mariners.
10:48Well, this time we've got the Baltimore Orioles,
10:50so you could add Orioles as well.
10:52Orioles. Lovely.
10:53Also, of course, in there is Louise.
10:57Tom, some letters from you, please.
11:00Consonant, please, Rachel.
11:01Thank you, Tom. T.
11:03And a second.
11:04Y.
11:05And a third.
11:07N.
11:08A fourth, please.
11:09V.
11:10A fifth.
11:12W.
11:13And a sixth.
11:15S.
11:16And then a vowel.
11:17A.
11:18A vowel.
11:19E.
11:20And another vowel, please.
11:21And I.
11:23And your 30 seconds start now.
11:52MUSIC STOPS
11:55How many, Tom?
11:56Seven.
11:57And Adam?
11:58I'll stick with a seven.
11:59OK, what's your word, Tom?
12:00Native.
12:01And Adam?
12:02Yeah, same word.
12:03It is as well. Good for seven.
12:05By the way, both of you, you don't look so disappointed and black.
12:08It's unbelievable.
12:09That's all it took. One round.
12:11You feel like you had something else there. What was it?
12:14I think yawniest.
12:16Ooh!
12:17Yawniest is in the dictionary.
12:19Yeah, producing a lot of yawning.
12:21Little bit of a nice one.
12:22Richard, with a 17-point lead,
12:25I suppose you would tactically just err slightly.
12:27Yeah, you've got to, haven't you?
12:29That was fun hosting for a little bit.
12:31Really good.
12:32And it's very, very nerve-wracking, but thank you.
12:34I see written down in front of me, so I must have written it vainest.
12:37Oh, very good word. Very good indeed.
12:39Thank you. Doesn't look like it's in my handwriting.
12:41It's so weird.
12:42I left you that little present. Thank you.
12:44Right, let's get our next round, which is back to the numbers,
12:47and Adam, you're picking.
12:48We're going to have too large and be quite dull, Rachel, I'm afraid.
12:51Well, you never know what can happen with the numbers,
12:54but you're hoping for dull anyway.
12:56Let's see, Adam.
12:57The four little ones.
12:584, 2, 1, 6.
13:01Big 2, 25.
13:03And 100.
13:05And the target.
13:06Probably dull.
13:07254.
13:08254, numbers up.
13:18MUSIC PLAYS
13:40254, Adam.
13:42Yeah, 254.
13:43Yeah, Tom?
13:44Yeah, 254.
13:45Course it is. Adam, off you go.
13:476 minus 1.
13:486 minus 1 is 5.
13:50Times 2.
13:5110.
13:52Times 25.
13:53250.
13:54Add 4.
13:55Yeah, lots of ways for this one. That is one of them.
13:58Yeah, there are, Tom. What about you?
14:00100 plus 25.
14:01125.
14:02Multiply by 2.
14:03250.
14:04And add the 4 on.
14:05Yeah, that's not going to close any gaps around here.
14:08APPLAUSE
14:12Right, listen, Richard, you've been entertaining us all week,
14:15but this is our chance to ask you questions on the Friday.
14:18Susie, I think, will be keeping it short with her laryngitis,
14:21but what have you got?
14:22It's such a cliche question, so I apologise in advance.
14:25But when you start writing,
14:26do you know exactly what's going to happen already?
14:29No, I don't. Sometimes I do.
14:31But sometimes it takes you by surprise,
14:33because the books are about characters,
14:35and they take you by surprise.
14:36If it takes me by surprise,
14:38I hope it takes readers by surprise as well.
14:40Here's one secret about crime fiction.
14:42Sometimes you can change the murderer,
14:44and people go, don't you have to unravel everything?
14:46But the thing is, in a good crime book,
14:48everybody is a suspect all the way through.
14:50So you can change the murderer,
14:51and actually you only have to change a couple of little things.
14:54That's a little reverse engineering secret.
14:56I interviewed Ian Rankin recently, of course, who created Rebus,
14:59and he said the same thing.
15:01He said, I don't know where I'm going when I start.
15:03Yeah, he really doesn't. He absolutely...
15:05I think I have more of a plan than Ian Rankin,
15:07but, you know, he's a genius.
15:09Brilliant.
15:11Rachel.
15:13You're pretty recognisable in this country, for sure,
15:15but what about when you go abroad?
15:17Do people know you overseas?
15:19Yeah, they started to. That was a nice thing.
15:21Because over here, I thought,
15:22oh, I hope people are not just buying this because I'm on telly.
15:25But we started selling it abroad, so I think we're in 60 countries now.
15:28Wow.
15:29And there's things like, you know, there's Chinese versions,
15:31and there's Japanese versions, and Brazilian and stuff.
15:33My daughter speaks Chinese, and she's reading the Chinese version,
15:37and she said it's absolutely brilliant.
15:39She said every single page, there's so many footnotes,
15:41explaining to people what Sainsbury's tasted like,
15:44and lips, and Oliver Bonas, and even, like, Ashford International,
15:48just explaining to people what those things are.
15:51The Americans, so the British and the American people
15:53are the only people who are allowed any input at all.
15:56And the Americans, they get it through
15:58and just check for anything that doesn't make sense to them.
16:00And in the very first book, funnily enough,
16:02they said, no, I think we pretty much get all the references.
16:05There's one thing we don't get,
16:07there's one thing we think we've missed a little bit of the plot.
16:10There's a character called Ron, and he goes,
16:12at one point, you say that Ron goes for a slash in the woods.
16:16LAUGHTER
16:18We don't understand. Is he stabbing someone?
16:20I had to explain that having a slash in England makes it slightly different.
16:23So, occasionally, you get the odd mistranslation error,
16:27even with the Americans.
16:29I'm going to ask you a question that's unfair.
16:32Oh, lovely. An evil genie appears. Yeah.
16:35And says, Richard Osman, I have the power to wipe out history.
16:39And I'm going to wipe out from history, and your history,
16:43Pointless, our House of Games. Which one do you keep?
16:47I mean, it feels like a genie would have better things to do.
16:50LAUGHTER
16:52To wipe out one of them. It's interesting, though,
16:54because I love, love, love making House of Games.
16:57And I love making Pointless and working with Xander.
17:00I think because I met my wife on House of Games,
17:02I'd have to get rid of Pointless,
17:04because otherwise I wouldn't have married her.
17:06But I owe so much to Pointless. There's so much fun I had on it,
17:10and it will always remain very dear to my heart.
17:12So I'm hoping that that genie isn't backstage now... Yeah.
17:15..ready to do it.
17:17LAUGHTER
17:19Right, Adam, our underdog, is on 47.
17:21He thrives being that. Tom's on 30. So close.
17:24Let's get more letters from you, Mr Stephens.
17:26A vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tom.
17:28U. And a second.
17:30E. And another.
17:32O. A consonant.
17:34T. And another.
17:36P. And another.
17:38D. A fourth, please.
17:40C. A fifth.
17:43T.
17:45And I shall go for a final consonant, please.
17:48A final. N.
17:50Start the clock.
18:04CLOCK TICKS
18:22Time, gentlemen, please. Tom?
18:24I think I'm going to have to try an eight.
18:26He's on the ropes. Adam?
18:28He might... I might have to try the same eight, maybe.
18:31Tom? Unpotted.
18:33And Adam? I might be up the garden path.
18:35Don't worry. Unpotted.
18:37You've done an Osman. You've found a six-letter word.
18:39You put the U-N at the start of it.
18:41So if you hadn't said it, Osman would have thrown it.
18:44But, Susie, you have the final word.
18:46Yeah, to unpot a seedling or a young plant
18:48is simply to remove it from a pot.
18:50Fantastic. Adam, more letters. Let's keep it rolling.
18:53Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Adam.
18:55P. And a second.
18:57G. And a third.
19:00R. A fourth.
19:02B.
19:04A vowel, please.
19:06I.
19:08And a second. O.
19:10A third.
19:12U.
19:14A fourth.
19:16E.
19:19And we'll finish with a vowel, please.
19:24Finish with A. Here we go.
19:33MUSIC CONTINUES
19:57It's time. Adam? Seven.
19:59Tom? Seven as well.
20:01OK, Adam. Groupie.
20:03Also a groupie. Good.
20:05Two groupies.
20:07Well, three groupies. I've got a groupie, but...
20:10Susie said pirogue.
20:12Pirogue, yeah. P-I-R-O-G-U-E.
20:14It's a long, narrow canoe made from a single tree trunk.
20:17Good. Right, let's get numbers, and it's you, Tom.
20:20Three large, please, Rachel. Three large?!
20:23Was you set on three large there?
20:25Possibly. Who knows? A bit of gambling.
20:27It could make all the difference. Three large, three little.
20:30We need these ten points.
20:32The little ones, one, three, six.
20:34The big ones, 25, 100, 50.
20:37And the target, 821.
20:40821. Numbers up.
21:01BUZZER
21:11What a shigging of heads.
21:13821. Tom?
21:15822. One away, Adam.
21:17822. Oh, my goodness me. Tom, off you go.
21:2050 x 6 is 300.
21:22300. Take away the 1.
21:24299. And then multiply it by 3.
21:27897. And then 100 minus 25, 75.
21:30Yep. And take that off.
21:32For 1 above.
21:34822. Adam?
21:36Completely different. 100 plus 50.
21:39100 plus 50. And times by 6.
21:42150 x 6 is 900.
21:4425 plus 1.
21:4625 plus 1.
21:48Times by 3.
21:50Times 3, 78.
21:52And then take that off. Same result.
21:54OK, 7 points each.
21:56Is that as good as it gets?
21:58It's not, but you'll have to leave it with me.
22:00Right. Good time to do just that,
22:02as we take our second break of the day
22:04on this Champion of Champions Countdown.
22:06And it's dense pig.
22:09Dense pig.
22:10A favourite pastime of the over-70s.
22:13A favourite pastime of the over-70s.
22:25APPLAUSE
22:32Welcome back. Dense pig becomes speeding.
22:35A favourite pastime of the over-70s.
22:38Let's race back to Rachel, cos you've worked out the numbers.
22:41Yeah, I can't believe these boys missed this.
22:43They're really going to kick themselves.
22:45If you say 50 times by 100, for 5,000.
22:503 x 25 is 75.
22:53Take that away for 4,925.
22:57Add the 1 for 4,926 and divide it by 6.
23:01Oh, for goodness' sake!
23:02APPLAUSE
23:06We're clapping along.
23:07Could be wrong. Yeah, that's true.
23:09No way of knowing.
23:11Right, back to the game.
23:12Adam, business end of this.
23:14Final part of this Champion of Champions.
23:16And you've got a lead of 17.
23:18And it's your letters.
23:20I'll start with the consonant, please, Rachel.
23:22Thank you, Adam.
23:23T And a second.
23:25N A third.
23:27L A fourth.
23:29S A fifth.
23:32G A vowel.
23:35E And another.
23:38I And another.
23:41A
23:45And we will finish with a consonant, please.
23:49Finish with... S
23:51Start that clock.
24:22Time is up. Adam?
24:24A nine.
24:25And Tom?
24:26I'm going to have to go with a nine.
24:28OK, Adam, what's yours?
24:29Teaslings.
24:30And Tom?
24:31Slangiest.
24:32OK, I'm going to start with teasling.
24:35Teasel is in as a prickly plant, but it is not there as a verb,
24:39so there's no teasling, I'm afraid.
24:41So, Adam's nine will not count.
24:44No.
24:45So if Tom's does, it completely changes the face of this game.
24:49And it does, cos slangiest is in the dictionary.
24:55And just like that, Tom is in the lead by one single point.
25:01Tom, nine more letters.
25:03Let's go for a consonant, please, Rachel.
25:05Thank you, Tom.
25:06L And a second.
25:08R And a third.
25:11P And a vowel, please.
25:13E And another.
25:15U And another.
25:17E A consonant.
25:20S A consonant.
25:23L And another consonant, please.
25:26Lastly, D.
25:28Can't I?
25:48He's like another big roundist, doesn't it?
25:50Tom?
25:51Go for an eight.
25:52And Adam?
25:53Eight.
25:54OK, the eights are?
25:55Tom?
25:56Preludes.
25:57Preludes.
25:58And is that the prelude to the same word?
26:00It's not.
26:01I'm more repulsed.
26:03What a great word to find after you've been gobbled by a nine.
26:07Repulsed.
26:08I'm more repulsed.
26:09I'm more repulsed.
26:10I'm more repulsed.
26:11I'm more repulsed.
26:12I'm more repulsed.
26:13I'm more repulsed.
26:14I'm more repulsed.
26:15I'm more repulsed.
26:16What a fine, repulsed...
26:18Fantastic, two wonderful eights.
26:20Yep, same repulsed and prelude is what we had here.
26:23And we usually have origins of words here.
26:25I don't want to push it too far.
26:27It's almost good that Susy has laryngitis,
26:29because you just want to get the next round in.
26:31I mean, it's...
26:32Listen, it has its upsides for the best of us all.
26:35For yourself.
26:36Particularly for Susy who's having such an easy week.
26:39Let's do it then, Adam.
26:41More letters.
26:42A consonant, please, Rachel.
26:43Thank you, Adam.
26:44The Z.
26:45vowel. O. And a vowel. E. And a vowel. O. And a consonant, please. B. And a vowel. A. And a
26:59consonant. N. And a consonant. T. And a vowel, please. Lastly, E. Okay, let's do it.
27:15That's a time-up. Adam? Seven. Tom? I'll have to risk a seven then.
27:44Okay. Adam, what's your seven? O's and eight. O's and eight. And Tom? Well, Susie, I can't believe there's a seven there.
27:53Well, there is something longer there, but it's not O's and eight, I'm afraid. That is not in the dictionary. Sorry, boys.
28:00Ruled out. No points for both of you, but something longer. Yeah, Susie pushed a word over to me, which has eight letters and is...
28:09Benzoate. Benzoate. Yes. No idea, come on. It's a derivative of benzoic acid, which is used as a food preservative, essentially.
28:19You know, benzoate. Benzoate. Oh, I'll put it in all my dishes. Yeah. Right. Well, these two serving up a treat. One point in it still between Tom and Adam,
28:27and we know what that means, the crucial countdown conundrum, but we've counted our chickens before, so let's not do it.
28:34One more letters round, and it is the history maker, Tom Stevenson. A vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tom. O. And another. E. Consonant, please.
28:47J. And another. H. And another. S. Consonant. T. And another. R. A vowel, please. O. And another consonant, please.
29:04Lastly, F. Let's play Countdown.
29:34Tom? Seven. Adam? I'm going to gamble an eight. OK. Tom, what's the seven? Footage. And Adam, what's the gamble? Four shots.
29:48It's not in, I'm afraid, Adam. I'm sorry. Now, actually, it's a very clever gamble, Richard, because as long as he navigates the numbers,
30:00then it's still going to be a crucial countdown conundrum. So, again, this is the brilliant strategy that's underrated in Countdown.
30:06Games within games within games, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, we had a Guy Ritchie movie over here with Hooters and Shooter. Yeah. Two sevens that we ally.
30:15So, even though that's opened it up to an eight-point gap, we're still in crucial conundrum territory, but that depends, Adam, on what happens in our last numbers round.
30:25We are going to try and get to a crucial ratio with a two large. Two large. Wow, you're banking everything on that conundrum.
30:32You're obviously confident in conundrums. We'll see. Even at this elite level. Right, final numbers of the day of the week, Ethan.
30:39Five, seven, five, eight, one hundred and twenty-five. And the target, 617. 617. Last numbers.
30:55Adam? 617. Tom?
31:25617. Off you go, Adam. 25 times 5 times 5. 25 by 5 by 5, 625. Take 8. I like the contrasting styles of you two seconds in, pen down, Tom checking it for the whole 30 seconds.
31:40Tom actually has a habit of even if he's got a 9, 25 seconds in, he's going... It's that self-doubt. You make me so nervous. Tom, let's see.
31:50Very similar in principle. 100 plus 25 times by the 5. Again, 65. And then I took the 8 off. Good luck, you two. Well done.
32:01So here we go. Tom has got 95. Adam has got 87. Adam Latchford is unbeaten in Countdown history. Tom Stevenson is unbeaten in Countdown history.
32:15Fingers on buzzers because the O must go. Let's reveal this crucial Countdown conundrum.
32:27It's Adam. Brocette. Let's take a look. Yes!
32:36Adam Latchford makes history by beating the history maker. What a game. I know. What a game. I'm coming to you,
32:43Tom, because even in defeat, you've always been the most magnanimous winner. And in defeat, you look like the most gracious loser.
32:51Well, to be quite honest, I'm happy that Adam won that game because I thought he played better than what I did. But I had a great time.
32:56And yeah, I think it made for great television in this particular game. Right. How did you feel when he pulled the 9 out?
33:03Because I think the most impressive thing of the whole show was you staying focused on the very next round after that.
33:10It's well, it hurt me because he overtook it. And I was thinking about your earliest earlier, which I bottled and I would have stayed ahead with that.
33:17So I just had to compose myself and rethink through. But thankfully, there's enough rounds and game count down there.
33:23You can keep your focus. I don't want to say it, but I do think that's my favourite week of Countdown ever.
33:29And I'm so glad you were here here for as well. I mean, it's been absolutely extraordinary.
33:33I couldn't have picked a better week other than Susie's voice.
33:37And the week has got better and better and closer and closer. And that was that was an incredible finish to an incredible game.
33:42I mean, they're just brilliant. It's honestly a pleasure and a joy and an honour just to just to watch you play. So thank you.
33:48Well, listen, hopefully Countdown will have you in that corner again. Love to. You rest up at the weekend.
33:54I will. All right. Usually, Rachel, I hate this time, but actually I need the rest.
34:01Yeah, well, even though we've not had much to do this week because they're doing all the work for us.
34:05But five potential champion of champions winners and six more if something to say about it next week.
34:09Absolutely. And that'll be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, then Thursday, Friday, straight into the quarterfinals.
34:14The week after that, I can't think about or I'll hyperventilate.
34:18So that's all for now. We'll see you Monday, Rachel. Susie and I will be here. You can count on us.
34:23You can contact the programme by email at countdown at Channel 4.com or write to us at Countdown Leagues LS3 1JS.
34:32You can also find our web page at Channel 4.com forward slash countdown.
34:40And there are more letters and numbers tonight, but with a wee bit of a laugh and a picnic camper thrown in for good measure,
34:45it's the start of the brand new series of Cats Who Count Down tonight at nine.
34:49And Monday night at eight, George Clark is back with a brand new series of amazing spaces.
34:53And he's crying. You'll have to find out why now, won't you? Next, though, it's a place in the sun.