"covering a story about a man's battle to lose weight. Tracy Kelleher, an actress who played one of the FatFighters, was covered in a story about her own weight loss prompted by her appearance in ""Little Britain"". Marjorie Dawes Marjorie Dawes is a fictional character played by British comedian Matt Lucas. Lucas initially performed the role occasionally as mother to a character known as George Dawes in the comedy game show ""Shooting Stars"". Later Lucas made Marjorie one of the main characters on the BBC TV and radio show ""Little Britain"" and subsequently ""Little Britain USA"". Her name originates from"
"Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress. DeWitt had a son, Jay Florentine (a telecommunications executive), from his marriage to actress Claire Kelly. He died from a heart attack in 1979. George DeWitt George DeWitt (December 30, 1922 in Atlantic City, New Jersey – July 14, 1979 in Miami, Florida) was an American singer and comedian, best known was the host of the 1950s musical quiz television program, ""Name That Tune"", which featured contestants guessing the name of popular tunes from a limited number of notes. He later became a recording artist for RKO Records. DeWitt was born"
"Waites. George has worked as an ambassador for basic arithmetic, touring schools teaching children how darts can help with counting skills. Bobby George Robert Francis ""Bobby"" George (born 16 December 1945) is an English television presenter and former professional darts player. He is widely recognised as one of the game's biggest personalities, known for his flamboyant entrances in which the ""King of Darts"" makes his way to the stage bedecked in jewellery, wearing a crown and cloak and holding a candelabra to the Queen song ""We Are the Champions"". George won several leading darts tournaments, he won the News of"
"George DeWitt George DeWitt (December 30, 1922 in Atlantic City, New Jersey – July 14, 1979 in Miami, Florida) was an American singer and comedian, best known was the host of the 1950s musical quiz television program, ""Name That Tune"", which featured contestants guessing the name of popular tunes from a limited number of notes. He later became a recording artist for RKO Records. DeWitt was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His given name was George Florentine, the second of four children. DeWitt's father Joseph was a police sergeant with the Atlantic City Police Department. As a boy during"
"popular BBC panel quiz shows, most notably as a regular guest on ""QI"", and is known as the game's most frequently victorious guest panellist with ten victories (only permanent panellist Alan Davies has won more shows), and also with appearances in ""8 Out of 10 Cats"", ""Have I Got News for You"" and ""Never Mind the Buzzcocks"". He has also appeared on the British stand-up comedy series Jack Dee's ""Live at the Apollo"". His appearances achieved some cult status due to his line of jokes on ""Live at the Apollo"" about Tom Cruise, and the perceivable similarities between many of"
"Matt Lucas Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English comedian, screenwriter, actor and singer, best known for his work with David Walliams in the television show ""Little Britain"", as well as for his portrayals of the scorekeeping baby Georgie Dawes in the comedy panel game ""Shooting Stars"", both Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee in ""Alice in Wonderland"" and its sequel, ""Alice Through the Looking Glass"", and Nardole in the tenth series of ""Doctor Who"". Lucas was born in Paddington, London, the son of Diana (née Williams) (born 1945) and John Stanley Lucas (1944–1996), who ran a chauffeuring"
"that final, it was found that he had literally broken his back and had to have eight titanium screws inserted into the base of his spine just so that he could stand upright. Since 1998, George has been a co-presenter and pundit on the BBC darts coverage, primarily of the BDO World Championship. He has also made several other television appearances, not all relating to darts. In 2004, he starred in the comedy film ""One Man and His Dog"" and later followed in the footsteps of fellow professional darts player Andy Fordham by taking part in the ITV programme ""Celebrity"
"a regular guest on Jonsson's team, where he had a pint of Guinness on his desk where all the other contestants had water. Will Self was replaced by dead-pan comic, Jack Dee for the 2008 15th Anniversary Special and for the 2009 series, which also saw Lucas' character, George Dawes, replaced by Angelos Epithemiou, a creation of comedian Renton Skinner. Contestants are often addressed by their surnames, in reference to ""University Challenge"". In addition to the 'regulars', the panel consisted of other celebrities from music, sports, politics and other fields. Some of the most memorable episodes included members who were"
"Jay Jackson Jesse Greene ""Jay"" Jackson (November 4, 1918 – August 16, 2005) was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer. Jackson was the master of ceremonies of the panel quiz show ""Twenty Questions"" when it aired on the ABC Television Network starting in early 1953 and ending in May 1955. He then hosted the nighttime version of the popular quiz show ""Tic-Tac-Dough"" from its debut on September 12, 1957 through September 1958, yielding that job to Win Elliot for the remaining 13 weeks of the show's nighttime run (September 1957 – December 1958). Jackson was featured"
"Bobby George Robert Francis ""Bobby"" George (born 16 December 1945) is an English television presenter and former professional darts player. He is widely recognised as one of the game's biggest personalities, known for his flamboyant entrances in which the ""King of Darts"" makes his way to the stage bedecked in jewellery, wearing a crown and cloak and holding a candelabra to the Queen song ""We Are the Champions"". George won several leading darts tournaments, he won the News of the World Darts Championship twice and appeared in two BDO Darts World Championship finals and was the first full-time exhibition player."
"Dennis Miller. The analyst is Amanda Byram. Pat Kiernan is the Questioner. Ken Jennings was the champion for 2007. Ogi Ogas was the runner up. Grand Slam (UK game show) Grand Slam is a television quiz show first created for Britain's Channel 4 in 2003. In its first and only series in the UK, the main host was Carol Vorderman. She was joined in the studio by analyst James Richardson. The off-camera ""Questioner"" was Nicholas Rowe. The contestants taking part, all of them previous quiz show winners, were: Dee Voce, Geoff Owen, Olav Bjortomt, David Edwards, Mark Labbett, Clive Spate,"
"clearly unaware of the show's format. On one particularly famous episode Larry Hagman is clearly totally befuddled by the experience. Writing in ""The Guardian"", Nancy Banks-Smith described him as looking ""like a man in a nightmare"". Until the 2010 series, the ""score"" was kept by George Dawes, an overgrown, ranting, drumming baby played by comedian Matt Lucas. (Occasionally George's ""mother"" Marjorie Dawes – also played by Lucas – appears instead. She also appears in ""Little Britain"".) His arrival at the start of the show would be accompanied by the words ""He's a baby!"" sung to the tune of Led Zeppelin's"
"as part of the ""At Home with Vic and Bob"" evening of programming. It began running as a regular series in 1995. Maintaining their bizarre and irreverent style, the pair played host to two teams of celebrity guests (captained each week by Mark Lamarr and Ulrika Jonsson, and later Will Self, and further Jack Dee) answering what can be loosely described as general knowledge questions. They were also accompanied by regular appearances from Lucas as drumming baby George Dawes. The quiz element of the show always played second fiddle to the comedic aspects. Two series of Reeves and Mortimer's second"
"Rick Dees Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show ""The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown"" and for the 1976 novelty song ""Disco Duck"". Dees is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. He wrote two songs that appear in the film ""Saturday Night Fever"", plus performed the title song for the film ""Meatballs"". He co-founded the E. W. Scripps television network Fine Living, now the Cooking"
"about Israel and the Jewish communities of Europe"" became president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Zionist Organization of America. From 1968 until 1987, he also maintained partial ownership of the Phoenix Suns. Ed Ames Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick; July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor. He is known for playing Mingo in the television series Daniel Boone, and for his pop hits of the 1960s including ""My Cup Runneth Over"", ""Who Will Answer?"" and ""When the Snow is on the Roses"". He was also part of the popular 1950s singing group with his"
"He died at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, in 2013 at the age of 87. George Ives (actor) George Ives (January 19, 1926 – February 22, 2013) was an American actor. A native of New York City, Ives played Douglas Aldrich in the television series ""The Jim Backus Show"", also known as ""Hot off the Wire"". He starred in an episode of ""The King of Queens"", an episode of The Andy Griffith Show entitled ""TV or Not TV"", as well as an episode of The Office entitled Phyllis' Wedding. Ives also appeared as Lank Dailey, owner of Dailey's"
"Gary Jules Gary Jules Aguirre Jr. (born 19 March 1969), known as Gary Jules, is an American singer-songwriter, known primarily for his cover version of the Tears for Fears song ""Mad World"", which he recorded with his friend Michael Andrews for the film ""Donnie Darko"". It became the UK Christmas Number One single of 2003. Since then, Jules's version has been used on many American TV shows such as """", ""Jericho"", ""The O.C."", ""Smallville"", ""House"" and ""Riverdale"", as well as in a commercial for Lloyd's Bank in 2016 featuring a horse galloping through different stages in peoples lives. Jules recorded"
"30, 2017, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada by then Governor General David Johnston for ""his iconic achievements in television and for his promotion of learning, notably as a champion for geographical literacy."" Alex Trebek George Alexander Trebek (born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality. He has been the host of the syndicated game show ""Jeopardy!"" since it was revived in 1984, and has also hosted a number of other game shows, including ""The Wizard of Odds"", ""Double Dare"", ""High Rollers"", ""Battlestars"", ""Classic Concentration"", and ""To Tell the Truth"". Trebek has made appearances in"
"a pseudonym, to adjudicate when an answer was imprecise. For many years Ian Gillies fulfilled the role, taking the name ""Mycroft"" (from Mycroft Holmes, older and wiser brother of Sherlock). After his death in April 2002, the new question setter was Kevin Ashman, who has the distinction of winning both ""Brain of Britain"" and ""Mastermind"". He chose to be known as ""Jorkins"", a character in Dickens' ""David Copperfield"". From the 2007 series a team of setters was engaged, as is the practice in most other quiz shows. For much of its life the theme music of ""Brain of Britain"" was"
"The Big Quiz (TV series) The Big Quiz is a British entertainment quiz show hosted by Stephen Mulhern. It started as an annual quiz between soap operas ""Coronation Street"" and ""Emmerdale"". The first episode aired on 16 December 2011 with the teams consisting of the cast of ""Coronation Street"": Jennie McAlpine, Malcolm Hebden, Patti Clare and Jack P. Shepherd and ""Emmerdale"": Mark Charnock, Natalie Anderson, Danny Miller and Meg Johnson. The second episode aired on 15 April 2012 with the teams consisting of the cast of the hit comedy ""Benidorm"": Jake Canuso, Crissy Rock, Janine Duvitski and Shelley Longworth and"
"Davis, David Gower, Gary Lineker, John Regis, Paul Gascoigne, John Barnes, Lennox Lewis, and others) would climb into a perspex box containing a fan and a large quantity of banknotes. The celebrity had to grab as many of the notes as possible as they were blown around by the fan. Noel would ask the caller three questions based on that week's news. Each correct answer gave the celebrity 20 seconds in the box, (Up to a total of 60 seconds) accompanied by music and the audience counting down from ten to one. Towards the end of series 4 variations were"
"Celebrity Scrapheap"" as the most boring housemate, meaning he automatically faced the first eviction. With 24 total nominations, Gary is currently the celebrity housemate with the highest number of nominations in CBB history, beating Jim Davidson's 22 nominations. On Day 26, he was announced winner of the series. George Gilbey is a British television personality, known for starring in the BAFTA Award-winning observational documentary series, ""Gogglebox"" on Channel 4. Gilbey appeared in the show since 2013, alongside his mother Linda and step-father Pete, as they give opinions of the country's biggest television shows airing. He left the house on Day"
"they are invited to appear on ""A Question Of Sport"". The sports personality with most guest appearances is Steve Davis, who has appeared 18 times. In 1987, Princess Anne appeared as a guest on Emlyn Hughes' team, just weeks after Hughes thought a photo of her on a horse in the ""Mystery Guest"" round was jockey John Reid. The show achieved ""A Question of Sport""'s highest ever ratings of approximately 19 million viewers. It was the first time a member of the royal family had appeared on a television quiz show. Anne's daughter Zara Phillips also appeared on the show"
"Gogan Show' instead of the Golden Hour. Gogan is famous for his ""Just a Minute Quiz"", which occurs during his radio show. When contestants get only a couple of questions correct he is famous for the catchphrase ""They didn't really suit you"". The quiz has produced its fair share of bloopers which have gone down in Irish folklore. Question from February 2006: What famous star is followed by travellers? Answer: Joe Dolan. On 6 November 2008, Gogan appeared on Irish television to officially open Carrigstown's new community centre. He hosted the 1980 National Song Contest (Irish heats for the Eurovision"
"Dominic Bowden Dominic Joseph Bowden (born 15 December 1977) is a New Zealand television personality, host, radio and voice actor. He is best known as the host of New Zealand reality series including ""New Zealand Idol, Dancing With The Stars New Zealand and The X Factor New Zealand"". Bowden was also the host of TVNZ's game shows ""Are You Smarter than a Ten Year Old?"" and ""Dare to Win"", which has a similar format to ""Minute to Win It"". When based in Los Angeles, he hosted the American reality music competition show, ""The Next Great American Band"" for FremantleMedia and"
"on the American ""Billboard"" record chart for six weeks in the fall of 1958. Edwards's version of the song also hit number one on the United Kingdom chart that year. Since then, it has since become a pop standard. It has been recorded by numerous artists, including Cliff Richard, The Four Tops, Isaac Hayes, Jackie DeShannon, Van Morrison, Nat ""King"" Cole, Brook Benton, Elton John, Mel Carter, Donny and Marie Osmond, Barry Manilow, and Keith Jarrett. Dawes is the only vice president to be credited with a No. 1 pop hit. Dawes and Sonny Bono are the only people credited"
"an unrelated 1991 case, Dees was successfully sued for $10 million in damages. The court found Dees and his business manager acted with ""malice and oppression"" in diverting profits from Dees' Top 40 countdown program, and gave the judgment to a former business partner. Rick Dees Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show ""The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown"" and for the 1976 novelty song ""Disco Duck"". Dees is a People's Choice Award recipient,"
"Bob Dyer Robert Neal Dyer OBE (22 May 19099 January 1984), who took the stage name of Bob Dyer, was a Gold Logie-award-winning American-born vaudeville entertainer and singer, radio and television personality, and radio and television quiz show host who made his name in Australia. Dyer is best known for the long-running radio and then television quiz show, ""Pick a Box"". At the height of his radio career, Dyer and his friend and rival, Jack Davey, were regarded as Australia's top quiz comperes. Bob and his wife, Dolly, were probably, after Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, the most recognised"
"television quiz program shown across Network Ten, written and hosted by ""Big Brother"" contestant Simon Deering, commonly known by the nickname Hotdogs. The show's format had the host presenting simple puzzles which viewers could attempt to solve over the phone. Successfully solving a puzzle would result in a cash prize for the contestant. The program had two series and went to air for the final time on time on Friday 15 December 2006. CTC's ""Community Billboard"" was synonymous with early evening viewing in Canberra in the 1970s and 1980s. Read by a member of the news team, ""Community Billboard"" was"
"the most perfect scores as a celebrity with five. With thirteen perfect scores, Pasha Kovalev holds the record for most perfect scores by a professional dancer. Television presenter Johnny Ball, who was 74 when he competed in 2012, is the oldest contestant; he was older than magician Paul Daniels and actress Lesley Joseph, who were 72 & 71 when they competed in 2010 & 2016 respectively. Actress Louisa Lytton, who was 17 when she competed in 2006, remains the youngest contestant. Actor Joe McFadden, who was 42 when he competed in 2017, is the oldest series winner and gymnast Louis"
"Edward ""Cookie"" Jarvis Edward “Cookie” Jarvis is a retired competitive eater and a member of the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE). He is a real estate agent, married father of two, and cancer survivor. When Cookie Jarvis became a competitive eater in 2001, he was 365 pounds, and retired in 2006 reaching 525 pounds. His best finish in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest came in 2003, when he set an American record of 30½ hot dogs in 10 minutes. This put him in second place behind Takeru Kobayashi. Edward Jarvis has made 31 television appearances according to his"
"Jade Goody. Possibly the most famous question was, ""What do cows drink?"" to which Brian answered ""Milk"", although the official answer was water. This question was repeated on the one-off edition of 15 to Fun. Celebrity guests would take it in turns to take penalties, with Ant in goal. Callers would choose the celebrities they thought would win against Ant. After Ant & Dec left in 2001, Brian became the new goal keeper with Tess and later Stephen, replacing Cat as referee. In 2003, a different celebrity each week represented two teams taking it in turns to be goalkeeper. ""Sabrina,"
"a large prop animal suspended above the contestants merely for the purpose of bearing six key words for further questions. Guests would be prompted to ""coo"" down the dove. Alternatives to the dove in various series included ""The Blue Suitcase"" in the pilot, ""The Crow From Below"", ""The Vest From the West"", Matt Lucas as George Dawes from the Upper Floors,"" ""The Wonderful, Wonderful Car,"" ""Donald Cox – The Sweaty Fox,"" ""The Fly From Upon High"" and ""The Beast From The East."" In the ""Dove From Above"" round, and subsequent versions of the same round, if a contestant answers incorrectly,"