A special St Patrick's Day edition of popular word quiz Countdown has been pulled off air after Channel RTE was inundated with calls from confused viewers asking what were these things called vowels that kept getting offered to contestants. "It wa…
Countdown presenter Rachel Riley, has taken it upon herself to become the self-appointed spokesperson for the Mathematical community. "It's hard to imagine," explains Riley, "but there really are people out there who don't like maths. I call them...
Diane Abbott, the popular Labour MP, and all-round entertainer, is to be the new host of teatime TV gameshow, 'Countdown', it has been revealed. 'Countdown' is a British game show broadcast on Channel 4, involving word and number puzzles. It was p...
David Cameron is to publicly state how much he enjoys Countdown, his slippers and a good ol' cuppa tea, to try and garner more votes from people who probably won't be around for the next general election. Cameron is on his second week of shameless...
Former Countdown maths whizz, and student 'older lady' wank fantasy, Carol Vorderman - arse of the year winner on several occasions, and oft regarded as 'Thinking Man's Crumpet' - today revealed the real reason about why she was reduced to tears on P...
Upmarket British tabloid, The Daily Mail, has recently reported that former Countdown maths whizz, Carol Vorderman, is still as fit as a butcher's dog at fifty, and ran a series of pictures on its website to prove it. Unfortunately, none of them f...
Countdown maths wizard, Oxford graduate, Rachel Riley, 25 who replaced the iconic 'Rear Of The Year' Carol Vorderman on the words and numbers show, has been crowned the new 'Thinking Man's Crumpet.' Rachel has been wowing the tea time crowds with...
She made her name on Channel 4's Countdown game show as the girl with a brain like a pocket calculator, as she almost invariably solved countless numbers game problems which left the majority scratching their heads in awe. Carol has since left the...
TV watchdogs are today putting their foot down with a heavy hand and bringing to book Channel 4's daily word quiz, Countdown. It seems that the bird who puts the letters and numbers on the board, Rachel Riley, is causing coronaries throughout the lan...
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, has said thank you to Countdown, the CH4 game show that tests contestants arithmetic and word making skills. HRH loves to play against her Private Secretaries. She has the show recorded each afternoon and watches i...
Footballers aren't usually too well known for their intellectual prowess, but there is always an exception to the rule, and Burnley FC defender Clarke Carlisle is one of those exceptions. An outstanding one! Yesterday, Clarke Carlisle won his seco...
'It's the end of an era,' bemoaned a Geordie today as Carol Vorderman made her final appearance on words and numbers TV gameshow, Countdown. 'She's been treated so shabbily by C4, I'm sorry, It's so emotional.' In scenes reminiscent of the Wailing...
That good old British televisual staple for the benefit of the reasonably intelligent unemployed of the UK, or their similarly unemployed student counterparts was lambasted yesterday by the very people who have supported the show since the early Eigh...
Consonant, Y... Vowel, O... Consonant, Y... Vowel, O... Consonant, Y... Vowel, O...Consonant, Y... Vowel, O... Consonant, Y. That's...YOYOYOYOY. A good question; why oh why did Carol Vorderman decide to leave channel 4's long-running quiz show, count...
Auditions are now underway for a replacement for Carol Vorderman, erstwhile presenter of Student favourite, Countdown. The shortlist is now of actress and the voice of Penny Crayon, Su Pollard, star of 'Most Probably not actually haunted' Yvette F...
Sources have claimed that convicted paedophile Gary Glitter, who looked like he was a bit iffy throughout the 70's but you couldn't quite pinpoint why, is to take over from frail crooner Des O'Connor as host of the cult words and numbers quiz Countdo...
Just weeks after surgically enhanced mathmatician, Carol Vorderman was removed from the Countdown Studios by security guards it has emerged that the olive-skinned beauty, whose weight regularly fluctuates between 8 and 15 stone, has become yet anoth...
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