@BothersBar Hi, Avalon are looking for pub quiz teams for a run through on July 2nd in West London. Expenses and a small prize available. If interested please email a brief outline with team name, team members, and photo to FactualCasting@avalon-entertainment.com
— John Ireland (@John_Ireland) 1 June 2018
Go to it.
A question you might enjoy:
What connects Ted Robbins, Bradley Walsh, Les Dennis, Ted Robbins again, Paddy McGuinness, Jim (“Vic Reeves”) Moir and technically Ted Robbins a third time?
The full list is thousands long and Ted Robbins is far from unique in appearing three times; apparently there’s a woman on there at least 13 times and a man on there at least 14 times! If you figure out the connection there may well be others in the full list who would be of interest in these parts but those are the only ones who I could find after a very little investigation; if you can add other game show hosts with the common property, I would be most interested.
Non-cryptic clue: it’s somewhat topical – or, at least, it was when I wrote it on the night shift last night.
Crikey, this has turned into the first Bother’s Bar Question Too Esoteric For Lateral.
For two points: it was typical last night because the British Soap Awards were on TV.
They’ve all been in Coronation Street
Aaaaaaaah, nice one.
Excellent work! Here is the citation for Ted Robbins playing three parts, two of which even had names.
He’s trod Corrie’s cobbles
And Red Dwarf’s floors
But also Craig Charles
Hosted Robot Wars
Beautiful. I thought there was a good chance that I had missed a sitter, and indeed I had.
And Johnny Vegas, surely?
No, that’s Still Open All Hours.
But I do have: Mel B, Keith Duffy, John Junkin, Bernard Manning and Tony Slattery.
*whistles, impressed*
It’s called Googling! 😉
http://coronationstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Famous_people_who_have_appeared_in_%22Coronation_Street%22
I guess you can add Bernard (“Star Turn”) Cribbins to the crossover list, in that case!
And I’ve just realised one to make everyone here kick themselves…:
Glenn Hugill.
Hahahahahaha! Probably the definitive clue that I should have used in the first place.
I’m just pondering the Eastenders equivalent. There’s three obvious ones: Shaun Williamson, Mike Reid and Shane Ritchie – but I bet there’s more.
One interesting wrinkle is that, while this cannot be proven, I think it’s probably fair to say that Steve McFadden got the Britain’s Hardest hosting job off the back of playing Phil Mitchell in EastEnders. Can you say that about any of the Coronation Street crossovers? (Even Glenn, for whom the chronology would be right?)
For completeness, the 2001-2003 Crossroads reboot was full of arguably stunt casting by the end: Lionel Blair! Tim Brooke-Taylor! Les Dennis again! Not-host-but-close Emma Noble!
Nadia Sawalha! There’s another.
It does seem – perhaps coincidentally – that the ‘enders ones are mostly people who think of as actors who also host gameshows, while a good proportion of the Corrie ones are ones I’d associate with gameshows *first*.