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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. And then there were eight.
00:3416 of the very best Countdowners over the last five years
00:38in our Champion of Champions, already cut in half.
00:41And even in over 40 years of Countdown history,
00:45today is really special because in this quarterfinal,
00:49the couple, the married couple, Florence and Sam,
00:52taking each other on.
00:54I mean, they are now going to be a famous TV couple.
00:57So let's get ourselves in the mood,
00:59because they'll be on this list somewhere.
01:01See how many you can get. You know I love a quiz.
01:03And everyone can play along at home.
01:05So I'll give you the couple, you tell me the TV show.
01:07Easy one to start. Your favourite.
01:09Ross and Rachel.
01:11Friends. OK. Now, this one I know you know.
01:14Right. Because we love this programme, but it's not obvious.
01:17Phil and Vivian.
01:20Phil and Vivian. Vivian, Vivian. What's Vivian in? Vivian.
01:24Let's just say it was their nephew was the star of this show.
01:29You've got to kick yourself. I'm going to kick myself.
01:31Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
01:33Oh, Phil!
01:35Finally, you won't get this because of the age gap. Right.
01:39But I think this is the best couple ever.
01:41Two huge stars, but in a TV show. There's the clue.
01:44David and Maddie.
01:46Don't know.
01:47Bruce Willis, Sybil Shepard, Moonlighting.
01:50Oh! There we go.
01:52Sam and Florence are on that level.
01:54Fame can destroy relationships, I'm telling you.
01:57We'll see how it goes.
01:59We've got another couple over in Dictionary Corner,
02:01the brilliant J of the D, Susie Dent,
02:04who has blisters on her fingers,
02:06the amount of words we've had to check and recheck.
02:09And you've had all the help you need
02:11from the immensely talented and brilliant Heather Small.
02:16Let's do this. Florence and Sam.
02:18I'm not going to introduce you separately, that would be daft.
02:21Let's just have a chat.
02:22So, Florence, you were after Sam
02:26in terms of appearing on Countdown.
02:28So did he get you into Countdown?
02:30Did Countdown bring you together? I need this!
02:33No, we met a long time before we had any interest in Countdown.
02:37Sam went on first.
02:38I made a passing comment about the fact
02:40there weren't many women on the show.
02:42And he said, well, you're a woman, why don't you get one?
02:44You'll be good.
02:45And he applied without my knowledge.
02:48Well, listen, it's too close to call, you know.
02:51There's only a point between you in the last 16.
02:54Have you got any side bets on this with the three kids,
02:57another one on the way, like doing the dishes for a month,
03:00something like that? And if not, why not?
03:02No, I'll blame any defeat on the fact
03:05that I've got a baby kicking me in the ribs.
03:07Or you could say that's one and a half against one,
03:09so you could look at it the other way, slight advantage.
03:12All right, listen, best of luck to both of you.
03:14Such a special occasion.
03:15Let's make it a family affair. It's Florence and Sam.
03:20And of course, Florence gets to go first.
03:22The better half, off you go.
03:23Hi, Rachel. Hi, Florence.
03:25Can I have a consonant, please? You can indeed.
03:27Start with S.
03:29And a vowel?
03:31I. A consonant?
03:33R. A vowel?
03:36A. A consonant?
03:38Q. A vowel?
03:41I. A consonant?
03:43N.
03:45A vowel?
03:47E.
03:49And a final consonant, please?
03:52A final G.
03:54At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:14CLOCK TICKS
04:27Florence?
04:29A, seven.
04:30Yes, and Sam? Seven as well.
04:32Yeah, Florence? A, rising.
04:34A, rising, and Sam? I'll go for raising.
04:37Raising and a rising, perfect first date.
04:397.8, straight to Dictionary Corner.
04:42I'm guessing that's as good as it gets.
04:44Yes, that's as good as we got.
04:46Good start, good start all round.
04:48Decent letters as well. Sam, keep it rolling, we'll get nine more.
04:51Hello again, Rachel. Hi, Sam.
04:53Can I have a consonant, please? You can indeed.
04:55T. And another one?
04:57L. A consonant?
05:00L. One more?
05:03N. A vowel?
05:06A. Another vowel?
05:08E. A vowel?
05:11A. One more vowel?
05:14I.
05:18And a vowel, please?
05:21Lastly, another A.
05:23And 30 seconds.
05:41BUZZER
05:55Need a number, Sam? Seven.
05:57And Florence? I'll try a seven.
05:59OK, Sam, what have you got? Talena.
06:01Talena and Florence.
06:03Alateen? Talena and Alateen.
06:06Talena, you sounded confident and you're right.
06:09It's from zoology and it's a bivalve mollusk,
06:12so that's very good. And Florence, what was it, sorry?
06:15Alateen. A-L-A-T-I-E-N-E.
06:17Is not there.
06:19Palatine, obviously, but not alateen. Sorry about that.
06:22Sam takes the lead, 14-7, ten points up for grabs.
06:25Now, Florence, you're choosing the first numbers round
06:27of today's special show.
06:29Please can I have four large, Rachel?
06:31You can indeed. Take no prisoners, Florence.
06:33Four large, two little,
06:35and the little ones, six and six.
06:38And a large, 25-50, 75 and 100.
06:43And the target...
06:45..is now 350.
06:48350 numbers up.
07:09So, it works out sometimes, 350, Florence?
07:12Yeah. Yeah, Sam. Yeah, 350.
07:15I almost want to ask you to do it together, you know, but I won't.
07:18Florence? I did 75 times six minus 100.
07:21450, 350.
07:23I didn't even need to use the sixes.
07:25175 and then 50 over 25 is two, and times six is 100.
07:30So, I'm going to go with 350.
07:32I'm going to go with 350.
07:34I'm going to go with 350.
07:36And then 50 over 25 is two, and times them together.
07:392175, so, yeah, same result.
07:41There you go, you're not getting a round of applause for that.
07:44Ten points each as we head to our first tea time teaser
07:47in this very special Champion of Champions quarterfinal.
07:50It is Goon Free. Goon Free.
07:53The quartet have left, it's a conclusion.
07:55The quartet have left, it's a conclusion.
08:07APPLAUSE
08:12Welcome back.
08:13Very quickly, Goon Free becomes Foregone.
08:16The quartet have left, it's a conclusion.
08:19Right, let's get on with it then, Sam. We get more letters.
08:22Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Sam.
08:24K. Another one.
08:27R. One more.
08:30D. Consonant.
08:32T.
08:34Vowel.
08:36U. Another vowel.
08:38A. And a vowel.
08:40O.
08:42A consonant.
08:44Z. And another consonant, please.
08:47And an R.
08:49Sandwich.
09:04MUSIC PLAYS
09:21Absolute filth, those letters. Sam?
09:23I've got six. Yeah, and Florence?
09:25I've got five. The five is?
09:27Razor. Razor, for sure. And Sam?
09:29Dotaku.
09:31Yes, it is in, as if there was any ever doubt,
09:34an archaeological term.
09:36Dotaku are bronze bell-shaped objects
09:39decorated with geometric designs or stylised scenes from life.
09:43So you will find them in rituals used in Japan around 300 BC.
09:49Good. You need to find a word like that to get a six.
09:52Were there any others? Dictionary Corner, Heather?
09:54No, I had razor.
09:56I had kraut, as in sauerkraut.
09:59Nobody wants kraut.
10:0130 plays 17.
10:03We'll stick with the letters for the time being.
10:05And, Florence, a chance to peg back a few points as you're choosing them.
10:09Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Florence.
10:11G. And a vowel.
10:13E. A consonant.
10:15N. A vowel.
10:17U. A consonant.
10:20S. A vowel.
10:22O. A consonant.
10:25R.
10:28Another consonant, please.
10:30B.
10:32And a final consonant.
10:35A final D.
10:37Here we go.
10:58That's time up, Florence. Eight.
11:00And, Sam? Eight as well.
11:02OK, what have you got? Rebounds.
11:04Rebounds. And, Sam?
11:06I'll flip it round and go for bounders.
11:08Bounders, OK. So let me rebound over to Dictionary Corner.
11:11Well, that's as straightforward as it's been, actually.
11:14So both those words in.
11:16Great to get an eight out of that. No nines?
11:19We didn't get any nines.
11:21No nines.
11:24Great to get an eight out of that. No nines?
11:26We didn't get a nine. We had virgins, flourishes.
11:29Beautiful. But, yeah, I think those were our lot too.
11:32You missed one eight.
11:34It would only count in Northern Irish countdown the way we say it,
11:37but songbird with a U, so there you go.
11:39If you're watching in Northern Ireland, you can have those eight points.
11:42We will allow it. Right, let's get back to the numbers, Sam, you're picking.
11:45Can I have three large and three small, please?
11:47You can indeed. Three large, three little in this super grudge match.
11:51And the three small ones?
11:539, 6, 4...
11:55Oh, the big E's.
11:57..50, 75, 100.
11:59Come on, let's get a challenge.
12:01920.
12:02920, numbers up.
12:21MUSIC PLAYS
12:34That's time. 920, Sam.
12:36919, not written down.
12:38OK, one away, Florence.
12:40921.
12:41Sam.
12:429 times 100 is 900.
12:44900.
12:4575 minus 50 is 25.
12:47Add it on and then subtract 6 from 919.
12:50Yeah, one below.
12:52Very good. One the other way, then, Florence?
12:54I subtracted 4 instead of 6 at the end.
12:56Yeah.
12:57All right, no need to go there.
12:59920, Rachel Riley.
13:01With this one, you could say 100 less 4, 96,
13:05times it by 9 for 864,
13:09and add on the 6 and add on the 50, 920.
13:12Very good.
13:13APPLAUSE
13:17Right, great start, isn't it?
13:1945 plays 32 as we once again get to chat with Heather Small,
13:23which is always a delight.
13:25Now, you've been on TV a lot recently,
13:28and at the moment in the midst of something very special,
13:31where so many young people get the chance
13:33to be on the type of stages that you've appeared on,
13:36so tell me about it.
13:37Yes, I'm currently on tour with Young Voices,
13:40and it's young people from a very young age,
13:45about 15 or so, that go around the country singing.
13:49So young choirs from schools get to sing in mighty stages
13:54with some of the best musicians.
13:56There's an orchestra, and they raise funds as well.
13:59They raise money, and it's for another children's charity,
14:02which is Place To Be,
14:03which is a charity that deals with mental health issues
14:07for young people.
14:08So they get on stage, and it builds confidence.
14:10It's so joyful.
14:13You get up there, and you do what you love to do,
14:16and for those young people to experience that
14:18on the highest level, to be part of that, I just love it.
14:22Not everyone will go on to be a professional singer,
14:25but there's something about getting in front of an audience
14:28that builds your confidence, and also the camaraderie.
14:32It's a memory for life, so for me to be part of that
14:35and those young people's memories, it's an honour.
14:38It also goes so much deeper, doesn't it,
14:41because we all have a voice.
14:43In my case, terrible.
14:45But it brings together people from all over the UK,
14:49so therefore different ways to grow up, different backgrounds,
14:52different lifestyles, different classes, different colours,
14:55different religions, everything.
14:57So it brings people maybe out of areas that don't have that.
15:01That's right, and I'm about unification,
15:03and I think that's what music does, as well as sport.
15:06You know, it's a leveller,
15:08and when those children come, it's just about singing.
15:11It's not about the clothes that you wear or anything.
15:14You get props for being there and singing your heart out.
15:17Absolutely.
15:18Listen, for any young people sitting and watching
15:20with their parents, with their older brother or sister,
15:22with their grandparents, if you've got a voice
15:24and you know it's there, use it,
15:26because look what happened with Heather Small.
15:28She played Glastonbury to 100,000 people and so much more.
15:32Heather, thank you.
15:33APPLAUSE
15:36Absolutely love it.
15:37Right, Salma Florence, that was good to sit and listen to,
15:39but now you take centre stage again.
15:41And, Florence, it's your letters.
15:43Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
15:45Thank you, Florence. S
15:46A vowel.
15:48E
15:49A consonant.
15:50R
15:51A vowel.
15:52A
15:53A consonant.
15:54C
15:55A vowel.
15:57E
15:58A consonant.
16:00G
16:02Another consonant.
16:04S
16:06And a final consonant, please.
16:10Final. Another G?
16:12Handstone.
16:36That's time, Florence.
16:38Seven.
16:39Yes, and Sam?
16:40Seven as well.
16:41Seven's all the way.
16:42Florence?
16:43Creases.
16:44Samuel?
16:45Yeah, creases as well.
16:46Creases and creases.
16:47There you go.
16:48One at each end.
16:49One at each end.
16:50Perfect.
16:51There you go.
16:52Over to Dictionary Corner.
16:53Maybe a little bit of light here.
16:55You might be able to get something.
16:57Greases.
16:58Oh, greases.
16:59Greases.
17:00Nice.
17:02Oh, yes.
17:03Beautiful.
17:04Where's come the Dictionary Corner?
17:06That's great.
17:07Excellent.
17:08More letters now.
17:09Sam, you're up.
17:10Consonant, please.
17:11Thank you, Sam.
17:12T
17:13And another one.
17:14S
17:15A consonant.
17:16R
17:17And one more.
17:18T
17:19T
17:20T
17:21T
17:22T
17:23T
17:24T
17:25T
17:26T
17:27T
17:28T
17:29T
17:30T
17:31A vowel.
17:32A
17:33Another vowel.
17:34E
17:35A vowel.
17:36I
17:37A consonant.
17:40W
17:42And a vowel, please.
17:43And lastly,
17:44A
17:45Half a minute.
18:01I
18:02I
18:03I
18:04I
18:05I
18:06I
18:07I
18:08I
18:09I
18:10L
18:11L
18:12I
18:13I
18:14I
18:15I
18:18That's time.
18:19Sam?
18:20I'll try an eight.
18:22And Florence.
18:25Yes, and Florence? A word I know you all hate.
18:27Yes. I hated wartier when we had it the other day.
18:31Yeah. Wartiest has to be, though, then. It is.
18:34Yeah. It is. Yeah. Good eight, though.
18:36I won't ask you for a longer word, Heather.
18:38Anything just better than wartiest?
18:40Anything just to soothe my mind?
18:42Unfortunately, I am not the balm that you seek.
18:45THEY LAUGH
18:47I will move on.
18:48THEY LAUGH
18:51Numbers again. Florence, there's just 13 points in this,
18:54so it's right on the knife edge.
18:56Let's see if the numbers move the dial at all. Let's go.
18:58I'll take six small ones, please.
19:00Six small this time.
19:02I know I wouldn't have to twist your arm to gamble.
19:05Taking your destiny into your own hands, that's what I like.
19:07The little ones. Nine, four, eight, five, three, two,
19:14and the target to reach.
19:16Oh, I'm so sorry. 120.
19:19120. Numbers up.
19:24ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
19:51Numbers falling easy again, Florence.
19:54120. Yes, and Sam?
19:55Yes, 120.
19:57Ink or no ink, we'll find out.
20:00Florence? Multiply two, three, four and five.
20:03One way. Yeah, I'd do three, five and eight.
20:05Apparently, there are 214 different ways to get this one.
20:09There you go. Let's have them.
20:11I'll be here all day.
20:13Let's see how many we can do during the break.
20:15I know it's such a special day because we have an actual married
20:18couple playing each other, but at stake, a semifinal berth
20:23in the Champion of Champions.
20:24Down to business when we come back. Really close.
20:26Here's your tea time teaser.
20:27Rap Tango.
20:29Rap Tango.
20:31It's a colourful character when going to court.
20:34It's a colourful character when going to court.
20:45APPLAUSE
20:53Welcome back. Rap Tango becomes Trigopan.
20:55Brilliant if you managed to get that at home.
20:57I think we need an explanation, Susie, then.
21:00Yes, it is an Asian pheasant and the male is really
21:04brightly coloured during courtship.
21:06Right, OK. Let's get back to the only male female that matters
21:10right here, and that's Florence and Sam.
21:12And it is Sam with the letters.
21:15Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Sam.
21:17B. And another one?
21:21A consonant.
21:24And one more.
21:27A vowel.
21:29Another vowel.
21:31And a vowel.
21:35Consonant.
21:39And another consonant, please.
21:40Lastly, S.
21:43Here we go.
21:50MUSIC PLAYS
22:14Talk to me, Sam.
22:15Just six.
22:16And Florence?
22:17Seven.
22:18Sam, the six.
22:19Debuts.
22:20And Florence?
22:21Thumbed.
22:22Yes, well spotted.
22:23Yes, come on, Heather, that's what we wanted.
22:25I don't even care what you two have to say.
22:27It doesn't apply here.
22:28Dumbest.
22:29Dumbest.
22:30There you go.
22:31Finally, a word they understand.
22:33Fantastic.
22:34Right.
22:3570 plays 64, as I said.
22:37It gets serious at this stage, and, Florence, it's your letters.
22:40Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:41If you win this, you're going to be going like that
22:43for the rest of your marriage, aren't you?
22:45Right. H.
22:46A vowel.
22:47E.
22:48A consonant.
22:49L.
22:50A vowel.
22:51I.
22:52A consonant.
22:53S.
22:54Another consonant.
22:55P.
22:56And a final consonant, please.
22:57And a final T.
22:58Time's up.
22:59MUSIC PLAYS
23:19MUSIC CONTINUES
23:43How many, Florence?
23:44An eight.
23:45And Sam?
23:46Seven.
23:47The seven is...?
23:49How confident in the eight? Let's find out.
23:51Haplites?
23:52OK, gosh.
23:54It is in there.
23:55Yes, they're actually without the H.
23:57A-P-L-I-T-E-S.
23:58But it's with the H as well.
24:00In geology, igneous rocks with homogenous,
24:02fine or medium-grained texture.
24:04Yeah, on a roll.
24:05APPLAUSE
24:07Excellent stuff.
24:08Anything else in Dictionary Corner, Heather?
24:10We have spittle.
24:11Spittle.
24:12Very nice.
24:13Not very tasteful.
24:14Not as nice a word.
24:15There you go.
24:16So, there you go.
24:17The Seesaw Battle.
24:18Florence now has a two-point lead,
24:20but, of course, we're still in the crucial Countdown Conundrum territory.
24:24So let's take a little break and head to Dictionary Corner,
24:28because, Susie, yesterday you were talking about
24:30working out the origins of town, city, village names.
24:34Yes.
24:35These two are from Rochdale, so I'll just let you know that.
24:38OK, well, I'm going to just talk a little bit
24:40about the different periods when it comes to place names
24:42and the different influences.
24:44I'm going to start with the Celts.
24:46They lived in Britain before the Roman conquest.
24:49And it's interesting, they didn't actually leave
24:51a huge linguistic mark on our vocabulary,
24:54but their place names do survive.
24:57So, the various Avons around the country,
25:00Avon and Afon in Welsh as well, meant river.
25:04So you will find those dotted around.
25:07The Tamar and the Thames, they both go back to the Celtic for dark,
25:11because they were dark, sort of mysterious rivers, if you like.
25:14Pen, in a place name like Penge or Penrith, Pendleton,
25:19usually comes from the Celtic for a hill or a headland.
25:23Cornwall was seen by the Romans as almost part of Wales.
25:28It was the headland of the foreigners, because for them,
25:32Welsh itself goes back to the idea of foreigners
25:35or sort of barbarians over there, if you like.
25:38So that's another one.
25:39And then Coombe comes from a Celtic word meaning valley,
25:43and you'll find that dotted around the south-west in Ilfracombe,
25:47Salcombe as well, Castlecombe, Crocombe,
25:50lots of different places there.
25:52On to the Romans, many new settlements,
25:55and many of us will be familiar with the place names there.
25:59Usually gave them the new names, like Londinium,
26:03but sometimes they actually combined existing places.
26:06They combined Latin and the Celtic that they found.
26:08So Lincoln goes back to the Celtic, Lindo for pool,
26:12and then the Latin, Colonia, meaning colony.
26:15So it was the colony by the pool.
26:17And then we adopted from Latin, Castrum,
26:22to basically denote places that had Roman military links,
26:26and you will find that in Chester, which was a descendant of that,
26:30Castor and Cestor, as in Gloucester.
26:33So you've got Chester, Bicester, Cyre and Cestor,
26:36Colchester, Manchester, Winchester, et cetera.
26:39You'll find all of those preserved there.
26:41So, again, just a little bit decoding can help you unlock
26:44quite a lot of these, well, open secrets, I think,
26:47behind our place names.
26:49And tomorrow I'll come on to the Anglo-Saxons.
26:51Brilliant.
26:54OK, back to the game.
26:55We cannot divorce Florence and Sam, no matter how hard we try.
26:58The married couple, just two points between them
27:01with four rounds left.
27:02It's exactly the way we wanted it to be.
27:05Sam, you're picking these letters.
27:07Consonant, please.
27:08Thank you, Sam.
27:09V.
27:10And another one.
27:12E.
27:13A consonant.
27:14N.
27:15And one more.
27:17W.
27:18A vowel.
27:19E.
27:20Another vowel.
27:21A.
27:22One more.
27:23O.
27:26A consonant.
27:28S.
27:29And a vowel, please.
27:31And lastly, I.
27:33Start the clock.
27:35CLOCK TICKS
27:36MUSIC PLAYS
27:37MUSIC CONTINUES
28:04OK, that is our time-ups, Sam.
28:06Seven.
28:07Florence.
28:08Seven.
28:09Sam?
28:10Weapons.
28:11Yeah, Florence.
28:12Yeah, the same.
28:13Yeah.
28:14One of those rounds, isn't it?
28:15It was very easy to see early on.
28:17So I think there would have been a whole arsenal of weapons out there
28:20and Countdown land.
28:21Anything else you two want to add, or are we all done?
28:24Sevens.
28:25M.
28:26Also, evasion.
28:27OK, good.
28:28Really interesting stage of the show.
28:30So let's just get on with it.
28:31Florence, this is the last letters round.
28:33Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
28:35Thank you, Florence.
28:36N.
28:37A vowel.
28:38O.
28:39A consonant.
28:40T.
28:41A vowel.
28:42E.
28:43A consonant.
28:44G.
28:45A vowel.
28:47O.
28:48A consonant.
28:49N.
28:50Another consonant.
28:53T.
28:55And a final...
28:59..vowel, please.
29:01Final E.
29:03Last letters.
29:3430 seconds is up.
29:36Florence?
29:37Six.
29:38Sam?
29:39Six.
29:40Florence?
29:41Cotton.
29:42And Sam?
29:43Gen Two.
29:44Gen Two?
29:45Fantastic.
29:46The penguin, yes.
29:47Look at the smile here.
29:48I'm a penguin fanatic, thank you.
29:50But they both just count as six.
29:52It's as black and white as that?
29:54Yeah.
29:55So seven's for us, too.
29:56As good as it could be.
29:57So I find this really interesting tactically.
29:59Florence has got a two-point lead.
30:02So is Sam going to be mischievous here
30:04and just try and mess it up
30:05and get a slight lead going into the countdown conundrum?
30:08Or just bank what he has
30:09and take it all the way to that crucial moment?
30:11Your six numbers.
30:12I can't wait to hear what comes out of your mouth next.
30:14We actually agreed before we came down here
30:16that we were going to pick everything except one large,
30:19so that leaves two large for this numbers game.
30:21No, boring, one large.
30:23So two large.
30:25Conservative choice.
30:26Right, the last numbers of this contest.
30:296, 8, 10, 1, 50, 75.
30:35And the target, 895.
30:38895, last numbers.
31:00BUZZER
31:12895, the target. Sam?
31:14Yes, 895.
31:15You got it.
31:16Florence?
31:17Yeah, so did I.
31:18895. Sam, let's have it from you, please.
31:2010 plus 8 is 18.
31:2118.
31:23Times 50 for 900.
31:24Yeah.
31:25And 6 minus 1 is 5.
31:27I'll take that away.
31:29And I'll have a 29-second spare.
31:31There you go. And Florence?
31:33Exactly the same one.
31:38Well, we've arrived at the moment we all wanted to be at.
31:41Florence has 95.
31:43Her husband, Sam, has 93.
31:46So that means it will come down to a crucial countdown conundrum.
31:50In 2015, they said, to have and to hold.
31:54They said, for richer or for poorer.
31:56They said, till death do us part.
31:59But for better or worse, we're going to separate them now.
32:02Let's reveal today's crucial countdown conundrum.
32:27CLOCK TICKS
32:36And time's up. Florence takes it!
32:38APPLAUSE
32:43That was 30 seconds of the worst stress just watching it.
32:47Can't imagine what it was like for you two.
32:50Just quickly, cos everyone at home will be screaming if they have it.
32:54Another really difficult one. Dictionary Corner? No.
32:56Rachel? Tell us, Colin!
32:58I've got to stop asking for this. Brilliant. Really testing.
33:01Let's have a look at what the answer was to today's countdown conundrum.
33:04Oh, I do.
33:06There you go. Just cleared up for us.
33:08It's what cats' eyes do in the dark.
33:10They sort of sparkle in the night time. Gorgeous.
33:13Wonderful. That was absolutely epic.
33:15The floor is yours. What's your thoughts after that, Sam?
33:18I'm just so glad we got to play each other.
33:20We've been looking forward to this ever since we realised it could happen.
33:23Yeah. And two points in it means not that much bragging rights,
33:27is there, really, years gone on?
33:29It was close enough. Florence?
33:31Well, listen, I know that it's just been the perfect atmosphere
33:35in the studio today, but still, come on.
33:37Yeah, we want to go all the way now.
33:39I feel like the pressure's on to hold up the family name.
33:42There you go. You thought it couldn't get any better this week, Heather?
33:45It was wonderful, wonderful.
33:47You know, for me, when the children look back
33:49and see their parents on TV playing each other,
33:52I think that'd just be a wonderful thing, yes.
33:54Like you said, she's got to go on now, keep up the family name.
33:57Yeah. Absolutely.
33:58Well, listen, 20 years down the line, Countdown will still be here.
34:01The unborn one will be an octo-champion in this family.
34:04That's probably... I love it. I love it. There you go.
34:06I've enjoyed watching the body language today.
34:08Whenever Sam got something, he looked abashed.
34:10Check Florence was OK. Yeah.
34:12Whenever Florence beat him, not even a glance.
34:15He was wearing trousers in the couple in the lion's house.
34:18It was never in doubt, just like it's not in doubt in this studio.
34:21Rachel, Susie and I will be back tomorrow
34:23with another champion of champions.
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34:45Lily the Beagle, she's quite a wonder.
34:47You're going to want one when you get into the doghouse tonight at 8.
34:51Bow wow.
34:52Tomorrow he's so fun that Joe likes it
34:54and he's off to Lithuania with Sarah Millican
34:56to get the new series of Travelman started at 8.30.
35:00Oh, for a plate in the sun right now, that's next.