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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
What celebrity show would you go on?

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Why assume that SOF shipmates would be on the B list or below?
 

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Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
If I were a faded celebrity, then all of them, one after the other, just like Peter.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Who's Peter?

I think if I had the choice it would have to be a quiz, like Jeopardy! or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, as I'd be utterly hopeless at the jungle thing, and as for dancing ...

Come Dine With Me might be fun though, especially assuming that if I were a celeb., I'd have a celeb-sized house.
 

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Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 

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Originally posted by Piglet:


Come Dine With Me might be fun though, especially assuming that if I were a celeb., I'd have a celeb-sized house.

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With staff to clean it.

 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I make no assumptions about shipmates. Some of these shows do have top celebs. But as I don't know that any shipmates are celebs, I leave it open to see what they would consider appropriate.

Celebrity Mastermind has included some top-level celebrities, like Iain Banks. So feel free to claim you are bigger than one of the best authors of the 20th century.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
One of my favourite celeb cooking episodes was when Barbara Windsor appeared on the Xmas edition of Ainsley Harriott's show, dressed as a Xmas elf and bearing a bag of ready made food which she proceeded to touch up in a frying pan.

How to turn the ethos on its head.

If I could reach her level, count me in!
but I fear it would never happen.....
 

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Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 

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Originally posted by Piglet:
Who's Peter?

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Originally posted by balaam:

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Originally posted by Piglet:
Who's Peter?

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Serial reality show star Mr Andre, currently on Strictly Come Dancing.

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Originally posted by Piglet:
Who's Peter?

I think if I had the choice it would have to be a quiz, like Jeopardy! or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, as I'd be utterly hopeless at the jungle thing, and as for dancing ...

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Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
... I'm going to an audition in a few weeks ...

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How cool is that??? Best of luck!

[ 29. September 2015, 02:59: Message edited by: Piglet ]
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I have wondered about trying to get a ship team onto one of these quizzes. That would be well awesome.
 

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Posted by Dormouse (# 5954) on :
 
Maybe the best quiz for that might be the devilishly difficult "Only Connect" - you don't need to be a slebrity for that.

[ 29. September 2015, 17:57: Message edited by: Dormouse ]
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
My friend did Pointless with his niece - they won £6000!

Another friend did a wedding show thing called 'four weddings' (dreadful programme) and won a honeymoon in the Bahamas!

I would do 'Only Connect' as I'm good at lateral thinking
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I would be up for that - although someone else would have to organise it.
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 

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Originally posted by Piglet:
Who's Peter?

I think if I had the choice it would have to be a quiz, like Jeopardy! or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, as I'd be utterly hopeless at the jungle thing, and as for dancing ...

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You don't have to be a celebrity to get on Jeopardy! Anyone has a chance ... especially me, since I'm going to an audition in a few weeks. I suppose if I get on the actual show I might be a very, very short-lived celebrity.

But if I were a genuine celebrity I'd avoid reality shows like the plague. Ricky Gervais's speech at the end of Extras when he walks off the set of the reality show is still one of my favourite bits of TV ever and encapsulates everything I feel about most of those kind of programs (genuine quiz shows that depend on knowledge excepted, of course).

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There is a specific Celebrity Jeopardy each year. I watched one round this year, where Aaron Rogers (QB Green Bay Packers) beat astronaut Mark Kelley. Kelley's twin brother Scott warned him that Rogers had better SAT score than he did. I love me some Aaron Rogers!

An acquaintance of mine won two rounds on Jeopardy, close to $15,000. Good luck to you!
 

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Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :
 
I do think that they at least make the celebrity version of quiz shows a little easier, since the objective is to give a good chunk of change to a good cause. At least that was the case with Celebrity Family Feud this summer- it's nearly impossible to win the Fast Money round on a regular episode, but every celebrity team who made it to Fast Money won by a landslide, thanks to a bunch of categories where there were one or two obvious answers.

(Not to impugn Aaron Rogers' knowledge set- you have to be damned smart to play quarterback, much less for Berkeley.)

[ 30. September 2015, 03:42: Message edited by: Og, King of Bashan ]
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
They definitely make Celebrity Mastermind easier. I can actually answer some of the questions.
 

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Posted by Jengie jon (# 273) on :
 
My one desire with quiz shows is to write a question for Round Britain Quiz. I think I may have left it a bit late.

Jengie
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
I love Round Britain Quiz purely for the archaism that in this day and age they still address the contestants as “Mr Wotsit” and “Mrs Thing”.
 

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Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
The late Louis Allen, who used to co-host the show, was one of my lecturers. A remarkable man, the only lecturer for whom students from other courses would crash the auditorium, and possibly the only lecturer in history to bring his lectures to a cliffhanger on the dot of the hour, leaving the audience gasping in frustration and waiting for next week's.
 

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Posted by Ferijen (# 4719) on :
 
I feel Ken would have had something to contribute to this, repeat quiz show guy that he was

Although I've done lots of family genealogy, I'd still be interested if the folk on Who Do You Think You Are could find something new (and if they didn't, I'd just look smug anyway).
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Pointless Celebrities tends to be slightly easier in the early rounds, with a subject that the contestants might be expected to know something about. But it certainly doesn't seem any easier when it comes to the final round - the Beeb really don't want to pay out that huge £2,500 prize to charity.

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Gosh, the thought of being on Only Connect! Hideously embarrassing, but the chance to breathe the same air as VCM, to be in her presence, perhaps even to touch the hem of her robe....
 

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Originally posted by Piglet:
Who's Peter?

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Serial reality show star Mr Andre, currently on Strictly Come Dancing.

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And he is unfortunately quite good. I was hoping he would be off very quickly.

Janette is one of the hottest dancers though, so that is a bonus.

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