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Season 2, Episode 12
Comedian Tim Vine, presenter Mel Giedroyc and former Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts line up to 'see it and say it'. Competing to guess the familiar phrases hidden in animated clues and win money for charity, one of them receives the chance to bag £50,000 for a good cause. Stephen Mulhern hosts
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Stephen Mulhern
(Host)
Tim Vine
(Contestant)
Mel Giedroyc
(Contestant)
Ashley Roberts
(Contestant)
Gary Chippington
(Executive producer)
Geraldine Dowd
(Director)
Ed Egan
(Series producer)
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Did You Know..
Stephen Mulhern
(Host)
Born:
April 04, 1977
in
Minehead
Best Known For:
Presenting various ITV shows.
Early-life:
Stephen Daniel Mulhern was born in Minehead on April 4, 1977 to Maureen and Christopher. He has two older brothers and a younger sister. He started to learn about magic when he was 14 and his first break as an entertainer came when he performed his magic show at Butlins when he was 17. It led to him being offered a job as a Redcoat at Minehead. His first taste of TV began in 1998 as a CITV presenter. He went on to co-host Finger Tips with Fearne Cotton and Naomi Wilkinson, children's show Tricky TV and Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown with Holly Willoughby.
Career:
Mulhern moved on to more adult fare in 2006 when he hosted ITV2 spin-off Dancing on Ice: Defrosted. Since then, he has been involved with ITV2 spin-off Britain's Got More Talent, game show Magic Numbers, The Big Quiz, Big Star's Little Star and Sunday Side Up. Since 2013, he has presented a revived version of ITV game show Catchphrase. He has also appeared in a number of pantomimes. In 2012, he began co-presenting a Sunday breakfast show on Heart radio alongside Emma Willis.
Quote:
'I wanted to be the new Paul Daniels,' he says. 'I wanted to have that show where the best and biggest acts from around the world would do a couple of tricks and I'd introduce them.'
Trivia:
Mulhern has released a number of children's magic sets, toured the UK with Stephen's Mega Mad Magic Show and performed his magic act in front of the Queen at a Royal Variety Performance.
Tim Vine
(Contestant)
Born:
March 04, 1967
in
Cheam, London
Best Known For:
His superb one-liners.
Early-life:
Born Timothy Mark Vine in London, on March 4, 1967. The son of a structural engineering lecturer and a part-time medical worker, Tim demonstrated a love of performing from an early age. His elder brother is broadcaster Jeremy Vine and his younger sister, Sonya, is a painter. Tim first got into comedy when he used to take part in a weekly competition night at the Comedy Cafe in central London. As his reputation and confidence grew, so did his fan base and he soon branched out on his own.
Career:
Vine burst onto the stand-up circuit by winning the Perrier Best Newcomer Award for The Tim Vine Fiasco at the Edinburgh Festival in 1995. Tim's solo shows in Edinburgh include Tim Vine Flat Out, I'm Vine Thanks, Tim Vine and the Minotaur, Punslinger and Joke-amotive. He was in both series of ITV's The Sketch Show and appeared alongside his friend Lee Mack in five series of BBC One sitcom No Going Out. They also took part in Let's Play Darts for Comic Relief, with Vine finishing runner-up to competition winner Mack. He's acted in Blandings and is a resident comedian on Celebrity Squares alongside Joe Wilkinson.
Quote:
'Velcro - what a rip off.'
Trivia:
In 2004, Vine broke the record for telling the most jokes in an hour - 499. He held the record until November 2014, when Australian comedian Taylor Goodwin told 550 jokes in an hour.
Mel Giedroyc
(Contestant)
Born:
June 05, 1958
in
Epsom, Surrey
Best Known For:
Being the blonde half of TV personalities Mel and Sue.
Early-life:
Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc was born on June 5, 1968, in Epsom, Surrey, and grew up in Leatherhead. Her father is a Polish-Lithuanian history writer who settled in England in 1947. Mel also has Belgian and Belarusian ancestry. She attended Oxford High School before going on to Trinity College, Cambridge, where she studied Modern Languages. Her sister, Coky, is a TV director whose credits include The Hour, Blackpool and What Remains.
Career:
Like bread and butter, Giedroyc and Sue Perkins go well together - in fact, they're almost inseparable in professional terms. They were a hit at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993, and went on to write scripts for French and Saunders before presenting comedy chat show Light/Late Lunch and RI:SE. She was also in the children's sketch show Sorry I've Got No Head. More recently she has scored another hit with The Great British Bake-Off, alongside Sue, and daytime ITV show, Mel and Sue. Her radio work has included The 4 O'Clock Show on Radio 4 Extra.
Quote:
On her relationship with Sue Perkins: 'She's like Don Corleone with her friends, which I must say can at times be trying: she will always get the truth out of you, you can't hide anything.'
Trivia:
She has written two books: From Here to Maternity and Going Gaga.
Ashley Roberts
(Contestant)
Born:
September 14, 1981
in
Phoenix, Arizona
Best Known For:
The Pussycat Dolls and I'm a Celebrity.
Early-life:
Ashley Maria Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 14, 1981. She began dancing and singing at a young age. Her father was once a drummer with the Mamas & Papas. During her school summer holidays, she travelled to California to learn about modern dance. After leaving school, she moved to Los Angeles and appeared in a number of TV commercials and music videos for the likes of Josh Groban, Pink and Counting Crows.
Career:
Within six months of moving permanently to California, Roberts joined the Pussycat Dolls when they were a burlesque group. She went on to join the musical version of the Pussycat Dolls alongside Nicole Scherzinger, Melody Thornton, Jessica Sutta and Kimberly Wyatt. The group had a number of hit singles, including Don't Cha, Stickwitu and When I Grow Up. She left the Dolls in 2010 to start recording her own music. In 2012, she finished second on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! She was a member of the ice panel for the final two series of Dancing on Ice. Her debut solo album, Butterfly Effect, was released in September 2014. In early 2015, she was a contestant on Channel 4 reality series The Jump.
Quote:
'I'm claustrophobic. I'm not a fan of bugs, rodents, snakes, creepy crawly things at all. I'm not a fan of the dark.'
Trivia:
Roberts has launched her own lingerie line in Sydney.
Gary Chippington
(Executive producer)
Geraldine Dowd
(Director)
Ed Egan
(Series producer)
