Tipping Point: Lucky Stars


12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Monday, April 6 on U&W (25)

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About this Broadcast

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Season 2, Episode 3

TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, former England cricketer Phil Tufnell and Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas (builder Jason Grimshaw) use knowledge, skill and tactics to win turns on the arcade-style token-pushing machine. Dropping counters down a choice of four chutes, the celebrity contestants hope to knock piles of them off a moving shelf - and the more they collect, the better their chances of scooping the £20,000 prize for a charity of their choice. Game show, hosted by Ben Shephard


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Cast & Crew

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Lorraine Kelly (Contestant)
Phil Tufnell (Contestant)
Ryan Thomas (Contestant)
Sara Doyle (Series producer)
Will Smith (Executive producer)
Hugh Rycroft (Executive producer)

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Ben Shephard (Host)
Born: December 11, 1974 in Epping, Essex
Best Known For: Hosting The Xtra Factor
Early-life: Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard was born in Essex on December 11, 1974. He has a brother and sister. He studied dance, drama and theatre arts at Birmingham University. As a teenager he loved sport, and played for South-East England's Under 16 and Under 18 football teams, and for the Senior Eastern Counties rugby team. After graduating, he spent time in France, working in a chateu. He returned to the UK and landed jobs at various production companies, before getting his big break in 1998, hosting Channel 4 series Control Freaks.
Career: He co-hosted The Bigger Breakfast and T4 on Channel 4, before signing up to ITV2's Bedrock. Among his presenting credits are EastEnders Revealed, Channel 4's Planet Pop, MTV Select with Kelly Brook and Exclusive with Lisa Rogers. As well as presenting GMTV Today and Entertainment Today, Ben also fronted the station's lifestyle series Inch-loss Beach in 2003 and took a road trip from San Francisco to LA in Ben's Road to Hollywood. He presented the ITV2 show The Xtra Factor since 2004 but quit - reportedly being angry that Dermot O'Leary was brought in to replace Kate Thornton on the main show, instead of him. He has since presented several high-profile shows for ITV and is the face of The Krypton Factor.
Quote: 'My experiences as a backpacker have taught me that decent toilet paper is a luxury you just can't afford to be without.'
Trivia: Shephard holds the world record for the most pumpkins smashed in one minute - 11.
Lorraine Kelly (Contestant)
Born: November 30, 1959 in Glasgow
Best Known For: Her friendly on-screen manner.
Early-life: Born November 30, 1959, in Gorbals, Glasgow, but later moved with her family to East Kilbride. Her dad John was a TV repairman. She claims her family were far from being well-off, and that her first home had no running water, phone, bath or shower. After passing her Scottish Highers, she was expected to take up a place at university to study Russian and English, but turned it down to take a job on her local newspaper, the East Kilbride News, instead.
Career: Kelly was a news reporter before landing a position as a TV researcher for BBC Scotland in 1983. It was not well paid and she worked as a waitress in the evenings to make ends meet. Despite once being told that her Glasgow accent would prevent her from gaining small screen success she joined TV-am as its senior Scottish correspondent in 1985, but didn't become a household name until she became co-host of Good Morning Britain in 1990. She's hosted her own weekday morning show since 1994; it's been known by various titles but is currently called Lorraine. Other projects include a Sky One show, a regular column for The Sun and her own fitness videos, as well as guest hosting Have I Got News For You and The Paul O'Grady Show. She began co-hosting Daybreak with Aled Jones in May 2012.
Quote: 'Being thought of as a sex symbol is hilarious and deeply, deeply flattering.'
Trivia: Kelly is a patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.
Phil Tufnell (Contestant)
Born: April 29, 1966 in Barnet, London
Best Known For: His glittering cricket career and various TV appearances.
Early-life: Philip Clive Roderick Tufnell was born in Barnet, London, on April 29, 1966. He went to Highgate School where his cricketing prowess was recognised and he was appointed captain of the Junior School's First XI despite the fact he was not yet in the top year. On leaving Highgate he attended, and played cricket for, Southgate School. He then trained as a quantity surveyor, but remained associated with the sport and eventually dropped his original career choice.
Career: A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, 'Tuffers' as he was known played 42 Tests and 20 One Day International matches for England, as well as playing for Middlesex from 1986 to 2002. He took 121 Test wickets as an England bowler, but it is his good-humour and occasionally outrageous behaviour that made him a popular sports personality. Following his retirement in 2002, Tufnell has built on his popularity with several TV appearances. These include I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! which he won, They Think It's All Over, A Question of Sport, The One Show and Strictly Come Dancing. In early 2015, he was a contestant on Channel 4 reality series The Jump.
Quote: On fame: 'A 25-stone hairy bloke asked me to sign his bum. I ran a mile!'
Trivia: In 2011, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University.
Ryan Thomas (Contestant)
Born: June 10, 1984 in Manchester
Best Known For: Playing Jason Grimshaw in Coronation Street.
Early-life: Born Ryan James Thomas in Manchester on June 10, 1984, Ryan has two brothers who are twins. One of them is fellow actor Adam Thomas. Ryan first appeared as Jason Grimshaw on Coronation Street on December 25, 2000.
Career: During Thomas's time on Coronation Street, his character had a number of flings with local residents until it looked like he was going to settle down with Violet Wilson. That relationship didn't last and he moved on to Sarah-Louise Platt. He proposed to Sarah, but got cold feet on their wedding day. Sarah eventually got back with Jason. Their relationship survived the shock of Jason fathering a baby with another woman and they finally tied the knot on Halloween in 2007. A few weeks later, Sarah left for a job in Milan and Jason's consolation prize was Becky Granger. Jason had an on-off relationship with Becky before moving on to date Tina McIntyre, Rosie Webster, Maria Connor, Stella Price and her daughter Eva. Away from the soap, Thomas joined co-stars Sue Cleaver (Eileen), Brooke Vincent (Sophie) and Ben Price (Nick) on a trip to Kenya in 2012 to stage a play about the dangers of HIV.
Quote: 'The best thing about having kids is that your child never judges you, and you are the best person in the world to them.'
Trivia: Thomas had a daughter, Scarlett, with former Coronation Street co-star Tina O'Brien. He was declared bankrupt in October 2013 after a dispute over unpaid taxes.
Richard van't Riet (Director)
Sara Doyle (Series producer)
Will Smith (Executive producer)
Born: September 25, 1968 in Philadelphia
Best Known For: Men in Black and a string of hit movies.
Early-life: Born Willard Christopher Smith Jr on September 25, 1968, in Philadelphia, the second of four children. He received his Fresh Prince nickname from a teacher who noted his ability to talk his way out of any situation. In high school, Smith teamed up with Jeff Townes to form rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Turning down a university scholarship to concentrate on music paid off when the duo became platinum-selling recording artists.
Career: Smith's charm swayed Quincy Jones and the NBC TV network to give him a starring role in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, a series that ran for six years. In 1992, he made his film debut with Where the Day Takes You. Since then, he's enjoyed a steady string of box-office hits, including Bad Boys, Independence Day, Men in Black and its two sequels, and Ali, which gained him an Oscar nomination. Other projects include Enemy of the State, Six Degrees of Separation, I, Robot, I Am Legend, Seven Pounds and Hancock. His recent work includes Men in Black 3, After Earth, and new movie Focus.
Quote: 'Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man.'
Trivia: He married actress Jada Pinkett in 1997. They have two children, Jaden and Willow.
Hugh Rycroft (Executive producer)