Tipping Point: Lucky Stars
5:30 pm - 6:35 pm, Sunday, April 12 on ITV1 London +1 (35)
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About this Broadcast
Season 8, Episode 3
Ben Shephard asks the questions as Nick Hewer, Zoe Lyons and Joe Duttine answer questions to win turns on an arcade-style machine. Dropping tokens down a choice of four chutes, they hope to knock piles of them off a moving shelf - and the more they collect, the better their chances of collecting the £20,000 prize for their selected charity
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Cast & Crew
Ben Shephard
(Host)
Nick Hewer
(Contestant)
Zoe Lyons
(Contestant)
Joe Duttine
(Contestant)
Richard van't Riet
(Director)
Sara Doyle
(Executive producer)
Kate Lownds
(Executive producer)
Hugh Rycroft
(Executive producer)
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Did You Know..
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.
Nick Hewer
(Contestant)
Born:
February 17, 1944
in
Swindon
Best Known For:
Being Alan Sugar's right-hand man.
Early-life:
Hewer was born in Swindon on 17 February, 1944. He lived in Old Town, and was educated at Clongowes Wood College, an exclusive Jesuit boarding school, located in County Kildare, Ireland. He moved to London in the 1960s. He started his own PR company in 1966. He spent 21 years in the Amstrad management group. His PR company was hired by Amstrad to represent them in 1983.
Career:
Hewer and ex-Amstrad owner Alan Sugar became friends through their working relationship; and Hewer agreed to become one of Sugar's advisers in The Apprentice TV show in 2004. He stayed with the show for 10 years. Hewer's fame, generated by the series, has led to appearances on such panel shows Would I Lie to You?, Ask Rhod Gilbert, Have I Got News for You and Room 101. He is the current host of Channel 4 show Countdown, having replaced Jeff Stelling in 2012 and was the subject of Who Do You Think You Are? in 2013.
Quote:
On agreeing to be in The Apprentice: 'He said to me 'Look, I'll sort out the money.' I thought it rather droll that he'd organise a fee for me, when for 25 years I'd been fighting to get my fee out of him…'
Trivia:
In 2012, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Kingston University.
Zoe Lyons
(Contestant)
Joe Duttine
(Contestant)
Born:
June 30, 1970
in
Halifax
Best Known For:
Playing Tim Metcalfe in Coronation Street.
Early-life:
Joe was born in Halifax on June 30, 1970. He moved to London when he attended the Drama Centre London. In 1992, he made his TV debut in an episode of Between the Lines.
Career:
Duttine has made a steady stream of guest appearances in a number of TV series over the years, including Lovejoy, The Buddha of Suburbia, Seaforth, A Touch of Frost, Dangerfield, Dalziel and Pascoe, Silent Witness, New Tricks, Life on Mars and Waterloo Road. For several months in 2010, he played detective Max Carr in Coronation Street. Three years later, he returned to the famous cobbles as a new character, Tim Metcalfe. His theatre credits include playing the lead in a touring version of The Elephant Man.
Quote:
'On stage you don't have the luxury of being in a make-up wagon for hours, you have to create it physically.'
Trivia:
He is the nephew of actor John Duttine.
Richard van't Riet
(Director)
Sara Doyle
(Executive producer)
Kate Lownds
(Executive producer)
Hugh Rycroft
(Executive producer)
