The Chase Celebrity Special
09:00 am - 10:00 am, Monday, December 22 on Challenge (48)
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About this Broadcast
Season 5, Episode 2
Bradley Walsh presents as Good Morning Britain's Ranvir Singh, journalist John Sergeant, ex-rugby international Ugo Monye and TV presenter Mariella Frostrup pit their wits against ruthless quiz genius the Chaser in the hope of winning a potential prize pot worth thousands of pounds. They must work as a team and play strategically to answer general knowledge questions against the clock and race down the game board to the exit without being caught
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Cast & Crew
Bradley Walsh
(Host)
Ranvir Singh
(Contestant)
John Sergeant
(Contestant)
Ugo Monye
(Contestant)
Mariella Frostrup
(Contestant)
Michael Kelpie
(Executive producer)
Martin Scott
(Executive producer)
Helen Tumbridge
(Series producer)
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Did You Know..
Bradley Walsh
(Host)
Born:
June 04, 1960
in
Watford
Best Known For:
Coronation Street and Law & Order: UK
Early-life:
Bradley John Walsh was born in Watford on June 4, 1960. He wanted to be a footballer and was playing for a county league team when he was offered a contract with Brentford FC. Sadly, his sporting career was brought to an abrupt end when he broke both his ankles. He then considered joining the police, but was told he was too short, so he followed his father into engineering. He eventually decided to try stand-up comedy, and made his first steps towards turning professional when he became an entertainer at a holiday camp near Morecambe.
Career:
Walsh's big TV break came in 1993, when he appeared on the Royal Variety Show. It led to a stint presenting the National Lottery, and he also hosted the game shows Wheel of Fortune and Win, Lose or Draw. After fearing his brand of light entertainment was becoming dated he moved into acting, taking parts in the TV version of Lock, Stock, the soap Night and Day and movie Mike Bassett: England Manager before Coronation Street's bosses created the role of Danny Baldwin for him in 2004. He stayed in Weatherfield for two years before leaving to pursue other projects. He's since appeared in Torn, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Law and Order: UK and SunTrap. He moved back into presenting in 2009 with ITV quiz show The Chase, and is a team captain on Play to the Whistle.
Quote:
"Professionally I saw the end of light entertainment galloping towards me. Oddly enough, it's coming back now thanks to all the reality shows."
Trivia:
Walsh is a supporter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Ranvir Singh
(Contestant)
John Sergeant
(Contestant)
Born:
April 14, 1944
in
London
Best Known For:
His time as a political reporter.
Early-life:
Born 14 April 1944 in Oxford. He is the son of a distinguished linguist, and has Russian Jewish ancestry on his mother's side. John attended Millfield School in Somerset before going to Oxford University, where he participated in student comedy revues. After graduating he appeared in On the Margin with Alan Bennett for the BBC. Shortly after this he decided to divert his attention to journalism and began studying at Darlington College while working at the Liverpool Echo.
Career:
Sergeant joined the BBC as a radio reporter in 1970. He worked on the International desk, covering stories in over 25 countries. He then has a spell as a war reporter before becoming a political correspondent in 1981. Between 1992 and 2000 he was the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent before defecting to ITN. After his retirement from journalism in 2002, Sergeant began to flex the comedic muscles that he exhibited at university with appearances on Have I Got News for You and Strictly Come Dancing. His appearance among the glitz and glamour of Strictly sent viewers into a fervent frenzy, but quit the competition after claims it diminished the integrity of the show. Since then he has helmed Argumental, a comedy debating game, reported for The One Show and featured in several travelogues.
Quote:
On bowing out of Strictly Come Dancing: "It's like when you decide when you leave a party, and the time to leave a party is before the fight starts, and I think that's really what's happened on this occasion."
Trivia:
He witnessed Martin Luther King's `I have a dream" speech in Washington.
Ugo Monye
(Contestant)
Mariella Frostrup
(Contestant)
Born:
November 12, 1962
in
Oslo, Norway
Best Known For:
Being a blonde, but not a bimbo.
Early-life:
Born in Oslo on November 12, 1962, Mariella's family moved to Dublin when she was six after her Norwegian father became foreign editor for the Irish Times. Her parents later split up, and she lived with her Scottish artist mother, eventually leaving home at 16, the year after her father died. She arrived in London and lived in a Shepherds Bush squat, where she tried to get her TV career off the ground.
Career:
Frostrup had numerous jobs, including PR officer for Bananarama and Spandau Ballet, before landing the post of presenter on Video View in 1987. Since then, Frostrup has hosted several movie review programmes, including At The Movies and The Little Picture Show. She has fronted her own series, Frostrup on Friday, appeared on Going For A Song and presented an episode of Panorama. She has also been a jury panel member for The Olivier Theatre Awards and the Booker Prize.
Quote:
"I was told that, when you hit 40, men stop looking at you. It's true - until you slip on a mini-skirt."
Trivia:
Frostrup writes an agony aunt-type column called Dear Mariella for The Observer Magazine.
Michael Kelpie
(Executive producer)
Martin Scott
(Executive producer)
Helen Tumbridge
(Series producer)
