The Chase Celebrity Special


09:00 am - 10:00 am, Friday, December 26 on Challenge (48)

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About this Broadcast

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Season 5, Episode 7

Bradley Walsh invites another selection of celebrity contestants to pit their wits against ruthless quiz genius the Chaser. This time, the stars hoping to score a win for charity are Loose Women's Kaye Adams, football commentator Mark Bright, Olympic gold medal-winning ice dancer Jayne Torvill, and Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Arnold. The famous competitors 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


subtitles repeat 16x9
Game Show/Quiz/Contest Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Kaye Adams (Contestant)
Mark Bright (Contestant)
Jayne Torvill (Contestant)
Richard Arnold (Contestant)
Michael Kelpie (Executive producer)
Martin Scott (Executive producer)
Helen Tumbridge (Series producer)

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Did You Know..

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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.
Kaye Adams (Contestant)
Born: December 28, 1962 in Grangemouth
Best Known For: Anchoring Loose Women.
Early-life: Kaye was born in Grangemouth on December 28, 1962. Her parents ran a family road haulage business. She went on to study Economics and Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her media career started as a graduate trainee at Central Television and her initial focus was political and news programming. In 1988, she began working on ITV's nightly news programme, Scotland Today.
Career: In 1992, Adams began hosting the discussion programme Scottish Women and it marked the start of her career as a talk show host. Following the success of Scottish Women, Adams co-presented ITV Weekend Live, Central Weekend Live and This Morning, and was a reporter on the first series of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Between 1999 and 2006, Adams anchored the popular ITV daytime talk show Loose Women. She returned to the show in 2013. She has also guest hosted The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 and co-hosted Scottish lifestyle programme The Hour with Stephen Jardine.
Quote: "There's a certain group of celebrity that I don't get excited about."
Trivia: Adams writes a weekly column for the Daily Record newspaper and presents phone-in show Call Kaye on Radio Scotland.
Mark Bright (Contestant)
Jayne Torvill (Contestant)
Born: October 07, 1957 in Nottingham
Best Known For: Ice skating with Christopher Dean.
Early-life: Jayne was born in Nottingham on October 7, 1957. Her first taste of ice skating came on a school trip to an ice rink when she was eight. In 1971, at the age of 14, she became the British National Pairs Champion with her then skating partner Michael Hutchenson. After parting from Michael, Jayne skated solo for a time before teaming up with Christopher Dean in 1975.
Career: After Torvill and Dean finished fifth at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, Dean gave up his job as a policeman and Torvill left her job as an insurance clerk so they could train full time. This decision paid off in 1984 when they received 12 perfect 6.0 marks for a routine to Ravel's Bolero at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics. Their Bolero routine was watched by a British TV audience of 24 million. Torvill and Dean turned professional after the 1984 Olympics, which made them ineligible to compete in the Olympics again until the International Skating Union relaxed their rules for professional skaters, allowing them to participate in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, where they won a bronze medal. Torvill took a break from skating between 1998 and 2005. She returned to the ice in 2006 when she joined Dean to coach celebrities on ITV's Dancing on Ice.
Quote: "When I first saw Chris, I fell in love with him. But then we started skating together and that was it, it was done."
Trivia: Torvill was awarded an OBE in 2000.
Richard Arnold (Contestant)
Born: November 24, 1969 in Hampshire
Best Known For: Being a showbiz reporter on breakfast telly.
Early-life: Born in Hampshire on November 24, 1969, Richard grew up in Inverurie, Scotland, after his family moved there in 1981. He studied at Edinburgh University and the City University in London. His first foray into journalism was working for Inside Soap magazine.
Career: Richard joined Radio Scotland as their resident TV critic in 1994 and presented a TV review show on Radio 5 for four years from 1993. He left Inside Soap in 1995 to become a TV presenter on the Sunday Show for the BBC. A couple of years later, he became the TV critic for GMTV. For 10 years, Richard made daily appearances on GMTV, GMTV Today and LK Today. Other TV credits include hosting The Richard Arnold Show, Loose Lips, Soapstar Superchef and Take It Or Leave It. In 2012, he became the Showbiz Editor for ITV breakfast programme Daybreak, and partnered professional dancer Erin Boag on Strictly Come Dancing.
Quote: In the run-up to Strictly Come Dancing: "The BBC said who would be your preferred partner and I did say Anton - someone with a good sense of humour and a firm hand - but apparently the programme hasn't moved that far forward yet."
Trivia: He took part in the first series of Celebrity MasterChef.
Michael Kelpie (Executive producer)
Martin Scott (Executive producer)
Helen Tumbridge (Series producer)

Before / After

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The Chase
08:00 am
The Chase
10:00 am