The Weakest Link


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Season 5, Episode 9

Romesh Ranganathan asks general knowledge questions against the clock as celebrity contestants try to avoid being voted off the team. Battling it out for the charity of their choice are Lloyd Griffith, Rav Wilding, Dylan Llewellyn, Lorna Watson, Shereen Cutkelvin, Colin Jackson, Harriet Thorpe and Kiri Pritchard-McLean


HD subtitles repeat 16x9
Quiz Show Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Harriet Thorpe (Contestant)
Colin Jackson (Contestant)
Shereen Cutkelvin (Contestant)
Lorna Watson (Contestant)
Dylan Llewellyn (Contestant)
Lloyd Griffith (Contestant)
Rav Wilding (Contestant)
Olivia Clark (Producer)

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Did You Know..

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Romesh Ranganathan (Host)
Born: January 30, 1978 in Crawley
Best Known For: Being a comedian.
Early-life: Born Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan in Crawley on January 30, 1978. He is of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. He started performing stand-up while he was working as a mathematics teacher at schools in Crawley and Banstead. He became a professional comedian in 2012.
Career: Ranganathan's breakthrough came in 2013 when he was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Since then, he has appeared on a number of comedy panel shows, including Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Have I Got News for You. He has also performed stand-up on Live at the Apollo and presented the BBC Three series Asian Provocateur and co-presented the ITV series It's Not Rocket Science.
Quote: "I think I'm a mango. Just very sweet and lovely."
Trivia: Ranganathan is a vegan and supports Arsenal FC.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Contestant)
Harriet Thorpe (Contestant)
Colin Jackson (Contestant)
Born: February 18, 1967 in Cardiff
Best Known For: Being a 110m hurdler, and a sports presenter.
Early-life: Colin Ray Jackson was born in Cardiff on February 18, 1967. He is of Jamaican, Maroon, Taino and Scottish ancestry. His sister is actress Suzanne Packer. He grew up in Birchgrove. He played football and cricket for his county and rugby union and basketball for his school. He went on to join the Birchgrove Harriers athletics club. Colin initially focused on decathlon events before specialising on the 110m hurdles. He won gold at the 1986 World Junior Championships.
Career: Jackson picked up silver medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. He set a world record for the 110m hurdles in August 1993, winning his first World Championships gold medal. The record stood for 13 years. Between August 1993 and February 1995, he won 44 consecutive races. During a distinguished sporting career, he won two World Championships, a World Indoor Championship, four European Championships, three European Indoor Championships, and two Commonwealth Games. After retiring in 2003, Jackson became a coach in athletics and other sports, and enjoys a media career with the BBC. In 2005, he lost out to Darren Gough in the final of Strictly Come Dancing.
Quote: "When you're representing your country in Sydney one day and in Wales the next, there's a brutal realisation that real life isn't that fantasy where everybody looks after you and you get anything you demand."
Trivia: Jackson has been awarded an MBE, OBE and CBE.
Shereen Cutkelvin (Contestant)
Lorna Watson (Contestant)
Dylan Llewellyn (Contestant)
Lloyd Griffith (Contestant)
Rav Wilding (Contestant)
Olivia Clark (Producer)
Janine O'Connor (Director)

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