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Season 8, Episode 1
Ben Shephard hosts as Janette Manrara, Ade Adepitan and Sarah Millican 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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Ben Shephard
(Host)
Janette Manrara
(Contestant)
Sarah Millican
(Contestant)
Ade Adepitan
(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.
Janette Manrara
(Contestant)
Sarah Millican
(Contestant)
Born:
May 29, 1975
in
South Shields
Best Known For:
Her north east accent.
Early-life:
Born Sarah Jane King on May 29, 1975, in South Shields. She was raised in what she describes as a typical working-class household. Married at 22, she hoped to become a playwright. After the sudden collapse of her marriage she attended a performance workshop and discovered a gift for comedy, although she had never attended a comedy club before taking to the stage for the first time. Sarah began touring, quickly building a large following who were impressed with her honest, or very blue, approach.
Career:
Her debut Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Sarah Millican's Not Nice, won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer in 2008; she hasn't looked back since. She has appeared as a panellist on 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You, You Have Been Watching and as a performer at The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008 and 4 Stands Up. She was featured in the Manchester edition of Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, broadcast in June 2009, and provided vocal work to the BBC's natural history footage for Walk on the Wild Side. She briefly joined the Loose Women panel in January 2011 and launched her own show, The Sarah Millican Television Programme, in 2012.
Quote:
'It's all very well to be a feminist, but it's nice to know you've got good knockers.'
Trivia:
In 2012 she won £20,000 for charity while appearing in a celebrity edition of Deal or No Deal.
Ade Adepitan
(Contestant)
Richard van't Riet
(Director)
Sara Doyle
(Executive producer)
Kate Lownds
(Executive producer)
Hugh Rycroft
(Executive producer)
