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Riley was born in Rochford. [4] [5] Her mother is Jewish, and she has stated that her "family came over in the pogroms" from Tsarist Russia. [6]Riley was raised in the Thorpe Bay area of Southend-on-Sea and was educated at the independent Thorpe Hall School, and Southend High School for Girls, [7] a grammar school, where she passed four A-Levels at grade A, after which she obtained a second ...
Countdown originated from the format of the French game show Des chiffres et des lettres (Numbers and Letters), created by Armand Jammot. After watching the programme, Belgian record executive Marcel Stellman brought the format to Britain on the belief it could be popular overseas and proposed his concept for the British version to several ...
The format of this publication was revised for 2008 as an A–Z collection of new and newly resurrected words. It was published in October 2008 as Words of the Year ( ISBN 9780199551996 ). In 2005, the same publisher issued Winning Words ( ISBN 0199198748 ), and in 2009, What Made the Crocodile Cry? 101 questions about the English language ...
Carol Jean Vorderman (born 24 December 1960) is a Welsh [1] broadcaster, media personality, and writer. Her media career began when she joined the Channel 4 game show Countdown, appearing with Richard Whiteley from 1982 until his death in 2005, and subsequently with Des Lynam and Des O'Connor, before leaving in 2008.
Anne Josephine Robinson (born 26 September 1944) [1] is a journalist and television presenter, best known as the host of BBC game show The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012, and again in 2017 for a one-off celebrity special for Children in Need. [2]
This is a list of champions on the game show Countdown. These are players who have won up to eight games and scored enough points to qualify for their series' finals. Here, they were one of eight contestants invited back to compete in a knockout tournament to decide who will become the series champion. This list also includes winners of ...
Countdown: Arena is a four-issue American comic book mini-series published by DC Comics. Written by Keith Champagne with illustrations by Scott McDaniel , it was released over four weeks in December 2007.
In 1984 Kershaw formed a band called Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits with her friend and neighbour Countdown presenter Carol Vorderman. Their recordings included a version of "Teenage Kicks" with the Undertones' O'Neill brothers (John and Damian), which was released on Stiff Records' DAWN 1. [5] and a Peel Session which was broadcast on Radio 1 ...