Following Countdown's 40th birthday, the show now looks to its next Champion Of Champions series - which will crown the ultimate winner from the past few years. Here, champions past and present reflect on their best bits and the show's appeal after four decades.
"It got to the final game and there were a couple of occasions when my opponent declared a longer word than me, but it wasn't in the dictionary. And then it got to the final conundrum, and I managed to solve it and Colin was very excited. You can see the clip on YouTube."
In the opening round of his third show, Ahmed scored a nine-letter word,"bolection... something to do with architecture", and says he was also proud to decipher a final conundrum as"tepidaria". Just don't expect him to have the definitions at his fingertips. Initially, he says he was brought in as a programme associate, or a greeter, to meet contestants and help put them at ease the night before filming."Have a couple of drinks and make them feel part of the Countdown experience," he says. While it wouldn't be the first show that comes to mind when it comes to raucous behind-the-scenes tales, he says"there were probably a few hungover contestants" playing back in the day.
Countdown was never about picking people purely for"good telly", bad contestants for cheap laughs, he says. It is 100% about ability."It doesn't matter if you get someone socially inept winning eight shows, people admire their brilliance... and they might say something stupid, there's nothing wrong with that."
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