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You can at least send them a unique showreel, with the videos you have on YouTube of yourself presenting not-for-broadcast editions of Countdown and being GoD - I reckon you'd be perfect, and you can prove you can do the job.

Thank you ever so much, Steve, but I know from the knowledge I've gleaned, and from something I was told only this week by a TV exec, that the chances of me getting the gig are the same as the chances of me featuring on the front page of the News Of The World on July 17th...

It sounds like you know who's inline for the gig then?

There's always Quizmania Greg!

Great work Greg, loved your little Countdown moments! "Hello Rachel... Can I have a kiss... I mean a consonant, please?!"

Greg, you did very well today considering who you were up against. It was almost like you never left Countdown in that sense.

For a moment then I thought this thread was Greg announcing he was going to be using a payphone as an extra in The Jockey or something...

The "winner" had the personality of a bar of soap...

And therefore clearly deserves to be scorned for not having the wit and charm of Stephen Fry after two or three appearances on Countdown.

By the way he did actually win, so I'm not sure what the quotes in your "insightful" post are about.

David

And this what's wrong with TV today. They've had their fingers burned using established celebs on three occasions now, they need somebody who will stick around for more than a couple of years and give it some stability. Richard wasn't really known outside Yorkshire - he arguably only got the gig because it was originally a spin off from Calendar and because he was "Mr YTV". It's the kind of show that should be making somebody's name like it did with Richard.

To be honest Greg having seen the line up on Pointless Celebrities this week you should be disappointed you were not asked to take part there.

I expected that kind of response, to be honest. My post wasn't meant to be insightful, just an opinion - to which we are all entitled.