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00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Monday afternoon.
00:34I hope your weekend was at least OK,
00:36as we welcome you to another very special week,
00:38our champion of champions.
00:40We're going to complete our round of 16,
00:42and then on Thursday and Friday,
00:44we have our first two quarterfinals,
00:47which sounds really exciting, Rachel Riley,
00:49but I have to say they'll have to go some this week to beat last week
00:53because it was all-time greatness.
00:56It was, but we're going to, you know,
00:57six more people who could contend to become the champion of this champion of champions.
01:02So, yeah, they've got a lot to...
01:04They've got a high bar to meet, though, from last week's game, for sure.
01:07Absolutely.
01:08Memories made every single day on Countdown over now 41 years.
01:12We'll make some more today,
01:13and in Dictionary Corner,
01:15making sure not one single ineligible word
01:19scrapes by is our G of the D,
01:21Susie Dent.
01:21And alongside her, well, we definitely know her favourite letter is M.
01:25Welcome back to Heather Small.
01:28APPLAUSE
01:30Oh, Heather, when you made your debut in Dictionary Corner,
01:34I was so excited, and the day before I caught COVID,
01:37so this is great for me.
01:38Yeah, it was a tragedy for us both,
01:40but here we are now,
01:41and I can't wait to spend the week with you.
01:43Yes, that's what I want to do here.
01:44Well, both contestants today in this champion of champions
01:48are a sight for sore eyes,
01:50and they both have history that they bring with them.
01:53First of all, Martin May is back.
01:55How are you doing, sir?
01:55I'm very good, thank you.
01:57Do you know that nobody has ever won more
02:02regular season Countdown games than you?
02:04You hold the joint record of 15 in Countdown history,
02:07because tell us the story.
02:09How did you manage to win 15?
02:10So, I was on originally, I think, back in Series 56 and 57.
02:141954 was your first appearance.
02:16It was, yeah, I hide it well.
02:19And I had to retire for personal reasons,
02:21but I wasn't very well,
02:22and I thankfully was invited back.
02:26He, following Series, managed to win four games,
02:30and then came back for Series, I think it was 78,
02:32and managed to get all the way to the final.
02:34Brilliant.
02:35Well, you're up against today Luke Johnson Davies,
02:38who is the champion of Series 82,
02:40so you come here with the O, you're unbeaten, right?
02:43Do you know in your finals,
02:45which, for people that don't watch all the time,
02:47that would have been the end of the series,
02:48a quarter-final, semi-final and final,
02:50do you know what you managed to achieve?
02:53Everyone reminds me all the time, so I do know.
02:55I think I got every letters round maxed.
02:59Correct.
03:00So there was never, in any of your letters rounds,
03:04a round where the dictionary had a longer word than you?
03:07I mean, that's pretty lucky, just to know along this word
03:09and all those rounds, let alone spot it.
03:11That's very lucky.
03:12This sums up Countdown contestants in the Countdown family.
03:16It's always modesty.
03:17If I did, I have a T-shirt with it written on.
03:19It's not always modesty, it's just these ones are nice.
03:22Yeah.
03:22Oh, there's some terrible ones, we don't talk about those.
03:24That's tomorrow, your least favourite Countdown.
03:27Great and humble.
03:29Right.
03:30Martin and Luke, best of luck.
03:34Can't wait for this.
03:35Here we go.
03:36Martin, get us started.
03:37Thank you very much.
03:38Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:39Afternoon, Martin.
03:41Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:42Can you do?
03:43Start the week with L.
03:45And another.
03:47R.
03:48And a third.
03:50P.
03:51And a vowel.
03:53A.
03:54And another vowel.
03:56E.
03:57And another vowel.
03:59I.
04:00And a consonant.
04:03S.
04:04And a vowel.
04:07U.
04:09And a final vowel, please.
04:13A final E.
04:15At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:20We'll see you next time.
04:20We'll see you next time.
04:22We'll see you next time.
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04:39We'll see you next time.
04:40We'll see you next time.
04:46We'll see you next time.
04:48Promising. Martin? Eight. And Luke? Eight as well, yeah.
04:52Yes, what's the eight, Martin? Pleasure.
04:54And what about yourself, Luke?
04:56Superior. Superior and pleasure.
05:00Hang on for dear life, Heather Small.
05:02There's not much need for a dictionary corner and champion of champions.
05:06Easiest money you'll ever make. Easiest 30 quid a day you'll ever make.
05:10Yeah, I feel special. Anything else?
05:13No, superior obviously is going to be in the dictionary,
05:15because Luke said it. It means the same as superior.
05:19Yeah. And we had a couple of other eights, didn't we?
05:22Yeah. Espalier. Espalier, yeah, which is...
05:25If you espalier fruit trees, you grow them flat against a sort of fence.
05:30I've never seen a flat fruit tree.
05:33Anyway. And pearlies. Pearlies, they're a fake as well.
05:36So, you said fruit, that's what threw me, cos I was thinking, you know,
05:39Heather Ivy that spreads up the side of a house, you know, that type of thing.
05:42I know about that. Well, that's not fruit.
05:44You're very right. It's not fruit. Thank you for clarifying that.
05:47Ivy is not fruit. Every day is a school day.
05:50Luke, let's get nine more letters.
05:53All right, thank you. Could I start off a consonant, please, Rachel?
05:55Thank you, Luke.
05:57R. And another one.
06:00T. And another.
06:06B. And a vowel, please.
06:09A. And another.
06:11E. And another.
06:14U. And a consonant, please.
06:18F. And a final consonant, please.
06:23A final T.
06:2530 seconds.
06:26F. And a consonant, please.
06:27F. And a consonant, please.
06:34F. And a consonant, please.
06:41F. And a consonant, please.
06:41F. And a consonant, please.
06:41F. And a consonant, please.
06:42F. And a consonant, please.
06:42F. And a consonant, please.
06:43F. And a consonant, please.
06:44F. And a consonant, please.
06:45F. And a consonant, please.
06:46F. And a consonant, please.
06:46F. And a consonant, please.
06:47F. And a consonant, please.
06:48F. And a consonant, please.
06:51F. And a consonant, please.
06:56How did you get on, Luke?
06:58Stick with six.
06:59Yes, and Martin?
07:00Yeah, six as well.
07:01Six as well.
07:01What have you got, Luke?
07:02Upbeat.
07:03Upbeat, yes.
07:04Lovely words today so far.
07:06Brilliant.
07:07Both of you, upbeat.
07:08And quite a lot of sixes, I think, in there, Heather.
07:11I'm intrigued to see if there's anything better.
07:12Yes, no, we have six, but we have a brat,
07:16which I think is a good word.
07:17And batter.
07:18Batter.
07:19Butter.
07:20Yes, lots of sixes there,
07:22but we couldn't find the elusive seven.
07:24Excellent.
07:24At 14 points each.
07:27First numbers round of the day.
07:29And Mr May, it's your choice.
07:32We'll start off nice and easy.
07:34Can I have one from the top and five of your choice?
07:36OK, well, you mean five little ones?
07:39Yes, please.
07:39That's never my choice, never a free choice.
07:41One large, five little, you have to be precise.
07:43Thank you, Martin.
07:44Let's see if it's easy, like you requested.
07:46Little ones are six, six, seven, eight.
07:51Seven and 50 might not be so easy.
07:53Let's have a look.
07:54The target, 741.
07:56Numbers up.
07:58The target, 741.
08:03Yes, yes.
08:26A little tricky. Martin, how do you do?
08:29Yeah, 741.
08:30And Luke?
08:31Yeah, 741, but not completely written down.
08:33OK, you'll have to go first, then, Luke.
08:35All right, so 7 plus 8 is 15.
08:3815.
08:38And 7 minus 6 is 1.
08:417 minus 6, 1.
08:42Take the 1 away from the 50.
08:4549.
08:45Times that by 15.
08:47Is 735.
08:49And add the other 6.
08:50Well done, 741.
08:51Martin?
08:528 times 7.
08:548 times 7, 56.
08:55Plus 50.
08:561.
08:57106.
08:57Times 7.
08:58Times the second 7.
09:00742.
09:00And 6 over 6 is 1.
09:02And take it away.
09:02Nicely done.
09:03741.
09:05APPLAUSE
09:0724 points each.
09:09Another delightful day of Champions Countdown here.
09:11So let's take our first tea time teaser, shall we?
09:14Opal Newt.
09:15Not Opal Fruits.
09:16Opal Newt.
09:17You can't go gliding without the help of this.
09:20You can't go gliding without the help of this.
09:39Welcome back, Opal Newt.
09:41You can't go gliding without the help of this.
09:43It is, of course, a toll plane.
09:45And off to a flying start today with Martin and Luke.
09:47We expected no less.
09:5024 points each.
09:52Just want to get straight back to it.
09:53So, Luke, let's have more letters.
09:55All right, can I start with a consonant again, please, Rachel?
09:57Thank you, Luke.
10:24Thank you, Rachel.
10:26Thank you, Rachel.
10:56That is time, Luke.
10:58A seven.
10:59And Martin.
11:00Yeah, I'll have to risk a seven in that case.
11:01OK, Luke, what have you got?
11:03Imagery.
11:03A view of the same.
11:04It's not a risk.
11:05We'll see.
11:07Marquise.
11:09It's not there, I'm afraid, Martin.
11:11Sorry.
11:11Anything else for me, Heather?
11:13Small?
11:14We have images.
11:16That's also a seven.
11:18Nothing bigger than that.
11:19That's all we could have had.
11:20They are champions of champions, remember?
11:22And there's going to be these tiny moments, you're right,
11:25that will settle it either way.
11:26There'll be more to come.
11:27Don't worry, Martin.
11:28And you're in charge of the letters.
11:29Can I have a vowel, please?
11:31Thank you, Martin.
11:32A.
11:33And another.
11:58And a final consonant, please.
12:02A final S.
12:04Here we go.
12:11We'll see you next time.
12:35I think this could be special.
12:37Martin?
12:38Hopefully a nine.
12:39Yeah.
12:39Luke?
12:39Yeah, a nine as well.
12:40Yeah, Luke, when you take a drink of water after seven seconds,
12:43that's a dead giveaway that it's going to be special.
12:46Let's say after the same nine.
12:47Martin?
12:48Er, nodalises.
12:50Nodalises.
12:50And Luke?
12:51Yep, the same word.
12:54Yeah.
12:55I'm not even going to check.
12:5618 points each.
13:01Nodalise is to make nodal informed.
13:05In other words, it's kind of concentrating things at certain points.
13:08Right, there you go.
13:09Two nines.
13:10We'd expect nothing less.
13:11Shall we go back to the numbers then?
13:12Luke, do you want to have a go?
13:13Could I go through with six more, please?
13:16You can indeed.
13:17Six little numbers coming up,
13:19and hopefully more of a challenge than the first one.
13:22Right, we have ten, four, eight, six, two.
13:27Oh, all the evens definitely could be a challenge.
13:30Let's have a look.
13:30The target, 798.
13:34798, numbers up.
14:06Even I had a drink of water that time.
14:07Luke?
14:08Yep, I've got it.
14:09And Martin?
14:10Yep, got it as well.
14:11Off you go, Luke.
14:12Ten times ten times eight minus two.
14:15Who would have thought the six more would be even easier?
14:17Same way, Martin?
14:17Exactly the same.
14:18OK, same way.
14:20Well done.
14:20Ten points each.
14:24Now, after waiting so long,
14:26I get to have my first proper chat with Heather Small.
14:28Don't take this the wrong way, right?
14:30I'm already afraid.
14:33There are certain singers who there's nobody else has a voice like them, right?
14:37You know, so Elvis, Elton John, your voice.
14:40But it means we all think we can do an Elvis or do a Heather Small, right?
14:45And we can't, obviously we can't sing.
14:47But so, you know, everyone can go,
14:49You can't be wrong.
14:51Right?
14:53Yeah, they can, but they might not be paid for doing so.
14:56But they can.
14:57Well, that is the song that most people sing to me,
15:00Moving On Up, yeah, on a regular places.
15:03The last person was Alison, Alison Hammond.
15:07Yeah, so, yeah, Moving On Up is the most popular.
15:11Even, even Dust Men sing Moving On Up to me.
15:15Yeah, I love it.
15:16If they're emptying the bins at seven in the morning,
15:19you don't want to hear that through your window.
15:22But Proud is a song that I think actually got to, like, number 16 when it was first released.
15:27But, you know, it's an absolute all-time classic song because it's used everywhere.
15:33Can you just tell me about some of the places that Proud has ended up?
15:38Um, well, a lot of choirs, a lot of schools and a lot of leaving dues for the schoolchildren
15:49when they have their last day at school, they sing Proud and they sing it in assembly.
15:54So that's what I'm most proud of, that there's young children who have been inspired by the song
15:58and it means something to them.
16:00But men's choirs have gone into churches.
16:05Oprah's used it.
16:06The, the, uh, the biggest loser has used it.
16:09So it's, it's, it's really quite popular.
16:11Um, the Olympics.
16:13Yeah, so it's been diverse.
16:14And that's what I like about it because, you know, it's meant so much to different people.
16:18And when it comes down to it, we're all the same and we're usually moved by the same things.
16:24Yeah.
16:24And music usually brings people together.
16:26Heather, it's so good, have you?
16:27I can't wait for stories all week.
16:32Lovely.
16:32Back to the game there, Martin.
16:34You need to move on up by about seven points.
16:36So very little, let's get some more letters.
16:38See what I can do.
16:39Can I start with a vowel, please?
16:41Thank you, Martin.
16:42E.
16:43And another.
16:45A.
16:46And a third.
16:47U.
16:48And a consonant.
16:50T.
16:51And another.
16:53C.
16:55And a third.
16:57T.
16:58And a vowel.
17:00I.
17:02And a consonant.
17:04G.
17:07And a final consonant, please.
17:12A final H.
17:13Ah, he's down.
17:15MUSIC PLAYS
17:45There was no relaxing during that round.
17:47from Martin and Luke.
17:48Martin.
17:48Just a six on that one.
17:49And Luke.
17:50Just six as well.
17:51Yeah, I'm going to guess it's the same word.
17:53Martin.
17:53Caught.
17:54Yes.
17:54Luke.
17:55I'll go with taught, then.
17:57Just to keep it interesting.
17:58Yes, caught and taught.
18:00You know, we've had a couple of really tricky rounds so far.
18:03Yeah, we certainly have.
18:03Just six.
18:04Anything else?
18:05We also have a six.
18:07It's cat gut.
18:08Yes, cat gut as is used in guitar strings and that kind of thing.
18:12Apparently never using cat guts, but using the intestines of sheep or horses.
18:18Cat gut.
18:18Mm.
18:19There you go.
18:19Let's swiftly move on and get another round of letters.
18:22Luke Johnson, Davies, it's you.
18:24A consonant, please, Rachel.
18:25Thank you, Luke.
18:26R.
18:27And another one.
18:29N.
18:30And another.
18:32S.
18:34And another.
18:35G.
18:36And a vowel, please.
18:38E.
18:39And another.
18:40I.
18:41And another.
18:43E.
18:44And a consonant, please.
18:47S.
18:49And a final consonant, please.
18:51A final W.
18:53Half a minute.
19:23I'm excited about this round.
19:25Luke?
19:26Er, eight.
19:27Martin?
19:28Eight as well.
19:29OK, Luke, what's your word?
19:30I'll go with swingers.
19:32And Martin?
19:33I've also got swingers as well.
19:35Good.
19:35Well, you know, live and let live, that's what they say.
19:39Anything else you'd like to share with us?
19:41We also had swingers, but we've got another eight.
19:44Re-sewing.
19:45Re-sewing.
19:46There you go.
19:46A much more wholesome word to use.
19:49OK, eight points each.
19:50I thought we might have had another nine there, given the excellent standard.
19:53But nothing in the dictionary.
19:55So let's get our third numbers round of the day.
19:58And, Martin, it's on you.
20:00I'll tell you what, we'll go again.
20:01Can I get six more, please?
20:02Yeah, let's get six more.
20:03Let's make this competition.
20:05Seven points in it.
20:06Let's see if anything will change after.
20:09Four, six, five, two, six, and eight.
20:15And the target to reach 809.
20:19809, numbers up.
20:20Le
20:21Five, two, three, four, five, six, and eight.
20:28On the玉 juegos.
20:38You
20:40Dr.
20:41Sorry,
20:42I'm
20:42You
20:42I
20:44You
20:45You
20:45corona
20:49You
20:51Heck of a challenge, Martin.
20:53Yeah, 8.06.
20:55Yeah, Luke.
20:558.08 not written down.
20:57Off you go.
20:58So, we have 6 minus 2 is 4.
21:01Mm-hmm.
21:02Times that by the other 4.
21:0416.
21:05Times that by one of the 6s.
21:07By the second 6, 96.
21:09Add 5.
21:111.01.
21:12And times by the 8.
21:134.1 away.
21:15Can't we get to 8.09?
21:16No.
21:17That was impossible.
21:18That was the best you could have done.
21:19So, you've maxed another round.
21:20Well done.
21:21So, we can applaud that.
21:22Yep.
21:23Brilliant.
21:25APPLAUSE
21:42Welcome back to Countdown.
21:43This Monday afternoon, our champion of champions.
21:4614 points in it between Martin and Luke.
21:48A place in the champion of champions quarterfinals at stake.
21:52All would turn like that on a nine-letter word.
21:54Let's see if it comes now.
21:55Luke, let's get some letters.
21:57A consonant, please, Rachel.
21:58Thank you, Luke.
21:59L.
22:00And another.
22:01G.
22:02And another.
22:04L.
22:05And another.
22:08C.
22:09And a vowel, please.
22:10I.
22:12And another.
22:13E.
22:15And another.
22:16A.
22:18And another.
22:20I.
22:21And another vowel, please.
22:23Lastly, E.
22:25Here we go.
22:26T.
22:27And another.
22:28Here we know.
22:29Bye.
22:49Bye.
22:56And another.
22:56That is time. Look. Seven. Martin. No, just six on that one.
23:01Martin, what's the six? Alleg. Pray tell what the seven is.
23:05Allegiach. Oh.
23:08Allegiach. I think we would normally say, but it's absolutely brilliant. Well done, Luke.
23:11Should we disallow it because you mispronounced it?
23:14It means wistfully mournful. It's very beautiful.
23:17I'm going to go out and allege, Heather, and say that was the longest word in the dictionary for those
23:21nine letters.
23:22I would say so, and it's exactly what we have.
23:24Yes.
23:26Big seven points that for Luke at this stage, the business end of today's countdown.
23:31Martin, nine more letters, my friend.
23:33Consonant, please.
23:35Thank you, Martin.
23:36N.
23:37And another.
23:38T.
23:39And another.
23:41B.
23:43And a vowel.
23:44A.
23:46And another.
23:47E.
23:48And a third.
23:50O.
23:52And a fourth.
23:54A.
23:57And a consonant.
23:59T.
24:02And a final consonant, please.
24:05A final V.
24:07Kind time.
24:07T.
24:08A.
24:09A.
24:10A.
24:11A.
24:36T.
24:39and that is time martin i'll stick with the six okay and luke yeah just six okay what have you
24:45got martin and novate novate and luke and i'll go with navetta um yes it uh is from archaeology
24:54and uh uh navetta or navita i think it's a type of bronze age megalithic chambered tomb that's
25:01shaped like an upturned boat anything else oh no we only have sixes ourselves baton nothing
25:06because elaborate is that word there all right let's take a little pause because the laryngitis
25:12is cleared enough the doctor has said it's okay to bring origins of words back we are safe but
25:20watch out for any phlegm here heather keep your distance i need to get voice advice from heather
25:24actually because you must be a pro at trying to conserve your voice i'm going to keep this one
25:29quite short and try and answer a question from elizabeth nassim who asks about the origin of
25:35being in cahoots with someone it's such a great word cahoots um i think and obviously it means
25:40working in collusion with them uh we do know it's an american expression so it's first recorded in the
25:45early 19th century in the sense of in legal partnership no sort of sense of conspiracy it
25:51was just quite neutral really um but it has shifted to mean a sense of dishonesty really and to imply
25:57that
25:57people are conspiring for nefarious reasons um not completely sure where it comes from uh some
26:03etymologists believe it's from the french word kahoot meaning a hut or a cabin so the idea would
26:08it would be that people are huddling together in a small environment and if you remember conspire
26:14has that same sense behind it spirale in latin is to breathe and the idea is that you're breathing
26:19closely with someone to try and plot um another suggestion is that it's an alteration of cohort
26:25um again the idea of people working closely together um so two possible origins there i like the idea of
26:32the hut love it yeah good to have the origins back
26:37like four more runs left in today's countdown which is a shame i could play all afternoon but
26:42them's the rules luke let's get more letters constant please rachel thank you luke m and another
26:50f and another r and another j and a vowel please o and another i and another a and another
27:06vowel please
27:07i and a final consonant please final m start the clock
27:17so
27:29so
27:30so
27:30so
27:44It's another tricky round, Luke.
27:46I think I have a six.
27:47And Martin?
27:48I definitely don't, so I'll risk a seven.
27:51OK, brilliant. Luke, the six?
27:53Romaji.
27:54Martin?
27:55In major.
27:56How are you spelling it with two M's there?
27:58Yes.
27:58OK.
28:00So, first of all, Romaji is there.
28:01It's a system of Romanised spelling.
28:04It's used to transliterate Japanese quite often.
28:07You're building the tension brilliantly here, Susie.
28:10There is no image of it, I'm afraid, Martin.
28:12Sorry.
28:13That's all right.
28:13Right, Martin, let's get nine more letters.
28:16Not all is lost yet.
28:17Can I start with a consonant, please?
28:20Thank you, Martin.
28:21G.
28:22And another.
28:24R.
28:25And a third.
28:26N.
28:27And a vowel.
28:30O.
28:31And another.
28:32E.
28:34And a third.
28:36A.
28:37And a consonant.
28:40S.
28:41And another consonant.
28:44T.
28:46And it'll have to be a vowel, please.
28:48Looks like a good selection.
28:49A final.
28:50E.
28:51Last letters.
28:53.
29:28Do you feel like there's a nine?
29:29I don't feel like there's a nine, just eight.
29:30OK, what's the eight, Martin?
29:32I feel better, Ragstone.
29:34And Luke?
29:35I'll go with Sargent.
29:36Lovely, yeah, Ragstone is a hardcore sedimentary rock that can be broken into slabs.
29:41Sargent, excellent.
29:42Anything else?
29:43We've got Reagents, which is an eight.
29:45Wonderful stuff.
29:46Right, it's 107 plays, 80, so let's just pause for a second and welcome Luke to the quarterfinals.
29:51Well done.
29:52Well, thank you so much.
29:54Wonderful stuff.
29:55Let's get more numbers over.
29:57Last numbers round, Luke, you're picking.
29:58I think my heart can't take any more of this six more, so one large, please.
30:01Yes, come on.
30:02You want a little bit of a rest.
30:03It never works like that, though.
30:04You'll probably have something very difficult.
30:05Right, final numbers of the day.
30:08Five, one, ten, five, three, and one hundred.
30:15And the target?
30:16Oh, fair enough.
30:17One, nine, five.
30:18One, nine, five.
30:19Last numbers.
30:20Two, three, and one, nine, five.
30:51Easy pickings for these two, Luke?
30:53Yep, one, nine, five.
30:54Martin?
30:54Yeah, I think I can structure that, too.
30:56Yeah, brilliant.
30:56Gets you in our ten points in the bank.
30:58Luke, let's have it.
30:59All right, so ten over five is two.
31:01There's the hard bit.
31:02Times that by a hundred and take away the other five.
31:05Hopefully your heart survived that round.
31:07Martin, did you keep it simple?
31:08Uh, absolutely.
31:09Yeah, I just did five minus three to get the two, and then otherwise it's exactly the same.
31:13All right, ten points each.
31:16Now, the standard of the countdown conundrum has went through the ring.
31:20for champion of champions, and just right as well.
31:23So even for the creme de la creme, it's been quite difficult so far.
31:27So this is kind of like a little mini challenge.
31:29Fingers on the buzzers.
31:30Thank you, Martin.
31:31Thank you, Luke.
31:32Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
31:34Fingers on the buzzer.
32:01Martin, I'll have a stab at it.
32:03Milo Toto.
32:05Let's have a look and see if you're right.
32:07You are not.
32:08Rest of the time, Luke.
32:13I did warn you.
32:15I did warn you.
32:16Let's have a look.
32:18Oh!
32:18What?
32:19We eat those.
32:20What is it?
32:21It's actually, it must be related to the tomatoes, but it is also related to the Cape Gooseberry.
32:27It's purple, yellow, used in sauces and preserves.
32:30Well, it's left a bitter taste in all of our mouths.
32:32Nobody managed to get it.
32:34Martin, I think you did brilliant today.
32:37I think if this was a diving competition, the tariff was really high, wasn't it?
32:41And he's right.
32:42Tricky letter.
32:43So 90s, 90s, brilliant.
32:45I feel a little sad here because you've been on twice, so you can't reapply.
32:48No one's allowed to come on three times.
32:50And this is the champion of champions, so when's that going to happen again?
32:54This is it.
32:55It is, but do you know what?
32:56It's a really good way to go out.
32:58I've got a lot further than I thought I was going to.
33:01To get to a series final was beyond my expectations.
33:04To come back or be invited back for the champion of champions is phenomenal.
33:07And to come up against a player like Luke is, you know, a player who's really willing to test themselves.
33:12It's a dream to play someone like Luke.
33:14And he thoroughly deserved to win.
33:16Some really, really good spots.
33:17Luke, you're staying in the hotel.
33:20Good news, bad news thing here.
33:22It's great to see you win today and you could win this.
33:24Absolutely.
33:25We can't pick a winner.
33:25I'm just going to try and enjoy myself because there's some great players and who knows.
33:29On that note, I don't know how enjoyable your quarterfinal is going to be.
33:33What a coin toss we have.
33:35Ahmed Mohamed you're playing against.
33:37I know.
33:37And I'm friends with him outside the show as well, so it's going to be really fun, to be honest.
33:42Heather, have fun.
33:44Yes, totally.
33:45It's great to be with such minds.
33:47It's brilliant to be so close to it all.
33:49Thank you, you two.
33:50Fantastic.
33:51What day?
33:51Well, I know I pick a winner after every game, but I really think the winner of Ahmed versus Luke
33:56could win the whole thing.
33:56Yeah.
33:57I've said it.
33:57Yeah.
33:58On record.
33:58And you'll say it again tomorrow.
34:00No, no, no, no, no.
34:00That's it.
34:01I'm not changing my mind.
34:02This could go anywhere between now and next Friday's grand final.
34:06One step at a time.
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