Eggheads

[parkerman]

Don't forget to watch the Eggheads quiz on Thursday 18 October...as I am on it! Only you won't know which one is me because we use real names and not Web names!

[Abbie]

oh my god, really!!! You have to give us a clue to which one you are

[parkerman]

I'll be the good looking one...no forget that.

I'm the team captain.

[Abbie]

lol, okay so your the team captain, I'll have to look out for you
so did you win or can you not say?

[Pinkbanana]

Do the eggheads look just as strange in real life as on the tv?! :lol:

[parkerman]

We were sworn to secrecy by the BBC I'm afraid. You'll have to watch to find out how we got on.

The Eggheads are very nice in real life. We spoke both before and after the filming and they were all very easy going with a good sense of humour - especially Kevin.

We were at the BBC four and a half hours to film the half hour programme and even the actual filming of the quiz itself took one and a half hours. Lots of pauses and retakes etc. It was a great experience.

[Abbie]

oooo sounds fun, well Im going to watch it on thursday

[Pinkbanana]

What would happen if you did reveal who won? Would you wake up to find a horse's head on your pillow? :eek: When was it filmed?

Btw...my money is on the eggheads, I havent seen the prog much, but they have been winning every time Ive seen it!!! :lol: THough I do hope you win!!!

[DaVeyWaVey]

Oooh i will watch this just to see who you are! :D What time is it on?

[CrazyLea]

I think I've only seen it twice were the Eggheads were beaten haha! Must watch it Thurs then :D Hope you win :D

[parkerman]

Thanks everyone. It's on BBC 2 at 6:00 p.m.

It was filmed some time back in August...a long time ago!

[Abbie]

ooooo well Im out but just for you I will tape it so we get to see you

[Siobhan]

don't normally watch this but I will now... good luck parkerman

[moonstorm]

Good Luck Parkerman, hope you win. Will not miss this one!

[parkerman]

So, did anyone watch?

Actually, I was a bit disappointed with the cuts they made in the programme. Both Tom and Graham had two sudden death questions and, obviously, answered the first correctly. I had three sudden death questions on politics. Also they didn't show the Eggheads discussing the question we got wrong at the end - they didn't know the answer either! And Andy knew the answer to their last question, so if we'd gone second we would have won!!!:(

[Siobhan]

Damn work kept me here til after 6 so I didn't get home until 7... stupid job... So you didn't win huh???

[Abbie]

awww Im sorry I was in such a rush to get to college yesterday that I didnt set the tape cos I go straight from college to dancing and I dont get home till 9

[moonstorm]

Well I saw you. Great game, just a pity you didn't win. I thought you all came across as very clever.

[Perdita]

Well done, even if you did not win. You were all quite clever :thumbsup: :clap:

[pookie1968uk]

yes i watched it to see what you looked like lol lol. but seriously you did well and were unfortunate not to win, there doesnt seem many that can beat them though!

[Chloe O'brien]

I missed it drat anyone got a link so we can catch what we missed.

[Abigail]

I missed it drat anyone got a link so we can catch what we missed.

I missed it too.
I youtubed it and nothing has been added yet. Maybe try again in a few days.

[JustJodi]

hmmmmmmmm you lied to us,,, you were the REALLY GORGEOUS one LOL
I am glad u guys got to experince what u did, I often wondered how things went when u were taping the show..
Are the ladies Daphne and Judith nice?? Judith looks like a stuck up .. I would have loved to have met Chris he looks like he would be fun to talk to :-D
Its too bad U guys didn't win ...

[parkerman]

Thanks JustJodi :wub:

Actually all the Eggheads are really nice personally. I think they put on a bit of a TV persona. We met them before recording and had a little chat. They helped put us at our ease and we had a few jokes etc. Then we spoke to them afterwards as well, and again, they were very nice and friendly. Kevin, in particular, has a great sense of humour as does CJ.

We were at the studios for about four and a half hours for the half hour programme and actually filming for about one and a half hours, with lots of pauses, cut-away shots and re-takes. It's quite an experience, but I would recommend it to anyone. Even though we lost, it was a thoroughly enjoyable day.:clap:

[Pinkbanana]

Any chance of loading up a bit of the show on Youtube? Totally forgot about it, as was in the pub! Really curious to know what you look like since JJ said you were 'REALLY GORGEOUS'! :D lol

Shame you didnt win, but as you said what a fab experience/time you had. Winning isnt everything! :)

[JustJodi]

off topic:

I always wanted to be on a game show, but they won't have deaf people on cos we require an interpreter.. and the game show people think the interpreters are feeding us answers,, gee whiz,, :wall: :wall:

I think I would like to be on Donny Osmonds show Mistaken Indenty, or the WEAKEST LINK , it looks like fun LOL

[di marco]

i watched about the last 10mins of it lol! have to say, you lot were really clever, shame you didnt win

[Abigail]

Can anybody go on or do you need a degree/show a high level of intelligence?

[parkerman]

Anyone can apply to go on. All you need to do is get a team of six together and apply to Eggheads Production Team
12 Yard Productions
10 Livonia Street
London, W1F 8AF.
email: [email protected]

Only two of our team had degrees.

[parkerman]

I just thought I would revive this old Eggheads thread because I was wondering if anyone saw it last night.

The challengers, a team of students, were hopeless and all except one lost their head to head matches really easily. So it left the Challengers with just one person to face the might of all five Eggheads. There was £30,000 at stake. Of his three questions he took two complete guesses which he got right. But the Eggheads lost because they didn't know when Spring Bank Holiday Monday is! They were offered the choice of First Monday in May, Last Monday in May or Whit Monday. Kevin insisted it was the first Monday in May and the others went along with him.

I just couldn't believe that not one of the Eggheads knew when Spring Bank Holiday is!

£30,000 for a team that, for the most part, was hopeless.....not that I'm bitter or anything! :D

[moonstorm]

:lol::lol:No of course you are not bitter!! Glad someone won at last!!

[Perdita]

Yes, I saw it last night, well done to the boys. :cheer::clap:

[Abigail]

I didn't see it but I will have a look on iplayer. Sounds like it was a good episode.

[Perdita]

Joseph Connagh, 46, who went by the name CJ de Mooi on the show, was arrested under a European arrest warrant :eek:

http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7906770.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/CJ-de-Mooi.jpg
BBCCJ de MooiCJ de Mooi
Former Eggheads star CJ de Mooi has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

He was apprehended at Heathrow Airport on Wednesday after a European Arrest Warrant was issued in the Netherlands.

The 46-year-old, whose real name is Joseph Connagh, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court today.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "A man was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, 21 September on a European Arrest Warrant issued in the Netherlands in relation to an allegation of murder.

"Joseph Connagh, 46, self employed, of Monmouthshire appears in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, 22 September."

mirror.co.uk

[Perdita]

Wiki says this:

On a self-recorded YouTube video,[8] CJ claims to have had a highly abusive childhood, causing him to run away from home shortly after his seventeenth birthday and become homeless beginning in Rotherham and Sheffield. The video described how he travelled to London, jumped on a ferry to Amsterdam and later moved on to Cologne, where a chance encounter outside a gay bar led to the beginnings of his modelling career. De Mooi said that in 1988 he may have killed a man who was attempting to mug him by punching and throwing him into a canal in Amsterdam.[9]

[parkerman]

I beat CJ in our head to head after three tie break questions!

[Perdita]

I beat CJ in our head to head after three tie break questions!

I remember that, I watched it :D :cheer:

[Dazzle]

I beat CJ in our head to head after three tie break questions!

I missed it! :crying: