Celebrity Mastermind

[gollob]

Why do these so called Celebs want to go on programmes like this. The questions are made much easier that the proper quiz and the so called celebrities struggle through the answers. Is there anything that these D listers will not do to get on TV.?

[Everhelpful]

I would never watch any "Normal" Programmes where "Celebs" are listed to be in it,as in "Celebrity The Chase" "Celebrity Mastermind"etc.

[Canary42]

I love "celebrity" quiz shows - it confirms my opinion that all of them are as thick as s***.

[HowardKennitby]

All 'celebrities' have to maintain a presence in the public eye. That is how they continue to be 'celebrities'. They also have agents trying to get them work anywhere and anytime.

[venator]

If the audience figures fell, it would stop - we are all to blame...

[MarkRae]

All celebrities most certainly aren't as thick as shіt - Stephen Fry, John Sessions, Rory McGrath to name but three. But they never get to appear on the celebrity editions of quiz shows because that wouldn't make good telly.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't 2 celebs win a quarter of a million for charity on Who wants to be a millionaire a while back?

[sandyRoe]

Baddiel + Skinner

[MarkRae]

Yes, but they weren't *expected* to do so well, and that's what made their episode great telly.

[HowardKennitby]

Following on from Mark R. Do you consider the current 6 members of the 'Eggheads' to be celebrities?
I would happily settle for 10% of Kevin Ashman's ability to store and recall facts.

[polyanna18]

who was the girl celebrity tonight pls

[MarkRae]

There are actually seven Eggheads currently, unless you know something I don't. Would you recognise them if you saw them in a pub or passed them in the street? Of course you would, so they're celebrities.

I know Kevin, Pat and Barry pretty well as I see them every month at the British Quiz Association grand prix events held up and down the country.

[nungate]

Pollyanna the girl on Celeb Mastermind is an athlete I think she's a middle distance runner

[sandyRoe]

Baddiel graduated from Cambridge with a Double First. Though that in itself would be no guarantee that he'd do well in a general knowledge quiz, it might make you think that he'd do a lot better than someone like Chris Evans.

[HowardKennitby]

Mark

My previous was directed at OP not you. Must learn to type/think faster.

[MarkRae]

No problem.

I do take the OP's point, though, about the ridiculously low standard of questions in these editions. Tonight's was a case in point when one of the contenders took as his specialised subject the battle of Rorkes Drift and his first question was "In which year did the battle or Rorkes Drift take place?" That's just bog-standard pub quiz fodder, surely...

[bednobs]

i watched it and only knew who one of them was!