Anyhow, IF it is true I'm not so sure. The problem is I think Des will be competing against the format for attention, while Des seemed to take a back seat and the core format came to the forefront!
Maybe they'll be asking Mr Holmes again now his US career has fallen at the first hurdle!
Whoever it is I think it's time for a bit of a new look - they were probably right to keep the set when Des arrived, but now Des is leaving I think it's time to move on.
She was on
Loose Women
yesterday, and said Des O'Connor was still in the frame but nothing is confirmed. She asked the loose ladies what they thought, and they agreed that CV shouldn't have hosted the whole thing, it wouldn't have been right somehow.
Carol confirmed she wouldn't take over the whole thing, she was happy where she was after all these years, and it probably required a male host to be a foil.
Without meaning to sound harsh, does Des O'Connor have the brains to do it? RW and Des Lynam were very clever. Des O'Connor has the right personality though I suppose.
I reckon Stephen Fry would do a brill job. My father reckons Tom O'Connor ought to do it... is he still around presenting-wise?
You do, when Des throws an unsolved Conundrum out to the audience, or if there's an oddly dressed bunch of students in. They never show tomorrow's challenger at the end like they used to, though.
Carol confirmed she wouldn't take over the whole thing, she was happy where she was after all these years, and it probably required a male host to be a foil.
I actually think a female host could work quite well with Carol really. I'm thinking of someone such as Angela Rippon or Gloria Hunniford maybe.. You know, a presenter who has a bit of gravitas to them without feeling the need to make the show 'theirs'.
Carol confirmed she wouldn't take over the whole thing, she was happy where she was after all these years, and it probably required a male host to be a foil.
I actually think a female host could work quite well with Carol really. I'm thinking of someone such as Angela Rippon or Gloria Hunniford maybe.. You know, a presenter who has a bit of gravitas to them without feeling the need to make the show 'theirs'.
I got an e-mail from the audience relations today as im on their mailing list, and Countdown will be filming soon in Leeds with the new host. Im not going up to Leeds for that though, if it was Manchester and I could get time off id probabaly go.
Without meaning to sound harsh, does Des O'Connor have the brains to do it? RW and Des Lynam were very clever.
Richard Whitely clever? I always thought he was fairly thick!
His inability to form a coherent declarative sentence when speaking always drove me mad - all that "umming and erring" and stumbling. I always used to think: "How can they have a programme that's about
words
hosted by a man who struggles to form a sentence? "
I remember when Whitely was Carol Vorderman's "phone-a-friend" on Celebrity WWTBAM, he took so bloomin' long "thinking out loud" (and going off at a tangent) to get to the correct answer, that he only just about squeezed in saying the answer before the 30-seconds ran out. I can't have been the only viewer who shared in Carol's eye-rolling expression when the call cut off. Okay, his answer was ultimately correct, so he wasn't lacking in knowledge - but his ability to verbally convey what knowledge/intelligence he had was extremely lacking IMHO.
Anyone who manages to attain a degree, "crappy third" or not, can hardly be referred to as "thick". His perceived dippiness was simply part of his charm as a presenter.
I always thought he was fairly thick!
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