The Daily Express has reported that Freddie loved nothing more than watching an episode of the UK gameshow Countdown, according to Peter Freestone. www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1202074/Freddie-Mercury-house-friends-interview-Queen-band-fans-Countdown-Vorderman
If you've never heard about the show, the basis of it is letters and numbers rounds. Two contestants compete against each other by scoring higher. In letters rounds, one contestant has to pick vowels and consonants to make up nine letters. And, with those you have to come up with words which contain as many letters as possible which are in a dictionary. In numbers rounds, you simply have six numbers ranging from 1 to 10 and possibly bigger numbers 25, 50, 75 and 100 depending on what the contestant picks. Then you have to make a random three digit number automatically generated by a machine by just using those six numbers once.
I've always enjoyed the show. I used watch the show when I was a baby appeantly (according to my family)! Which may have been the inspiration to why I could I tell the time not long after I turned three.
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Yeah, I saw that today too. Understandable given Fred's well documented love of (killer)scrabble.
Countdown is great. Good on Fred.
I always knew he liked scrabble but Countdown too!
Freddie also used to watch "The Golden Girls" on tv !
In a few days after this news was leaked Carol Vorderman tweeted...
In today's papers, a story about how the amazing Freddie Mercury loved to watch Richard [Whiteley] and I on Countdown. I know he did. He used to write occasionally which we loved. I'm so touched to be reminded of those days ??Thank you @dailymirror @dailyexpressuk https://t.co/ikD2Q6GBuM
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) 9 November 2019
Sadly they were in the office files and I don't know what happened....a long time ago now xx
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) 9 November 2019
2 from the top and 1 up the bottom please Carol.
mooghead wrote:
2 from the top and 1 up the bottom please Carol.
Yep.