Countdown Today

[elliemay1]

Why is Susie not on Countdown today please?

[drmorgans]

Tested positive for covid

[Cloverjo]

Who was there instead, please?

[elliemay1]

Oh dear, thanks, you don't hear so much of that these days

[drmorgans]

The guest, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, doubled up, but there was no "origins of words" segment

[elliemay1]

Something makes me think that Susie has had covid before but might be wrong

[barry1010]

She hasn't been on all week

[Cloverjo]

Ah. Years ago they used to get a lexicographer from the Oxford Dictionary before Susie took over full time. He was quite handsome, as I recall.

[barry1010]

Ellie, she had a couple of days off some weeks ago for a COVID test, several episodes are filmed in the same day

[MargoTester]

Ellie- they are filmed a long time in advance, and sometimes several in a day

[MargoTester]

Snap Barry :-)

[drmorgans]

They normally record five per say, i.e. a weeks worth

[drmorgans]

"per say" (doh) "per day"

[elliemay1]

Thank you everyone

[barry1010]

Anyone notice the barbed dig from Rachel, pointed sharply at Ann?

[drmorgans]

To be fair Anne normally thanks the guest, Susie and the contestants, but doesn't mention Rachel

[elliemay1]

Yes, I noticed that Barry, yet when Rachel got the final conundrum correct Anne commented how clever she was. Maybe she didn't hear the dig

[zebo]

//Ah. Years ago they used to get a lexicographer from the Oxford Dictionary before Susie took over full time. He was quite handsome, as I recall.//
It used to vary every few weeks, one I recall is Richard Samson, he died in Australia in 2011, he was very good looking.

[barry1010]

I remember him, I thought he was very young to die of lung cancer.
I preferred the variety of lexicographers in dictionary corner