Audiences have been gasping day by day this week as Countdown contestant Tom Stevenson broke two information on the 40-year-old present.
The 21-year saved his nerve for the ultimate Countdown Conundrum – fixing a nine-letter anagram – regardless of the host reminding him of the importance of the event.
He was given the letters UNLETOVER – and solved it in simply three seconds.
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Countdown was the primary programme to ever air on the UK’s Channel 4, and now because it turns 40, the present has sprung up a phenomenon.
College pupil Stevenson broke two information on the teatime quiz present – totting up a report rating of 154 factors and changing into the primary ever contestant to get by means of to the ultimate with out dropping a single spherical alongside the way in which.
Right here’s Tom in motion alongside the way in which…
The present host Colin Murray, referred to as it an “completely phenomenal” efficiency.
Stevenson, who first began watching Countdown when he was at college and located it a balm for his agoraphobia, now goes by means of to the ultimate on the finish of the yr.
Countdown was the very first present to be aired on Channel 4 on November 8 1982, when it was launched as a commercially-funded fourth channel within the UK.
(The Countdown Conundrum was: VOLUNTEER)
