DAVID Walliams saw £25,000 for charity slip through his fingers after stumbling on two tricky riddles on Celebrity Catchphrase.
The ex-Britain’s Got Talent faced the super Catchphrase with his mum but they passed on two of the big-money boxes.
The super catchphrase is split into five levels with each box in the pyramid holding a certain amount of cash.
It gets tougher the further up the pyramid you go, but the money also goes up too.
The children’s author was on track for the jackpot until Celebrity Catchphrase host Stephen Mulhern revealed the puzzling pictures that left him stumped.
One showed a boxer in the ring with flames on his hands, squaring up to a human-sized fireball. The answer? “Fighting fire with fire.”
The next teaser featured a man blasting water from a hose onto a giant page filled with shoes. The solution was “Big shoes to fill.”
Walliams failed to crack either in time, meaning the £25k jackpot for his chosen charity was lost.
However, he scooped an impressive £10,000 for the Brownies.
In a recent episode, JLS singer Aston faced the super Catchphrase with the chance to win the 50 grand jackpot for his chosen charity.
Joining host Stephen Mulhern, Aston got off to a good start.
The first puzzle he faced depicted a plate with the number five on it, and Aston correctly guessed “five a day”.
The second depicted two diamonds hiding behind a card with a picture of two glasses of fizz clinking, and quick-thinking Ashton landed on the right answer “diamond anniversary.”
It then went downhill for the star, and he stumbled on the third level – often regarded as the most difficult.
Having banked £5,000 for making it to the second level, the third level is worth a cool £10,000.
If the star guesses the riddle behind Box 11 right too, they can also double the earnings won by the celebrity competitors eliminated earlier in the game, making it all the more important.
Aston picked box 11, which saw three mattresses drinking in a bar. Two of them were accompanied by dates and one sat alone.
Viewers were left screaming at their screens, having figured out the answer was “single bed”.
But as he failed to work it out and the clock began to count down, he tried his luck at the other two options on the third level but to no avail.
But could you have worked out the puzzles he became stuck on in the final few seconds?
Aston passed on the next two puzzles, with one containing a sign reading ‘progress’ on a building site.
The other one was archers shooting arrows at a hand pointing to the sky.
Hardest Quiz Show Questions
Would you know the answers to some of quizzing TV’s hardest questions
- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire – Earlier this year, fans were left outraged after what they described as the “worst” question in the show’s history. Host Jeremy Clarkson asked: “From the 2000 awards ceremony onwards, the Best Actress Oscar has never been won by a woman whose surname begins with which one of these letters?” The multiple choice answers were between G, K, M and W. In the end, and with the £32,000 safe, player Glen had to make a guess and went for G. It turned out to be correct as Nicole Kidman, Frances McDormand and Kate Winslet are among the stars who have won the Best Actress gong since 2000.
- The 1% Club – Viewers of Lee Mack’s popular ITV show were left dumbfounded by a question that also left the players perplexed. The query went as follows: “Edna’s birthday is on the 6th of April and Jen’s birthday falls on the 15th of October, therefore Amir’s birthday must be the ‘X’ of January.” It turns out the conundrum links the numbers with its position in the sentence, so 6th is the sixth word and 15th is the fifteenth word. Therefore, Amir’s birthday is January 24th, corresponding to the 24th word in the sentence.
- The Chase – The ITV daytime favourite left fans scratching their heads when it threw up one of the most bizarre questions to ever grace the programme. One of the questions asked the player: “Someone with a nightshade intolerance should avoid eating what?” The options were – sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots – with Steve selecting sweetcorn but the correct answer was potatoes.
Aston said “aiming high” but the answer was wrong.
With time up, Stephen was forced to reveal to Aston just what the answers were.
As he confirmed “single bed” was the correct answer for Box 11, Aston held his head in his hands when Stephen told him “work in progress” was the right answer for the other.
Finally, for the question that saw the JLS hunk run out of time, Aston was told the correct answer was “missing the point”.
How well would you have done on these puzzles?
