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Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Mastermind fans stunned as they realise where they've seen BBC contestant before - but should he be banned from show?
Mastermind fans were left stunned after realising where they have seen one of the BBC contestants from Monday's episode before. The latest episode of the programme saw presenter Clive Myrie, 60, return to our screens to take on four new players. One contestant, Dennis Wang, took to the seat to answer his specialist subject questions about the Men's Euros between 2000 to 2004. He managed to bag himself an 12 correct questions. But his Mastermind debut didn't mark the first time he's appeared on our screens. Dennis took part in Jeopardy UK! last year and managed to win his episode. One contestant, Dennis Wang, took to the seat to answer his specialist subject questions which were about the Men's Euros between 2000 to 2004 (pictured) He was also the team captain for the Crunchers on Only Connect. Not only that, he was part of the Worcester College team while appearing on University Challenge in 2016. Many recognised the player and flocked to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their frustrations. 'Don't think it's fair to have the same guy just competing on all the big quiz shows really? Seems a bit unfair #mastermind.' 'Mr Wang from #onlyconnect ? #quizzymonday #mastermind.' 'Do they have a pool of people who are on every quiz show? You get the same people on this, only connect, university challenge etc. #mastermind.' 'A few years ago there was one lad on Only Connect, Pointless and a couple of other shows in the space of about a month.' 'I've seen Dennis on #Mastermind, Jeopardy, Only Connect... he's a quiz stalwart.' 'I wonder how many people have done the triple of #UniversityChallenge #OnlyConnect and #Mastermind.' Mastermind hit our screens back in 1972. There have been 980 regular episodes across 48 series. The show was originally presented by Magnus Magnusson until 1997. The role was later taken over by Peter Snow until 2000. Between 2001 and 2002, Clive Anderson hosted the show. Then John Humphrys presented between 2003 and 2021. Clive Myrie has been the host since 2021. Back in April Mastermind viewers swiped 'give me a break!' as they criticised what they deemed to be an 'utterly ridiculous' specialist subject in the BBC semi-final. Cathryn Gahan answered questions on the films of Mel Brooks, Arnav Umranikar picked the subject of Homer's Odyssey, Roopam Carroll chose to answer questions on LL Cool J and John Hardin picked the subject of Sir John Mortimer. Those watching at home were really confused about contestant Roopam's specialist subject and flocked to X to complain. One posted: '#mastermind sorry but LL Cool J as a specialist subject in a semi-final is utterly ridiculous. Give me a break!' Another said: 'It's almost symptomatic of what's wrong with #Mastermind these days, in that it's a semi-final, and the specialist subjects include Homer's Odyssey and, erm, LL Cool J...'
BBC News
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
University of Warwick to award eight honorary degrees
Eight honorary degrees are being awarded by a Coventry university to celebrate the achievements of inspirational degrees are being awarded as part of University of Warwicks's 60th anniversary journalist Clive Myrie, author Tracy Chevalier and YouTuber Colin Furze are among those selected for the accolade. The university said each person's story was chosen to help inspire the next generation of graduates. The full list of those set to receive an honorary degree from the university is below: Baroness Catherine Ashton (Hon DLitt)Baroness Catherine Ashton is a former UK Minister and the EU's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy between 2009 and was chancellor of the University of Warwick from 2017 to 2024 and its first female Chevalier FRSL (Hon DLitt)Tracy Chevalier is a bestselling novelist whose works include Remarkable Creatures, The Last Runaway, and Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted into a major Hollywood is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has served as chair of the UK Society of Authors and president of the Royal Literary Myrie (Hon DLitt)Clive Myrie is a BBC journalist and broadcaster who joined the BBC's graduate journalism programme in 1987. He has reported from over 80 countries, covering major conflicts, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Gaza. Since 2009, he has been a BBC news presenter and, since 2021, he has hosted Furze (Hon DSc)Colin Furze is a British inventor and YouTuber known for his imaginative engineering builds, including a hover bike, underground bunker, and world-record-breaking trained as a plumber, his projects include the world's longest motorcycle, a 71-mph mobility scooter and a motorised pram. The university will recognise the individuals during graduation ceremonies. Talan Skeels-Piggins (Hon DLitt)Talan Skeels-Piggins is a Paralympian, motorcycle racer and former Royal Navy a spinal injury in 2003, Talan captained a county-winning hockey team, represented Cornwall in hockey and windsurfing, and served as a Royal Navy Lieutenant with deployments worldwide. After his injury, he competed in alpine skiing for Great Britain at the 2010 Winter Paralympics and became the first paraplegic to race in an able-bodied motorcycle race. Dr Gemma Tetlow (Hon DSc)Dr Gemma Tetlow is Chief Economist at the Institute for Government and a Warwick alumni with a BSc and MSc in Economics. She earned her PhD from University College London. Her career includes senior roles at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and as economics correspondent at the Financial Urban (Hon DLitt)Mark Urban is a British journalist, military historian, and author with over 30 years' experience reporting on international conflict and diplomacy. A former Royal Tank Regiment officer, he was diplomatic editor for BBC Two's Newsnight until May 2024 and now writes for The Sunday Times specialising in defence and foreign Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Hon DSc)Professor Ekaterina Zhuravskaya is an economist at the Paris School of Economics and EHESS, and co-editor of the American Economic Review. Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Telegraph
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Clive Myrie: ‘There were few Black people when I joined the BBC, but I never doubted myself'
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Clive Myrie 6.30am I wake up on Saturday the same time I wake up on most other days. I'll get the main headlines and the sport from the Today programme but, with the state of the world at the moment, my wife Catherine isn't into listening to doom, so we flick over to Radio 3. Then I look at the headlines on my phone, but it could well be that I know more about the main story of the day than what I'm reading anyway. I'm an old bloke, so it's very much legacy media. I'm not looking for news on X or Instagram because I worry I might be reading anything. 8am I'm not one of these people who springs out of bed. I need time to adjust to my new state of being, as it were. Then, as it's the weekend, I go out and buy a hard-copy newspaper. 8.30am Breakfast is cereal for me and maybe croissants for Catherine. Then I start catching up on my emails and correspondence. It takes three hours or so. Seriously. But Saturday is the only time I have to respond to these. It has become a bit of a routine. 12pm I head out to the shops again. If we're not planning to go out for dinner that evening then I will buy ingredients for cooking. Plus, flowers for the house and some wine – usually white, like a Picpoul, a Sancerre or a Vouvray. Catherine tells me what food to buy, so I'm just the grocery guy. She is good at cooking stews or a nice flaky, white fish. In summer, maybe a halloumi salad. But I might buy something rogue too: something suitably Seventies, like a sherry trifle. I also visit a couple of vinyl-record stores. I listen to tons of music through Spotify but if I buy music, it's got to be vinyl. And the focus is always on jazz. I like classic hard bop and stuff from the Blue Note label. And more modern stuff like Ezra Collective, Steve Williamson, Omar [Lye-Fook], Tomorrow's Warriors and Nubya Garcia. 1pm Catherine and I will often go to an art exhibition and have lunch at the gallery. We like modernist art and post-War, mainly painting. At the beginning of the year I make a list of exhibitions I want to see, but I often end up missing them because I'm working in some godforsaken hell-hole somewhere. The last exhibition we saw was Tirzah Garwood, the wife of Eric Ravilious, at Dulwich Picture Gallery. There's also a great exhibition I want to see at October Gallery [in Bloomsbury] of a Guyanese artist called Aubrey Williams. We're lucky to own a few bits and pieces of his. 4pm During the afternoon I listen to Gilles Peterson's radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music. He plays jazz, soul, funk, broken beat, rap. I love most jazz genres but, if push came to shove, I'd choose stalwarts such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. My latest radio programme [on BBC Sounds and starting on BBC Radio 2 at midnight on July 5] is called Clive Myrie's Kings of Jazz. It's all about the titans in the genre, such as Ray Charles, Nat King Cole and Louis Armstrong. If I was a contestant on Mastermind [rather than the presenter], maybe jazz would be my specialist subject. 5pm I will also tune into the football scores during the afternoon, scanning for my beloved Man City. I don't listen continuously to match commentary because I'm convinced if I do I'll jinx the score, so I dip in and out. I've supported Man City since before the money came – [I've been] through thick and thin with that bloody club; I'm not one of these fly-by-nights. I do try to see them when they play a London club, but I don't get up to the Etihad Stadium as much as I'd like to. If they lose, for the rest of the Saturday I'm in a bad mood. All the players are amazing but I have a soft spot for Phil Foden. 'The Stockport Iniesta' we call him. I've never met him, sadly. I grew up in Bolton. Lancashire is a wonderful spot but my mum and dad both moved to the Midlands after they got divorced, to be near my sisters, so I don't have that much of a connection to Lancashire anymore – apart from being Pro Chancellor at Bolton University. I used to think 'boys from Bolton don't work at the BBC '. I joined the BBC when there were very few Black people, and very few people who sounded like me. You've got to have a sense of self. You've got to understand what you're capable of and what you can contribute, and realise that, a lot of the time, you're as good as anybody else. The fact that you might not be the member of the latest club doesn't mean anything: it's the work that you're doing. And if you can do the work as well as anybody else, that's what matters. If you're not from the right milieu, then you start to doubt yourself. But I didn't doubt myself. Impostor syndrome I don't have. 6pm Mum and dad might get a phone call. My mum's 90 this year, my dad's just turned 96. I call them on Sundays as well because I know they'll be in and not out partying and painting Derbyshire red. 7pm If we've decided to stay in, Catherine will do the cooking. We'll switch from Radio 6 Music to Radio 3, as they would usually have an opera on. But if we go out, we might go to the opera or the cinema. When it comes to films, I'm no superhero fan. Nothing from Marvel, thank you very much. I love Wes Anderson, and any heavy-duty drama: a proper movie that's going to make you think. We often go to The Screen on the Green in Islington. Being on TV so much, I often get asked to do selfies – 9.99 times out of 10, people approach you because they like what you do, and I appreciate that. Because of the travel shows I make, people tell me they went to a certain place because I went there. Some people have tried to stay in the same hotel rooms I've stayed in, which is a bit weird. 10.30pm If Man City have won, I'll watch Match of the Day, but not if they've lost. Then straight to bed. I don't tend to read in bed except to catch up on a long-running news story. I don't actually read that much fiction. I prefer biographies and history books. I tend to sleep pretty soundly.
Times
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Mounted Life Guards hit the beach — and other news in pictures
A guest takes a selfie with Larry, the Downing Street cat, outside No 10 during a reception to mark Armed Forces Week, which celebrates the contributions of service personnel and their families across the UK THOMAS KRYCH/STORY PICTURE AGENCY Clive Myrie and Sir Mo Farah take part in the academic procession to the Sheldonian Theatre before Oxford University's annual Encaenia ceremony, where honorary degrees are awarded JACOB KING/PA A defiant protester in front of a burning barricade in central Nairobi during a demonstration marking one year since the storming of Kenya's parliament, the deadliest day of anti-government unrest LUIS TATO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Fog drifts over farmland in the Kaipara Hills, softening the ridgelines and trees in the rural landscape north of Auckland, New Zealand FIONA GOODALL/GETTY IMAGES DUNCAN MCGLYNN Children cool off in fountains during the Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety's Spray & Play event at Pete Mitchell City Center Park in Michigan DON CAMPBELL/THE HERALD-PALLADIUM/AP A policeman grapples with a cyclist as Extinction Rebellion protesters block the A12 highway in the Hague during a demonstration against the Nato summit, which is being hosted in the Netherlands for the first time SEBASTIAAN BAREL/EPA XNY/STAR MAX/GC IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES Liziano Ostiana performs a free running flip above Siebe van de Spijker, left, and Dez Maarsen during a media preview of Elements of Freestyle by ISH Dance Collective at the Sydney Opera House DON ARNOLD/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES Kristi Noem, the US secretary of homeland security, boards the Coast Guard cutter Escanaba in Panama City for a meeting on drug interception during a regional visit focused on immigration and security partnerships in Central America ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGES Myo Min Aung, a veterinarian, tends to ten-month-old baby elephant Kyaw Pearl at Wingabaw Elephant Camp in Phayargyi, Myanmar, after the calf was rescued with injuries from the wild SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Flamingos fly over pink salt flats in the Camargue region of southern France, their dark shadows trailing across the patterned ground below. The vivid colour of the landscape comes from Dunaliella salina, a pink microalgae found in the salt lakes and evaporation ponds Nadia El-Nakla, a councillor and wife of the former Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf, examines Palestinian dresses at V&A Dundee as part of Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine, an exhibition marking 45 years of the city's twinning with Nablus JANE BARLOW/PA A visitor takes a leap from a 50-metre crane at Coram's Fields in central London, where new electric car brand Leapmotor is offering free bungee jumps alongside test drives in an unusual marketing ploy WILL IRELAND/SWNS Mae Ann Jorolan and Luke Brady take centre stage with the cast during the curtain call for Disney's Hercules at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London's West End DAVE BENETT/GETTY IMAGES Two black-necked cranes mirror each other in a territorial display on a wetland in Ladakh, India, raising their heads and calling out to defend their nesting site in the high-altitude landscape HEMANT KUMAR/SOLENT NEWS Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit, poses with sculptures from Gromit Unleashed 3 during the launch event in Bristol, where a heritage steam train delivered characters designed in collaboration with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Sir Paul McCartney and others for a public art trail across the city FINNBARR WEBSTER/GETTY IMAGES Brothers Leo, 2, and Raphey Almeida, 3, explore a neon-painted T-Rex named King Rexford the Great by artist Laura Alp, part of a vibrant dinosaur trail at Furzey Gardens in the New Forest featuring 50 prehistoric installations among the plants SIMON CZAPP/SOLENT NEWS
BBC News
25-06-2025
- Science
- BBC News
Sir Mo Farah collects honorary Oxford degree
Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah has collected an honorary degree from the University of Oxford. BBC journalist Clive Myrie and broadcaster Lord Melvyn Bragg were among the other recipients to attend the university's centuries-old Encaenia part of the service, a procession made up of university dignitaries and honorary degree recipients walked through the city in full academic ceremony also marked the first to be overseen by former Conservative leader Lord Hague, who was inaugurated as the university's 160th chancellor earlier this year. Following the procession, the recipients signed their names in the Honorary Degrees Book at the Divinity School, before moving to the Sheldonian Theatre - where the Encaenia ceremony has been held in some form since university's vice-chancellor, Prof Irene Tracey, said the service was a "highlight of Oxford's academic year, offering us an opportunity to celebrate exceptional individuals whose achievements have shaped disciplines, made history and enriched society"."Today, we honour eight people whose work has inspired, informed and transformed the world around us," she said."This year's distinguished honorands come from a remarkable array of fields, and through their vision, creativity and dedication, they have made lasting contributions." Other recipients of the honorary degrees included Ukrainian history expert Prof Serhii Plokhii, Irish writer Prof Colm Tóibín and German biophysicist Prof Erwin and entrepreneur Prof Robert S Langer and historian Prof Timothy Snyder, both from the US, were also honoured during the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, had also been due to receive an honorary degree - but was unable to attend Wednesday's ceremony. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
