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Daily Mail
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Loose Women star crashes out of Celebrity Bridge Of Lies as she's bested by true or false question - but can YOU solve it?
A Loose Women star has crashed out of Celebrity Bridge Of Lies after she was bested by a true or false question. Sunetra Sarker, 52, who has been a panellist on the ITV chat show since 2021, appeared on a recent episode of the star-studded version of the BBC quiz show. The show, hosted by EastEnders actor Ross Kemp, 60, sees teams of four must answer true or false questions to create a bridge across the floor. They do this twice - in an individual cash builder each before another round to determine if they will take the money home. Casualty and Ackley Bridge actress Sunetra appeared alongside naturalist Steve Backshall, 52, presenter Jason Mohammad, 51, and art expert Natasha Raskin Sharp, 39. Sunetra impressed for most of the programme, getting right to the final round and very close to winning the money for charity - before falling at this last hurdle. The Loose Women star, 52, who has been a panellist on the ITV chat show since 2021, appeared on a recent episode of the star-studded version of the BBC quiz show She chose the wrong answer, with the bridge lighting up red and Ross and her teammates all looking devastated for her. For the last, all-important question, the Loose Women star had been given four statements and she had to identify which one was true. The first two were that Virgo is the only star sign represented by a person and that white chocolate contains cocoa butter. The last two stated the first Red Nose Day happened before Live Aid and that Oddjob is the villain in the Bond film Thunderball. With the help of her teammate Jason, Sunetra had managed to narrow it down to two answers. He went straight in saying the first Red Nose Day definitely happened after Live Aid so this option could be ruled out. Sunetra soon chimed in to say Virgo is represented by an archer but symbols for other star signs like Gemini also contain people - so that statement must also be false. The pair agreed it was between the white chocolate and Oddjob options but were struggling to come down on either side. Oddjob, played by Japanese wrestler Harold Sakata (pictured), was instead the villain in the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery as the lead spy In the end, they both erred on the side of Oddjob and Sunetra quickly moved to stand on that tile to create the next stage of her bridge. But after a long, excruciating pause, host Ross soon revealed it was a lie. Oddjob, played by Japanese wrestler Harold Sakata, was instead the villain in the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery as the lead spy. Sunetra narrowly avoided embarrassment earlier in the episode too, when she nearly answered wrongly to a question about one of her Loose Women co-stars. One statement, about a beloved British sitcom, read: 'Tracey Stubbs is a character in Birds of a Feather.' The panellist guessed this was true and was extremely happy when Ross told her this happened to be correct. But she was taken aback when the presenter revealed: 'Yeah, she's played by Linda Robson - your fellow Loose Women star!' Linda was a panellist on the ITV lunchtime programme from 2012 to 2018 before returning in 2020 - a year before Sunetra joined the show. Sunetra said, shocked: 'You're kidding me! She'll never forgive me. Sorry!' It comes after Ross Kemp asked a very cheeky question on a recent episode of the show featuring another Loose Women star, Kaye Adams, 62. Kaye appeared on the show alongside Good Morning Britain's Charlotte Hawkins, 50, and presenters Ade Adepitan, 52, and Matt Allwright, 55. But it was Charlotte who shared the slightly risque moment with Ross, who read out a quiz category called 'horny animals' to her, which made her nervously giggle. The category name was soon clarified, with Ross explaining she would need to step on tiles that have animals with horns, antlers or tusks on them. 'The category is animals, what are we looking for?' Ross exclaims. After the category is revealed, Charlotte laughs, saying, 'Okay'. While Ross adds: 'Horny animals! We are looking for animals where the males or females usually have horns antlers or tusks.'
The Sun
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Loose Women star misses out on Celebrity Bridge of Lies jackpot after choosing wrong answer – but could you have got it?
LOOSE Women star flunks jackpot question on Celebrity Bridge of Lies - but would you have nailed it? A Loose Women favourite came this close to scooping the cash prize on Celebrity Bridge of Lies - only to trip up on the final question and lose it all. 2 2 Sunetra Sarker, 52, made it all the way to the final bridge on the hit BBC quiz show, but her luck ran out just steps away from the jackpot. The Casualty and Ackley Bridge actress had been confidently spotting the lies from the truth all evening, impressing host Ross Kemp and cheering on her celeb teammates. But when it came to the crunch - the final question that stood between her and a big cash prize for charity — Sunetra chose the wrong answer, and the money vanished in a flash. Ross looked gutted as the bridge lit up in red, exposing the answer she should have picked. Fans at home were left shouting at their screens - but would YOU have got it right? Sunetra was tasked to spot the true fact out of four statements. They were: Virgo is the only star sign represented by a person, White chocolate contains cocoa butter, The first Red Nose Day took place before Live Aid, and Oddjob is the Bond villain in the film Thunderball. Sunetra was torn between two answers. But, after deliberating with her teammate Jason Mohammad, they agreed that "Oddjob is the Bond villain in the film Thunderball" was most likely the truth. Ross revealed it was a lie - as Oddjob is the Bond villain in the film Goldfinger - leaving Sunetra gutted. Carol Vorderman left stumped by 'easy' Jack Black question on Celebrity Puzzling Also in the episode, Sunetra failed to realise a true statement was about her fellow Loose Woman co-star. It read: "Tracey Stubbs is a character in Birds of a Feather." Sunetra guessed that it was true, and was relieved when Ross said she was correct. However, she was left stunned when Ross revealed: "Yeah, she's played by Linda Robson - your fellow Loose Women star!" 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. Sunetra replied: "You're kidding me! "She'll never forgive me.
Daily Mail
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Loose Women's Sunetra Sarker left unable to walk after spraining both her ankles - revealing baffling way she injured herself to stunned panel
Loose Women 's Sunetra Sarker has revealed that she's been left unable to walk after spraining both her ankles as she appeared on Wednesday's episode of the ITV show. The 52-year-old joined Charlene White, 45, Janet Street-Porter, 78, and Jane Moore, 63, on the panel today (2 July 2025). The Loose ladies got chatting about the recent headlines saying that Brits have a 'negativity bias', which led Sunetra talk about her recent experience. Charlene said: 'Whether we liked it or not, Sunetra gave us a call of doom when she walked in this morning...' Sunetra said: 'Everyone I met now, as soon as they come towards me, get ready for the speech, things have been going from bad to worse. 'Six weeks ago I sprained my ankle, it was agony. I cannot explain this hot pain. Loose Women 's Sunetra Sarker has revealed that she's been left unable to walk after spraining BOTH her ankles as she appeared on Wednesday's episode of the ITV show The 52-year-old joined Charlene White , 45, Janet Street-Porter , 78, and Jane Moore , 63, on the panel today (2 July 2025) 'I had a dead leg, I was trying to put my foot in a slipper. It's nothing showbiz. It's not glamourous. 'I was just old. I couldn't get my foot in my slipper. 'Then I've been poor me, poor me, everyone who sees me, "Oh you poor thing with this bandage on your leg". 'On my way to physio for said sprained ankle, six weeks after injury, I'm thinking I'm nearly going to walk again properly. 'On the way, my flip flop gets caught under the door matt... 'Flip flop gets caught, I trip, my left legs comes out to save my face from hitting the ground... 'And guess what? Sprained left ankle!' The TV star then pulled out her crutches from underneath her. She continued: 'So now doctor Zoe Hanna from Casualty is sitting in casualty being recognised by everyone...' She played Zoe Hanna in the BBC show on/off from 2007 until 2024. Elsewhere in the episode Dragons' Den star Emma Grede and Hugo Vickers appeared on the show to chat to the panel. It comes after Rosemary Shrager recalled the moment she was bitten by an adder after she fell into a bush during a 450-mile bike ride. The TV chef featured on Monday's instalment of Loose Women and joined panellists Ruth Langsford, Linda Robson, Oti Mabuse and Katie Piper. She recently completed a whopping bike ride called Two Wheels For Meals and rode for 18 days all the way from Land's End to Dover to raise funds to donate to food poverty charities. To prepare for the big ride, Rosemary trained and worked on her fitness, but she 'kept falling off her bike'. Things took a turn when she fell onto an unsuspecting snake while cycling in Cornwall. 'I fell onto an adder and it did bite me... on my leg,' Rosemary recalled. 'The problem was I didn't dare tell anyone, this was in Cornwall I fell into a hedge and my leg went into the grass and I literally fell on the adder.' She added: 'It just obviously didn't like me, it bit me.' However, the TV chef revealed she didn't tell anyone as she wanted to continue the journey. 'But I didn't want to tell anyone because I had to get from that destination to that destination everyday it was sometimes 55 miles, sometimes 48, it was a lot,' Rosemary said. Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV1 from 12:30pm and is available to stream on ITVX.
Telegraph
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The Game, review: murder, antiques and Robson Green in a polo neck
Oh, I do enjoy a Channel 5 thriller. They've got no pretensions. There's no great state-of-the-nation pontificating. Just some twists and turns and, in the case of The Game, Robson Green playing a slippery antiques repairer who may or may not be a serial killer out to murder his neighbours. What's not to like? It co-stars Jason Watkins as Huw Miller, struggling to adapt to retirement after a career as a detective. He has a lovely wife (Sunetra Sarker) and a decent golf handicap but is haunted by his failure to solve the case of the Ripton Stalker, who targeted victims for amusement before eventually murdering them. Then Patrick Harbottle (Green) moves in across the street. He smoothly befriends everyone in the neighbourhood – it's the kind of place where the women go round to each other's houses to drink white wine and moan about their middle-aged husbands, while the men repair to the pub to moan about being middle-aged – and immediately attracts the attention of the street's sexiest blonde, who murmurs: 'My God, he's so fit!' (you can see why Green was attracted to the script). After an evening out, Patrick says good night to Huw with the words: 'Catch you later.' Which is the sign-off that the Ripton Stalker used to taunt police. And there we have the set-up: is Patrick the killer who has taken up residence to torment Huw, or is Huw losing his grip on reality (we learn that he had a mental breakdown over the case years earlier) and about to make a terrible mistake? Watkins, in his third Channel 5 thriller after Coma and The Catch, is perfectly cast as the mild-mannered Huw, whose self-confidence is shot. He's not a million miles away from the character the actor plays in McDonald and Dodds. I did find myself wondering how he ended up with his wife, who is cheerful and full of energy, but opposites attract and all that. The two play it very naturally. Green, more often to be found portraying likeable blokes, clearly relishes a role which allows him to hint at the sinister. Patrick wears a lot of polo-necks, which is the TV signifier that someone might be evil. Huw struggles to convince anyone that Patrick is a danger. His neighbours turn against him, and former colleagues dismiss him as a joke – except one (Amber James), who wonders whether she should investigate Huw's hunches. The drama plays out across four nights this week and builds to the kind of histrionic end you'd expect, with some creepy moments along the way. I'm not sure why it has such a generic name – the working title was Catch You Later, which is much better. If something about the production feels a little off – besides the sight of suavely dressed man-about-town Patrick tootling off every day in his turquoise van – it could be because this depiction of British suburbia was actually shot in Spain's Basque country (for financial reasons). Channel 5 dramas aren't expensively done, but they're certainly entertaining.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Everything to know on new Channel 5 drama The Game starring Jason Watkins
A new Channel 5 drama will be airing on TV soon, which features Jason Watkins and Sunetra Sarker among its cast. The story involves former police detective Huw Miller (Watkins), who settles into retirement with his wife Alice (Sarker). However, when new neighbour Patrick (Robson Green) moves in, his behaviour reminds Huw of a notorious criminal he never managed to catch, and suspicions begin to form. A synopsis on the Radio Times website reads: "Former detective Huw settles into retirement alongside his wife Alice, but never far from his mind is the case he failed to solve - that of the Ripton Stalker. Robson Green and Jason Watkins go toe-to-toe in this exclusive trailer for tense new drama #TheGame – beginning 12th May on @channel5_tv 👇 Read more here: — Radio Times (@RadioTimes) May 3, 2025 "When new neighbour Patrick moves in and uses the phrase that the stalker used to taunt Huw with in letters, he's determined he's finally got his man." Speaking with Deadline about the show, Green shared: "The way Patrick says, 'catch you later' triggers something within Huw, who thinks he has his man. 'Patrick is over-friendly, and Huw feels everything is not quite what it seems. "Very quickly you realise there is a game being played, but is Patrick a stalker and is Huw on the right track or spiralling out of control psychologically?' The programme, which was originally called 'Catch You Later', then becomes a cat-and-mouse thriller. Jason Watkins as Huw Miller Sunetra Sarker as Alice Miller Robson Green as Patrick Harbottle Indy Lewis as Margot Miller Amber James as Jenny Atkins Joshua Hill as Martin Flint Jenny Rainsford as Tina Oakley Scott Karim as Paul Oakley Amy Huberman as Liz Maguire Simon Harrison as Steve Maguire Christina Bennington as Ruth Parker Lewis Ian Bray as Declan Gordon Kennedy as Frank Byrne Recommended reading: Everything you need to know ahead of Malpractice series 2 - cast list and more All to know ahead of The Handmaid's Tale's final series including cast list Everything to know on new Channel 5 drama The Feud starring Jill Halfpenny When will Channel 5's The Game be on TV? The first episode of The Game will air at 9 pm on Monday, May 12, on Channel 5, with the second episode following in the same timeslot on Tuesday, May 13. After that, the remaining two episodes will air at 9pm on Wednesday, May 14 and Thursday, May 15. These episodes will be available to watch on the Channel 5 player after they have been broadcast.
