Taskmaster The Podcast - Ep 129. Charlotte Ritchie - S15 Ep.6

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

This week Ed is joined by Actor and TM alumni Charlotte Ritchie! Charlotte is perhaps the most qualified person to talk about the current line as she has co-starred in shows with both Mae and Kiell. She shares all her insights and even reflects back on her Taskmaster experience. Watch all of Taskmaster on All 4www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmasterVisit the Taskmaster Store for all your TM goodies!taskmasterstore.com Visit the Taskmaster YouTube Channelyoutube.com/taskmaster Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster Podcast. It's me, Ed Gamble. We're of course in the midst of talking about new Taskmaster series 15. And this week we reach episode six, which you should have watched at 9pm on Channel 4 on Thursday. The podcast drops 10pm after every new episode, every Thursday on Channel 4. So make sure you've watched that, because we'll be talking all about it today, going through every task with a fine tooth comb. It's not really a fine tooth comb, actually, it's an entertaining chat, it's sort of a sort of a fat Tooth Co. And we will be chatting about that today with the brilliant Charlotte Richie, of course,

a wonderful actor, very, very funny. You've seen her in ghosts. You've seen her in you recently. She's absolutely brilliant. And of course, a taskmaster contestant and more excitingly has worked very closely with both Kyle and May who are on this series 15. So here we are, it's the Taskmaster podcast with Charlotte Richie. Welcome back, Charlotte Richie to the Taskmaster podcast. Thank you very much for having me back.

Of course, former Taskmaster contestant and of course, qualified even more to talk about this series because you have worked with two of the current contestants of Taskmaster Kyle and May. Yes, yes, they've both been non-screen romantic partners of mine. Yes, this is the Charlotte Richie effect. I think I'm fortunate means probably I'm completely unqualified to talk about this because I have such biases towards two people in the show. You never know, right? So it might be biases, you know, positive biases or negative biases. Oh, no, that's what I meant. I mean, I have resembles towards both of them that go deeper than I can. So you're

supporting everyone else, that's good. Yeah, heavy. Any information we can get about them sort of behind the scenes information I think is perfect. But they're private lives and yeah, perfect. Yeah, anything super revealing that they wouldn't want out there is great. How did you feel when they were both announced for Fortas Master? Were you excited by it? Were you worried about how they would perform? No, I was so excited. I mean, I really like, I think that,

I think they're only just realizing this now, but this show is kind of like, it does feel, it's sort of, even though I'm not sure it is a full representation of who you are, it is a lot of content of one person continually, and I love them both so much. So I was just like, yes, like I get to watch them be themselves for 10, is it 10 weeks?

10 weeks, yeah. I was just so, it is a bit like spending time, you know, a bit like spending time with them. And so it was just, I was just honestly just over the moon. I couldn't have thought of anything nicer. And the fact that they're all in the series together is just like this. And they start next to each other. Yeah, it's perfect. I mean, slightly heartbreaking that you've described it as sort of like spending time with them. There was make me spend some sort of 50 meters away from them. Yeah. I feel like that. I'm in the studio just by the screen.

A little bit far away. Kyle actually told us that he hadn't seen much taskmask apart from your series because you made him watch it with you because you were filming ghosts and he said you were so scared every time it went out that you needed a friend there to watch it. Yeah, it's true. I was honestly so close to Bolt. In fact, my memory had been reject that he was so supportive, he was like, we must watch

this together. But of course that's the truth. Yeah. When we stay in this hotel in Gilford, he's the room above me. So I always get texts at like 1130 and I'd be like, okay, I'm almost done because he'll be creaking around and I'll be beautifully in bed by 930 because I'm a weeb. And he's just pacing, I know, he's always sitting up there. He's a late boy. He loves being on the lap. He's an owl. And he, you know, he did watch it with me and we sort of hold hands and I would be

like, my hands are over my face for the whole time. But he now knows he texts me being like, I understand now. He understands. The absolute pain of it. Totally, yeah. Is he performing as you would expect? I mean, so what I'd say about Kyle so far in the series is not necessarily the most competent when it comes to the tasks, but hugely indignant when he's told that he's not competent.

Yeah, I mean, he's got the balance absolutely right. He understood from the start, which I didn't, the combative nature of the relationship with Greg. Yeah, he got that. I mean, he says he's only watched my series. He can't have learned anything from me about that. He must have learned from the others. Yeah, no, he's confident, absolutely.

And he sort of takes it on with quite a lot of ease, actually. I mean, he's just sort of, it's a bit like a duck to water, really, isn't it? I think you're right. I think even if he's totally missed the mark, he's got the sense of the show. He knows it's a point. He'll back what he's done, the mark, he's got the sense of the show. He knows it's a point. Yeah, he'll back what he's done.

Absolutely. And what about May? Because May has been doing very well in this series, and I believe they're currently in the lead. Is that something that you expected from them? Yeah, yeah, it is. It is, again, I think both of them are sort of going down the routes I hoped would happen.

May is like, I once did a crystal maze challenge with May on their birthday. The seriousness with which they approached each task, the deep disappointment of any failure, was so funny. I can't really, yeah, it is pure investment and it's like, and also the sort of creativity with which every task. So this, in episode six, the toothpaste roulette, I don't think got the credit that it deserved for its creative. I don't like that.

I feel like. But I've got it back on this. I completely agree with you. I believe it, the way that that was brushed over. I think that the level of investment, and I hope that it is maintained. I mean, this is episode six. I'm assuming it's all the way through.

I just, it's a gift to watch that. Because. Absolutely. Yeah this is episode six. I'm assuming it's all the way through. I just, it's a gift to watch that because it's so, yeah, it's great. Now, out of everyone in this series, obviously, you didn't win your series. That's not a spoiler for anyone. No. Apart from might spoil your day to be reminded of it. To be reminded, thank you. for anyone. No. Apart from might spoil your day to be reminded of it. To be reminded, thank you. I knew that only what was getting myself into. Yeah. I understand. Sarah Kendall's, of course, victorious in your series, which means Sarah is through

the champion of champions and will be facing someone from this series, whoever wins this series. Who do you think could take on Sarah Kendall, having been in a series with Sarah and you know what she's capable of? Uh-huh, uh-huh. Out of this group. Yeah, out of this group. Kelly, the longest pause that's ever been in the podcast. As she gone, I think I kind of think May because of the, because of the, yeah, because there was also a similarity with Sarah

like there's a kind of the ruthless and like pinpoint precision and investment in each task. I think that's the likely, I mean, I know that's where it's all headed, but I think that feels like the likely answer. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I think Sarah has a sort of wilder feel to her than May does. I feel like May is very calm when they approach tasks

and has that pinpoint precision, but also seems to maintain, I mean, you know, no offense to Sarah, more decorum. Yeah, I would say so. I would say so. For some reason, I've got a really strong image of Sarah lying down or being on the floor quite a lot, which I guess doesn't scream

dignity to Koran, but they're maize also getting their shoes off all the time, so that's another part of it. Well, I love about the show as the way that it will make you do things that you honestly feel baffled by your own behaviour, something you did about four seconds before and you think, who was that? And you can see that in maize face, approaching the eggs in this episode, just like, yeah. Huh?

I don't know who that person was. Yeah, so I think you're right. There is a level of cool, I think, that May is bringing a sort of levelheadedness. But when you know May, and I'm sure you, you know, by this point in the series, you can see the seeding competition underneath the surface. I mean, with all of them, you can.

No one's approaching this lightly, I suppose. Maybe Frankie sometimes. I think Frankie definitely, I think Frankie couldn't give a toss in a frankly electrifying way. Yeah. Let's talk about this episode though, prize task, the prize task, the best thing to play about with in your bathroom. Oh yeah, yeah. Did you have a particular prize task that you brought in on your series that you were very proud of?

No. Not one. I think I said this to you last time. I really think I misunderstood the brief. I really was like, I thought it was stuff that you just sort of had around you in your life. And it is absolutely not that. No, I mean, I still stand by the difficult thing to have in your hands, that you can barely hold in your hands, which was all my bedding. I still stand by that. It's not funny. It's not funny, but it sticks to the brief. But it sticks to the brief. Isn't that what we're all watching, Tarsmaster 4?

Absolutely, stick it to the brief. Yeah, stick it to the brief. Yeah, stick it to the brief. This was a strong selection this week from this lineup though I thought. I thought it was, as we say, I mean, let's talk about Mays and Owl because they brought in a toothpaste, Russian roulette. And I completely agree with you, it gets two points and Greg dismisses it out of hand. And it's so much has gone into it, it feels like a very task mastery thing to do. It's inventive, so much effort has been put into it. So why, why is it two points?

I'm absolutely, I'm a flabbergasted a zero. I threw a shoe at my TV when that happened. I don't know, I think like, you know, sometimes sorry to say this, but sometimes Greg misses the mark. Yeah. And maybe the moment goes and I don't know. I mean, maybe does he have a sort of, sometimes I think if it's too good, it sort of seems to piss him off. Like, if there's too much thought put together.

Yeah. Because it didn't look homemade, it looked like it was a professionally available thing. I mean, look, maybe it is. I mean, I've not looked it up, maybe it's something that May has bought. But I don't think so. I mean, I think it was definitely something that May either made or sort of in great detail described to the incredible production team in the art of comedy, but it's a bit of a... Yeah, it was stunning. Yeah, it was. I mean, I can't, I honestly can't explain it. I really was shocked. Shocked to my heart. But we look, if we can look at everything else that was brought in, I can't, I honestly can't explain it. I really was shocked. Um, shocked to my heart.

But we look, if we can look at everything else that was brought in, I, I mean, definitely, I'm a whole my hands up and, you know, I love I vote a bit. It definitely should have been a scale model of the Titanic. Yeah. Yeah, but his pitch was good. His pitch was good. Was it, was it though, Charlotte? Listen, I mean, again, I come at this with with the sort of the

roof or regret of a person that never really fought for their prizes. And I see it now and I think a skillful, a skillful. He's got the words. He's got, I've always got the words. But then all the way he pictures stuff to me seems like he's doing an impression of a confident person. Like it's got some a thin his confidence. It feels like he'd collapse at the slightest touch. There's such a trembling right below the surface, isn't that? Yeah. I think, I don't know. There was something about it that maybe I just sort of,

maybe the whole thing appealed to me. Maybe the sort of big Titanic in the bath was on a personal level. I quite like the idea of it. I think he sold the remants of rewriting history pretty well. Yeah. Yeah, sorry to say. I thought that was a good pitch. But then what you, you're rewriting history by

just having Titanic in the bath and it just sort of bobbing along. I can't believe you're interrogating this. I mean, I really do believe that flyer just moves on. What was the podcast? There's time to interrogate. Yeah, okay. Well, if we're going to get real, obviously it's not rewriting history. But, you know, the thought of it, the sort of the energy behind the thought of rewriting it or having, you know, having a fantasy in the part that is specifically

about that nine, was it 1912 disaster? Someone I didn't ever, someone like that. I think there was just a remanse to it, yeah, but do you know what? I mean, I'm sticking by it. I think it was, there was something about the remanst of it that caught my eye. But listen, this is not about me. This is about, this is about Greg's response, isn't it? How many points did I ever get? I've got three.

And May got two. So, yeah, I really, I feel like that toothpaste thing was a real miscarriage of justice actually. Yeah, I wonder actually if that's more of a, yeah, I think you might be right. I think that it's sort of is more of a representation of the status quo that I've managed to sell a quite rubbish item. And the person you probably put the most effort in in a very clear way, didn't get the credit. It feels like it's the sales pitch that wins out. So you've got the extra point. And even with Kyle's piano toilet mat,

which is a lot of fun, I'd sure, I'd like one. Sure. But it's clearly a commercially available item. Sure. Kyle had searched things to play within a bathroom, and that was maybe on the second page of Google. And he's bought it, but in comparison to May's toothpaste Russian roulette, it's not as good. There's no debate there. I mean, there's no debate about that. The toothpaste Russian roulette was the most creative. I'm trying to...

It's really, but I watched it literally yesterday and now you're having to remind me of like the other two people. So what did Jenny do? So Jenny brought in, I mean, this, this was one point and I feel like it deserved the one point. It was the dental pod that she uses to clean her gum guard to stop her clenching her teeth at night. Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. But like also sort of really, really nice and smart, isn't it? I mean, I didn't ever consider the fact that I could get some stuff bought by the production company and take it home. I can't believe I didn't say I've sized five and a half pair of trainers that I really wanted.

It's so mad I didn't do that. A big bag of, a multiple pack of crisps for after the show would be the choice. Yeah, I think she, it was very brazen. And I think you got to, you got to get what you can sometimes from these opportunities. Absolutely. And but although it was a bad prize technically, I could watch Jenny talk about her teeth regime for a full hour.

Wish that was a whole show. She's so fun. I was a wassing for her to take it out. I did, there's something about watching someone take it, put in and out a retainer. And I think that usually that's done under like a hand that's, I mean, even going back to school, that was such a sort of shameful action.

And these days, I don't know if you've noticed everyone has a visor line everywhere you look. And I feel like I'm constantly surrounded by the clacking of like a brace going in and out before a meal. And so to see someone on TV with no inhibitions was actually like really liberating to watch. Really liberating. I'm like, go back.

I'm like, go back. I felt liberated watching her being so liberated. Yeah, it was inspiring. How many people that you hanging out with that have a mizaline? Oh my gosh, I would say confidently, five of my friends at the moment have got in Vizaline. Is that, I think that's a high number?

I think that's quite a high number, yeah. I wouldn't say, I mean, I guess, quite often you're filming things that you're hanging out with actors who probably pop the mizaline in. Exactly, exactly. I'm not sure if it's a stand-up, gross horror film. They're not so into it, yeah.

No. Is it part of the thing, really? You don't want to have a perfect tea, the other is everyoneup. Exactly, and it says, I'm not sure if it's going to be a stand-up. They're not so into it, yeah. No. Is it part of the thing, really? You don't want to have a perfect teeth? The other was everyone would rinse you for it, maybe, I don't know. Well, no, that's the thing. Like, I never meant to stand up, gik. Tell me, have you ever seen a stand-up walk on stage with perfect teeth

and immediately found them funny? No, you need gross ogre teeth to be a good stand-up. But it felt like a one-pointer. Quick question on Kyle's. I feel like he bought it for the show. Knowing what you know of Kyle is that sort of thing that he'd have in his actual bathroom. There's every chance. There's every chance that there's been another opportunity in his life where it's been important to have that. Either a gift for somebody, I mean he's

a very thoughtful guy. There's a chance that it was hanging around. I have a feeling that the aforementioned googling on the second page was probably, probably what happened. But who am I to talk? Really? Who am I to talk? I would pick some stuff off my shelf as I went out the door. So I think that again, yeah, no, no.

I mean, I think that probably he didn't pre-own it, but there was some quick buying. Yeah. I should remember what he was saying when he was trying to buy the prize task. I don't think we talked about it actually. He probably didn't ask me because you knew I wouldn't be able to give him any advice. Frankie got the five points with his laminated a bath time BG

witty witty board. Um, which Frankie's hitting a really good balance on this series so far, where he does things that are very Frankie Boyle But also just gives them that little taskmaster twist and I feel like this is another really good example of this because it's dark It's a bit weird, but also it's silly and fun. I thought I actually as he was saying it and finally with the sort of cherry on top of the BG Weege board. Yeah, I did sit back and like I thought, I'd loved, I want to map through how that occurred because that is a lovely twisting and turning of a person's mind. And where did he think of it?

And yeah, yeah, it was, which came first, the BG Weegee board was in the candles in the bath. And yeah, I thought it was really, really good. Actually, I do think that deserved the high points. Yes. Just to get really serious for a second, I want to get really serious. We must. I think that deserved the high points. I do do that. Yes, but I just get really serious for a second. I want to get really serious. We must.

I think that really, yeah. I feel like that was definitely the five points, but I feel like Macy had been the four, but Greg absolutely hates it when I pick a party's point. So I hope you're listening to this one, Greg. Really hates it. It's absolutely right. I totally why, because he doesn't like the truth, I suppose.

No. It's what comes down to you. Do you have any inclinations to what you might have picked as this was one of your prize tasks? Oh, God, yeah, I should have thought of that actually before. Well, knowing you, it would have to be something that's in your bathroom already, Charlotte. Like, what's the question again?

What was the task? What was the thought? The best thing to play about within your bathroom. Yeah, be like, it'd be like the sort of jelly, like funny little jelly, I'm asking things. I've got from Lush recently, can I say Lush? And other things are available. They're made of seaweed and they're so satisfying.

I can imagine sort of, you know, wiggling those around. Class, I can literally imagine, I can take that and just drop it right into your series. Have you getting halfway through, say, w wiggling around laughing and then just sort of confidence collapses immediately? It's crazy isn't it? The honesty doesn't go anywhere these days. What is the actual thing? For truthfully, if you're really asking me, it would be these jelly things not interesting. Don't tell me that. Don't tell me that. All it made me think of is my dad used to have

All it made me think of is my dad used to have in the bathroom a this game which was like battleships But they were like little cardboard battleships that you drop into the toilet And then you can aim and try and sink them Wow Yeah terrible for the drains that imagined I didn't even think about that I was just thinking about if I tried to use that what the sort of maneuvers that I'd have to do to try to play the game, like, I would sit down and be looking through. And it would be dark, I have to get a torch involved.

And then of course you'd think about the, what are they called fat burgers, which are these like huge things? Fat burgers, not fat burgers. I believe fat burger is a fast food chain in Los Angeles. I'm so happy it's not fat burgers, it makes it so much. Of course, I now understand it must be like a iceberg. Yes. Idiot. Fat burgers. But I'd be worried about that.

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Oh, OK. I'll write a P. Hello, Barry. Task one. Invent an imaginary companion, then complete a domestic task with your imaginary companion. Your imaginary companion must either be much taller or much littler than you. Most poignant scene wins. You have 20 minutes, your time starts now. Great task, I thought.

Yeah, well, it's just... Really good task. I thought it was great. And I hadn't clocked that it had to be taller or littler than you. I was surprised that people would obviously I should have gone back and watched that because that's not me, I'm a list. But yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course that makes sense. It wouldn't have all gone. I loved it. I thought it was brilliant. I thought it was a great task. I loved watching

everybody sort of, I don't know, you can't help but get serious in that one, you know? Yeah, it was beautiful. You've got to come in. You've got to come in. It's a testament, of course, as always, to the production team and the editor for putting together some lovely little films. My first question for you, Charlotte Richie, is, did you have a imaginary friend as a child? I think there was a phase at which I pretended I did because I think I thought it was like kooky and I think I thought wouldn't it be cool to be the kind of kid that has one? I know that my That's self-aware as a child. Oh God tell me that honestly. That's not even going to

Form a development of my personality as a kid. It's it's it's it's real but I'm gonna say say this, he's going to be annoyed. My brother had one. And it was called cursor. I actually don't know if I should, I don't care. I'm going to say. And he said it was like a whirlwind in the corner. Wow. Yeah.

That's so nice of you. And I haven't really asked him much about it since he seems. He kind of, I don't know if he brushes it off, or maybe his memory is just not that good but my mum remembers him running into the kitchen and being like curses gone and one day curses just wasn't there anymore. Wow. I imagine it like curses like a mouse curse like a mouse you know like the arrow on a yeah like on a computer. Yeah I mean I don't know much I don't know much about the phenomenon to to be honest with you. Kids are mad. Yeah, yeah.

Kids are mad, totally. Yeah, and momma. My two favourite imaginary friends, I personally didn't have an imaginary friend. The comedian Joel Domit, he's spoken about this in his stand-up, so I'm not revealing anything. He had an imaginary family. He used to see and hang out with a whole family. They were an Asian family called the Moncasters. Wow.

I don't even know where to begin with that. No, but that's very joll. He's an odd guy. And then my wife, even older, I think, had 100 imaginary friends. No way. They were all children and she said they used to sit along the wall when she walked to school and I said, could you name them all? And she said no, only the main players.

So they were like, she had like background artist. Does she say that she could like really see them? Yeah, well I think her imagination was so strong that she could tell me where they were sitting when she walked a school all along. I can't believe there was a hundred. I don't even know now as an adult if I can quantify what a hundred people looks like. I always get it wrong. It would end up being like 20 and I say it was a hundred. But that is, I mean, now that you've said this, I am going to go and look up imaginary friends and work out what is it about? Where does it come from?

It sort of makes sense, but God. So how old was she when she, sorry, I'm really fascinated by this, when did they go? Oh, I'm not sure when they went. I think she was pretty small though. I've got to say, I'm not going to make a cheap joke about her being 28 when they went or ever. No, no, no. But no, I think she was pretty small. So it must have been, you know, preschool sort of time. But she, yeah, very strong imagination made me. The power of the, yeah, the mind. Nothing. Nothing. Yeah. Well, me pretending. How sad that. Nothing. And then wishing. I mean, a story I'm on. No, no, no.

Going into Tarzan, I'm revealing everything. What was interesting about this, I thought, is they asked for poignant and I had to go back and check the task because I Thought oh, they must have said that the imaginary friend has to die because everyone almost everyone picked yeah Pic poignancy is meaning brutal death totally. I think I can understand that I think that makes sense I think you've got a limited time. Yeah communicate something in a short time It is it is it was pretty it was pretty shocking to see them all lined up. These tiny people, all one large one, just getting annihilated. And I really think I was quite invested by the point at which, because, as you say,

the editing and the production, I was invested by the time that I understood what was going on. And then I couldn't help but visualize their deaths. It really was. I could see this person. They were like a little clear, like a clear morph, you know, morph. That's how I was seeing it was like a little clear morph. Clear morph. Yeah. It's like drowning the soup or falling down the plockhole. Who said to someone said that they thought that Kyle's imaginary friend might not have died? That there's a chance that Greg said that. But I still think that's poignant. It's poignant that Kyle thought that he'd died.

Did you know that Kyle used to have an imaginary friend called Chicago, and they were just on the jacket? Can't. Of course, that's why. I was just thinking, who do I know? And then I was only seeing in the episode. I can't. That story was so perfect.

And then when he said that we started every song with, I don't know why or something. And I was like, I know that, of course, that was how every song started in those days. And I know why. Like, it's also so convenient that they had a matching jacket that Imagine Refriend, because of course they could, it's just whatever he was wearing, they were wearing.

It's so sweet. It's less imagination power as well, isn't it? If you don't have to imagine what you're imagining for and swearing, if you've got the stuff. You're saving time, you're getting straight down to the fun. You don't need to worry about clothes. Kyle makes me laugh so much. It was just asking what the name was and straight away, Chicago.

Unbelievable. He's got a lot of stories like that that you don't feel. That's not like prepping for the show That's not like it's not a bit. It's like yeah, it's just true. It just comes out. It's really yeah Well, let's talk about Frankie's because Frankie got the five points here as well. Yeah, his imaginary friend Andy He's making Andy some cookies and then Andy arrives home From school. Yeah, the tiny the tiny coat and the bag. I think that's what won him the points

because it was the shot of the nail empty and then the shot of the tiny little jacket. And then, I mean, that is devastating, isn't it? Yeah, it was a hundred percent because again, you could really visualize this little person and I think it even gave you, like the sort of, the sort of hardship of that small person's life, because if you're thinking about the distance that they're walking to the kitchen from that point,

that vantage point, you know, from the, and then how are they getting there, they're clambering into the oven, waving or whatever, and then in they go. Oh, God. Yeah, you could see, you could see why Frankie got the five there, and I think it was those little touches like that that were absolutely perfect. I do think again, I do think again, may was early on fixated with a single tear.

And I think that that should be reflected more in that. I mean, we're talking emphoant and investment to actually, I can also visualize how that was happening. That was made out on the counter counter like absolutely squeezing that tear out. I mean like get it get it get it get it get it. Is that did that happen a lot when you were filming feel good? Was it just that? Just squeezing out the tears.

No I think it was I mean no it wasn't it wasn't I was sitting around waiting for each of us to squeeze out a tear and then be like quickly get it. It's obviously a wonderful performance from May. They're a great actor, the soup I think was a lovely, that was pointing in itself just making the soup, Salvatore and May making the soup. I do agree with Greg that the revelation at the end that there was some sort of sexual relationship between. There was some body rocking going on between Salvador and May. Did remove me slightly from the point in C of it. So interesting. So you introduce any kind of sexual element and everyone's out.

It needs to be family friendly. Well, not family friendly necessarily, but my mind's racing at that point. Yeah. So I'm thinking. You can take to different pastures aren't racing at that point. Yeah. So I'm thinking. You can take it to different pastures, aren't you? At that point, you're not in, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not in May's just, May's just lost a cherished imaginary friend. Now you get back tracking into their history

and what that looks like. And I'm going, what, what's the sourdough tour up to? How's the tiny, tiny man rocking a body for a start? So that's ruined then. Right. And I understand that's my brain as well. It is, it is. I'm trying to think of them. Oh yeah, it was funny what Frankie said about that being, I guess I'm just interested in this being an element of grief, you know, the physical intimacy being lost.

I think that's a fair point and actually, you know, again, progressing the, the point, the pointy in my view, I think says more about you and Greg actually Yeah, I think possibly possibly but look still four points for me It was great effort Also for let's talk about I vote last because you're shown last Let's skip down to the bottom of the table and chat about Jenny the only person to go for a large friend Which is interesting because I think the others realize that for some reason you can make it more poignant when the friend was tiny, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good observation.

Of course, because there's something help us about a very tiny, I mean, not that, you know when you meet someone who's like an inch tall, we all need that. More poignant, the interaction gone out, but the level of risk is so much higher, isn't it? Squishy. The risk is higher. You feel like you're responsible for them. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

Whereas the large friend called Ed, thank you, Jenny, is massive. And then Jenny is distracted, distracted by a nice cream van, because she's feeling thirsty after all her garden work. Yeah. And then somehow, did this body you? Somehow she's looking up as if Ed is maybe 50 feet tall. She then swings the chain saw at the same level as the bush and somehow completely removes his head. Yes. I mean, I would say that I wasn't thinking that he was 50 feet tall. My, my eye line wasn't so, I wasn't so, it wasn't so odd for me.

Yes. But, but I do, yeah, he did, he did quickly shrink. I think in terms of geography, if I was to watch it back again, which I'm sure I will now, it wouldn't, it would, it felt like it'd be around his hip. Yeah, hip or, hip or like, I'd say, yeah. What's the word like like disemboweled? I don't know if we want to get into that. But it's difficult so I guess Jenny could say oh no you're head which is what she said in the task or it's less natural I guess to say oh no I've

disembowled you. Oh no you've been disembowled okay for example yeah exactly and then yeah you're so right. what did she say oh no your head oh no oh no your head something like that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean probably wouldn't say that you wouldn't say that either. you say like yeah oh fucking hell yeah calling imaginary ambulance yeah that was some I was very sweet performance though again like a lot of it hinged on I think a lot of it hinged on, I think a lot of it hinged on how, on the convincing performance afterwards, that felt Greg was persuaded by the Jesus Christ of Frankie. We had the tear, we had Kyle, Kyle sort of splashing water and using the tap to trap slightly from the poignancy. But Jenny's crying

was good, you know. Jenny's crying was good. Jenny's done a fair bit of acting in the, in the series so far. People who've seen the rest of the series will know that when they had to fake something, the task was simply fake something and Jenny immediately, immediately, faked her heart attack. And she throws herself into stuff.

Wow. Oh no, no, I can see that. It's really nice to see actually. Yeah. Yeah, she's pretty. Kyle's friend Louie got washed down the, got washed down the plug hole. Yeah. Which was you know it was pretty tragic and I don't think the idea that Louie might be alive impacts on the poignancy at all. Well I don't know if you've seen flushed away. Have I seen flushed away? It's a film about some, I think it's about some wraps that get flushed down. No, I've not seen it.

I'm actually not confident I've seen it, but I've definitely seen the trailer for it. Absolutely, you want to be honest with you there. But I'm suddenly seeing Louis being like, waaay, like on a water slide. It doesn't seem so bad to me. It took it away from me, but for you, you thought that was still pretty sad. I still think that was pretty sad. But now, now you've said it's like a water slide, and now imagine grabbing onto one of those pissy battleships

and having a great old time. Well, we just have to be passing by. Yes. In the late 90s, how disgusting, imagine. Yeah, I think it was pretty point-no, it was point-no. The egg cup I loved and the sort of domestic charm of the washing up. Popping him onto the egg cup is only a little platform

to do the washing up. Really lovely. The gesture of the popping onto it as well, that was really lovely, that little. I felt the same way with May's feeding of Salvatore, the kind of feeding of the little wooden spoon with a bit of soup on it. Yeah, very nice. The little chair, Salvatore's little kind of, you know, the feeding of the little wooden spoon with a bit of soup on it. Yeah, very nice. Very nice. Salvatore's little chair that made a lot of time building, I think.

Really? Well, I think clearly there was like, you know, they built it. Oh, see, for some reason I thought you had some sort of inside this knowledge, I really took that. No, no, no, no, just because clearly they built it rather than just, you know, putting any old thing down there. Totally. It wasn't just a piece of cardboard folded in half for something. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was real effort put in there for Salvatore. Definitely. Let's talk about Ivo finally. Ivo, the only one who didn't kill his imaginary friend. Which again, maybe says a lot about Ivo that his imaginary friend left him, I think,

because he says a lot about his personality. And also, I think one of the's a lot about his personality. And also, I think one of the lines of the series from Frankie so far, it speaks a lot to someone's social status when their imaginary friend has a car. Yeah, that was, it was really perfect. It was really good. And the sweet little number plate that they'd made for him, I thought that was great. I was like, wait, that's his car. I couldn't, and I thought, come here, he's brought, so it's a bit audacious for you in personal eyes, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and

I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and was like, oh he's a fan. Oh, he must be really chuffed to be on the series. He's driving that around. He's been driving in front of the producers back and forth for like 10 years. Yeah.

Please, I'm using this. No, yeah, I love the little tiny car in the bucket with the sponge. Oh, it was lovely. I just helping him wash his car, showing him how to wash his car. That was poignant. I think that actually tapped into a different thing to be purposefully left was more poignant than for an accident to happen. I think.

Yeah. Although that's obviously, you know. I think so. I do feel that I've always hit poignancy the most rather than like guttural tragedy. Totally. Totally. Totally. Exactly. Great. Yeah. Good distinction. So maybe it did say guttural tragedy on the target. It didn't. It didn't. It's never actually said that one to us master weirdly weirdly maybe that'll be having in the next series. Yeah But it was a lovely performance from my vote as well. I think Undistated performance maybe a bit on the nose at the end. I think there was a line about you love something and then it leaves you Oh, yeah, you gotta know he said didn't if you love something you gotta set it free. No. Yeah, something like that

Okay, the only reason I say that's because actually that sort of undercuts the Yeah, something like that. So something like that. The only reason I say that is because actually that sort of undercuts the point is in some ways, because then he's sort of okay about it. Yeah, he gets on with washing his car quite quickly, doesn't he? Yeah, he's back to it.

He's back to it. So a great task, one of my favourite so far. Five points for Frankie, four points for May, four points for Ivo, three points for Kyle, and two points for Jenny. APPLAUSE Well, Kyle, tell me about your childhood friend, what was his name? Chicago. LAUGHTER

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Learn more at buyheart.com. I'm just going to loop back to the first half very quickly, Shard of Firmay, because I've just missed an absolutely outstanding thing to talk about. If you were doing this series, you would have got that five points immediately, because you are so well versed in acting against nothing and pretending that there's people there. All those scenes and ghosts before they put them in, right? I guess you do have to do those scenes where... What does it mean that I didn't even cross my mind? Just someone on what to you now. It didn't, yeah, maybe that's it. It's just like, but I was, it didn't, it also didn't cross my mind like,

because for KL, that's the same, right? He's talking to people that aren't there. Well, no, because he can't see them, right? So he's so rarely, he's so rarely talking to them. Yeah, right, right, right. So for him, really, it was a huge stretch. I mean, nice for him to experience my world for a second. Yeah.

For one a second. For one good, that's it. Task two, efficiently shell an egg. You may not touch any part of the egg with your hands and you may only break the shell of one of the egg's fewest pieces of eggless shell wins. You have a maximum of 10 minutes, your time starts now. Nobody understands this task on first reading and I've got to be honest, neither did I, when I first heard it. No, I agree. Well, I agree because it's true because they were, yeah, they all didn't understand it.

I thought it was interesting when I brought a packet of eggs in and I thought, yeah, I think that would have, that would fly, I think, wouldn't it? It didn't have to be those eggs. Yeah, it didn't have to be those eggs. No, yeah. But I, this is fairly classic Ivo. He made me, yeah.

Yeah, this is fairly classic Ivo. Yeah. Yeah. This is fairly classic Ivo that he will try about 80 different things in his mind. Mm-hmm. Then realize he's got three minutes left and panic, panic and fuck it up basically. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I mean, that's in decision, isn't it? It's, it's your classic in decision. It's your classic in decision. Here's another way of saying it. Yeah, I wish I was really frustrated when I watched him get the eggs and then bail on that and I thought, I'd have faith.

Come on. Yes, no faith, he does not have in himself really. This is a tricky one because I think even if, I would have been similar to Frankie, even when Alex said it's easier to do it with a roar egg, like that's supposed to be the advantage one because you can just blow it out. Yeah.

I really would have gone for just try to get a hard boiled egg. I don't know why I would have thought a raw egg would have been worse. Well, as you're watching it, which is obviously the pleasure of the whole thing, is that you watch and you go, well now I can see what you need to do. Like I would have cracked.

If I'd thought to think of a raw egg, you could crack it quite easily in half, and maybe two halves. Two, yeah. Yeah. Rather than this pinhole thing or whatever, I don't know. Yeah. But no, I think of course the instinct would be because it feels like the only way that you've probably interacted with shells in any way that feels like in a deep way is

anyone that's ever shelled a hard boiled egg. Because once you're cracking a raw egg, the shell's gone, you're not interacting with it. It's not like a common, it's not like a lingering experience with a shell. Whereas the lingering experience we have with shells is probably shelling them over the bin or whatever. So yes, so maybe that's the only way that we know to interact with that. To shell an egg. I say we like it, you know. Some people don't eat eggs. Important to say. The phrase shell an egg. Yeah. That's misleading. That's a red herring because that suggests that the egg is cooked to me. I think you're

exactly right. Exactly. Because in a way, exactly, crack an egg is different. Yeah. And also, it doesn't really feel quite like an egg is an egg really until it's been cooked. I've maybe I'll retract actually. I think that looks. I don't think you can retract that now. I think that's definitely going in the air, but that's going in good, good, good, good, good. I don't think your neck is an egg until it's been cooked. I suppose what I mean is, well, yeah, no, I guess I have to stand by it, so now here I go. Because it's just simply something different, isn't it?

When it's raw, it just is. The relationship between the inside of the egg and the outside is totally different when it's not correct. Yeah, I do understand that. There's a fragility there. Is that what we're stuck trying to get? In my argument. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, it's really. Yeah, it's really.

I'm really, yeah. Frankie goes for the hardest egg. Thank you. I mean, this is really. No worries. He tries the water thing. That doesn't really work for him. Yeah. And then manages to, basically smash the egg apart

and 83 pieces of egg shell he manages. That was really excruciating to watch. The way his hands were sort of slightly like, there was nerves there and with every nerve was another piece of egg shell. I mean, it was pretty catastrophic, wasn't it? Yeah. But it was very much the mentality of a person that's nowhere else to go.

Yeah, totally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just got to keep plowing on. They can. Jenny immediately takes off one shoe. Yep. Of course. Yeah. She, when she's asked about that, she doesn't say she was going to do what made it. So what made it made sense to me that they panic when they saw you can't touch it with your hands and sort, I've, then I've got to do it with my feet. Yeah, what's the next sort of hand I have, my foot? Yeah, yeah.

It was the closest thing to a hand on my hand. It was my hand. And then it was mouth, wasn't it? I think for me. Well, this is the moment you were talking about where May was hands and knees, shoes and socks off, and then feet for a bit, realise that was silly, straight into the mouth with all of them. And it's that shot of May with the egg in their mouth looking surprised at what they're doing. Exactly. Exactly, because it's so admirable

that the head first, the leaping in head first, but what it means is that you find yourself with an egg in your mouth and you see the socks off and you think, how did I get here? But it was lucky though, it was lucky that they did that because dropping the third one, luckily that was the raw one. It cracked into two pieces, it's our into three pieces, cracked into three pieces and then done, task done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a real baffled response as well from me. I could tell that the sort of total misunderstanding, like the acknowledgement that it gone well, but by accident, it's really, it's a lot to see like people, the way that you watch people's minds move across their face, it's really something. That's why I love so much about it. Yeah.

Well, I thought they did really well actually as a result of all this. You know, that's sort of why you're getting there, isn't it just experimenting? They did a good job, but it's interesting the way you say that. Do you think they would have been a bit annoyed that they'd done well, but not based on their own planning or acumen? Yeah, possibly. It wasn't even like there's like a, maybe that it was a bad thing. It was more just like being able to compute

that you've been getting this task that you have to act on and do. And the chaos of everything resulting in, I think it really is like, it's just like a computer reboot face, it's just like, hmm, okay, that's happened now. Just like having to, okay, I guess I can go now. But I think that, yeah, I'm sure there'd be a level of frustration, but I think ultimately with, yeah, with exactly. And

with the mentality of wanting to do the task right and get it done, that's going to win out above all things. And a special extra little frustration that May was the only one to eventually see the hack at the end, which told you which eggs were boiled and which one was raw. So it was a Frankie boil, obviously. And then Jenny, that doesn't quite work. It wasn't quite as bad as Jenny for the raw egg. But even if I had seen that, I would have picked a boiled one anyway. Me too. Exactly. We're back to work. Exactly. We're just going to try to square one, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're drops the egg on the eggs onto the table and finds the raw egg. Yeah. Thang, he's worked it out. I get similar sort of technique, to be honest.

Yes, yeah. Yeah. But with six pieces of eggshell, double the eggshell for Kyle. Yeah. Ivo, this is what I'm talking about. He tests the weight and says out loud, this feels like a good thing to do. Mm-hmm.

Practice egg. Mm-hmm. And then seven minutes pass without him doing anything apart from putting on gloves. And he has no concept of time. Wow. Wow. Yeah, there's a really sweet moment. I can't remember which task is where you where you hear how much time he's got left. And he's simply like, it's like he's been told like that, I don't know, like gravity's about to stop. And he's like, what would this mean for me? It's really, like, gravity's about to stop. And he's like, huh? What would this mean for me? It's really, yeah, it's really funny to have no...

I mean, surely you can just ask the time, can't you? Yeah. Or watch whatever you... Totally. And he, yeah, but this is very, very standard for Ivo across the series. He struggles with the timekeeping and picking one thing and sticking with it.

And Jenny, like we said, takes off her shoe. Get to tease out. Why did she do that again? Do we? She said she might, she thought she might want to do something with her laces. Okay. All right. Wonderful moment there where you decided whether you're going to pretend to understand what that meant or not.

I think it's better if I just said okay, move on. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I mean laces. Cut. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you've got to get a better, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay, gotcha. Cuts the egg and eats some of the egg and then eats a lot of shell. Oh, yeah. So interestingly, Alex doesn't count that egg shell

that she ate. So, how'd you like the sound of this? Yeah. If I'm doing it, I pick up the egg with the tea towel. Yeah. I eat all the shell from around the outside the whole thing. Oh my God. No egg shell. Zero pieces. I win. It's worth it. It's an extra. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's taskmaster. It's it's worth it. Yeah, listen, I mean, I'd I'd actually like to see it. I suppose I'm not like into ASMR,

but I think I could watch someone an entire eggshell. I think I'd like it. Because I didn't, I feel like they've really dialed up the sound on Jenny's bit. Like there was a lot of like, and a lot of like crunch. I can't remember whether I liked it or not. I did like the crunch. I don't know if I liked the eating sounds.

I think I've got a bit of a thing about people eating on TV, actually. So maybe not so into it. But I admired the... Yeah, yeah. Down it went. Down that. Down that. Five points from A, four points for KL, three points for Ivo, two points for Jenny, and one point for Frankie.

Oh, my favourites. Thanks.4 Frankie. Oh, my favourite. Eggs. Good morning. Hi. I said something funny about an egg. May I? You may. Efficiently, shell an egg. You may not touch any part of any egg. With your hands.

I thought it was gonna be pretty simple for a while, yeah. And you may only break the shell of one of the eggs. What does that mean? Why have I got all these eggs if I'm only doing one egg? That's a great question. LAUGHTER Fuest pieces of eggless shell wins. Why is this so confusing? Fuest pieces of eggless shell wins. Why is this so confusing?

Pewest pieces of eggless shell. I'm going to go into full crisis here. I just don't understand what's been asked of me. I'm not thick. Okay. I'll wrap it down. Task three. Now, I'm going to say it now. I think this is my favourite task of the series so far, simply because of the amount of options that are available to people.

Bash the big bell with the bowling ball. First this gets five points. Yes. It's the lowest gets four points. Nobody else gets any points. You must stay off the grass unless you're wearing gold shoes. If anything other than the bowling ball or gold shoes, touches the grass you're disqualified. You have a maximum of 20 minutes your time starts now.

And then if you ask for Alex's shoes, the task is Alex will give you his shoes if you do one of the following deposit £100 in his bank account, give him a perfect, dippy boil egg with buttered soldiers and a glass of milk or physically remove them. How did you feel about this task, Charlotte? Love it. For exactly the reason you said, to me the tiny little, what does it remind me of? It's like, oh, it sort of feels like the satisfaction you get from playing Wally or something. Is that sort of feeling of like finding little hidden things? Yes.

And the shoe, the separate shoes, shoes and two separate places. The rules as well, like the sort of different grass. I guess that you wouldn't necessarily interpret to be grass. Like the real grass, I wouldn't have thought was grass. Yeah. What's interesting about that is Alex does say to everyone when they approach that grass, don't go on the grass.

So he obviously feels bad, a little bit bad about that rule, because it's not clear. Right, he's not exactly, he's pointing it out. Yeah. And then the double layer, the double layer of if you go to the next level, like you ask Alex directly, you get like a new, like an Easter egg or whatever. Oh my gosh. So much fun. Yeah, yeah, right, it's a really good task. And his little shoes, wearing his gold shoes so proudly.

I just, that shape of shoe actually always gets me anyway. There's something about the sort of slip-on nature of it and just the smoothness. It gets you and you like them or they're grass. I know, I can't quite tell. It's something religious about them. Not just as they're golds. There's something about the ease of the slip-on, the purity, and then mixed in with the glamour of the gold. The glamour of the gold.

Yeah, the glamourous got actually. I think my mum has a pair of those shoes, I've just remembered. That must be why I like them. That might be why you're your affection towards those shoes. She definitely, definitely has a pair of gold slip on shoes from some part of the last 40 years. Some fashion era, I think it's 80s. Also, the like Jenny finding a way of spraying boots gold. So going, I can't find the gold shoes, I'm going to need to spray these. And then the gold can has red paint in it. They'd actually thought of that, which is brilliant.

There's so many little tannins. Yeah, the thing again, it reminds me of that she has a past the past, or, where you keep opening each layer, and it has like another thing to show. The spray can perfection, or as you could see, Alex was really happy with that. Yeah, so happy that it's not done that. Yeah, I'm surprised Greg wasn't more annoyed about how happy Alex was about this. Yeah. There's usually quite a lot of that. He hates it when Alex is all excited.

Yeah. And obviously the option that may takes, which is finding the one gold shoe, and I'd imagine they were absolutely praying that someone would try this, is hopping all the way to the bell. Yeah, I think that's what I would have done. Do you think you could have done that? You good hopper? Oh, I think so. I was surprised you even after asking that. I can't believe it. Yeah, no, I think I would 100% would have done that if I had found the shoe. I don't think I'm

a good hopper particularly. I guess probably my legs are probably my strongest part, but don't think I'm a good hopper particularly. I guess probably my legs are probably my strongest part, but I don't need to tell everybody that. I'm pretty weak overall. I guess it's a bowling ball, right? So we're talking some quite heavy core strength. And I actually, I have the thought when May picked up the ball, I was like, oh, they're going to be able to do this.

Like, I was like, yeah, they're going to, I think we maybe have done some planking in the past. I think I was like, May's got this. But it would have been how I would have gone, I think we maybe have done some planking in the past. Of course, yeah. May's got this. Yeah. But it would have been how I would have gone, I think, just like the most direct route if I've actually. Yeah. Because you've either got to make the decision of doing it quickly, which I think a lot

of people forgot about, you've got to make the decision of doing as quickly as possible, which is very hard. Or finding a way. And waiting until there's only seconds left. Because I though was the slowest but he wasn't the slowest deliberately. He was the slowest because he spent 17 minutes getting the correct consistency on a boiled egg. Which I really admire and actually shows good sportsmanship, doesn't it?

He didn't try and sell it. No. But I think you'd probably at this stage if you were to go back in you strike me as someone that would wait till the end because you knew it was attacked that other people would forget. So I'd say. But also I did panic a bit. My instant thought was what I'd probably end up doing

which wouldn't get me many browning points when I get me actual points is ask Alex Rishouz and when he came over with the task before he'd even given me the task, grab him and take this year's off him. So sort of level an element of violence in that. Element of violence, bullying, yeah. Sure, sure, sure, okay. But also that would have been proven legal by the contents of that task. Absolutely, absolutely right. Yeah. Absolutely right. True, okay, which you would have read afterwards as a gamble, but.

I'm on the right side of history. Exactly, and it's, yeah. I don't think they were expecting anyone to strap Yellow swing ball butts to their feet. Can't believe it. How do you feel about that? Where they got where they gold? Would you let them get away with that? No way. BS. Sorry. I call it. I I No way. I can't believe it. It's absolutely You know my investment in this in this show now is obviously at an all-time high. Yeah.

I understand it now more than I ever have. And there's absolutely no way that I'm letting that fly. No, they're not gold. I don't, I mean, immediately questioning my... Beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-beechy-be No, gold is shiny. Well, Alex's definition of gold that he was reading out, it's more about the colour, so it's like a lustrous yellow. But I don't think it even was a lustrous yellow. It wasn't a lustrous yellow, it was like a mute plastic yellow. Yeah, it wasn't, yeah.

But I appreciated Frankie's inventiveness, even though I don't think it was necessarily based on fact. And he took his time with it as well. He took his time with it now Kyle Manages the bell by rolling the ball Rolling the green up Trying to get Alex's shoes. Yeah, but surely isn't that he's then touching the grass isn't he? So I think so I mean, I think I loved it. I thought is he just gonna go all the way to the box

Is he just gonna go all the way to the belt? Yeah, once you've done that, you may have lost it. It sort of feels like, why wouldn't he go all the way? But of course, yeah, he's touched the grass. Yeah. But there was something, just the visual, just the sort of gusto of like, it felt a bit like revealing the matrix or something.

You're just like, you literally dismantling the entire thing. It's not like there's any, it's like none of it matters. It's just like, let's dismantle from the underneath. There was something about that, I found really exciting to watch, if I'm honest with you. Very satisfying, yeah. And my only other thought was, if you, there's a fence next to the house, which is a bit broken. If you go and climb over that fence, you can go in a field, hop over the other fence, go into the road, come through the gate, and then you're basically next to the bell,

and you can just roll it down. Roll it down. Yeah, it's easier to roll it down than fling it up, I suppose. There's a lot of grass there, so I don't know whether that would have been included in the grass. I think it probably would be, honestly. Yeah, I've gutted. I've gutted.

Because, of course, Jenny Kyle and Ivo all stand on the grass, and Ivo puts his egg podium on the grass as well. Just not thinking. So they were automatically disqualified, which is unfortunate for Ivo because he was by far the slowest, meaning that May gets the five points, for being the fastest with two minutes and 57 seconds, and Frankie gets the four points for being the slowest with six minutes 50. That pineapple is calling to me. LAUGHTER Here's a golden shoe. Is there another one?

They normally come in pairs. They do normally. It's not gold shoe in here, is there? But where's the other golden shoe? Found the golden spray. They let me kick in shoes. I'm going to gold spray here. Yeah.

Oh! Oh! What's wrong? Why would they do that? Live task. Walk around the chairs, listen to Greg's story, and sit on a chair when you hear a word containing two letter L's. If you stop walking or touch a chair incorrectly, you're disqualified. If you fail to sit on a chair when you hear a word containing two letter L's, you are disqualified, best listener wins. Obviously, different rounds every time.

Now, personally, I know instinctively that I would have been terrible at this because my brain would have immediately panicked and just not been able to hear any words. How do you think you would have done? Yeah, I feel the same. There's no way in hell I would have considered that the Ls wouldn't be next to each other in the thing. Yes, absolutely. There's no way out. I'd be listening for the double Ls. And they also had a chance.

I thought, chumps. Chumps. Yeah. I was actually waiting for like a Welsh word. I was like, it'll be so obvious. Yeah. And then, yeah, and then obviously of course, little. Was it, little I think was the personality? Yeah, of course. I thought, wow, they're all, they're all on it. And I would have immediately failed. I don't know if I would have done it in the style with the style with which Kyle

did it. Yeah, outstanding. It is, it was perfection. I honestly think I could watch that a lot. That's that slow movement of just missing the chairs because in a way it's the way that we wish we could all fail. Yes, totally. It's a fail with such grace and sort of make your failure the most beautiful part of the task. Yeah. And make them and make everyone else who was scrambling for the chairs. It's a undignified. 100%. It's a crazy tactic and it worked. And you loved it.

Straight away, Kyle was knocked out. Then Jenny went out, Frankie. I mean, I can believe that. It was just an accident, but it really was like, it was like Frankie was back on mock the week doing scenes. We'd like to see. Yeah, it was it was actually like it was I was shocked. I thought he's pretending he doesn't want to win this, but you don't okay, accident or whatever, whatever

whatever. Come on, you've over the chair, let's be real. You've over the chair and you do care because if you didn't, you'd let us sit down and you'd be graceful. I can't say that I wouldn't have done the same to be honest. No, no, no, no. I was taking out brand, but they would have all been off that chair if I was involved. For Jenny, I can't believe I loved how shocked she was, like it really was disbelief. And I could see the thoughts going around in her head like, do I get into this or do I just let this go? And obviously she couldn't be a sore loser,

even though I think she had every right to contest that. But no, I could see it happen. She went, ah, she sat down again. I think she said she didn't care or something. It was so amazing to watch everybody respond in different ways to their failure. Yeah, it didn't surprise me that it was May and I vote left for the end because out of

everyone I know, I think they are the two people who most often out of the blue will suddenly go right, we're going to play this game now. Right, absolutely. It'll be a game like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally, totally and then they were head to head. Yeah. I don't know how May did that. I don't know.

What was it, the word? It was little again. It was the last word was also little. So it was a six letter word. And I just think it's the cool head on May. I haven't caught up with May about this one and I really want to know what was going on in their head when that was happening because that's like quite a, I don't know how you're counting. How are you counting? Are

you taking a punt? I don't know if that was even a punt. Yeah, I did. But it was the cool head. You're so right. Yeah, yeah. Because I was trying to do it in my head and the amount of five letter words, I think, have six letters. I was certain little had at five. Yeah, I felt like I'm five. What a kind of surprise. And double T, let's not forget the double T. Oh, mad. It was five points for Maggie, four points for Ivo, three points for Frankie, two points for Jenny and one point for Kyle, meaning it's a victory full May with 21 points.

Frankie nearly winning his first episode of the series, but unfortunately the words got the better of him. 14 points for Ivo in third. 12 points for Kyle and 7 points for Jenny, meaning that May is at the top of the series now with 99 points very closely followed by Jenny on 95. Kyle a little bit further behind on 88, 87 points for Frankie and Ivo lagging behind by 10 on 77 points. Now I think you've sort of given us a little clue on what you think here, but do you have any predictions about not necessarily just the winner, but will the table stay the same? Do you see anyone making a last minute sprint? Yeah, I'm quite surprised to see Ivo so far down on the list, essentially, in some ways.

But I'm hoping that he has that thing that happens where you just begin to understand the game more and more. And maybe he makes quicker decisions as the time goes on, this sort of like fafing about. He gets rid of that. For God's sake. And yeah, no, then maybe he's got more of a chance. But it does make sense to me that, you

know, May is unbelievably thoughtful and consistently like conceptualising all, like, making things up. So as in terms of like, concepts of things are like imaginary games, so I feel like it is, it's absolutely there for them, for the taking, I think. There we go, another prediction for May. We'll see, we'll see, you know, we know. Yeah, Kyle, you know, me. We'll see, we'll see, you never know. Yeah, Kyle, you know, he's a, he, that cool, I don't know. Yeah, he seems to be making it work for him.

I think he might be able to argue with Greg enough to get. Anyway, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. Thank you so much coming back on the podcast, Charlotte. We always ask our guests who rate their experience on the Taskmaster podcast between one and five points in the back on the podcast Charlotte. We always ask our guests to rate their experience on the Taskmaster podcast between one and five points in the style of the Taskmaster. Please give me my point score for today. Always five today. Yeah. Thank you so much. Well, look, you've been great as always. Welcome back whenever. And if you think of any more

sort of titillating and searing gossip that you can spread about May or Kyle, just send it over. Great, okay I'll send that out and that to you guys after actually I've got a doc, a doc. You can just read that. Thanks so much Charlotte. Thanks Ed, thank you very much. There we are, thank you so much to Charlotte for coming on the podcast again. Welcome anytime of course. Thank you very much for listening. We'll be back next week to talk about Episode 7,

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