It was the Jewish thing (sorry don't know the name off-hand).

Zeus from today's show here

It was a kippah (worn by Jewish people).

Just for some fun backstage gossip: About 5 minutes after the end of the show, Ben was doing some retakes... and the jackpot counter fell, all on it's own, out of play! Gavin was gutted.

ooh, that must have been annoying!

We now have a thread with celebrity guest stars as well now!

Gavin had more guts than the player on DoND today. Really sucks that the Jackpot Counter was THAT close to the edge. It just need a little shove.

If I were in Gavin's position I'd have taken the 2800; a more than decent sum guarenteed is better than playing with luck.

Zeus has been on Divided and The Chase. He may have been on other shows aswell.

He is also a member on DS. I think his username is Zeddie.

Yep, I like watching game shows

* Edit - just seen his post!

Gavin was great today, shame he didn't get the Jackpot. With his luck throughout the show I thought he would.

It depends on your financial situation. If the £2,800 is going to get you out of a money problem, then certainly take it.

On the other hand, if £2,800 would be a nice extra in the bank, perhaps a more expensive holiday or some other luxury purchase later, then you've got to view it as a bet and weigh up the odds. £2,800 to win £10,000. "Do you think you have at least a 28% chance of winning?" I thought he did, and he obviously did too. But it is all down to luck where the counters fall, and they didn't quite fall in his favour. It's easy with hindsight to say it was the wrong choice, but I believe at the time it was the correct choice assuming he could afford to bet £2,800.

It really was edge of the seat stuff, I can't believe the counter didn't fall!

Yes, Gavin was wearing a kippah (or cupple, yarmulke, skullcap - whatever you want to call it) and the 'shiny' thing was probably a clip. They don't always stay on so well on their own.

Watched this program for a week.

Im concluded the following.

ben shepherd isn't a good presenter
the contestants annoy me as they all seem fake.

What you have to understand is contestants are told to big it up in front of the cameras, to be " over the top " as they say.
The audition process is very cut-throat if you do not come over as over exuberant for a show such as this then your never going to get picked to go on in the first place.
Gavin was unlucky on Friday, in my opinion the odds were in his favour to get the jackpot & do not blame him for giving it a go.
As I have said earlier I suspect the game is great to play for the contestants but a little slow for the viewer though it has grown on me somewhat & is nowhere near as bad as I first thought, not sure though whether they will go so far as to make any further series though.

It's that time of the week again, the time I look forward to all weekend, Tipping Point time!!!!!

However did we make it through the weekend without Tipping Point?

Scarlett's voice is dreadful!

Quite fit tho

This programme is bizarrely addictive.

But she will say "One is arriving!"

It should come with a health warning

More than 3 units a week could affect your health

I had 4 units last week

Weird strategy from Ben, no-one's played DZ2 so he takes that. It's done enough, but 1 and 4 are both well loaded.

I think I had either 3 or 4. I'm afraid that I might end up having 5 this week

Me too, I did have a couple of appointments this week which would have clashed,

but I've managed to re-arrange them

He's done really well with DZ3.

Not even much lateral movement

The machine is dead except DZ1 now for Scarlett.