Maybe he's been threatened with the sack cos he's always losing money?

Or more likely he's got the flu or something.

Shaun shaking badly

Les Dennis and Sinitta on the celeb special tomorrow.

Why did he waste like 15 seconds on one question and how did he get that Winnie the Pooh question wrong?!

Did they score 18?

19 I think.

Are you sure it's not your telly? I was looking closely and didn't detect any shaking.

He wasted far too much time on the Imagination one, he hasn't learnt at all from making previous mistakes like this where he should just say 'pass' if the answer doesn't come to him within a couple of seconds.

Like others have said I did notice that his shaking was very noticeable in Final Chase and do hope that he is ok.

This is my concern. It's definitely not the only time he's been shaking. I think, just looking, there could be something possibly underlying that is affecting his performances these days.

Glad Lisa got the Big Bang Theory pushback question right.

She looked so chuffed to get something for the team in the final, and they all congratulated her.

I don't understand. Did ITV have a ban on cosplayers before?

No. It's just that I didn't think they allow people like that to appear.

Yes but I don't think she answered any in their Final Chase. and they were so far ahead then that they would have won anyway even if they hadn't got that pushback.

Quite often when there's four in the Final Chase, at least one of them hardly answers any,or, as in this case, none at all. It's not really that surprising when you think about it. If it's a relatively easy question, one of the stronger players will know it and buzz in first. And if it's a more difficult question, that none of the stronger players know, the chance that the weakest player will be the only one that knows it is really quite small.

Consider a hypothetical team in which Player A, the strongest, knows the answer 50% of the time, Player B, 40%, Player C, 30% and the weakest, Player D, who knows the answer only 20% of the time. Obviously these probabilities are somewhat arbitrary,but anyway, let's ask:

What is the chance that Player D knows the answer, and none of the other three do? It is only four per cent. In other words probably only one question in the Final Chase. Maybe two. Add in their point for being there and that makes two or maybe three.. But then factor in the chance that the weakest player, understandably getting frustrated at not answering any questions, buzzes in early with a pass or a wrong answer. That could easily cost the team a point or two.

I would reckon the weakest player in a team of four is only worth on average two points at most - and that's including their one point for being there.

Of course I could be completely wrong.

It isn't just my telly. Others have commented on his shaking also.

There was a show a while back where one finalist scraped through on low offer and was an airhead, bit they won by a split second with airhead not answering one question BUT the one point made the difference!

Anyone who goes to pub quizzes will know that big teams don't guarantee success. I have seen teams with seven, eight, even nine people in them. (Some quizzes have a five or six player maximum number, but some don't). They hardly ever win. In a team of nine, there will probably be three people actually doing the quiz, three chipping in with the odd (hopefully right) answer, and three who are no help at all and are only there for the beer. Look for the person with the pen writing down the answers - they're in charge. The further away you are from the pen, the less and less influence you have on what gets written down. The person furthest from the pen has next to none.

Most serious teams that go to our local pub quiz have no more than four members, and some have only three.

I usually play in a pair and perform below average. But then at least one of us is quite thick.

That reminds me of the old probability problem that goes:

"Jane has two children. At least one of them is a boy. What is the probability that the other one is also a boy?"

Most people reason along these lines: "Well,it doesn't matter what the first child is, the second one is fifty fifty to be a boy as well, so the answer's fifty per cent."

It sounds plausible - but it's wrong. In fact the chance that the second child is also a boy is only one third.

If there are two children, there are four equally likely possibilities: boy/boy, boy/girl, girl/boy and girl/girl. The chance of having one of each sex is fifty percent. However we are told that at least one of them is a boy, so we can rule out girl/girl. That leaves us with three possibilities, only one of which is boy/boy. So the answer is one third or 33 and a bit percent.

There is a long Wikipedia article on this (the "boy or girl paradox") if anyone's interested.

I spotted that too. I wondered if anyone else noticed that he was trembling.
Is he ill with something?

It's really subtle so most people would miss it. It looks like he's actually vibrating.

Why wouldn't they allow them?
And why are you confused that they would?

Two tweets from Shaun's twitter account about his shaking:

Shaun Wallace ‏@TheShaunWallace 9h9 hours ago
@silvertears123 no I was not feeling well during that block of filming but I've recovered now

Shaun Wallace ‏@TheShaunWallace 8h8 hours ago
@BoxingAli71 i was I'll during that filming block I'm better now

Glad to hear he's OK.

I don't see how that works, because boy/girl is exactly the same as girl/boy.
There are only three possibilities, not four. Boy/boy, girl/girl, and boy/girl.

What a trooper. I wonder if they asked him if he wanted time off to recover or told him that he's doing it no matter what.

Anyway, Matthew Wright, take note.

There are only three outcomes,yes,but boy/girl and girl/boy are different and have to be counted twice.

Think of it this way: first child boy,second child boy.
Then first child boy, second child girl
and first child girl, second child boy
and finally first child girl, second child girl.

A boy and a girl is twice as likely as either of the other two possibilities. Of all families with two children, half will have two boys or two girls, and half will have one of each.

Another way to look at it is tossing two coins at the same time. What is the chance I get a Head and a Tail? If you say, "There's only three possibilities, two heads, two tails, or one of each, therefore it's two to one against", that's not correct. There are four possibilities: HH, HT, TH and TT, so fifty percent of the time you will get a Head and a Tail. If you don't believe me, you can try it. Just toss two coins about twenty or thirty times and see how many times you get one of each. You'll get a Head and a Tail about half the time. The more you do, the more your answer will get close to fifty percent.