Comments on: Lynam Leaves Countdown: Repercussions Rock TV World

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:35:25 +0000

I’m with you Peter. Lynam is a living god. Not got much time for O’Connor. Eric and Ernie made his career as far as I can tell.

By: peter

peter — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:29:01 +0000

having watched countdown live many times Des Lynam is a lovely, kind man who everytime he came over to talk to the audience was interrupted by carol vorderman who swans around like lady docker.
unfortunately des left and we now have the most boring man In the world des o connor and the only person who seems happy about it is carol.
the only words des seems to know are “whats happened to the scores” “let me tell you the scores” which he says about 500 times during each show.
oh and I forgot “what about the corner”

By: Rachael

Rachael — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:18:12 +0000

Is it true that Lynam was asked to shave his moustache but refused on the grounds that if he did shave it off people would see he’s just a grumpy old po faced fart?

By: Jonno

Jonno — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:14:59 +0000

Glad to see the back of Lynam and that unhygienic lump of hair under his big snout. I stopped watching Countdown after a whilewhen he came on. I always thought Carol hated his guts. Thank goodness Des O Connor is taking over!!!

Moira

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Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:52:51 +0000

[...] Channel 4 admit they’re taking a gamble on their choice of new Countdown host, but TV bosses insist that this is the only way that new talent will make it to the UK screens. The search for a new host has been one fraught with difficulties, as we reported earlier in the year, but the choice of O’Connor is seen as a brave one. [...]

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:08:22 +0000

Oh, sorry to hear you have the flu, Eliza. I was a bit rough last week.

Here’s an interesting fact to cheer you up: did you know that no pictures of Des Lynam’s mouth actually exist? What you can see above are the teeth of the great Gene Hackman. Now, doesn’t that make you feel better?

Of course, that isn’t really Carol Vorderman’s moustache. It actually belongs to Esther Rantzen.

By: ElizaF

ElizaF — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:21:37 +0000

Oh I really wish I had not seen that photo with a mouthful of lemsip. I now have the hiccups and a screen pebbledashed in cold and flu relief E.