Bridge: Celebrity Grand Slam
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Host
Co-hosts
Commentators: Glyn Liggins and Andrew McIntosh
Broadcast
Sky Arts 2, 20 to 26 April 2009 (8 episodes in 1 series)
Synopsis
Eight famous faces compete in ad hoc pairings in a duplicate bridge tournament with a £10,000 top prize for charity.
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Participants
- Sue Lawley (of BBC News and Desert Island Discs)
- James Mates (of ITV News)
- Kay Burley (of Sky News - and billed as a bridge novice who learned the game for this series)
- Mike Gatting (ex-cricketer)
- Susan Hampshire (actor)
- Dave Rowntree (drummer with Blur)
- Pattie Boyd (sometime model, photographer and writer)
- Val McDermid (crime author)
Inventor
Hugh Dehn
Trivia
We are reliably informed that the players used a simple Acol system: weak no-trump, strong 2s, Stayman and Blackwood. We're assuming that will make sense if you're into bridge.
Filmed at St Michael’s Manor in Hertfordshire.