Bridge: Celebrity Grand Slam

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.

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