Lee Mack, who continues to host The 1% Club tonight (February 7), previously had an “awkward” encounter with a “stalker” contestant.
The game show starts with 100 competitors who must work their way through a set of logic challenges that grow tougher at each stage. Any player who manages to solve a question that only one percent of people can answer correctly walks away with a massive cash prize.
People from every age group and background are welcome to compete, since success depends on logic and practical reasoning rather than memorized facts.
Anna admitted she appeared on the show just to get a selfie with Lee (Credit: ITV)
Lee Mack and ‘stalker’ contestant on The 1% Club
While presenting last week’s show (January 31), Lee was warming up the audience and asked contestant Anna how she would spend the prize money.
However, she admitted she wasn’t focused on winning, explaining, “I’m not really here to win I just wanted to see you. I’m hoping to get a picture or something.”
Lee told Anna that if she reached the final question and joined him on stage, he would be happy to take a selfie with her. He then asked her once more what she would do with the prize money.
She repeated her stance, saying: “Again, I’m not really here for the money so I don’t really expect to win the money. I’m just here to see you and get my picture.”
Lee jokingly responded that he might “have to get an injunction,” prompting Anna to clarify: “No, no not in a stalker way. We have met before. I came to watch you in the audience of Not Going Out and got to come back stage. I knew Martin from lighting so we got to go back stage and Matthew Kelly was there.”
Lee admitted the encounter was ‘awkward’ (Credit: ITV)
‘Can I get her removed, please?’
Anna assured him she was “not weird”. This led Lee to quip that he hadn’t seen his wife since that moment. Anna quickly replied: “She’s beautiful. I don’t want to steal you from her, I’ve got a husband, I just really like you.”
Playing along, Lee responded: “This isn’t at all awkward. Thank you very much. I do this bit at the beginning of the show to let everyone relax, and I think everyone is relaxed now, but I’m very tense.”
Anna ultimately got her photo during the same round in which she was knocked out, even pretending to plant a kiss on Lee’s cheek as it was taken.
Speaking into his microphone, Lee joked: “Can I get her removed, please?” Delighted by the moment, Anna later thanked him for taking it all in good humor.
Do you watch The 1% Club and think, “I could win”? Well, don’t get ahead of yourself: see if you can answer the show’s hardest questions first.
Unlike other general knowledge quiz shows, The 1% Club requires you to be a lateral thinker. Sometimes, there’s a simple answer… and you just can’t see it, because you’ve got yourself stuck on one way of solving it.
It’s similar (but arguably a little easier) to Only Connect. Still, if you’re getting 1% questions correct regularly, you definitely have the right to brag.
So, if you’re settling in to outsmart the contestants in the Christmas special (or just fry your brain), here are the hardest questions ever seen on The 1% Club. Answers are at the bottom — no peeking.
Do you have what it takes to join the 1% Club? (Credit: ITV)
Can you answer these 1% Club questions?
25. A day lasts approximately 10 hours on Jupiter. If you teleport to Jupiter from the UK on Monday at 9am, and stay there for 8 Jupiter days, what day of the week would it be in the UK when you teleport back to Earth?
24. When the number 777,777 is written out in words, how many times does the letter ‘e’ appear?
23. If you write the words HIGHER and LOWER with alternating letters, what do you get?
22. What word replaces the question mark in this sequence?
one = three three = five five = four six = ?
21. In this sequence what number would logically come next?
2 4 8 4 6 5 9 4 ?
20. What number comes next in this sequence?
1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 2 2 1 1
19. What two letters replace the question marks?
TE times T equals MESSAGE TO times IN equals POISON E times ?? equals LEAVE
18. There is one word which all the words below have in common. What is it?
DARK EXTINGUISH HEAVY
17. In a room of 100 people, 99% are left-handed. How many left-handed people have to leave the room to bring that percentage down to 98%?
16. If you had eight fingers on your left hand, six fingers on your right hand, the same number of toes on your right foot as your left hand and three toes on your left foot, how many fingers and toes would you have on total?
15. What number do you get if you multiply all the numbers on a telephone keypad together?
14. A line of ducklings is swimming home. There are two ducklings ahead of a duckling, two ducklings behind a duckling, and one duckling in the middle. What is the smallest number of ducklings there could be?
13. Edna’s birthday is on the 6th of April and Jen’s birthday falls on the 15th of October, therefore Amir’s birthday must be the ‘?’ of January.
12. In a road with exactly 26 houses, if Em lives at number 13 and Bea lives at number 2, logically what number house does Elle live at?
11. What are the next two numbers in this sequence?
201 720 182 019 202 020 212 0??
10. What is the next letter in this sequence?
1. f 2. e 3. i 4. r 5. ?
9. Charlie, Dylan, Talia and Hope play tennis doubles every Saturday. They swap pairings each week and once they have played with each of the others, they start the cycle again. What is the maximum number of times in a month that Charlie and Dylan are on the same team?
8. Your mum calls you in for dinner on a Monday at 8pm. For the rest of the week she calls you in half an hour earlier each day. On Saturday night the clocks go back an hour. What time does she call you in for dinner on Sunday?
7. Which number replaces the question mark below?
100 – 2
71 + 5
54 x 1
31 + 1
2 x ?
6. Look at the code below. What different fruit do grapes turn into?
G+8 R+0 A+0 P-2 E+2 S-14
5. Answer this question. A travel agent receives:
54 bookings for Lanzarote 22 for Bali 34 for Jamaica 43 for Florida
How many bookings do they take for Ibiza?
4. Given that:
0 + 100 = 100
1 + 99 = 100
2 + 98 = 100
What is the sum of all the whole numbers between zero and 100?
3. What number should replace the question mark?
JAMAICA + JAPAN = 124
ARGENTINA + ARMENIA = 1245
FRANCE + BRAZIL = 23
ENGLAND + GERMANY = ?
2. Yolande takes one tablet every day of the week that has three vowels in total in it. She starts a pack with 10 tablets on March 2. What date will she need a new pack?
1. If January = 717, March = 5315, and June = 4624, then what does August equal?
Bonus questions:
Look closely (Credit: ITV)This one is easy… apparently (Credit: ITV)This one is even hard to look at! (Credit: ITV)And to think this was only a 20% question (Credit: ITV)Look closely (Credit: ITV)
Answers
25. Thursday
8 Jupiter days last 80 hours. On Earth, 80 hours is 3 days and 8 hours. So you would arrive back in the UK on Thursday at 5pm.
24. 14
Seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy-seven.
23. If you write the words HIGHER and LOWER with alternating letters, what do you get?
22. HLIOGWHEERR
21. Three
The word after the equals sign is the number of letters in the number – three letters in ‘one’, five in ‘three’, four in ‘five’ and then three in ‘six’.”
20. 13112221
Count aloud what you see – so one one, then two ones, then one two and one one and so on.
19. IT
If you replace ‘times’ with ‘X’, you form words with the same meaning as the words on the right.
18. All the words are opposites of the word ‘light’.
17. 50
If 50 left-handed people leave, of the 50 people that now remain 49 are left-handed – which equals 98%
16. 25
8 fingers plus 6 fingers plus 8 toes plus 3 toes = 25.
15.0
If you multiply any number by zero, the answer is zero, and there’s a zero on the keypad.
14. 3
One at the back with two ahead of it, one at the front with two behind, and one in the middle.
13. 24
6th is the 6th word in the sentence. 15th is the 15th, and 24th is the 24th word in the sentence.
12. 12
The 26 houses represent the 26 letters in the alphabet. Bea is B and therefore lives at number 2. Em is M and therefore lives at number 13. That means that Elle who is L lives at number 12.
11. 22
If you remove the gaps, the numbers become years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
10. h
f is the first letter in FIRST, e is the second letter in SECOND, i is the third letter in THIRD, r is the fourth letter in FOURTH, and h is the fifth letter in FIFTH.
9. 2
Each person has the same doubles partner once every four weeks. The maximum number of Saturdays in a month is five, so it is impossible to have the same pairings more than twice in a month.
8. 5pm
It makes no difference that the clocks go back an hour. So, 6 days x 30 minutes = 3 hours.
7. 5
The sums work out as: 98, 76, 54, 32, so the next one must work out as 10 to complete a sequence of 9876543210.
6. ORANGE
If you add 8 letters to G, it becomes O, R and A stay the same, P minus 2 letters is N etc, until the word ORANGE is spelt.
5. FLORIST
Where he could, he replaced a letter with a digit that starts with that letter.
4. 23
The number of bookings relates to the number of consonants followed by the number of vowels in the name of each destination.
3. 56
The numbers are the positions of any shared letters… e.g. Argentina and Armenia share the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th letters. So England and Germany is 56, for the A and the N.
2. March 26
There are 10 tablets and she has to take one every Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
1. 6848
They are letters in the month’s name, month’s position in calendar, and then those two digits multiplied. August has 6 letters, it is the 8th month. and 6 x 8 = 48.
Bonus question answers:
1. 12
The number on the left is the total number of lines in the number on the left. More lines have been added to the ones and sevens as you go down the list.
2. 20
The letters are the directions on a compass, so SEWN stands for South, East, West, and North.
3. 2
As it’s a 90-degree clockwise turn, you needed to find the arrows that were pointing up that would then be pointing to the right.
4. 12
If you add the numbers inside the houses together and take away the number on the roof, you get the number on the door.
Lee Mack, host of The 1% Club, has been married to wife Tara McKillop – who isn’t his Not Going Out ‘wife’! – since 2005.
They are believed to have met in 1996, when Southport-born Lee was at university in London.
The couple share three kids together – Arlo, Louie and Millie – with Lee becoming a dad for the first time at 36. Arlo has also previously appeared in his dad’s sitcom Not Going Out.
Lee Mack presenting The 1% Club (Credit: ITV)
Lee Mack jokes about wife Tara
Despite Arlo’s telly cameo, Lee’s family aren’t often in the spotlight.
However, Tara did come up during an episode of Would I Lie To You? when comic Roisin Conaty made a guest appearance.
He went on to joke his wife is so attractive that Roisin’s sister apparently found it hard to believe they became item before he became famous.
During the course of the show, as Lee mentioned he once introduced Roisin’s sister to Tara, Roisin noted: “[She] is ridiculously beautiful.”
Lee resumed his telly anecdote: “And I said: ‘This is Tara,’ and she went: ‘Oh did you meet after he was a well-known comedian?’ And she went: ‘No, before.’ Which is true, we met before I ever did comedy. And she went to Tara: ‘Oh, did he save your life or something?’”
Lee Mack and his wife Tara McKillop attending Wimbledon in June 2022 (Credit: Splashnews.com)
Panel show larking about aside, Lee once made reference to his wife during an interview with The Guardian in 2010 when he was asked about art forms he’s not really interested in.
Lee responded at the time: “I have a problem with dancing. My wife’s a former ballet dancer, so I have tried to understand it. But I’d basically rather bash my head against a brick than watch people dance.”
I’d basically rather bash my head against a brick than watch people dance.
Surely Lee could just avert his eyes if he accidentally caught sight of Strictly while flipping channels? Sounds less painful.
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