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Most definitely - he’s my son and we applied together. We had a great few days in London. A couple of months after it was aired, the executive producer asked us both to film a pilot with Carol Vorderman in Paris. We had a fantastic all expenses paid three days in France and had lots of time for sightseeing as well as filming so that was a wonderful bonus. It all seems like a distant memory now though. David was 18 then and now he’s 30. Any particular reason for asking?

Would have preferred the cash equivalent tbh.

Well thank you for your comments about me Ian. After a lifetime of being pulled up for my lack of self confidence and nagging self doubt they’ve come as quite a revelation

*knew. Maybe check your spelling before insulting other people’s intellectual capacities?

@@de7618 oh really

I've been called Lindsay Davenport instead of Lesley Davenport many times - not sure why

Extremely sexist comment and very insulting to 'lowly' housewives. Bel is in her sixties and retired - you've no idea what she did during her career. She may well have been a 'psychotherapist or PhD student' too. She is an extremely intelligent lady who reinforced this in 'Beat The Chasers'.

Well nobody’s ever said I look like Angela Merkel before - that’s a first

Yes, that’s right

We certainly had a good time filming it - and Simon Mayo was lovely

She’s definitely a great quizzer

He seemed decent enough, just an unlucky quizzer

Bel does know her stuff. When I watch The Chase now, Bradley gives a lot of credit for £4000+ cash builders. My £7000 kind of went unnoticed because of the 2 impressive players that went before me. My son still tells me to this day that I should have gone for the minus offer, but logic goes out of the window when you're under the spotlight. Lesley

Yes - a nice lady

there were a couple of questions i'm still kicking myself for not answering correctly - the methodist one and the one about the shape of the ball - i should have been in the final with Bel - I know, I know, everyone could say that

Yet Bel still didn’t win the £40,000

Paula Hardeman yes she is - she turned up again on Beat The Chasers a few weeks ago and Paul Sinha claimed he remembered our episode, which I somehow doubt

Yes - so many good friends no longer with us - glad you enjoyed the video

Thanks John

I believe that both Bel and John had decided to go for the biggest offer before they even got to the studio. I must admit, if John had gone through to the final with the big offer, I may have lost my head and gone for the £40000 too (kind of on a roll). When John went out, I lost a bit of confidence and stuck with my £7000. You're right - both me and Neil should have gone for the -£10000 and Bel would have possibly gone home with something. Truth was - she intimidated us! Having said all that, I had a thoroughly wonderful day (apart from arriving at the railway station an hour early at about 5am - the place was like a ghost town with absolutely nothing happening. In fact I thought I was going mad until I realised it was the last Sunday morning in October, the clocks had gone back overnight and I'd forgotten!)

@@Bather100 Well I'm happy you enjoyed your time on The Chase, sorry you didn't get a more reasonable team player than Bel when you went on, but I thought you were impressive and would've been a valuable asset to the team

David Fearis thanks David

@N P tbf tho this is tactically the WRONG way to play this game. As good as she is as a player, you have little to no chance on your own. Even with John back she would have had half a chance. Also tbf Paul was dishing massive minus offers to dissuade people from taking money off the pot, plus this was back in the day when minus offers would get you shot by the team (tbf thats why the whole concept was a massive laugh 😂😂😂, the most noteworthy example of a Scot going to his own player "I've nothing to say to the maggot!" After him going low, and then saying back "could be worse he could have won money" when they lost the final chase.) But yeah tactically this was pure suicide. Why would he go high like that? The moment someone brings a massive amount should also be the moment that you consider building in smaller stacks. Also tbf you've gotta consider how good a player likely will be, you want a decent head start, and that ain't one step. 2 steps would even give you something. Also given team shares are another thing as well that may depend on how good the pot itself will be in the finish up. Bel played a very greedy game, which is just the wrong method altogether. A minus offer for 4 players with say 50k in the pot pre with the low of minus 8 sounds big, until you remember that 50k between 4 is going to be 12 and half each, whereas minus 8 is 10 and a half. So actually you are losing 2 grand. Now place that perspective on it and it becomes far more valuable for ome player to go high anywya as decent money in a pot will like building much better for a team anyway This is just a good example of what not to do.