A 96-year-old RAF veteran recognised by the King for his charitable work will become the oldest contestant in Countdown ...

Countdown makes history as it welcomes its oldest ever contestant… 96-year-old Donald Elsom from Stanley, County Durham will ...

Donald Elsom, a 96-year-old former RAF corporal from Stanley, County Durham, who left school at 14, is set to become the ...

Countdown's oldest-ever contestant is set to make a history-making debut on the Channel 4 show. Donald Elsom, 96, has been a ...

Channel 4’s long-running Countdown quiz has crowned its first female champion in an astonishing 26 years. The show, which has been on almost every day of Channel 4’s 42-year history, has not ...

The former RAF corporal, who left school when he was 14, takes on his first game of letters, numbers, and conundrums in an ...

Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford will stand in for Rachel Riley on Channel 4’s Countdown while she takes a short break to work on another project, it has been announced. Dr Crawford is well ...

Sunday's episode of the Channel 4 programme featured singers Tom Grennan, Joy Crookes and Caity Basee as guests ...

A former RAF corporal has become the oldest-ever contestant to appear on the hit Channel 4 gameshow Countdown.