Will Best and Fleur East on Alan Carr’s Picture Slam: Interview

Comedian Alan Carr returns to host the fun and frantic quiz show where every question is a picture and every picture is worth cash. They could be anything from famous faces, places, products or logos, teams must be picture perfect in the final to secure a Super Slam and win £10,000!

This series Alan will also be welcoming celebrity guests for the first time with two celebrity guest specials along with a celebrity Christmas special will be airing later this year.

Here, Hits Radio Breakfast hosts Will Best and Fleur East discuss competing on the show…

Will Best

Playing with Fleur East

Are you a fan of games and what are your favourites?

I am a fan of games and I do love a quiz. I love a pub quiz but I take them too seriously. I’ve done a few game shows before. I did Weakest Link, which I won. So I love quizzing. But the one game I’ve never been very good at is Pictionary. Yeah, anything to do with answering questions from pictures I struggle with. So, for Picture Slam…this is going to be a problem, yeah. 

How does it feel to be taking part in Alan Carr’s Picture Slam?

Really excited it’s a great show and I do watch it. It blows my mind how good the contestants are. But I’m here to have fun. I’m not here to try and win, I am here to have a good time. I am doing it with my mate Fleur East, which is great. So, we will have a laugh. 

What do you think will be your strongest subject? 

Fleur keeps saying that I will be good at sports stuff but I won’t. I’m just better at sports stuff than Fleur, who is terrible. I think my knowledge is quite general. I think with broad general knowledge, I’ll be okay.

If you could host the ultimate celebrity game night, who would you invite?

Get Alan in, because he’s great, great fun. I’d probably have to ask Fleur because I’m doing this with her, we’re now a team. I mean, you’ve got to go for the obvious big hitters. I suspect everyone says Stephen Fry, but you want Stephen Fry involved in any kind of game because he’d be amazing. And then just people that I’d like to meet.

I’d like Rihanna and A$AP Rocky to come, because that would just be fun to hang out with them. They can even bring their kids, and A$AP Rocky seems very cool and I’ve never met Rihanna. I’ve been lucky enough in my career to interview most of the really big names but I’ve never done Rihanna or Beyoncé.

What games would you play with them?

Charades is always fun. There’s a game that we play at home, like every Christmas called Linky. You ever heard of Linky? It’s really good. It’s like a quiz game where the answer you’re actually giving is the topic that links all the other answers together. That makes it sound more complicated but it’s really good. I also really like playing Scrabble because it can be very slow, you can mainly chat, and I would allow you to make up words, because that just makes it more fun.

Fleur East

Playing with Will Best

Are you a fan of games and what are your favourites?

I used to play the Sims back in the day, played Tomb Raider for years and Crash Bandicoot growing up and now I’m a big fan of Monopoly at Christmas time, and I also love to play chess.

How does it feel to be taking part in Alan Carr’s Picture Slam?

I’m really excited to do it. I’m not a serious quizzer. It’s one for everyone as well, it’s fun! 

What do you think will be your strongest subject?

I think my strongest area will be music, pop music, pop music moments. Artists I think I’ll do really well with.

And where do you think you’ll struggle a little bit?

I really struggle with actor’s names. I remember their characters names, but when it comes to the actual actor, I really struggle.

Do you have any Christmas traditions?

Yeah, its Monopoly and I’m very competitive. But I found out that my family have been playing with the wrong rules for years. As soon as I married my husband, he was like, ‘You can’t do that, you can’t do that’. ‘Cos in my family we used to do IOU. They’re like, ‘yeah, we’ll just loan you this’ and my husband is like, you can’t do that. Now I play the real way.

If you could host the ultimate celebrity game night, who would you invite? 

That’s amazing. I’d have to invite Stephen Fry, he would be amazing, because he’s just so smart and I love him. I would invite, Beyoncé, because I’d just like to look at her. I would like to invite a Kardashian, probably Kim. Because I’m fascinated with their family and Michael Jackson. I’d like to bring him back for a game just so I could hear him sing and dance.

What games would you play?

I’ll do karaoke 100% because Michael and , Beyoncé. Just wow, dream collab. Then I could do a duet, and I could technically say that I’m in Destiny’s child.

 

With Alan’s signature humour and nostalgic gameplay, Picture Slam is back to bring the whole family together for unmissable Saturday viewing.

Alan Carr’s Picture Slam is returning to BBC iPlayer and BBC One for series four on Saturday 18 July.