I was on Pointless and got two big shocks on the BBC set

A former contestant on hit BBC game show Pointless revealed two big surprises they discovered on the set.

Milly Fyfe featured on the popular quiz last year, comprising a team alongside her husband Andrew.

The pair, who joined host Alexander Armstrong and guest co-presenter Trevor McDonald, reached the final but fell short of winning the jackpot.

Speaking on behalf of OLBG, Milly opened up about her experiences while filming her and Andrew’s episodes of Pointless.

She explained how her and Andrew enjoyed ‘challenging themselves’ while watching quiz shows and therefore decided to apply. 

Milly said: ‘I’ve never been in a proper HD studio before, so it was incredibly bright. 

‘Also there’s no actual audience. It’s just us and the hosts.

‘The team behind the scenes made us very welcome, but I think it was a bit secretive.

‘If you were going through to the next show, you were kept separate from everyone else. 

‘You weren’t allowed to talk about the jackpot or who had done well. But I think that helps with the magic of it all.’

She added: ‘It’s actually not as dramatic as it looks on TV. Some of the podiums are a bit makeshift. 

‘Everything was sort of connected with gaffer tape. You can’t see that on the screen.

‘There’s also a little cross on the floor, where you swap over after each round. 

‘We just had little name badges, which we weren’t allowed to take home. We did get a trophy each after the final, which was nice.’

Revealing the show’s rules while filming, Milly explained: ‘They didn’t tell us who our guest expert was going to be until we arrived. 

‘Obviously, we weren’t allowed to tell anyone that we’re going to be on the show until it aired.

‘They’ve got quite an efficient wardrobe department. We had to take 8 outfits with us.

‘The producers made sure there wasn’t too much of a clash with the other contestants as well. 

‘It felt like going on a package holiday. My husband wore the same chinos for all three episodes, but then had a different shirt.’

Milly said the filming process had ‘no real cuts or edits’, with redoes only being done if someone stumbled over their words. 

Meanwhile, she described competing on Pointless as ‘not easy’, adding: ‘I think you’ve got to have quite a vast knowledge of quite a lot of different things. 

‘For instance, during a music round, you either know it or you don’t, and because some of them you can work out if it’s acronyms, and they’ve just blotted out some letters, and you’ve just got to work it out. 

‘You have to give an answer, and there are no clues whatsoever. You just have to say what comes to mind. So it’s really hard.’ 

Milly concluded: ‘Since Richard [Osman] left the show, I think it’s quite nice the dynamic of having a different guest judge, because then that brings an extra element of mystery. 

‘We were glad that we had Trevor Nelson. 

‘I think the format of the show’s been very rigid for quite a long time and people don’t seem to tire of it. It’s become a classic British institution.’ 

Pointless airs on BBC One and iPlayer.