(Series 2, Episode 8)

A: And finally in this round Ian, four fading starlets for you.  Colin Moynihan; Richard Ingrams; Andrew Neil, editor of the Sunday Times; and his opposite number at the Observer, Donald Trelford.

PICTURED:  

Top:  (L) Colin Moynihan; (R) Richard Ingrams  

Bottom:  (L) Andrew Neil; (R) Donald Trelford  

RI: I am the only one not wearing a wig.

I: I think this is a leg-over question.

RI: Really?

I: Yes, I do!

A: Would you like to elaborate on that?

I: I think one of the former editors in this got his leg over Colin Moynihan!

RI: You must have read that in the Daily Mail.

I: I did.  It was in that Dempster column - awfully reliable!

RI: Yes, I believe everything that man writes.

I: This is very much a Pamella Bordes question.  Colin Moynihan took her to a ball, Andrew Neil, who's the editor of the Sunday Times, took her out...

RI: Trelford had what he called a 'tangential' relationship with her.

A: Did he?  I wonder what that means.

RI: What does that mean?

RL: It takes two to tangent!

I: And Andrew Neil, the great romantic of all time, actually gave her a food mixer as a gift.  A Kenwood mixer - isn't that touching?

RI: She very rudely repaid the compliment by cutting the crutch out of his trousers.

A: Yes.

I: When their relationship split up, it was very amusi...sad!

RI: The trousers split up as well!

I: They did!

A: It was equally sad.

I: So the odd man out - I just have to finish this question - is the only person not to have walked out - as I think they say - with Pamella, is this old chappie here!

RI: Ha ha!

I: And he was reported as having done so in the Daily Mail, in Nigel Dempster's column.  And Dempster said Ingrams had been spotted with Pamella - what an old humbug - wandering around Hastings.  And then someone had come up to him and said 'yes, we know you'.  And it later transpired that Ingrams had sent him an anonymous note, saying 'I was in Hastings and I saw that old humbug wandering around with Pamella'.  And Dempster, the great journalist, the true professional, put it all in totally unchecked!  And subsequently looked a terrific arsehole.

PICTURED:  Ian delivers his answer in its entirety...

A: Yes, I think that's the fullest answer we've ever had on this show.

P: I was about to book a wake-up call!

 PICTURED:  ...whilst Paul contemplates the booking of a wake-up call

I: I was trying to outdo Angus.

A: Yes.  Later that same month... 

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