Jeff Clayton

Jeff Clayton was a contestant in Series 51 and is the vice chairperson of FOCAL.

Clayton won his first game against Ben Walden thanks to Walden offering two invalid words. Clayton then beat Yvonne McKeon on another crucial conundrum, thanks in part to a choice of six small numbers. However, in his third game he couldn't match Richard Hunter who spotted the nine letter word UNDERLAYS to go into the conundrum 13 points ahead.

Away from Countdown, Clayton works as a manager in the bus industry and has held several operational and commercial posts, though he also enjoys driving in service every now and again!

Tournaments

He appeared at the first Countdown tournament, COLIN 2005, and subsequently CoBris 2005, CoBris 2006, CoBris 2007, COLIN 2007, COLIN 2008, COLIN 2009, COLIN 2010, Co:Lon 2010 and CO:REA.

Since 2008, Clayton has organised CoLei, CoLei2, CoLei Summer Special, CoLei3, CoLei4 and CoLei5 - Countdown tournaments held in Leicester.

Since relocating to the north-west of England, Clayton now organises tournaments in Chester, with the first one being CoChest on 19 November 2011. He also co-hosted the inaugural COHUD with James Robinson.

France

Clayton speaks fluent French and regularly participates in Des chiffres et des lettres tournaments in France.

In July 2014, Clayton appeared on the parent programme of Countdown, Des chiffres et des lettres, appearing on 3 programmes against Bernadette, a contestant from Belgium. He won the 2nd of the 3 shows, but lost the other two.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
3711	28/05/2004	P	Ben Walden	83 – 91	Jeff Clayton	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jeremy Beadle	Susie Dent	128
3712	31/05/2004	P	Jeff Clayton	85 – 65	Yvonne McKeon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jeremy Beadle	Susie Dent	142
3713	01/06/2004	P	Jeff Clayton	52 – 75	Richard Hunter	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jeremy Beadle	Susie Dent	128