Jill Bright

Jill Bright in her debut game.

Jill Bright was a finalist in Series 38, and was a contestant in the 30th Birthday Championship.

Famously in her second game, she got two nine letter words in the first two rounds. She had a score of 81 going into the conundrum and could have surpassed Allan Saldanha and Stephen Balment's score of 83. However she failed to solve the conundrum and stayed on 81. 81 remains the highest score after 8 rounds of a 9-round game.

She returned to Countdown in 2013, as one of 41 contestants taking part in the 30th Birthday Championship. She received a bye to the first round, but lost her only game to Series 28 quarter-finalist Chris Hawkins by a score of 95 – 51.

She made her CO-event debut at CoChest.

Away from Countdown, Bright is also a competitive Scrabble player.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
2270	27/05/1998	P	Chris Smith	45 – 56	Jill Bright	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Merrill Thomas	Mark Nyman	80
2271	28/05/1998	P	Jill Bright	81 – 38	Wilma Anscombe	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Merrill Thomas	Mark Nyman	94
2272	29/05/1998	P	Jill Bright	61* – 51	Sam Essen	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Merrill Thomas	Mark Nyman	73
2273	1/06/1998	P	Jill Bright	54 – 33	Stephen Fyffe	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jo Brand	Mark Nyman	74
2274	2/06/1998	P	Jill Bright	56 – 53	Kathy Walker	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jo Brand	Mark Nyman	74
2275	3/06/1998	P	Jill Bright	59 – 49	Alasdair Dowling	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jo Brand	Mark Nyman	84
2276	4/06/1998	P	Jill Bright	50 – 55	Kelvin Philpott	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jo Brand	Mark Nyman	81
2287	19/06/1998	QF	Jill Bright	51 – 56	Steve Fisher	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jan Harvey	Susie Dent	73
5626	22/01/2013	30B1	Chris Hawkins	95 – 51	Jill Bright	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Margaret Mountford	Susie Dent	123

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum