Peter Davies (Series 58)

Peter Davies relishes a moment to watch someone else shine

Peter Davies was a contestant in Series 58. He beat Allannah Steadman with an impressive score of 98 and scored his first century in the next game. After this, his scores steadily dropped (96, 93, 89, 81) until he lost his 7th game against Don Gill. The game was close and hinged on Davies declaring eight when his word DENOTING wasn't valid because there was only one N in the selection. This allowed Gill to take a seven-point lead into the conundrum, which neither player could solve. Davies returned for the series finals in June and made an impact straight away, beating Octochamp Michael Macdonald-Cooper with words like POIGNANT and RAVAGES. In the semi-final he faced Richard Priest and Priest was on form, and led 100 – 60 before the conundrum. Davies got the conundrum GLYCERINE but it wasn't enough and he lost 100 – 70.

Davies returned for the Championship of Champions XIII in 2009, but was knocked out in the first round by eventual runner-up Charlie Reams. Of note is that his conundrum spot of FETTUCINI in that game, is in fact a word that's not in the current Oxford Dictionary.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
4591	1/05/2008	P	Allannah Steadman	71 – 98	Peter Davies	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Keith Barron	Susie Dent
4592	2/05/2008	P	Peter Davies	103 – 37	Andy Fawcett	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Keith Barron	Susie Dent
4593	5/05/2008	P	Peter Davies	96 – 49	Mike Nelson	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jennie Bond	Susie Dent
4594	6/05/2008	P	Peter Davies	93 – 67	Stephen Rooney	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jennie Bond	Susie Dent
4595	7/05/2008	P	Peter Davies	89 – 54	Sue Stevenson	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jennie Bond	Susie Dent
4596	8/05/2008	P	Peter Davies	81 – 55	David Dunnington	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jennie Bond	Susie Dent
4597	9/05/2008	P	Peter Davies	82 – 89	Don Gill	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jennie Bond	Susie Dent
4622	13/06/2008	QF	Peter Davies	83 – 77	Michael Macdonald-Cooper	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Alastair Stewart	Susie Dent
4626	19/06/2008	SF	Richard Priest	100 – 70	Peter Davies	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Dr Phil Hammond	Susie Dent
4739	20/01/2009	CP	Peter Davies	66 – 85	Charlie Reams	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Alastair Stewart]	Susie Dent