Heather Styles

Heather Styles octochamp statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	3
Points total	737
Conundrums solved	3

Heather Styles in Series 67...

...and in Championship of Champions XIV.

Heather Styles was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 67, and a participant in Championship of Champions XIV. She is also an Apterite.

Her mother, Phyllis, was a six-time winner in Series 65.

Appearances on the show

Heat games

Styles began her Countdown career on 7 November 2012. In her debut game against Philip Jackson, her impressive nine-letter word spot of PLANETOID helped her to a final score of 114 (the highest of the series).

She then won seven more heats (despite not getting another century) to reach octochampdom and eventually become the No. 3 seed for the finals.

Finals

After seeing off her quarter-final challenge against Tia Corkish rather easily, she came up against David Barnard in her semi-final.

Styles beat Barnard with ISOLATED and MATERIEL but he fought back with SEDATING to make the scores dead level, going into the crucial conundrum of BLUEINDIA. Styles solved it to advance to the grand final. However, she emerged as the runner-up after falling to Paul James.

Championship of Champions XIV

Styles returned to the show in January 2016 for Championship of Champions XIV.

She notably spotted UNREALIST, a nine-letter word only added in the most recent ODO update at the time. But Giles Hutchings also found a nine here and was indomitable in all the other rounds, dropping only three points from a max game and emerged the winner at 132 – 73.

Appearances on other game shows

On 14 to 16 April 2014, Styles appeared on Fifteen to One.

Co-event appearances

Styles attended CO:REA and CobliviLon.

Preceded by Jonathan Rawlinson

Series runner-up Series 67

Followed by Jack Hurst

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
5584	7/11/2012	P	Philip Jackson	65 – 114	Heather Styles	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Janet Street-Porter	Susie Dent	138
5585	8/11/2012	P	Heather Styles	89 – 67	Rhondda McCracken	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Janet Street-Porter	Susie Dent	132
5586	9/11/2012	P	Heather Styles	98 – 56	Keith Walton	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Janet Street-Porter	Susie Dent	139
5587	12/11/2012	P	Heather Styles	87 – 65	Tracy Turner	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Connie Fisher	Susie Dent	129
5588	13/11/2012	P	Heather Styles	82 – 73	Alma Cox	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Connie Fisher	Susie Dent	118
5589	14/11/2012	P	Heather Styles	89 – 49	Max Plaice	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Connie Fisher	Susie Dent	119
5590	15/11/2012	P	Heather Styles	88 – 20	Stuart Gillespie	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Connie Fisher	Susie Dent	120
5591	19/11/2012	P	Heather Styles	90 – 57	Mike Whinnerah	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gyles Brandreth	Susie Dent	132
5610	17/12/2012	QF	Tia Corkish	65 – 100	Heather Styles	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Alistair McGowan	Susie Dent	119
5613	20/12/2012	SF	Heather Styles	91 – 81	David Barnard	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Alistair McGowan	Susie Dent	117
5614	21/12/2012	GF	Heather Styles	51 – 106	Paul James	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Alistair McGowan	Susie Dent	118
6279	5/01/2016	CP	Heather Styles	73 – 132	Giles Hutchings	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Susie Dent	135