Heather Styles

Heather Styles Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	3
Points total	737
Conundrums solved	3

Heather Styles in Series 67...

...and again in the Championship of Champions XIV.

Heather Styles was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 67, as well as a participant in Championship of Champions XIV. Her mother, Phyllis, was a six-time winner in Series 65. She is also an Apterite and has attended CO:REA and CobliviLon.

Appearances on the programme

Heat games

Styles began her Countdown career on 7 November 2012. In her début appearance against Philip Jackson, her spot of the impressive nine-letter word PLANETOID helped her to a final score of 114, the highest of the series. She proceeded to win seven more heats, getting no further centuries but also no scores below 82, to complete an octochamp run and become No. 3 seed for the series finals.

Finals

After seeing off the quarter-final challenge of Tia Corkish rather easily, she came up against No. 2 seed David Barnard in the semis. Styles beat him with ISOLATED and MATERIEL, but he fought back with SEDATING to make the scores dead level going into the crucial conundrum BLUEINDIA. Styles solved this to advance to the Grand Final. Here, however, she emerged runner-up after falling to No. 1 seed Paul James.

Championship of Champions XIV

Styles returned to Countdown in January 2016 as a participant in Championship of Champions XIV. In her opening game here, she notably spotted UNREALIST, a nine-letter word only added in the most recent ODO update at the time. However, her opponent, the Series 68 champion Giles Hutchings, found a nine here too and was indomitable in all other rounds, dropping only three points from perfection, and Hutchings emerged the winner 132 – 73.

Appearances on quiz shows

In 2014, Styles appeared as a contestant in the revival of Fifteen to One.

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