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''' Terence 'Terry' Newnham''' was a [[contestant]] in [[Series 57]] and [[Series 90]]. At the time of his first appearances, he was a logistics coordinator. But by the time of his second set of games, he was working at {{w|University of Central Lancashire|UCLan}} in Preston as the institution's Head of Market Insight. He is also a keen amateur triathlete.  
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''' Terence 'Terry' Newnham''' was a [[contestant]] in [[Series 57]], and an [[octochamp]] in [[Series 90]]. At the time of his first appearances, he was a logistics coordinator. But by the time of his second set of games, he was working at {{w|University of Central Lancashire|UCLan}} in Preston as the institution's Head of Market Insight. He is also a keen amateur triathlete.  
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==Appearances==
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===[[Series 57]]===
  
 
Terry first appeared on Countdown in November 2007, just two weeks after the show (and Channel 4 itself) celebrated 25 years on-air. His first match was against two-time winner [[Martin Sears]], and won comfortably despite being beaten to the conundrum by Sears, however in his second match against [[Carl Dundas]], he was ten behind heading into the crucial conundrum ({{score|55|65}}), in which he successfully unscrambled {{word|SOMGNOCHI}} into {{word|SMOOCHING}}, one and a half seconds in to take it to a tie-break, but neither player could translate {{word|PISAHARRY}} into {{word|HAIRSPRAY}}, and therefore, an extremely rare third televised conundrum (and second tie-break) was to be contested. Unfortunately for Terry, he was beaten to the buzzer by Dundas, who declared {{word|INVENTING}} after just over three seconds, thus ending Newnham's first run.
 
Terry first appeared on Countdown in November 2007, just two weeks after the show (and Channel 4 itself) celebrated 25 years on-air. His first match was against two-time winner [[Martin Sears]], and won comfortably despite being beaten to the conundrum by Sears, however in his second match against [[Carl Dundas]], he was ten behind heading into the crucial conundrum ({{score|55|65}}), in which he successfully unscrambled {{word|SOMGNOCHI}} into {{word|SMOOCHING}}, one and a half seconds in to take it to a tie-break, but neither player could translate {{word|PISAHARRY}} into {{word|HAIRSPRAY}}, and therefore, an extremely rare third televised conundrum (and second tie-break) was to be contested. Unfortunately for Terry, he was beaten to the buzzer by Dundas, who declared {{word|INVENTING}} after just over three seconds, thus ending Newnham's first run.
  
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Seventeen years later, Newnham returned to the Countdown studio (albeit in Salford, not Leeds) where he faced off against another returnee in [[Neil Massey]], who had just won his teapot after failing the first time in 2002. He kicked off with an eight-letter word in the first round, and never lost the lead from there, clinching his second teapot with a walkover final numbers game. He went on to score his first century in his second game, defeating [[Graeme McDonald]] by thirty-four points. His third game against [[Elizabeth O'Neill]] went to a crucial conundrum, with Terence ahead by a solitary point, and it took seventeen seconds until a buzz from Terence with a declaration of {{word|FORBIDDEN}}, kept him in the champion's chair for another day. He then went on to win the final five games to secure octochamp status and almost certainly a place in the end-of-series finals.  
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===[[Series 90]]===
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Seventeen years later, Newnham returned to the Countdown studio (albeit in Salford, not Leeds) where he faced off against another returnee in [[Neil Massey]], who had just won his teapot after failing the first time in 2002. He kicked off with an eight-letter word in the first round, and never lost the lead from there, clinching his second teapot with a walkover final numbers game. He went on to score his first century in his second game, defeating [[Graeme McDonald]] by thirty-four points despite missing the nine-letter-word {{word|COARSENED}}, which unusually turned out to ultimately be the only nine available across all his heats. His third game against [[Elizabeth O'Neill]] went to a crucial conundrum, with Terence ahead by a solitary point, and it took seventeen seconds until a buzz from Terence with a declaration of {{word|FORBIDDEN}}, kept him in the champion's chair for another day. He then went on to win an additional five games to get his tally of eight, finishing with a final total of 730 as the provisional fourth seed and an all but assured place in the series quarter-finals as Colin christened him ''The Gentleman''.
  
 
==Episodes==
 
==Episodes==
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{{ep | 8369 | 07/10/2024 | P |Terence Newnham| 91 – 57 |[[Melissa Flynn]]|[[Pam Ayres]]|Susie Dent|125}}
 
{{ep | 8369 | 07/10/2024 | P |Terence Newnham| 91 – 57 |[[Melissa Flynn]]|[[Pam Ayres]]|Susie Dent|125}}
 
{{ep | 8370 | 08/10/2024 | P |Terence Newnham| 95 – 58 |[[Kim Binks]]|Pam Ayres|Susie Dent|122}}
 
{{ep | 8370 | 08/10/2024 | P |Terence Newnham| 95 – 58 |[[Kim Binks]]|Pam Ayres|Susie Dent|122}}
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{{ep | 8371 | 09/10/2024 | P |Terence Newnham| 83 – 81 |[[Tom Read (Series 90)|Tom Read]]|Pam Ayres|Susie Dent|123}}
 
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{{episode table end}}
 
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Revision as of 20:16, 9 October 2024

Terence Newnham
octochamp statistics
Final position TBC
Seeding TBC
Points total 730
Conundrums solved 6

Terence 'Terry' Newnham was a contestant in Series 57, and an octochamp in Series 90. At the time of his first appearances, he was a logistics coordinator. But by the time of his second set of games, he was working at UCLan in Preston as the institution's Head of Market Insight. He is also a keen amateur triathlete.

Appearances

Series 57

Terry first appeared on Countdown in November 2007, just two weeks after the show (and Channel 4 itself) celebrated 25 years on-air. His first match was against two-time winner Martin Sears, and won comfortably despite being beaten to the conundrum by Sears, however in his second match against Carl Dundas, he was ten behind heading into the crucial conundrum (55 – 65), in which he successfully unscrambled SOMGNOCHI into SMOOCHING, one and a half seconds in to take it to a tie-break, but neither player could translate PISAHARRY into HAIRSPRAY, and therefore, an extremely rare third televised conundrum (and second tie-break) was to be contested. Unfortunately for Terry, he was beaten to the buzzer by Dundas, who declared INVENTING after just over three seconds, thus ending Newnham's first run.

Series 90

Seventeen years later, Newnham returned to the Countdown studio (albeit in Salford, not Leeds) where he faced off against another returnee in Neil Massey, who had just won his teapot after failing the first time in 2002. He kicked off with an eight-letter word in the first round, and never lost the lead from there, clinching his second teapot with a walkover final numbers game. He went on to score his first century in his second game, defeating Graeme McDonald by thirty-four points despite missing the nine-letter-word COARSENED, which unusually turned out to ultimately be the only nine available across all his heats. His third game against Elizabeth O'Neill went to a crucial conundrum, with Terence ahead by a solitary point, and it took seventeen seconds until a buzz from Terence with a declaration of FORBIDDEN, kept him in the champion's chair for another day. He then went on to win an additional five games to get his tally of eight, finishing with a final total of 730 as the provisional fourth seed and an all but assured place in the series quarter-finals as Colin christened him The Gentleman.

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
4482 15/11/2007 P Martin Sears 62 – 96 Terry Newnham Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Keith Barron Alison Heard 143
4483 16/11/2007 P Terry Newnham 65 – 75* Carl Dundas Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Keith Barron Alison Heard 120
8364 30/09/2024 P Neil Massey 60 – 79 Terence Newnham Colin Murray Rachel Riley Debbie McGee Susie Dent 120
8365 01/10/2024 P Terence Newnham 100 – 66 Graeme McDonald Colin Murray Rachel Riley Debbie McGee Susie Dent 133
8366 02/10/2024 P Terence Newnham 77 – 66 Elizabeth O'Neill Colin Murray Rachel Riley Debbie McGee Susie Dent 123
8367 03/10/2024 P Terence Newnham 95 – 59 Dave Moran Colin Murray Rachel Riley Debbie McGee Susie Dent 124
8368 04/10/2024 P Terence Newnham 110 – 37 Greg Bond Colin Murray Rachel Riley Debbie McGee Susie Dent 123
8369 07/10/2024 P Terence Newnham 91 – 57 Melissa Flynn Colin Murray Rachel Riley Pam Ayres Susie Dent 125
8370 08/10/2024 P Terence Newnham 95 – 58 Kim Binks Colin Murray Rachel Riley Pam Ayres Susie Dent 122
8371 09/10/2024 P Terence Newnham 83 – 81 Tom Read Colin Murray Rachel Riley Pam Ayres Susie Dent 123
* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum
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