Jase Cullen

Jason sits on the fence at CoNot 2008.

Jason 'Jase' Cullen was a contestant in Series 57, 58 and 92 from the Greater Manchester area, who joined Apterous in 2023. At the time of his first round of television appearances, he was a secondary school student from Bolton. But by the time of his return, he was a business development manager for the recruitment agency Reed living in Salford.

Appearances

Series 57 and 58

Cullen made his debut during the tail-end of Series 70, where he won 4 games including a victory against eventual Series 84 octochamp and semi-finalist Stu Harkness. That run was then stopped by the end-of-series finals where Jason temporarily stepped aside. He returned in the new year as the incumbent champion for the first show of Series 58, but lost by a sizable margin of 46 points to an impressive performance from Gayle Smith, while just missing out on the end-of-series finals by virtue of being the eventual ninth seed.

Series 92

But, just shy of 18 years later, Cullen came back for Series 92 where five-time winner and Dublinite John Pakenham was waiting as his first heat opponent. The latter kept pace with Cullen the entire game, right up until the extremely crucial conundrum HIDEFACTS. Fortunately for Jase, he quickly unravelled the former into CATFISHED to secure his second teapot and put an end to John's run.

Appearances on other Quiz shows

He has also been a jackpot winner on Pointless. And in 2008, he appeared at the unofficial CoNot 2008 tournament, having made appearances at multiple Co-events since then.

ZoomDown

Before making his return to the show in Series 92, Cullen made his debut in 2025 as a contestant in ZoomDown Series 5, racking up four victories and becoming a tetrachamp with 463 points, never scoring below 111. Returning as the third seed, he worked his way past Matt Gould in his quarter-final before triumphing in a very close contest against MSR in the semi-final during the same episode; MSR did solve the conundrum to have the last word but Jase marched onto the grand final. The final was a close affair, with Cullen taking the lead into a crucial conundrum after his opponent Gabriel Thallon blanked on the first numbers round. But with neither player spotting FLEROVIUM despite scoring his lowest ZoomDown total to date, Cullen took the well-earned series crown.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
4498	7/12/2007	P	Nigel Fisher	54 – 101	Jason Cullen	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Michael Aspel	Alison Heard	119
4499	10/12/2007	P	Jason Cullen	77 – 63	Stu Harkness	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Henry Blofeld	Alison Heard	122
4500	11/12/2007	P	Jason Cullen	91 – 63	Colin Lawton	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Henry Blofeld	Alison Heard	115
4501	12/12/2007	P	Jason Cullen	88 – 78	Helen Sinclair	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Henry Blofeld	Alison Heard	128
4509	2/01/2008	P	Jason Cullen	64 – 110	Gayle Smith	Des O'Connor	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Roger Cook	Alison Heard	139
8616	01/10/2025	P	John Pakenham	95 – 109	Jase Cullen	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Mark Radcliffe	Susie Dent	126