Nine years ago, Archie Bland was scorned by Anne Robinson for his "silly name, being at Cambridge University and my parents' big house". Now 28, and the Independent's Saturday editor, Bland triumphs after the Queen of Mean chose her nine favourite contestants for a Weakest Link special on Saturday. Independent staff reckon they are on a winning streak – the paper's travel correspondent, Simon Calder, won Celebrity Mastermind last year.
