Bradley Walsh is not going to be very happy when he hears the Queen's has a favourite quiz show, and it is not The Chase.
Instead, the monarch reportedly likes nothing better than to sit down at 5.15pm to watch rival Pointless.
There is good-natured rivalry between the two shows and they've thrown a few joking barbs each others' ways over the years. But now the BBC classic can boast about being favoured with royalty.
Sources close to the Queen have apparently revealed that she loves the classic quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman and which has been on our screens since 2009.
One told the Daily Mail she “bumped into the programme by accident as it precedes the BBC One News at Six, which she usually watches.”
The source added: “When the family is together she prefers parlour games such as charades rather than factual quizzes like Trivial Pursuit at which, I was once told, she is notoriously bad.”
In 2019, Pointless host Alexander Armstrong revealed he has even played pointless with the Queen herself.
Alexander hosted a Pointless special for the Sandringham brand of the Women’s Institute, and was surprised to find the Queen was at the event.
Speaking on the Jonathan Ross Show, Alexander said: “It was a very weird day, I went up to a village hall right in the middle of nowhere, in the Norfolk countryside.
“And one of them is the Queen. Just sitting right there.
“Anyway, we did a best of five, she stormed it.”
Alexander also revealed that he believes the Queen has a competitive spirit: "She was good. She had her eye on the prize."
Despite this being a memorable story, the Pointless presenter has admitted he found the encounter rather nerve wracking.
In an interview with Express , he said: “I was terrified, I didn’t think I was going to be terrified at all and suddenly there she was, and I was absolutely terrified!
"It must be the thing she strives to minimise at all times. The terror of meeting someone as important as the Queen is much scarier than you would ever imagine.”
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