SUPERGRAN Ada Gibson is set to make her second TV appearance - giving clues to celebrities on a BBC game show hosted by Jonathan Ross.

Ada, 84, of Grange Street, Clayton-le-Moors, is set to appear on BBC show It's Only TV But I Like It, whose team captains are comedians Julian Clary and Phill Jupitus.

One round in the show involves senior citizens describing TV shows or characters, with the celebrity contestants asked to guess what they are talking about.

A film crew fvisited Ada's home town to film her thoughts on stars including Gloria Hunniford, Rolf Harris and Ready Steady Cook's Fern Brittan.

Ada spent three hours at the Sparth House Hotel in Whalley Road answering questions for the camera. A researcher had visited her last month and the producers had wanted her to travel to London for filming. But Ada refused and the TV crew decided to come to her.

She said: "They asked me to talk about all these people but I kept giving the game away because I was mentioning their names by mistake. I said Rolf Harris had nice horn-rimmed glasses and a didgeridoo and that he had made up a song called Two Little Boys.

"I said Gloria Hunniford reminded me of peaches and cream and that I liked her because she didn't twirl her legs round the couch like some of these other presenters.

"They asked me about Fern Britton from Ready Steady Cook and I said she gets my back up because she is always getting in the way of the people who are trying to cook. They asked me about some children's programmes too but I said I didn't watch them because I have other things to do rather than sit in front the of television all day."

Active octagenarian Ada became a pin-up girl last year, modelling for Oswaldtwistle lingerie shop Aphrodite.

Ada first appeared on television in 1997 when she was set up by her family on Simon Mayo's BBC show Confessions. Ada was forced to admit cheating in a handicraft competition at Pontins by entering a cardigan knitted by her daughter, Barbara.

The new series of It's Only TV But I Like It begins on February 24.

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