YIPPEE Gladiators is getting the chop. The only trouble is what other shouting and screaming game can they dig up to annoy us on Saturday evenings?

If I could have a One to One with someone famous, like Kate Moss, mine would be with Elvis. My second choice would be with Marilyn Monroe to see what really happened with President Kennedy, and my third with Weetabix head 'OOOhh-errr-Mrs' Frankie Howerd, to ask him how he got to steal a successful living for half a century. (Who would you have a one-to-one with? Let me know.)

Don't you just love last week's revelations about the daytime chat show frauds? It's no wonder they have to find frauds with the number of this type of shows running during the day.

They must be running out of disfunctional families and dimbos by now. How on earth these people go on national TV and reveal what they get upto is beyond me, though I do enjoy some of the scraps.

The BBC has decided to sue anyone appearing under false pretences.

You'd have thought they would have checked their credentials in the first place wouldn't you?

Think of Oxford and Cambridge and you automatically reflect on clever clogs at the universities. Unfortunately two Oxford undergrads on Countdown last week really showed up themselves - and their Uni. One studying biochemistry, who reigned as champion for a day, was actually beaten by a fellow student, with the lowest score I have ever seen, 15. He was a total thickie in both letters and maths.

She wasn't much better, ruling only for one day.

It just goes to show that our future boffins are good at their own subject but rubbish at anything else that life throws at them.

I don't belieeeeeve it. Chris Tarrant has won the Variety Club's ITV Personality of the Year Trophy for that awful 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' It should have been Most Irritating Personality of the Year. And guess what? There's loads more to come this year. I can't bear it.

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