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Dermot O'Leary received bombshell warning from bosses over new show
It's the hardest game show on TV, and host Dermot O'Leary was left feeling the pressure as he filmed it back to back with This Morning
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Dermot O'Leary has been juggling his This Morning duties with a new social experiment show, Silence is Golden.
Fronting the new show, Dermot O'Leary offers 70 audience members the chance to win ÂŁ250k on one condition - they must remain silent. The seasoned presenter would rush from ITV's daytime studio, to the set of Silence is Golden, often working until late in the evening.
But the constant switch between lively morning antics and deadpan silence left him feeling rattled. "We were filming at least two episodes a day," Dermot reveals. "So by the end of it, you're like 'Someone please say something.'".
However, it wasn't just about earning cash; Dermot and the panel had their work cut out: "Our job is to get the money back," he disclosed. "The channel said to us, right from the start, 'We don't have this money to give away.' That comes with its own pressure."
Silence is Golden seems simple - stay quiet, win a life-changing prize. But there's a twist. Dermot introduces a panel of chaos agents - comedians and entertainers whose job is to make contestants break their silence.
Leading captains Katherine Ryan, Strictly star Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri onto the stage, Dermot is backed by a rotating cast of performers ranging from mainstream to bizarre.
"We had to keep hitting them with something new, we were almost out for blood," Katherine admits. "We tried everything - pyrotechnics, snakes, spiders, even nudity." Some acts were more unusual than others. "There was a baby race," she adds. "That was amazing."
The goal? To provoke any reaction. "It's not just about making them laugh," Seann explains, "It's about getting any kind of reaction, whether it's shock, fear, sadness. Anything to get that noise."
Dermot O'Leary leads captains Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri in a thrilling new show promising shock and laughterDermot explained the high-stakes situation of the game with a big reveal: "It's ÂŁ5000 for a small reaction, ÂŁ10,000 for a large reaction. Everyone's wired, everyone's got mics, everyone's got cameras on them, and we've even got a Guinness world record adjudicator, Joanne Brent, who I found on This Morning!"
He continued, revealing how the World Record adjudicator had to reassure and guide the participants post-filming, once the lights were switched back on: "Joanne has to tell them: 'The light is now on. You can talk.' And even then, there were trust issues."
In a dramatic twist, one contestant decided to exit the competition due to their intense phobia of snakes and spiders, without making a sound, choosing the group's chance of a win over their stay.
Seann Walsh recalls the mayhem that ensued as contestants became increasingly desperate: "People went crazy," he quipped, "One guy started taking 20 quid a pop. He'd make a noise, there was a score. Another noise, there's another score. That's how bad it got."
The competitive environment led to fractures within the group as Seann noted with surprise: "We didn't see that coming," he said, reflecting on the tense squabbles, "They were screaming at each other."
Backstage, the performers found common ground in their shared experiences. Seann revealed: "There's nothing the comedian loves more than another comedian bombing. It's a win-win situation - we can laugh at a fantastic act or at the silence when it falls flat!".
However, the lack of audience response began to wear on them. "It's traumatic, we're used to people laughing," Seann admitted. "Instead, the audience is just staring at us and it looks like hatred." Katherine agrees, joking: "I have PTSD from the experience,".
The presenter was given a huge warning by U bosses over the new programmeThe final round brought a climax of tension. "Everything rests on that final round," Katherine added, "So they're under a lot of pressure and we all relied on that."
She disclosed her strategy was to focus on groups and couples - particularly those with history. "I was flirtatious at one point, I tried to destabilise relationships," she confessed. "I have that kind of relationship with my sister - I can't do anything serious with her.
"My middle sister is getting married in August and I know we'll be laughing because we're bullies. That's what we had to bank on for Silence Is Golden. Those groups of friends that get the giggles for whatever reason."
Seann, on the other hand, was more direct in his approach and took inspiration from Jim Carrey's Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber. "I had a scene from Dumb and Dumber in my head," he says, "So I screamed in someone's face. We go to desperate measures."
Now back on safer comedic turf, Seann says: "I was very happy to go back to audiences that weren't being paid a quarter of a million pounds to not laugh."
But he remains grateful to work with Katherine, with whom he shares a surprising past. "We entered the same competition years ago," he says, "We came joint runner ups but I gave my award away."
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 â Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he discussed Pete Rose with President Donald Trump at a meeting two weeks ago and he plans to rule on a request to end the sport's permanent ban of the career hits leader, who died in September.
Speaking Monday at a meeting of the Associated Press Sports Editors, Manfred said he and Trump have discussed several issues, including Manfred's concerns over how Trump's immigration policies could impact players from Cuba, Venezuela and other foreign countries.
Manfred is considering a petition to have Rose posthumously removed from MLB's permanently ineligible list. The petition was filed in January by Jeffrey Lenkov, a Southern California lawyer who represented Rose prior to the 17-time All-Star's death at age 83.
âI met with President Trump two weeks ago, I guess now, and one of the topics was Pete Rose, but Iâm not going beyond that, Manfred said. Heâs said what he said publicly, Iâm not going beyond that in terms of what the back and forth was.â
Trump posted on social media Feb. 28 that he plans to issue âa complete PARDON of Pete Rose.â Trump posted on Truth Social that Rose âshouldnât have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING.â It's unclear what a presidential pardon might include â Trump did not specifically mention a tax case in which Rose pleaded guilty in 1990 to two counts of filing false tax returns and served a five-month prison sentence.
The president said he would sign a pardon for Rose âover the next few weeks but has not addressed the matter since.
Rose had 4,256 hits and also holds records for games (3,562) and plate appearances (15,890). He was the 1973 National League MVP and played on three World Series winners.
An investigation for MLB by lawyer John M. Dowd found Rose placed numerous bets on the Cincinnati Reds to win from 1985-87 while playing for and managing the team. Rose agreed with MLB on a permanent ban in 1989.
Lenkov is seeking Rose's reinstatement so that he can be considered for the Hall of Fame. Under a rule adopted by the Hallâs board of directors in 1991, anyone on the permanently ineligible list canât be considered for election to the Hall. Rose applied for reinstatement in 1997 and met with Commissioner Bud Selig in November 2002, but Selig never ruled on Roseâs request. Manfred in 2015 denied Roseâs application for reinstatement.
Manfred said reinstating Rose now was âa little more complicated than it might appear on the outside and did not commit to a timeline except that âI want to get it done promptly as soon as we get the work done.â
âIâm not going to give this the pocket veto, he said. I will in fact issue a ruling.â
Rose's reinstatement doesn't mean he would automatically appear on a Hall of Fame ballot. He would first have to be nominated by the Hall's Historical Overview Committee, which is picked by the Baseball Writersâ Association of America and approved by the Hall's board. Manfred is an ex-officio member of that board and says he has been in regular contact with chairman Jane Forbes Clark.
âI mean, believe me, a lot of Hall of Fame dialogue on this one, Manfred said.
If reinstated, Rose potentially would be eligible for consideration to be placed on a ballot to be considered by the 16-member Classic Baseball Era committee in December 2027.
Manfred added he doesn't think baseball's current ties to legal sports betting should color views on Rose's case.
âThere is and always has been a clear demarcation between what Rob Manfred, ordinary citizen, can do on the one hand, and what someone who has the privilege to play or work in Major League Baseball can do on the other in respect to gambling, he said. The fact that the law changed, and we sell data and/or sponsorships, which is essentially all we do, to sports betting enterprises, I donât think changes that. Itâs a privilege to play Major League Baseball. As with every privilege, there comes responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is that they not bet on the game.â
Manfred did not go into details on his discussion with Trump over foreign-born players other than to say he expressed worry.
Given the number of foreign-born players we have, we're always concerned about ingress and egress, Manfred said. We have had dialogue with the administration about this topic. And, you know, they're very interested in sports. They understand the unique need to be able to go back and forth, and I'm going to leave it at that.â
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