A Barnsley Countdown contestant has taken his 'thrashing' by an 18-year-old maths student in good spirits.

 

Travel agent Mike Lee, 61, appeared on the daytime TV show on Monday against Giles Hutchings losing 119-19 to the teenager with his 90-year-old father, Arthur Lee, in the audience.

 

"He won the previous four contests and started off with the highest ever score," said Mike, of Doncaster Road.

 

"So I never really had a chance. One of the words he came out with was the Mongolian currency but, after 40 years working in travel, I'd never even heard of it.

 

"I did come home with an Oxford dictionary, though, so I know now not to spell 'motivated' without a 'v' in it."