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I know I had mentioned that I had never seen a contestant as nervous as Ian Fearon on Countdown. Honestly, he reminded me of Michael MacDonald Cooper, but he had a different style of coping with his nervousness.

How many other contestants have you seen on Countdown who you thought were nervous?

Jason Larsen wrote:How many other contestants have you seen on Countdown who you thought were nervous?

171. 172 including myself.

Make me 173, I was excreting bricks, hence my lack of chat.

Ian Volante wrote:Make me 173, I was excreting bricks, hence my lack of chat.

No, it's still 172, you were already included in that number.

You are all very clever!

Ian seemed slighly Aspergic to me, very awkward and somehow distant. But I expect every contestant is nervous to some extent - it's more of a case of trying to hide it and not let it get in your way too much.

Martin, you just said a magic word!

Whether that's the truth, we'll never know.

Martin Smith wrote:Ian seemed slighly Aspergic to me, very awkward and somehow distant.

That's probably a fair assessment, although it would only be very slightly. I've never really got the grasp of small talk and the like, it all seems a bit pointless to me, and I have always naturally gravitated towards avoiding social interaction, and I'm a geek. All these things certainly point to a tendency for Asperger's. Plus the dodgy taste in music, playing slightly too many board games and slightly too long on Civ 4.

I was totally relaxed and super confident at every single moment.

David O'Donnell wrote:I was totally relaxed and super confident at every single moment.

It was obvously during the commercial breaks that you pulled your hair out then.....

Chris Corby wrote:

David O'Donnell wrote:I was totally relaxed and super confident at every single moment.

It was obvously during the commercial breaks that you pulled your hair out then.....

Oh a bald joke, I have feelings ya know!

Wasn't Martin referring to Ian Fearon, not Ian Volante?

I have never been more nervous in my whole life than when I was recording my game - I got into it though when I was a few rounds in and I was a little bit more relaxed.

Julian Fell wrote:Wasn't Martin referring to Ian Fearon, not Ian Volante?

Who knows?!