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“But she actually admitted she wanted to be gunged, surely there’s something we can do”, Mollie’s voice could be heard in the production office.
“I don’t know that there is Mollie, we’ve got so much going on already, and we might not have enough gunge to do anything extra. You’d better get ready, we’re back on air in five minutes”.
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Clik here to view.Mollie made her way to the side of the stage, and was eventually cued to make an entrance. She was still wearing the same light blue gown that she had on for the launch of game three. The lights in the studio came up as she walked onto the stage.
“Hello, and welcome back to the final game in our Battle of the Decades, as we continue to find out who really is the queen of the gunge”. There was a round of applause from the audience.
“Our two contenders are currently relaxing in our VIP area”, the camera panned to Arielle and Holly, who were sat on red sofas, each with a glass of champagne in their hand. “We also have our guest voiceover, Scarlett Moffatt, joining us in the studio. She’ll be keeping an eye on social media for us to track any answers to our cryptic celebrity clues”. Scarlett waved to the camera.
“Now”, said Mollie, “a quick reminder that the first of our two contenders to have their full team of supporters identified will win the round and take the all important advantage in the Gunk Dunk”.
“Once a celebrity has been identified they will make their way out onto the stage. If they emerge wearing yellow then they are on Team Arielle, and if they are wearing blue, they are part of Team Holly”.
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The audience applauded, as Mollie walked over to the opposite side of the stage to stand near Scarlett, who had taken her place behind a desk, which had a large monitor in place behind it.
“Now the final thing to put in place before we get any guessses up on the screen here, is what we do with wrong answers. Do we have Pamela in the audience?” A short blonde haired girl, wearing an orange dress stood up and looked round.
“Come and join us Pamela, give her a round of applause”.
Pamela made her way from the audience and down the stairs to join Mollie on stage. “Hi Pamela, thanks for joining us, I can tell you that your friend Nicola has nominated you to be a big part of this reveal show, would you like to tell the audience a bit about yourself?”
“Hello, I’m Pamela, I’m 24, and I’m from Northern Ireland”, the bubbly blonde said as she pushed her long blonde hair back over her shoulder.
“And I understand you’re a nurse?”
“That’s right Mollie, how did you know that?”
“Well Pamela, your friend Nicola has told us all about you. You see, Nicola actually nominated you to take part in our network’s other show Immerse the Nurse, but after you didn’t quite make the cut, she contacted us instead!”
“Oh really?” said a bewildered Pamela.
“So”, said Mollie as she put her arm around Pamela’s shoulder and led her to the other side of the stage, “every time we get an incorrect guess for one of our mystery celebrities, you get a gunging!”
The audience cheered as Pamela looked horrified. Reluctantly she took her seat on a stool perched on the right side of the stage.
“Right here we go then”, said Mollie, “Scarlett, have we had any guesses yet?”
“Well Mollie, we have had our first two guesses already, @terroristpie on Twitter suggests that celeb number 6 might be Katherine Jenkins, while they tweeted in again suggesting number 1 is Oti Mabuse”.
“Interesting, let’s start with number 6. The studio lights will turn green if it’s right and red if it is wrong, is celebrity number 6 Katherine Jenkins?”
A drum roll sounded and the studio lights flashed a variety of colours before settling on green.
“Katherine Jenkins is indeed our mezzosoprano, come on out”.
Katherine emerged on stage.
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Her yellow dress revealed to the crowd that she was part of Team Arielle. She waved and took a seat on Arielle’s sofa, taking a glass of champagne as she did so.
“Welcome to the show Katherine,” said Mollie. The Welsh singer waved nervously and the camera panned back to the host.
“Right let’s find out if our viewer’s second guess was correct. Is celebrity number 1 Oti Mabuse?”
The studio lights flashed again and eventually settled in a dark red revealing that Oti was in fact a wrong answer. Scarlett informer the audience “Oti is not a stranger to gunge so afraid this isn’t right!”
At this point, Pamela was looking very worried. Mollie reminded her and everyone else what was about to come next. “So for every wrong answer, Pamela gets gunged!”
Mollie picked up a bucket of thick brown gunge. Instead of walking up behind Pamela, Mollie approached the blonde from the front, stopping about five feet away before throwing the contents of the bucket at the unsuspecting nurse.
Pamela screamed as the gunge hit her in the face, turning her blonde hair brown in an instant. “Sorry Pamela”, said Mollie as she put the bucket down and walked off. “Right Scarlett, what else has been coming in?”
“Well, it’s funny you should say that Mollie, there has been a flurry of activity on our Twitter feed. While you were dealing with poor Pamela, our friend @terroristpie has been in touch twice, and we have also had a new guess from @tomato70”.
“Very good, can you talk us through them?”
“I can indeed”, said Scarlett, “we have guesses for celebrities 1,3 and 5. There is a suggestion that our ‘stranger’ could be Natalie Dyer, ‘soaky before’ might be Sophie Turner while our queen could be Jenna Coleman”.
“Wow, the guesses are flowing thick and fast, but is the gunge? There’s only one way to find out…”
The studio lights started flashing multiple colours again.
“Natalie Dyer – is that right or wrong?” The lights flashed red.
“Ok, what about Sophie Turner?” The lights flashed red again.
“And finally, Jenna Coleman?” The lights went red for a third time.
“Wow, it seems our celebrities’ identities will remain safe a little longer. One person isn’t safe is Pamela. Three wrong answers mean three gungings, sorry Pamela”.
Before Pamela could realise what was happening. Three stage hands came out of nowhere with large buckets of thick green slime which they simultaneously threw at the blonde from all angles ensuring no part of her was uncovered.
“Give us a thumbs up if you’re ok there Pamela.” Pamela just about managed to put her thumbs up and force a smile, though deep down she felt horrendous.
“Chin up Pamela”, Scarlett tried to keep her positive “the next guess is in, and this one makes sense. @tomato70 thinks ‘initially another stranger’ is Alex Scott”.
“Well the A S makes sense I guess”, shrugged Mollie, “is Alex Scott one of our stars?”
The lights flashed around and eventually turned green. The audience cheered and Mollie invited Alex out onto the stage.
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As Alex appeared, everyone could see her yellow Strictly-like outfit, and realised Arielle now had a. 2-0 lead. Holly’s face sank as she too realised what had happened. Alex waved to the crowd, picked up her glass of champagne and sat down with Arielle and Katherine.
“So, Arielle has a 2-0 lead, and now just needs one more reveal to take the advantage going into the Gunk Dunk. How are you feeling now Arielle?”
“I’m delighted with how it’s gone so far, I really want that lead, and I’m sure the viewers want to see Holly gunged again!”
“Holly, you must be a bit worried now, right?”
“Well obviously my chances of winning this are a lot slimmer now but let’s just see what happens”.
“More from our team captains later, but back over to Scarlett who has more from Twitter”.
“We have a second guess for celebrity five Mollie”.
“Great, tell us more”.
“Well @tomato70 suggests that our queen could be queen of the track Victoria Pendleton”.
“Makes sense – and her initials are V P, studio lights, is that right?”
The lights flashed and then settled red, the audience were audibly surprised, as they were convinced this was right. As the lights returned to normal, a klaxon sounded, and a torrent of pink gunge fell seemingly out of nowhere catching Pamela completely by surprised. She now looked even less impressed.
“How you doing there Pamela?” Scarlett shouted across the studio.
“Well I’ve had better days”, Pamela said. “But I’m going to kill Nicola when I see her”.
Scarlett and the audience all laughed. “Well, it might not be over yet, as we’ve had another guess come in – this time from @byronmcsteele who thinks our ‘energy infringement’ is sports presenter Jules Breach”.
“Interesting “, said Mollie. “Studio lights, is this right?”
The lights flashed and eventually lit the studio bright green confirming that a third celebrity had now been identified. Jules walked out onto the stage.
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Her tight fitting blue dress revealed that the game was still on. The crowd were delighted by this, and so was Holly. Jules picked up her glass of champagne and sat down next to her team captain.
“And we now have another guess for our Queen”, Scarlett revealed “our friend @tomato70 thinks it might be former queen of the jungle, Vicky Pattison”.
“Well let’s find out”, Mollie replied “remember Arielle just needs one more supporter to win the game while Holly still needs two. Studio lights, is this right?”
The lights did their now customary multicoloured flash before settling on green. The audience cheered as everyone waited in anticipation.
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Vicky emerges onto the stage wearing a bright yellow dress. The audience cheered as they realised what had happened. Holly looked less pleased as she too realised this was game over. Vicky collected her glass of fizz and made her way over to a jubilant yellow team.
“Well, it appears we have a result,” Mollie declared “with Arielle winning by three supporters to one. In a moment I’ll be chatting to Arielle, but first there are still two more celebrities to identify, aren’t there Scarlett?”
“That’s right Mollie, and we’re going to give our viewers some extra help with these additional clues”. Two extra clues appeared on the screen behind Scarlett.
“Ok, I’m sure we’ll reveal all soon but in the meantime, Arielle, how are you feeling?”
“Well obviously this is a big help in the final, I can’t thank the viewers enough for their help, but it’s not over yet!”
“Indeed it isn’t – any message for Holly right now?”
“Bring on the Gunk Dunk!”
“I have a feeling I’ll be getting messy again before that,” said a dejected Holly.
“You certainly will but we need the rest of your team first. Any new guesses Scarlett?”
“Yes, it appears our viewers think that mystery celebrity number 2 is Pixie Lott, and star six is either Jennifer Ellison or Faye Brookes”.
“Ok the wait is over, mystery celebrities reveal yourselves”.
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Pixie Lott and Faye Brookes entered the studio wearing their inevitable blue outfits. Given what was about to happen, the pair were both smiling and waving to the crowd. They took their seat with Holly and Jules. Mollie was now standing centre stage.
“Ok it’s forfeit time, firstly there was one more wrong answer in there, and as we won’t be needing these anymore, shall we Scarlett? Mollie pointed to the buckets of blue gunge at the side of stage clearly there in the event of Holly winning.
Mollie and Scarlett picked up a bucket each and approached Pamela who had almost been forgotten about as she sat at the side of the stage, dripping with gunge. Once close enough, the two presenters hurled the contents of the buckets at the pretty blonde who squealed in shock as she was coated in blue gunge from both sides.
“Give her a big hand, she’s been a great sport all night. Ladies and gentlemen, Pamela!”
Covered in that fresh layer of thick blue gunge, Pamela was helped off stage to rapturous applause as Mollie continued. “Now to our unidentified celebrities – you also get a special forfeit from your team mates”.
Holly and Jules were each handed giant custard pies. Holly approached Pixie while Jules took Faye. The audience counted down…..3…..2….1……
Holly and Jules smashed the pies into their team mates’ faces. Being an expert at this, Holly made sure Pixie had full facial and hair coverage while Jules was much kinder, with Faye getting a lighter covering.
“Finally, the main event. Positions please ladies”.
The blue team took their seats on four wooden stools centre stage. The yellows were invited to stand behind them – each being handed a bucket.
“We’ll start this end”, Mollie said pointing to Faye “whenever you’re ready Vicky”.
“If she was SOAKY BEFORE, she’ll be gungey after!” Scarlett quipped.
Without a moments pause, Vicky picked up the bucket and tipped it squarely over Faye’s head, instantly turning her brown hair yellow. The gunge flowed down her shoulders and onto her dark blue dress. Just as she did on her arrival, she smiled and waved at the crowd, seeming to be rather enjoying the experience Vicky finished and placed the bucket down before admiring her handywork.
Next was Katherine. She was slightly more cautious to pick the bucket up. “Sorry”, she whispered to Pixie as she lifted the bucket about her head, before slowly upturning it and emptying the contents on the blonde pop star’s head. Due to the colour of the gunge it made less of an impression on the blonde’s hair but immediately made an impression on her blue dress. Katherine’s attempt to be kind prolonged the gunging, and Pixie’s agony, but once it had finished she was able to look at Faye and laugh.
Next were the two sports girls and Jules looked a lot more nervous that the two who had gone before her. Alex smiled as she picked up the bucket “I have always wanted to do this to someone”, she said with a beaming smile, and before Jules had time to respond, the thick yellow gunge was streaming down her hair and face, and onto her dress. Jules looked visibly disgusted by the whole experience, while Alex continued to smile from ear to ear, making the whole scenario more pleasing on the eye. Jules was covered, there seemed more gunge in this bucket, to her at least.
Last up, it was the turn of the two main contenders “let’s hope this isn’t the last time you’ll be gunged on this show Willoughby, I wanna see you swimming in the stuff later”, yelled Arielle as she rather viciously dumped the bucket of yellow slime on Holly’s head. Holly could be seen looking rather wound up by this outburst beneath the yellow gunge but maintained her composure and the gunge poured down her body.
“Wow, would you look at those four”, said Mollie as the camera panned to a wide shot of the four gunged ladies.
“Did you enjoy that Scarlett?”
“It’s was great Mollie!”
“We’ll make sure you tune in for the final, as Arielle and Holly take on the Gunk Dunk in a bid to be crowned Queen of the Gunge, we’ll see you soon”.
As Mollie and Scarlett waved to camera, they had failed to spot that the yellow team had now moved behind them, each holding one of those now famous end of show pies. Vicky and Katherine smashed their pies into the side of Scarlett’s face, while Arielle and Alex dealt with Mollie in a similar manner. Finally the last two buckets of blue gunge left over from earlier were handed to Alex and Vicky who closed the show by simultaneously pouring these over the two hosts, ruining Mollie’s favourite own.
As the show closed, the girls all headed backstage to prepare for the final. Mollie, who now knew what it felt like to get gunged, was grinning from ear to ear, not seeming to mind that her favourite dress had been ruined. This had definitely been the highlight of her career. The video was all over social media, and it was getting loads of comments. Mollie smiled to herself again, and began thinking about what the final might bring.
Author’s Note – So there you have it, Arielle wins Game 3. For those in any doubt, here’s how the clues worked:
- Initially another stranger gets you the initials AS, Alex has never been gunged, but having don Strictly, has tangoed
- The phrase Miss P Lott, is hidden in the clue
- Soaky before is an anagram of Faye Brookes
- Energy is measured in Joules. An infringement is a breach
- Initially VP, then a Queen, Vicky Pattison (VP) queen of the jungle
- Clutched at straws a little here, I suspect Katherine Jenkins is the most famous female mezzosoprano around.
If people liked these, I am happy to launch The Mess-ked Singer as my second series after BOTD?