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The story follows on from https://tellygunge.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/messy-countdown-s2-e3-part-1/
Part 2 of the show begins and there is a strange atmosphere as there is no one on stage. There are murmurs from the watching audience as they wonder what is going on.
All of a sudden, the Countdown music blares out from the speakers and on comes a very familiar person to all Countdown fans – it’s former presenter Carol Vorderman. She is wearing a green dress showing lots of cleavage and high heel shoes.
“Hello, and welcome back to part 2 of this final show of the season. I can see there are lots of surprised faces wondering why I am here.”
Carol smiles as she continues “The last time I appeared on Countdown was 2008, so it’s great to be invited back to take over the role of presenter for this last episode of the season. I have in my hand an envelope which contains the names of two ladies, who will be facing a rather unpleasant part 2 of the show.”
The brunette smiled as she opens the envelope and takes out two pieces of paper. “The first public vote was to decide who gets sploshed and that was between contestant Lucy Verasamy and my successor Rachel Riley. It was a very close vote with 52% the winning lady is…….Rachel.”
Carol seems particularly happy with the result and mouths ‘YES’ as she fist pumps the air. “The second public vote was to choose which of the four weathergirl guests would be joining in getting messy, and the winner with 37% of the vote was……….Becky Mantin.”
As Carol begins to walk across the stage, Susie Dent appears from the side. Susie is wearing a short orange dress and nude high heels.
Carol: “Hi Susie. Haven’t seen you for ages. How are you doing?”
Susie: “I’m fine thank you for asking Carol, and it’s great to see you again on the show.”
Carol: “I’m very much looking forward to getting my successor very messy. Care to help me with that?”
Susie: “Sure!”
The camera draws back to enable the viewers at home to see what Carol and Susie are standing next to. There is an overhead beam which had been lowered so that it was about 7 foot off the ground. Dangling down from the beam were three pairs of handcuffs. At that point, two blonde ladies are escorted onto the stage and are asked to raise their arms so that their hands can be secured in the handcuffs.
Rachel and Becky were wearing the same outfits as in part 1. Rachel still has her short dark blue dress, black tights and black high heel shoes, whilst Becky had a red dress and black high heel shoes on.
Carol: “Hello ladies, and I’m not sure if I should say congratulations or commiserations on winning the public vote. Ha ha!”
Rachel: “Very funny Carol! I thought I might have avoided the mess again, but I guess it wasn’t to be.”
Becky: “I’m gutted! I wish I had got some mess in part 1, as I think the fact I was the only one of the four weathergirl guests not to get messy, meant that I got more votes!”
Susie: “I think you might be right Becky! As it is the last episode of the season, then we have got some truly messy things lined up for both of you.”
Rachel turned her head to her right “Why is there another pair of dangling handcuffs next to me? Is there someone else that’s going to join me and Becky?”
Susie grinned and looked directly at Carol. “Thanks for reminding me. We thought it would be good for Carol to join you, given she hasn’t been on the show for so long…….”
A look of mock shock spread over Carol’s face “You can’t be serious!”
Susie put her hand on Carol’s back and attempted to push her towards the overhead beam. Instead Carol stood her ground and looked back at Susie with a devilish grin.
Carol: “Actually Susie, you may have been told by the producers that it was me going to be sploshed, but actually they want you to be cuffed to the beam.”
Susie: “Hey, whats going on?”
As Susie looked to the sides of the stage for her question to be answered, she received the gesture from the producers that she really didn’t want, and they were waving their hands for her to be the one that got cuffed to the beam.
Carol helped Susie stand next to Rachel, and she duly raised her arms and cuffed the brunette.
Rachel looked over to her colleague “Never mind Susie, at least you aren’t going to be the only one that’s going to get messy!”
Susie: “I can’t believe I’m being dragged into this. They told me Carol was going to get a gunging to celebrate her return to the show.”
Carol rubbed her hands with glee as the three cuffed ladies could do nothing but stand and wait for what was about to happen.
Carol: “I think I’m going to need some help, so let’s welcome back Lucy Verasamy and Jackie Guerrido.”
The two weathergirls walk onto the stage, again wearing the same outfits as in part 1.
Carol: “Hello again ladies. We have three victims, so I think to make this an efficient sploshing as possible, we should have a victim each. Lucy, why don’t you take Susie. Jackie, you can take Becky. Which leaves me in charge of sploshing Rachel, and gives me the choice of being particularly mean to her as well!”
Rachel lets out a wry smile as she realises her predecessor is going to take full advantage of the opportunity that had been presented to her.
Carol turns to the camera “We need to take another advert break, so join us in a few minutes for part 3!”
Author’s Note: Ok, so rather than me come up with what Rachel, Susie and Becky get sploshed with, I am going to invite suggestions. So if you have a preference for how they get messy, then put in comments below. I can’t promise I will use all of them, but I will pick the ones I think best fits in with the story……