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The 1% Club knocks out a whopping 16 celebs with easy anagram question – could you work out the answer?

The 1% Club knocks out a whopping 16 celebs with easy anagram question – could you work out the answer?

The Sun14-06-2025
CELEBS were left red-faced on The 1% Club after a simple anagram question wiped out a staggering 16 players.
Lee Mack hosted a Soccer Aid special of the ITV game show testing 100 celebrities and athletes on their logic and common sense.
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The star-studded lineup including Jill Scott, Iain Stirling, Paddy McGuinness, Tommy Fury, Tony Bellew, Chris Hughes and many more.
They hoped to reach the end and win up to £100,000 prize money for the UNICEF charity.
However, the 70% question saw an incredible 16 people eliminated in one fatal swoop.
Presenter Lee asked: Which of these is an anagram of LIONEL MESSI?
The players were then shown three possible answers: A) LONE MISSILE, B) LION IN SLIME and C) NO SMILES LEE.
Once the time limit was up, Lee revealed 16 people had answered incorrectly and were therefore out.
The right answer turned out to be A) LONE MISSILE.
Lee was devastated to learn his Soccer Aid pal Emmet J Scanlan and one of his footballing heroes Stuart Pearce were knocked out by the brain buster.
By the 1% question there were just two contenders remaining.
These were former footballer Clarke Carlisle - who played for QPR, Watford and Leeds - and comedian and ex-Soccer AM host, Lloyd Griffith.
The 1% Club viewers in awe as 'genius' footballer wins £100k for charity - but would you have got final question right?
Having reached the final question, Clarke and Lloyd had already won £10,000 for Unicef - and as the footballer also still had his pass intact another £1,000 was added to the guaranteed amount.
Unlike the regular show, the £11,000 was not in jeopardy and was guaranteed whatever happened.
But now it was their chance to secure the HUGE jackpot for the Soccer Aid charity.
Lee asked the pair: "In the opening verse to the original version of Three Lions, what TWO words feature exactly three times in the lyrics?"
The 1% Club's Most Difficult Questions
The 1% Club sees 100 contestants try and make it to the 1% question and be in with a chance to win a share of the jackpot. Here are just some of the show's most difficult teasers.
Players had to compare and contrast three images of butterflies then explain which of the butterflies were exactly the same on both sides. Find the image and answer here.
Players were shown groups of six symbols then asked which were in the same order whether you read them from left to right or right to left. Find the image and answer here.
Players were asked how many different combinations were there of displaying four digits on one hand. Find the answer here.
Peter had recently found his old diary that he'd written in secret code but he couldn't remember how to decipher what he wrote. Players were asked to crack the code and find out what the bold word was. WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72. Find the image and answer here.
Players were tasked with working out how many eyes they could see in an image, which was made up of letters, symbols and emojis. Find the image and the answer here.
A 1% question was based on a grid of numbers going in ascending order from 1 to 49. Starting on 25, the middle square, SEEN took you to square 27. From there, NEW took you to 20. From there, which square would SEWN take you to? Find the image and the answer here.
And finally, an easy one - What common food in bold has had its letters rearranged into alphabetical order? ABDER If you really don't know you can find the answer here.
The lyrics were shown on screen as a reference as they tried to figure out the answer in 30 seconds.
Here's what they were show:
Everyone seems to know the score, they've seen it all before
They just know, they're so sure
That England's gonna throw it away, gonna blow it away
But I know they can play, 'cause I remember...
So did you spot the repetitive words in just 30 seconds?
When it came time to answer, Lloyd, 41, admitted he'd misread the question.
Meanwhile, Clarke, 45, offered up "it" and "know" as his answer to the puzzle.
It was soon revealed that Clarke was correct - and had bagged a whopping £100,000 for Unicef.
A third added: "Clarke Carlisle is a genius!!"
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