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The Courier
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Courier
Fife neighbours scoop cash jackpot on BBC quiz show Bridge of Lies
A team of neighbours from a Fife town has won the cash jackpot on the hit BBC quiz show Bridge of Lies. The team of four from Coaltown of Wemyss, scooped the £4,575 prize money in a nail-biting finale on Wednesday. The contestants included former Courier reporter Craig Smith and his wife, Lyndsey, along with neighbours, Nicola Forrest and Kenny Rodger. Contestants compete against the clock using their general knowledge, strategic skills, and often luck, to spot correct answers as well as lies in order to cross the bridge. The prize money mounts up depending on the number of players who successfully make it across. The contestants then team up to take on the 'final crossing' challenge. If they successfully make it across by answering a series of questions correctly, they win the prize money accumulated during the show. The quiz is hosted by actor Ross Kemp, famous for his role as Grant Mitchell in Eastenders. Tackling questions on subjects including holidays, theatre, names and the Stephen Spielberg films, all four made it across the bridge. This allowed them to go for the £4,575 prize pot working as a team to navigate across the bridge. With two of the team already out before completing the task, it was Lyndsey's turn to face the final question. And it was an agonising few seconds before host, Kemp, revealed that she was correct and they had scooped the prize money. The four hugged and cheered as they were congratulated by Kemp before revealing they would use the money on a group holiday ot Turkey. Speaking after the show was broadcast, Craig said he'd always wanted to be a contestant on a TV quiz show. He said: 'I applied initially one night, probably after a bottle of wine, thinking it wouldn't go anywhere but they gave us a call back and it went from there really. 'I've always liked the show as it's usually on around teatime in the background, and you end up just shouting at the screen. 'So I thought 'why not give it a go?' The 43-year-old former Courier reporter said he couldn't believe it when he found out his application had been successful. He added: 'It was filmed last September, so it's been around nine months to wait for it to come on. 'We had a brilliant time at the studios in Glasgow, and Ross Kemp is a really nice guy as well. 'We were last on the day to film, so it went on until about 8pm. 'None of us could watch it go out live, so we all gathered together to watch it on iPlayer with a wee glass of fizz to celebrate.' Craig said that the money had been put towards a holiday in Turkey in July for the team as well as several other Coaltown of Wemyss neighbours. The episode of Brdge of Lies is available to watch now on BBC iplayer.
Fox News
12-05-2025
- Business
- Fox News
WATCH: Are Americans willing to pay more for items made in the USA?
Americans from all over the country are still coming to terms with President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports, though many are acknowledging that they're willing to pay more for American products. Fox News Digital spoke to everyday Americans in Washington, D.C., New York City, Knoxville, Tennessee, and other major U.S. cities to find out if they'd be willing to pay more for American products or go with less to allow for Trump's tariffs to reset America's trade deals throughout the world. Many of those interviewed said yes. "Oh, 100%. I don't like to spend money and buy goods outside the USA because I'm also then supporting child labor and forced labor conditions that are unethical, normally," Lyndsey from Birmingham, Michigan, said when asked if she'd spend more on products made in America. Other Americans gave similar answers to the question. "Yeah, absolutely," Joe from Boston said. "You know, I mean, I'm pro-conservative, so anything that's going to build the economy here in America, yes, I would." Zharko in Michigan told Fox, "Absolutely, because we make the best. We just, nobody realized that. And it's about time." Ray in New York City said he'd pay more for American-made, so long as "it's a higher quality than I can get somewhere else." Mark, who was visiting D.C., told Fox, "Absolutely. We've talked about it a lot, and I think it's a temporary pain for good pay-off in the future, I think." However, D.C. resident Tamara said she liked the idea in principle, but disagreed with it because Trump has been promoting it. "I am pro-America. I do like made-in-American products. But considering today's climate and where it's coming from, I'm not really a fan," she said. Bill, a Republican voter visiting D.C., disagreed with the idea of paying more for American-made, telling Fox, "I think that's not a good policy. I mean, if America's going to compete with the rest of the world, it's got to compete on prices. I'm all for free markets." Fox also asked these people what they thought of Trump's recent statement that kids may have to deal with having less toys because of his reciprocal tariffs on Chinese goods. Trump told reporters last weekend, "All I'm saying is that a young lady, a 10-year-old girl, 9-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl, doesn't need 37 dolls." He also told NBC News anchor Kristen Welker in a recent interview, "I don't think that a beautiful baby girl needs — that's 11 years old — needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable." The interview subjects were more mixed in their answers to this question. Knoxville resident Jay said, "I would agree. I think today's society has a sense of entitlement, and I think that's where he's really going with that. Like, instead of having multiple things that you really don't need, you can do with less, and we can teach our kids to do with less maybe." Lyndsey from Birmingham agreed, saying, "I 100% agree with that. I think we need to be a less consumeristic style society and more of an organic, back-to-nature society where we're buying back from our farmers, we're getting everything locally sourced, and we're kind of building back a better community of just keeping things, the goods and services within a small community of places." Sergio, a Mexican man living in Tennessee, agreed with Trump's statements, but turned them around on the president, saying, "It's true, we don't need so many, but at the same time, Trump doesn't need so many millions, and he has a lot of millions. So why he doesn't give up some of those millions?" Tamara in D.C. didn't like Trump's point. "It's funny that he's the party of freedom, but he wants to tell us how we are to spend for our children, and I just don't think that's right," she said. Bill in D.C. criticized Trump's doll example, stating, "It's not going to just affect dolls. It's going to affect prices of all kinds. So, I don't think that that's probably the best analogy."
