THE GREATEST SHOWMAN?

Mark Labbett is back as top quizzer The Beast for a new series of Beat The Chasers, but he has his sights set on a rather more musical competition in the future

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Beat The Chasers star Mark Labbett wants to compete on an entirely different type of show to the daytime quiz that made him famous.

“I'd love to do Strictly Come Dancing,” says the quizzer, who's six foot, six inches tall. “I would have liked to be the tallest ever contestant, but they've got Kristian Nairn who was Hodor in Game Of Thrones, and he's six foot 10. Put it another way, they've got no excuse for not picking me, if they can accommodate him!”

Should the Strictly producers come knocking after Kristian's recent withdrawal from the competition for medical reasons, Mark promises he'd prepare for the contest with the same amount of dedication he gives to his job as a Chaser. “All of us Chasers still play serious-level quizzing because we have to, otherwise we couldn't do our jobs,” he explains. “We're constantly learning. I've just spent half an hour reading my daily paper, looking for things of interest - it's a constant thing.”