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Fort Boyard
Newest Review: ... off the coast of France. The teams all seem to be made up of fairly buff team members ho tend to wear lyrcra outfits as if they all belong to the same gym, the presenter is Melinda Messinger who is a former page three girl and former Eastender Leslie Grantham aka Dirty Den appears as the evil controller of the castle who describes what task they have to complete. Melinda job seems tobe to ... more  ... shout encouragement to the teams and run about providing the camera with lots of bouncing boob shots.
The tasks the teams have to complete asr a mix of strength, agility and intelligence tasks and involve the recovery of an item from the room.
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Fort Boyard: Melinda bouncy credentials (285 words)
by sympatic - written on 05.04.08 (Very useful, 71 readings)
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Fort Boyard is a strange sort of show and I was never really sure of the point of it. You can catch it currently on cable channel Challenge TV. It is rather similar to the Crystal Maze in that a team of people compete together to complete as many tasks as possible in a real fort which apparently is located off the coast of France. The teams all seem to be made up of fairly buff team members ho tend to wear lyrcra outfits as if they all belong to the same gym, the presenter is Melinda Messinger who is a former page three girl and former Eastender Leslie Grantham aka Dirty Den appears as the evil controller of the castle who describes what task they have to ...
The world of Fort Boyard (635 words)
by stephen2001 - written on 12.07.01 (Very useful, 1140 readings)
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Fort Boyard is a game show aired on Friday evenings on Channel 5 where five contestants work together as a team performing individual tasks in order to win money. The show is staged on a genuine fort off the coast of western France in the Bay of Biscay. This was bought by a French television company for their version of Fort Boyard on which the British version is based. It was kitted out to suit the needs of the game show from the tasks to safety equipment and various camera positions. If you remember the Crystal Maze on Channel 4 many years ago, the concept used in Fort Boyard is very similar and the tasks are pretty much the same. For those who ...
Fort Boyard: Worth stopping in on a Friday night! (1379 words)
by SusanLesley - written on 11.07.01 (Very useful, 378 readings)
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Fort Boyard is on Channel 5 at 8pm on Friday evening. It is a game show set in an old building somewhere off the coast of France. I use the term ‘building’, as I don’t know quite what to call it. Maybe it is a fort as the name of the show suggests. The building is oval in shape, with high straight brick walls, and an open courtyard in the middle. There are rooms set into the walls, which are used as the settings for the games. The idea of the game is that a team of five players tries to get the gold from the fort. They complete various puzzles in order to obtain four keys. These keys are used to open a gate beyond which is the gold, ...
