Top Of The Heap

Robert Llewellyn is back with a new series of Scrapheap Challenge.

20 September, 2002

Calling all metal heads! Scrapheap Challenge has returned for a brand new, fifth series of metal, mud and mayhem. Hosted by Red Dwarf's Robert Llewellyn, competing teams have just ten hours to assemble working machines and then put them head-to-head in a battle to the final.

Joining the team this series is former Big Breakfast presenter Lisa Rogers. Quoted on the Scrapheap website, she explained why she may be too girly for the challenge. "I'm terrible at throwing, and for one Scrapheap I had to throw mud at a target. I could barely get the balls of mud in the right ball-park, never mind on the target."

Lisa replaces the unrelated Cathy Rogers ("I'm not officially related to Cathy, but we're surrogate sisters in the world of scrap") as co-host. "Cathy's the grandmummy of Scrapheap and very clever, so they were difficult shoes to fill. I tried to make sure I didn't try to be Cathy - I've tried to be myself and see where me, Robert and Scrapheap go from there." Cathy herself has moved on from the show she helped create and is currently working on Full Metal Challenge, due on Channel 4 in early 2003. (Details on fullmetalchallenge.com.)

Robert told the site that the show once came very close to disaster. "In the final. Disaster? I should say so. Very close to death I would say. Looking back, I think we must all be blessed that no one was hurt in the most catastrophtastic, smashcrunching bend-twist snappage marathon of metal mayhem that any of us have ever witnessed."

Scrapheap Challenge continues on Channel 4 on Sunday nights at 5pm.

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