Yes! That’s my gambling problem in a nutshell: I need a hand!

My column today is about Ballerina Farm, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and my rickety past. https://t.co/PyHygqQkQn

Anyway, he seems lovely, I’m glad he won. $10 million he got. Even I haven’t won that. 😂

This is how out of touch I am these days. Playing a poker tournament - my first in maybe three years - on home turf, the guy in the 2 seat tells me the guy in the 8 seat won the WSOP main event. I laugh along. Then they all show me photographs. He really did! I had NO IDEA.

It’s @bbcpress isn’t it, not bbcpressoffice. It’s no wonder they don’t know the programme’s on, with this kind of scattiness!

Some people have sent me this and asked if Only Connect doesn’t have any Christmas specials this year – but we have! There are four, including one really twinkly and fun experiment. They are lovely shows, all dotted around Christmas Day. @bbcpressoffice 🎄

For once, in my TV column, I’ve got a great recommendation for you!

I think I must have previously misunderstood the meaning of “wicker”.

Always in my comfort zone when asking awkward questions, tonight I enquire of the unsuspecting teams: *have you ever given blood*? It’s the closest #OnlyConnect gets to a Halloween special, at 8 pm on @BBCTwo

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My column today is about the wonderful Celebrity Traitors. I open with a wistful reflection on what to do when your pumpkins deflate and you pack away your wizards’ sleeves for winter.

To answer some angry questions: yes I do have principles, and one of them is that it's a very bad idea to put serious opinions on Twitter. So you may as well stop haranguing me for them. All I'm saying is: there is no need to bully a sweet, jolly quizzer for playing a TV quiz.

@Glinner

How come primary school children are encouraged to go to school in costumes, but secondary school children aren’t? Anybody who thinks that 11 (or 13, or 35) is “time to grow up”, is profoundly wrong. happy Halloween!

Meanwhile, if you prefer your connecting walls with twelve other gruelling questions as an appetiser, Only Connect is on tonight at 8pm @BBCTwo

Dear NYT I was rather touched by the Connections game today. IS IT A TRAP? I hope not. I enjoyed it. Best wishes VCM / #OnlyConnect

Middling scores I expect, but if #Strictly was only about a person in the public eye expressing a totally different side of themselves, learning to ballroom dance from a standing start and a different world, Karen Carney would be the winner this year for me. I think she’s great.

We love you, Tess and Claudia #Strictly

I think I’ve found my new stage name

@ajrgd @VictoriaCoren A sentence at a time. Twenty ish programmes a year? I'm 73.