Would I Lie to You?/Recap/Series 4

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Episode 1

Episode 1 (Aired 23 July 2010)

David's Team: Richard E. Grant and Fern Britton

Lee's Team: Martin Clunes and Sanjeev Bhaskar

Home Truths

Sanjeev: "I once had to ask Michael Winner to calm down after I crashed into his car."
David's Team: Lie
Answer: True

Fern: "I worked in the post office for a week, but gave up as I couldn't ride the bike properly."
Lee's Team: Lie
Answer: True

Martin: "I have actually been fired by Alan Sugar."

David's Team: True

Answer: Lie

This Is My...

Richard: "Ken produced my record, a dance version of a Shakespearean soliloquy."
Fern: "Ken and I are part of the same troupe of Morris dancers."
David: "Ken rides a steam engine, and recently let me ride in the cab with him."
Lee's Team: Fern
Answer: Richard

Quick-Fire Lies

Lee: "There was a saying at my old school: if Lee Mack can pass his Geography O-Level, then anyone can."
David's Team: Lie
Answer: True

David: "For six months, I wrote horoscopes for a womens' magazine."
Lee's Team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Winners: Lee's Team (6-5)

Individual Liar of the Week: Martin Clunes


Episode 2

Episode 2 (Aired 30 July 2010)

David's team: Ruth Jones and Jason Manford

Lee's team: Jack Dee and Peter Serafinowicz

Home Truths

Ruth: "I once secretly swapped sandwiches with Rob because a dog licked it."
Lee's team: True
Answer: Lie

Jack: "I developed a word-association system to help remember people's names, but gave it up when it backfired on me."
David's team: True
Answer: True

Jason: "For ten years, I refused to go into any branch of McDonald's after a girl dumped me in one."
Lee's team: True
Answer: True

This is my…

Ruth: "This is Jim. He saved my tortoise's life when he was about to be crushed to death at a recyling plant."
Jason: "This is Jim; me and him got assaulted by some local schoolkids when we were promoting a local butcher's. I was dressed as a sausage and he was dressed as a chop."
David: "I bought 10 packs of double A batteries from Ian on Ebay, and he sent me hundred packs by mistake."
Lee's team: David
Answer: Ruth

Quick-Fire Lies

Lee: "I've placed a 500 pound bet at the bookie that I'll live until I'm 100."
David's Team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Peter: "My first drink of the morning is always a mixture of tea and coffee. I call it 'coff-tea'."
David's Team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Rob: "I once stole Catherine Zeta-Jones' dinner money."
David's Team: True
Lee's Team: Lie
Answer: True

Winners: David's Team (8-3)

Individual Liar of the Week: Ruth Jones


Episode 3

Episode 3 (Aired 6 August 2010)

David's team: Keeley Hawes and Stephen Mangan

Lee's team: Kevin Bridges and Professor Brian Cox

Home Truths

Steve: "I have nicknames for both my big toes."
Lee's team: True
Answer: Lie

Keeley: "I lied to my husband that I was good at tennis, and had to have secret lessons when he arranged a doubles match."
Lee's team: True
Answer: True

Kevin: "I once accidentally bought a horse." [1]
David's team: Lie
Answer: True

This is my…

Kevin: "This is Drac, he's my dad's friend. He took me out for a driving lesson and I reversed through a chip shop window."
Lee: "This is Drac and I presented him with first prize at the national pie awards, 2009."
Brian: "This is Drac, the roadie that left me gaffer-taped to a lighting rig for over an hour."
David's team: Brian
Answer: Brian

Quick-Fire Lies

David: "I've had to prize open my bedroom door for the last two years ever since the door handle fell off."
Lee's Team: Lie
Answer: True

Lee: "Possession: This is the children's cutlery I used when I went on a special diet. It helped to make the portions on my plate seem bigger."
David's Team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Winners: David's Team (7-4)

Individual Liar of the Week: Kevin Bridges


Episode 4

Episode 4 (Aired 13 August 2010)

David's team: Craig Revel Horwood and Ben Fogle

Lee's team: Hugh Dennis and Kate Silverton

Home Truths

Hugh: "For superstitious reasons, I have to touch the tip of my nose every time I say the word France."
David's team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Ben: "I was interrogated for six hours on suspicion of being a spy."
Lee's team: Lie
Answer: True

Kate: "I once read an entire news bulletin with one foot in a bucket of iced water."
David's team: True
Answer: Lie

Ring of Truth

"Andy Murray recently released a rap single that sold just 200 copies and failed to chart."
David's team: Lie
Lee's team: True
Answer: True

This is my…

Ben: "This is Mike; I met him in a pub and got so drunk that Mike here gave me a tattoo."
David: "This is Mike, and we once started a detective agency together in my garden shed."
Craig:" "This is Mike, and he beat me in a 'Moustache Wearer of the Year' competition."
Lee's team: David
Answer: Ben

Quick-Fire Lies

Lee: "When I was six, I was thrown out of ballroom dancing lessons."
David's team: Lie
Answer: True

David: "I have such a terrible singing voice, that one year my teacher told me to mime during our school carol concert."
Lee's team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Rob: "I always throw the first and last biscuit away without eating it."
Lee's team: Lie
David's team: True
Answer: Lie

Winners: Lee's Team (8-3)

Individual Liar of the Week: Ben Fogle


Episode 5

Episode 5 (Aired 20 August 2010)

David's team: Ronnie Corbett and Sarah Millican

Lee's team: Julian Clary and Holly Walsh

Home Truths

Julian: "In my garden I have a life-sized statue of myself astride a unicorn."
David's team: True
Answer: Lie

Ronnie: "I once undertook a self-help course entitled 'How to Become Taller'"
Lee's team: True
Answer: True

Sarah: "I once spent an entire day on the ASDA shuttle bus, just to have a day out."
Lee's team: True
Answer: True

This is my…

Ronnie: "This is Paul. Paul I found, one morning, bound and gagged, in a bunker on the golf course next to our house."
David: "This is my driver, Paul; he refuses to drink pints cause his hands are so small."
Sarah: "This is my news agent Paul. He once asked me to watch the shop for ten minutes: by the time he got back I'd broken a window and there was a little boy had his head stuck in a crisp box."
Lee's team: Sarah
Answer: David

Quick-Fire Lies

David: "As a child, I used to play board games against a bucket with a face painted on it. I called this bucket Stephen Tatlock."
Lee's team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Ronnie: "Last week, I actually had to go into a shop and buy four candles."
Lee's team: True
Answer: Lie

Winners: Lee's team (8-4)

Individual Liar of the Week: Ronnie Corbett


Episode 6

Episode 6 (Aired 27 August 2010)

David's Team: Rhod Gilbert and Miranda Hart

Lee's Team: Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall and Rufus Hound

Home Truths

Hugh: "Occasionally, as a treat, I put Marmite on my face and let my dog lick it off."
David's Team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Miranda: "I always test the temperature of my bath with my ear."
Lee's Team: True
Answer: Lie

Rhod: "I once had a job where I had to answer the phone and say, 'Hello. Beef.'"
Lee's Team: True
Answer: True

This is my…

Hugh: "This is my friend Steve, who rescued me when I got stuck in a cave looking for bats."
Lee: "This is Steve and we once went camping together when we were in the Scouts and we woke up to find that someone had stolen our tent."
Rufus: "This is my friend Steve, and together we have visited every pub inside the M25 called 'The Red Lion' apart from four of them."
David's Team: Hugh
Answer: Rufus

Quick-Fire Lies

David: "Possession: This is the cricket ball with which I bowled out Jeremy Clarkson at a charity cricket match."
Lee's Team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Lee: "I trained for last year's Paris Marathon but pulled out when a doctor advised me that one of my legs is shorter than the other."
David's Team: Lie
Answer: True

Winners: Lee's Team (5-4)

Individual Liar of the Week: Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall


Episode 7

Episode 7 (Aired 3 September 2010)

David's Team: Bernard Cribbins and Patrick Kielty

Lee's Team: Deborah Meaden and Mark Watson

Home Truths

Patrick: "I once punched Muhammad Ali in the face."
Lee's Team: Lie
Answer: True

Deborah: "I recently had my house exorcised after several weird occurrences spooked me."
David's Team: True
Answer: Lie

'Mark: "When I was six years old, I wrote a will after losing a game of Connect Four to my dad."
David's Team: True
Answer: True

'Bernard: "I once sold my wife's car, but told her it was stolen."
Lee's Team: Lie
Answer: Lie

This is my…

Deborah: "This is Molly; she came into Dragon's Den, and she was so nervous that she left after twenty minutes without saying a single word."
Lee: "This is Molly; she's teaching me to ice skate because I'm going to be a best man at a wedding on ice."
Mark: "This is my friend Molly; she stared in a murder mystery play which I wrote and directed at school."
David's Team: Deborah
Answer: Mark

Quick-Fire Lies

David: "As a child I had a special way of communicating with Captain Kirk during Star Trek episodes."
Lee's Team: True
Answer: True

Rob: "Possession: This is a prototype invention of mine that I'm hoping to release one day."
David's Team: Lie
Lee's Team: True
Answer: Lie

Winners: David's Team (7-5)

Individual Liar of the Week: Deborah Meaden


Episode 8

Episode 8 (Aired 10 September 2010)

David's Team: John Bishop and Joanna Page

Lee's Team: Chris Addison and Patsy Palmer

Home Truths

Patsy: "I got Wellard, the dog, drunk on the set of Eastenders."
David's Team: True
Answer: Lie

Joanna: "I recite my times-tables every night before bed."
Lee's Team: True
Answer: True

'John: "I had a job where we started each day with a motivational song."
Lee's Team: Lie
Answer: True

This is my…

Patsy: "This is Mark, and he is currently teaching me to swim to overcome my fear of the water."
Lee: "This is Mark and he started the pub darts team that I play in, but I had to ask him to leave 'cause he was so bad."
Chris: "This is Mark; he is my next-door neighbor. He lost a bet of 200 pounds that In the Loop would win an Oscar, so I gave him my wheelbarrow."
David's Team: Patsy
Answer: Patsy

Quick-Fire Lies

David: "Possession: This is my special travel dressing gown. It's the one item I always pack when I go on holiday."
Lee's Team: True
Answer: True

Lee: "I once lost a game of swingball to a chimpanzee."
David's Team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Winners: Lee's Team (7-5)

Individual Liar of the Week: Joanna Page


Episode 9 (Unseen Bits)

Episode 9 (Aired 17 September 2010)

Home Truths

Brian Cox: "I once caused the Hadron Collider to be shut down, after I spilled yoghurt in it."
David's team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Martin Clunes: "Sometimes, I change the order I put my shoes and socks on to spice up my daily routine."
David's team: True
Answer: True

Ring of Truth

"Noel Edmonds employs a pet chef once a week, to cook a three-course dinner for his cat."
Lee's team: True
David's team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Quick-fire lies

John Bishop: "I was asked to leave the cinema for crying too loud."
Lee's team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Rob Brydon: "I used to put on a different voice on the telephone, and pretend to be my own agent."
Lee's team: True
David's team: True
Answer: True

Jack: "Possession: This is the fez that I put on, to propose to my wife."
David's team: Lie
Answer: Lie

Lee: "Every year, I mark the anniversary of the death of my goldfish by pouring a shot of brandy into my pond."
David's team: Lie
Answer: Lie

  1. Rob: "A what?" "A horse." "Oh, sorry, I missed the 's' "