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Ivo breathes heavily down the phone

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

After Alex blows the task brief over on the table. Ivo keenly attempts to blow it across the table with his own breath, but fails. His first idea is to blow out a candle, to render a room completely dark, but acknowledges that that would be quite boring television content. He then suggests he could try to get onto live radio on his phone, and then just breath out heavily on air. He first tries to call BBC Radio 5 Live, which broadcasts a lot of discussion shows with phone-ins, but does not manage to get through to anyone. He then decides to try to call Greg Davies himself, but only succeeds in reaching Greg's voicemail service. Unwilling to let go of the idea of breathing down a phone, but realising that perhaps he needs to add something else to make it more impressive, he leaves the lab and returns with a selection of stemmed drinking glasses, which he arranges on the floor, and surrounds with cushions. Apologising for what he anticipates will be "wilful damage of fancy glassware", he then calls series 9 contestant Ed Gamble and, when Ed answers his call, attempts to blow a basketball off the table, and onto the glassware with just his breath. However, he soon discovers that his breath is not as powerful as he imagined, and it takes him multiple attempts before he is able to get the ball rolling. The ball then lands on the glasses below but does not break a single one of them. He then reveals to Alex that Ed had hung up anyway. Ivo's last words of his attempt are "It feels like one point, doesn't it?". Greg agrees, awarding Ivo joint last place with Jenny and Kiell.

(Written by Karl Craven)

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