News
14 Jan 2025
National Numeracy’s newest ambassador, Denise Welch, has taken on one of her biggest adventures to date by appearing in TV series Celebrity Hunted.
It’s one of the toughest challenges on TV – to evade capture by an expert team of ‘hunters’ by going ‘off-grid’ for 14 days.
This Sunday sees Channel 4’s Celebrity Hunted, which is in aid of Stand Up To Cancer, reach its halfway point and National Numeracy ambassador, Loose Women panellist and actress Denise Welch, along with her husband, Lincoln Townley, have so far managed to escape detection.
The series also features Duncan James and Christine McGuinness, Giovanni Pernice and Kai Widdrington, David Whitely and Zeze Mills, Simon McCoy and Lucrezia Millarini, and Danielle Harold and Kimberly Hart-Simpson.
Denise follows fellow National Numeracy ambassadors Bobby Seagull and Katya Jones, who teamed up with Saffron Barker and Aimee Fuller respectively to take part in the 2023 series.
Just like Bobby and Katya before her, Denise has been using numeracy to help her with a range of skills needed for the task, in particular navigation.
Perhaps taking part will see Denise improve her numeracy skills, just like Bobby did.
“Historically, my sense of direction and navigation are not where I want them to be, but during the course of Celebrity Hunted I really developed my sense of getting on trains, going off the beaten path and working out directions. It made me realise that in most things in life, you can get better with a bit of effort. That show really brought it out for me that I have got better than I was."
– National Numeracy ambassador Bobby Seagull
The sixth series is currently airing on Channel 4, Sundays at 9pm. We look forward to hearing all about the experience from Denise!
Why not improve your own number skills on a range of everyday maths concepts, by trying the National Numeracy Challenge?
Photo credit: Channel 4
