Countdown star and word expert Susie Dent will bring her brand-new solo show Word Perfect to Southampton’s Mayflower Studios on November 8.

Countdown's Susie Dent is dusting off her dictionary as she takes to the stage in Leicestershire. The much-loved lexicographer is coming to the county as part of her new 'Word Perfect' tour. Susie ...

Countdown's Susie Dent is dusting off her dictionary as she takes to the stage in Leicestershire. The much-loved lexicographer is coming to the county as part of her new 'Word Perfect' tour. Susie ...

Linguistic charm meets live entertainment as Countdown’s Susie Dent brings her show Word Perfect to Darlington Hippodrome.

Susie Dent will be at The Apex on December 3 (Image: Supplied) Her tour follows her 74-date The Secret Life of Words tour, which ran from 2018 to 2024.

Just as Caesar thought his friend Brutus was the last man on Earth who would betray him, so I imagined Susie Dent would defend to her final breath the correct pronunciation of common English words.

While the cardinals are known to wear their scarlet red attire, some individuals involved in conclave proceedings were seen in black and purple clothes.

The famous have expanded their reach beyond memoir to murder mysteries. Susie Dent, in fairness, while she is famous, is in no way a literary dillettante or Johnny-come-lately.

Susie Dent has written another book for Puffin, The Roots We Share: 100 Words to Bring Us Together, “a joyful collection of words and phrases celebrating harmony, peace, love and togetherness”.

Susie Dent has revealed how Jimmy Carr once left her flabbergasted on the set of 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown with a sex joke, rattling production of the C4 show.

Jimmy Carr stunned Susie Dent with such a filthy gag that 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown ground to a halt with guests unable to stop laughing in horror ...