{"id":143005,"date":"2025-11-19T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143005\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:06:10","slug":"the-chases-bradley-walsh-stops-show-for-announcement-about-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chase’s Bradley Walsh stops show for announcement about The Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chase host Bradley Walsh briefly halted the quiz show to deliver a surprise on-air announcement, marking a significant milestone for one of its biggest stars.<\/p>\n

In a recent episode of The Chase UK, contestants Nykia, Eilidh, Adam and Dave were hoping to outsmart one of the show’s world-best quizzers.<\/p>\n

Dave opened the game with an impressive \u00a35,000 (NZ$11,600) in the cash builder before facing Mark ‘The Beast; Labbett in the head-to-head. <\/p>\n

Watch The Chase UK daily at 5pm on TVNZ1 and TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n

But before the round could begin, Walsh stopped proceedings.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve got a special announcement to make,” he told viewers, revealing the programme had now filmed almost 2300 episodes – and that this marked Labbett\u2019s 500th appearance as The Beast. <\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/p>\n

Mark Labbett, The Beast (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

The studio applauded the long-serving Chaser, and fans jumped online to offer their congratulations.<\/p>\n

“Congrats to The Beast himself,” one viewer wrote. Another added: \u201c500 episodes for The Beast!\u201d<\/p>\n

Labbett, who spent two decades as a supply teacher specialising in maths and PE, first developed a passion for quizzing while working at a holiday camp. <\/p>\n

He later appeared on shows Mastermind, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and University Challenge before joining The Chase in 2009 as one of its original Chasers. <\/p>\n

He now features on Beat the Chasers and on the US and Australian versions of the hit format, and in 2022 released a book titled Can You Beat The Beast?<\/p>\n

The Chase has remained one of the most popular shows on kiwi television, with two out of three Kiwis watching it in 2024.<\/p>\n

Watch the Chase New Zealand, Mondays, 7.30pm on TVNZ 1, and streaming on TVNZ+.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chase host Bradley Walsh briefly halted the quiz show to deliver a surprise on-air announcement, marking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,417],"class_list":["post-143005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}