Katy Wix is a Welsh actor and comedian. She is known for her roles in BBC Three sitcom Fried, Channel 4 parody The Windsors and BBC One sitcoms Ghosts and Not Going Out.
In 2019, Wix appeared in Series 9 of Taskmaster, finishing in third with 159 points. Due to illness, Kerry Godliman and Katherine Ryan stood in for her during the studio segments of Another spoon. and Bready bready bready. respectively. Godliman came joint last in the studio task and won her two points while Ryan won the task and earned Wix the full available five points.
She was the guest on episodes 9, 36 and 92 of Taskmaster The Podcast.
Performance[]
| Task | Description | Katy Wix |
|---|---|---|
| Episode 1: Join our cult. (4 September 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Most stressful thing. | 5 |
| 2 | Hide three aubergines in this room. | 3[1] |
| 3 | Arrange the lollies in rainbow order on the board in front of you. You may only take off your goggles if you find the dodo. You may only accuse one thing of being a dodo. | 1 |
| 4 | Make the most dramatic entrance. | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Draw the second longest snake. Your snake must be at least half an inch wide at all points. Your snake must be neatly curled up again after 3 minutes. | 0 |
| Bonus: Best snake. | 0 | |
| Total | 12[1] | |
| Episode 2: Butter in the microwave. (11 September 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Best bag. | 4 |
| 2 | Correctly identify which bin Alex is in. You must adhere to the commandments behind the curtain. You may only have one guess. No bins are to be opened at any point during the task unless authorised. | 0 |
| 3 | Draw a portrait of the Taskmaster using 16 A1 pages. You may not remove the A1 pages from the flipchart during your drawing. After the task, the A1 pages will be laid out in the pattern shown on the front page. You may only draw on the flipchart paper. | 5 |
| 4 | Team: Complete this adventure (by saying the word demeaning). Unless otherwise stated, you must stick together and only open one task when you've completed the previous one. | 5 |
| 5 | Live: Make a lovely little ball arrangement. | 4 |
| Live: Flatten all of the yellow balls, throw all the red balls into the bucket, and turn all the blue balls into one big blue ball. | ||
| Total | 18 | |
| Episode 3: Five miles per day. (18 September 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Weirdest wooden thing. | 4 |
| 2 | Go to the caravan. You must enter the caravan within 2 minutes of Alex entering the caravan. | 5 |
| List all the thing that were hanging from the wooden board in the lab. Also say the colour of the wooden board in the lab. Also say what Alex said to you in the lab. | ||
| 3 | Build the most robust statue of the most delicate thing using the materials provided and place it on the red cross. Your delicate thing must be recognisable on the red cross an hour after you finish and should leave you feeling enormously proud of your creation. | 5 |
| Score a goal with this football. | 2 | |
| 4 | Break something into the most pieces and completely fix it. | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Wearing your blindfold correctly at all times, fill a pint glass with water. If you make a big mess, you are disqualified. | 4 |
| Total | 23 | |
| Episode 4: Quisps. (25 September 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing to celebrate with on a stage. | 2 |
| 2 | Make the most striking water feature. | 1 |
| 3 | Team: Bring a classic board game to life. | 3 |
| 4 | Say a letter of the alphabet. | 4 |
| Put the most things beginning with the letter you just said on this tray. The tray may not leave Alex and Alex may not leave the lab. | ||
| 5 | Live: Throw your things far but not too far. Taking it in turns, you must select a thing and throw it beyond the line but not off the runway. If your thing does not end up in the safe zone, you are disqualified. If all the objects end up in the safe zone, the person who has thrown their thing the shortest distance is disqualified. You may not manipulate your things in any way before throwing them. | 1 |
| Total | 11 | |
| Episode 5: Another spoon. (2 October 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Best defunct thing. | 4 |
| 2 | Lasso Alex. You must stand behind this line at all times. | 3 |
| 3 | Make the most accurate and inventive egg timer. After which, Alex will boil an egg for as long as your egg timer lasts. The Taskmaster likes his eggs runny, but not too runny. You may not use any pre-existing timing devices. | 3 |
| 4 | Team: Get to know this person. You will be tested on your knowledge of this person in ten minute's time. You may not write anything down or leave the lab. You must take it in turns to ask completely different questions. The person will tell the truth, lie, then brag, in that order, but not necessarily starting with the truth. | 4 |
| Bonus: Recreate the person's 'big tongue' party trick. | 0[2] | |
| 5 | Live: Looking at your mirrors and facing forward at all times, build the highest tower of bricks on the table behind you.
You must stay on your spot and use your litter pickers at all times. |
2[2] |
| Total | 16 | |
| Episode 6: Bready bready bready. (9 October 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: The thing that, if you found it in a field, you'd be most pleased about. | 1 |
| 2 | Make a part of your body look abnormally long. | 3 |
| 3 | Push a melon up the slide and into the caravan with these breadsticks. Only breadsticks may touch the melon at any point. You may not adjust the slide. | DQ |
| Bonus: Fewest breadsticks used. | 1 | |
| 4 | Serenade yourself. | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Slide a drink to the Taskmaster. The worst slider each round must leave the bar. | 5[3] |
| Total | 13 | |
| Episode 7: A cuddle. (16 October 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing they've taken from someone else's house. | 4 |
| 2 | Get an entire egg into one of those metal things. The highest single score wins. If you get an entire egg into one of these metal things without the egg breaking, the score is doubled. You may not move the chair or the metal things and you must release your egg while on the chair. | 5 |
| 3 | Forge the best Mount Rushmore. | 5 |
| 4 | Join your hands together so your palms are touching and each finger of one hand is touching the equivalent finger on the other hand. Your hands must stay in this position for the entirety of the task. Put the most gold rings on this drumstick. | 5 |
| 5 | Live: Read the Taskmaster's mind. The Taskmaster will choose a card. You must state if that card features a horse or a laminator. You will receive 1 point for every correct answer in a row. | 5 |
| Total | 24 | |
| Episode 8: Shaqinahat. (23 October 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing from a shed. | 1 |
| 2 | Throw something into this pedal bin from the furthest distance. The pedal bin must be shut when you throw your thing. | 2[4] |
| 3 | Write the best lyrics to the Taskmaster theme tune and perform them in the most memorable way. | 3 |
| 4 | Team: Supply the sound for this film. You will have one chance to perform all the sounds in time with the film. | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Without adjusting your welder's mask at any point, draw your own face on the front of your welder's mask. Your face should be the same size of your face and either very angry or very happy. | 5 |
| Total | 15[4] | |
| Episode 9: Don't like them go bang. (30 October 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Most desirable smooth thing. | 4 |
| 2 | Give Alex a five-word instruction in the most spy-like way. You must not be seen or heard communicating with Alex in any way. | 3 |
| 3 | Inflate, tie and pop as many balloons as possible in ten minutes. Once you pop your first balloon, you may not inflate any more balloons. If any balloons are still inflated after ten minutes, you are disqualified. Also, you may not look at a clock or any sort of timing device at any point. | DQ |
| 4 | Make either a knee and an elbow, a knee and a knee or an elbow or an elbow look like a famous couple. You must only use your knees and elbows. | 5 |
| 5 | Team Live: Standing in a queue, draw the most accurate pictures. Alex will show the person at the back of the queue a picture. The person at the back of the queue must draw this picture on the back of the person in front of them. The person at the front of the queue must draw the picture they think has been drawn on the back of their pad. No-one may communicate with anyone else. | 5 |
| Total | 17 | |
| Episode 10: Think about the spirit. (6 November 2019) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing that is very long and thin. | 5 |
| 2 | Do the most preposterous thing with this chickpea. | 3 |
| 3 | Team: Make the best cup of tea in this tea cup. You must use all the equipment on the table. You must not use anything from the kitchen. You must wear the washing-up gloves throughout the task. | 1 |
| 4 | Complete the seven tasks. When you touch a task in any way, you must complete it before looking inside another task. | DQ |
| 5 | Live: Pull the short breadstick. Taking it in turns, you must pull a breadstick out of the apron of the person next to you. Before each pull, the breadstick's bearer must point to one of the breadsticks, wink, and say "This is the short breadstick". If you pull the short breadstick, the breadstick bearer is disqualified. | 0 |
| Total | 9 | |
| Grand Total | 158 | |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Whilst it took Alex 7:38 to find Jo's aubergines and 5:25 to find Katy's, Katy was awarded 3 points and Jo awarded 2 points, although Jo should have been awarded 3 points and Katy 2 points. The scores for the episode and total points for the series both reflect this unexplained change to the points said to be awarded for this task.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 These points were attributed to Katy but won by Kerry Godliman, who replaced her for the studio segments of this episode.
- ↑ These points were attributed to Katy but won by Katherine Ryan, who replaced her for the studio segments of this episode.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 While Katy is said to be awarded 2 points and Rose is said to be awarded 3 points for task 2 (based on the distances recorded), the scoreboard after the second task shows Katy moving up by 3 points and Rose moving up by 2 points. The scores for the episode and total points for the series both reflect this unexplained change to the points said to be awarded for this task.
Trivia[]
- Katy and Kiell Smith-Bynoe are the only contestants to not win a series, but possess a trophy at some point.
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