this is my old neighbor gareth and when i was learning a song he would distract me
by singing the same song in his own flat but in a different language how do you know gareth
this is gareth he was the rickshaw driver i once paid to peddle me home
by the time we arrived he was so exhausted i let him stay on my sofa
so there we have it um gareth's synchronized singer richard's pointless panther or greg's
shattered chauffeur david's team who do you want to start with gareth what language does he sing
the song in or does it vary um he was singing in english so what were you saying german ah
what song um i think uh i think it was box and matthew passion that's what i thought it would be
so how often did this happen enough for it for me to remember to mention it now because
if a neighbour was singing a song next door to me the first thing i'd do would be to translate it
back to english and sing it as an off-putting kind of yeah especially through a wall that really cuts
deep how does it go gareth i can't remember it in english you don't really want to hear it do you
i'd like to hear it as if you're frightened
and he was singing exactly the same song well the other side of a wall
yeah i mean actually um i think upper semitone so he's your neighbor he's also called gareth
he's singing the same song in a different language and a semitone a difference almost unbelievable
greg tell us your story um not your whole life you know just just a rickshaw i had a a very big
celebration in the center of town what reason i was i was celebrating uh leaving teaching
okay so i had a very big celebration just after my last night at school okay which it was ludicrously
big okay you emerged from the bar in question yeah a little worse for where i was offensively drunk
a rickshaw yeah why if i'm honest i was showing off i it had been a day of showing off
how how far did you have to take gareth it it was he had to take me from central london to hounslow
which is hounslow yeah it's something like
it's just shy of 10 miles how much was it it was 163 pounds how long did it take roughly um
i mean i honestly don't know i thought you were waiting for the length of time
so so you arrive yeah you you give him his money when does the whole idea of offering him a bed
for the night i i didn't we didn't even discuss the money because i got off the bike and by which
point i was incredibly sober and i looked at his face and it was uh it was great i mean i genuinely
feared for his life so i said oh my god you must come in for a bit and i made him a cup of tea
we're better than that guys we're better than that
how did it progress from the cup of tea to the sleeper because because honestly i i was sober
you've invited him up for a bit you go in
after the cup of tea i decided that he was clearly still very close to death
so i said uh would you like to crash on the soap and i'll give you an extra little detail
as he went past my front garden he said what is that because i set fire to my teaching outfits
before i'd gone out and my friends first came round and there was half of a trouser leg left
gareth thought is that half a trouser leg you've had someone spontaneously
we need an answer so uh david's team is gareth gareth malone's synchronized
singer is he richard's pointless punter or is he greg's shattered chauffeur i've got a horrible
feeling he's the pointless punter after all of you you think pointless punter yeah see i'm thinking
rickshaw driver yeah the detail that greg was giving was the detail of the firm trouser leg
that was like he'd forgotten himself and he was getting into his story
i'm really excited but when you're discounting gareth all together completely yeah okay so
you're going you're going for the two of the two tall guys they're the two lanky dudes you
know what we're just two guys we're just two people all right two the two lampposts there
joe david what are you gonna say you you i'm going
i'm gonna because i don't i genuinely are abstaining i'm gonna go with the team captain's
final decision if i had a gun to your head though amanda and don't rule it out
who would you go for greg you'd go will you going for that all right or richard
what do you think i agree do you think greg now we'll say greg we'll say greg they're saying that
it is greg gareth he's a pointless contestant would you please i've taken your answer would
you now observe the rules of the game and please treat this with a little more respect
gareth would you please reveal your true identity my name is gareth and i once distracted gareth
you