Bullseye Celebrity Guests

Here are the details of all the celebrity guest throwers who appeared in the charity round on Bullseye with Jim Bowen. There are other pages for the Christmas celebrity guests and the professional guest throwers. In series 3 and 4 of Bullseye, there were celebrities taking part in the charity round in addition to the professionals. The celebrities were introduced as "celebrities who liked to play darts", but they seldom played that well. One reason for this is that some of them had hardly ever played darts before. I think that the celebrities who could actually play darts didn't do well because of the pressure of being on the show, as opposed to their inexperience at darts. Even the professionals often did terribly on Bullseye. (It's not enough to be perfect at darts in the pub - you need to be able to play in a strange studio in front of a strange audience while being aware that millions of people will watch you mess up. And everything is depending on just nine darts - you can't throw fifty darts and take the average.)

If you want to know if someone is taking darts seriously, see if they wear a short sleeved top or not. All professionals on Bullseye (apart from Billy Lennard on one occasion when he wore a jumper) throw in loosely fitted short sleeved shirts. Some of the celebrities here are throwing in leather jackets and suits. The better ones have short sleeves or rolled up sleeves.

One interesting thing about the celebrities is that they show that randomly throwing at the board can often achieve a better score than aiming exactly at 20. Random throwing tends to get a consistent score, even if it will never be the best score. I guess if you aren't a great dart player, you shouldn't aim for 20.

Bullseye celebrity guest throwers