Mark hails from Willesden, London, has a BSc honours degree in Maths and Stats from Bristol University, spent 10 years as Producer of Channel 4's Countdown and now lives in Knutsford, Cheshire. He was the first Countdown 'Champion of Champions', first UK player to win the World Scrabble Championship in 1993 in New York, and was World Scrabble runner-up in 1999 and 2016. He is also 4-time UK Scrabble Champion. He has 2 fantastic children Max and Kizzy, and is a long-suffering supporter of QPR.