Jack Waley Cohen (born 7 September 1979) was a co-host on the UK Game Show Totally Top Trumps, which was hosted by Sky Sports presenter Andy Goldstein.,[1] and is a former president of the Oxford University Quiz Society.
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Waley-Cohen won three Countdown shows and is also a former Weakest Link winner.[2]
In 2000, he competed at the British Quiz Championship and also won some of Jeremy Beadle's money on Win Beadle's Money, recording the second highest score ever on the show.[2]
In 2002, he won £1000 on an episode of Challenge TV gameshow Defectors, presented by Richard Orford.
In 2008, he competed on the BBC Four show Only Connect,[3] and his team – the Lapsed Psychologists – made it all the way to the final[4] of the first ever series, only to lose to the Crossworders.
Jack Waley-Cohen is the grandson of former Lord Mayor of London Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen and is a director at UK translation company Lingo24.
Waley-Cohen is a good amateur tennis player, beating former Wimbledon winner Pat Cash in a doubles match at a Save the Children corporate tennis tournament in December, 2008.