Countdown’s Susie Dent reveals plans for her funeral and says she wants TV stars to carry coffin

COUNTDOWN wordsmith Susie Dent wants to be buried with all 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Lexicographer Susie, 59, would also like comedians who have appeared on the Channel 4 show to act as her pallbearers.

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She also fancies having a wicker coffin.

She told the Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake podcast: “I’d like to have some naff 80s music playing very loudly and be carried in on a rickshaw.

"I’ve not been on one before.

“I’d like to be buried with all 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, so that could be a bit of a struggle coming up to a hill.”

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She added: “I’m going to haunt the Countdown studio because I don’t like the thought of anyone taking over from me.

“If I do haunt it, it’s only going to be half of me because people only ever see the top half.

“So I’m going to be torso only.

“I’m just going to be the top half.

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“So I think in that spirit it’s just going to be the top half of me swooping around and definitely haunting the person trying to take over.”