Super fit Ray D'arcy had no problem completing Angela Rippon's sit to stand challenge on his chat show on Saturday night.
Former BBC newsreader and current TV presenter Rippon was on Ray's show to discuss her anti-ageing campaign and she uses the sit to stand challenge as a way of judging people's physical well-being and agility.
The challenge involves rising from the lotus position to a standing position without using your hands to support yourself or lever yourself up.
Audience member Deborah, who is, suitably enough, a dementia and Alzheimer's nurse in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, first took the challenge and got top marks for effort but when he was challenged by Rippon, 51-year-old Ray passed with flying colours.
71-year-old Rippon said that she is often asked the secret to pulling off the feat (it's a lot harder than you might think) and explained that she has been asked to demonstrate it everywhere she goes - from trains, to tennis courts and even at a church in Plymouth. where she was attending a service to commemorate people killed in the Blitz.
