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It goes without saying that we all wish him the best of luck ahead the birth of his second child and obviously we all hope that the new addition to the family takes after it's mother in the looks department!

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Quotes of the week

We've only been back a few weeks and a member of the crew is already leaving us!

Graham, who escaped last week's show without being hit once during Take One For The Team, has walked out on the show... well sort of!

The truth is he's only going on paternity leave and will be back before he can say 'I've forgotten the t-shirts again'!

It goes without saying that we all wish him the best of luck ahead the birth of his second child and obviously we all hope that the new addition to the family takes after it's mother in the looks department!

It's been a rollercoaster week for Baby Elvis who, after the euphoria of saving three penalties at Wembley Stadium last Wednesday night, has come crashing back down to earth.

For some reason every time his name was mentioned on the show on Saturday he was booed by the rest of the crew!

We'd like to state for the record that he has done nothing to warrant this reaction, but as Tom put it, 'it just felt natural to do it'!

And Chris insisted that the booing had a positive affect on the whole atmosphere in the studio when he revealed that 'it just lifted the whole floor'.

Naturally Baby Elvis was less than impressed with us all.

"I don't like all that booing if I'm honest," he said. "I think someone even shouted out 'arrogant'. I'm just a puppet in this organisation!"

Meanwhile, the other hot topic in the office this week has been just how unbelievably far Rory Delap can throw a football.

His 38 metre throw-in set-up Mamady Sidibe's winner for Stoke against Aston Villa on Saturday and we were all in awe of his guns!

Well, almost all of us because Simon has revealed that he used to be able to take a throw-in and hit the back post in his prime and with a bit of practice could probably do it again.

It's fair to say more than a few members of the crew were sceptical and so Rocket decided that Simon should put his money where his mouth is and bet him £50 that he wouldn't be able to do it!

After hours of negotiations though they both decided that £50 was probably a bit too much and have settled on a respectable £10.

A date has yet to be decided, but we expect Simon to be pumping iron in the gym over the next couple of days as he won't want to lose this one!

See you next week!