Galloway wins £140 shopping - on Richard and Judy

Fresh from pretending to be a cat, Respect MP George Galloway played a competition on teatime TV show Richard and Judy tonight.

To win the week’s luxury shopping task, he answered questions on You Say We Pay live from the Celebrity Big Brother house.

The game was once played by one of Galloway’s least favourite people – British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The quiz was the first contact the 51-year-old has enjoyed with the outside world since he entered the Big Brother house.

Unfortunately, TV host Richard Madeley was not at liberty to tell the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow that he is being investigated by the House of Commons Speaker.

The probe was launched after a series of motions were tabled in Galloway’s name in Parliament while he was on the show.

The former Labour MP won £140 (€204) for his housemates after successfully getting Richard and Judy to shout out what seven images he was describing, without using their name.

He described Saddam Hussein, who Galloway famously met, as “the former dictator of Iraq” and a kebab as “a piece of meat on a skewer”.

A maggot was “a very, very odious little insect that crawls out of dead people,” and Goldie Hawn a “ditsy blonde who was once in Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In”.

Madeley thought George meant Celebrity Big Brother contestant Pete Burns when he said “a transvestite … very colourful, a singer”.

But he eventually guessed the correct answer, Boy George, when Galloway said “chameleon”.

David Hasselhoff was “the hero of Baywatch” and gorillas “our closest living relative”.

Galloway was linked live from the seating area of the Celebrity Big Brother house, while his housemates watched the game unfold on plasma screens.

Galloway, who faces a barrage of criticism from fellow MPs, was told by Judy Finnigan: “Fantastic, you did really, really well actually. I’m really impressed.”

On tonight’s Channel 4 show, viewers will see the politician dancing in a wig and sideburns to Great Balls of Fire as part of a task.

His presence in the house has sparked criticism from opponents who say an MP should representing his constituents in Parliament.

His earlier impersonation of a cat – when he purred contentedly out of actress Rula Lenska’s hands – was greeted with derision.