Other celebrity fans include: Denise Van Outen, Scott Mills, not to mention her majesty the Queen who apparently chooses to call ‘Palace’ rather than ‘house’! Celebs love bingo! Catherine Zeta Jones can thank bingo for her career after her dad won enough to afford to send her to theatre school Robbie Williams went to his local Bingo club in Stoke and played bingo with Daryl Hannah in his music video for Feel.The most common reasons for playing bingo are because it’s fun and offers the chance to socialise and win big money.Eight per cent of the UK population play bingo - 10% of all women and 5% of all men.Over three million people play bingo regularly in the UK (at least twice a week).Between 120 - 180 clubs link together to play the National Bingo Game twice a day, everyday, except Christmas day.
The National Bingo Game is played using a set of 90 numbers, 1-90. Bingo can be played using sets of 90, 85 or 75 numbers.A similar version of the game known as ‘Housey-Housey’ was also being played in the UK at the same time, which went on to also be known as bingo. It is believed that the name change came about as a result of a friend, who when playing got so excited that she shouted ‘bingo!’. Upon seeing how popular it proved to be he decided to produce it as a boxed game, ‘Beano’. Lowe returned home and recreated the game for friends. The pitchman told Lowe that he had come across the game being played at fairs in Germany. Bingo was popularised by a New York toy salesman, Edwin S Lowe, who, back in December 1929 came across the game being played at a fair in Jacksonville Georgia.Bingo originated in Italy and is descended from Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia, the Italian national lottery, which has been played since 1530.
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