Brett Smitheram

Brett Smitheram (born 8 March 1979) is an English recruitment consultant and Scrabble grand master, currently living in Chingford, London. Originally from Camborne, Cornwall, Smitheram is the reigning World Scrabble Champion.

Smitheram won the UK National Scrabble Championship in 2000, the ABSP Masters invitational event in 2005 and the British Matcplay Scrabble Championship in 2010. In 2016 he defeated Mark Nyman at the MSI World Championship 3 games to 0 to become the World Scrabble Champion for the first time.

In 1997, Smitheram won six episodes of the game show Countdown, qualifying him for the finals stage of Series 37.

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