When on the BBC it was suggested to Sunderland manager Gus Poyet that the DVD of their thrashing at home by Aston Villa would n't make very edifying viewing , the phlegmatic gaffer replied 'you can not pick what you like to watch ' . Well , if Gus tuned in to watch his centre half Wes Brown on All Star Family Fortunes on Sunday evening , he might well have decided to pick up the DVD of that Villa game again , and stick it straight back in the recorder . Playing against soap and Strictly star Jill Halfpenny and her family , things were actually looking pretty good for the Browns at the start . As in , before they 'd actually started playing . Wes Brown ( left ) appeared alongside his family in All Star Family Fortunes , where his team lost heavily . The Browns appeared to have got host Vernon Kay onside early , but soon lost their advantage . The Halfpennys hail from the North East , while Wes was playing a flat back four of sister , brother , wife and mother-in-law from Manchester . This had the man in the middle , Bolton 's own Vernon Kay , immediately looking to favour the team from the North West . But even with the man in black in their pocket , the Browns were still about to have an absolute mare . And just like on Saturday , it began badly , and just got worse . Wes was first up at the buzzer with Jill . And on beating her to the ball , suggested that the thing you 'd hang onto when it was windy was ' a railing ' . And our survey said ... well , I 'll leave you to do the noise . So the Halfpennys nipped in , and nicked the lead . Yet a couple of the Browns ' other answers - namely ' a child ' and 'the elderly ' - were n't far off , surely , from an actual correct answer 'somebody else ' ? Brown is brushed off the ball by Gabriel Agbonlahor in one of two poor performances this week . Gus Poyet did n't enjoy watching his side 's defeat to Aston Villa , but Brown 's TV appearance was even worse . Soap star Jill Halfpenny and her family made it a torrid weekend all round for the Sunderland midfielder . Frankly , the fact the Browns were n't surrounding the official on that one showed remarkable restraint on their part . Then , before you could blink , the Halfpennys had doubled their lead . And this time , it was very much through a Wes own goal . Who , as we had seen earlier in the show - when discovering about him from his family on a home video they 'd made - has his own mini cinema and a grand piano in the front hall . So it 's not all bad , eh ? The challenge this time was to name a small bird . 'Pigeon ' , said Wes . Vernon did his best for him . 'Compared to an ostrich ' was how he defended the defender 's answer , but suffice to say ... that noise again . Yet amazingly , there was arguably worse to come . The next question had the Browns pondering a variety of potential trouser malfunctions you might have while wearing a pair at work . Brown shares a joke with the host , but he failed to produce the goods on the pitch or the telly this week . I 'm writing this sentence here now to give you a bit of time to think about a few possible answers for yourselves . I 'll even point out , to give you a little more time , that Vernon did acknowledge that wearing trousers at work was not exactly in Wes ' area of expertise . Wes said 'they 'd changed colour ' . Anyone else out there ? Anyone ? Frankly , this was turning into a rout . So even Wes was probably grateful when Vernon took time out to ask everyone to join him for a song from Wes ' favourite musical - which happens to be the Sound of Music . That 's right , Brown 's fellow footballers . Just in case you think you might want to remind him of the fact next time you 're with him in a dressing room or on the field of play . The Sunderland defender did however manage to raise plenty of money for charity . Perhaps something along the lines of the fact that he clearly could n't Von Trapp a house brick ? No , too much knowledge , that . Wes did finally get off the mark with a correct answer about lying on a dating website , but when you looked up at the scoreboard come the end of the game , it was still something like 581 the Halfpennys , but most certainly the Browns close to nil . In the end then though , the plucky , affable footballer and his family still managed to raise money for their chosen charity . And did at least give it a bit of a go in the process . But all I can say if that if Gus had been in charge of this team 's performance , chances are he 'd have cleared his desk at the training ground and said goodbye to the players before you 'd even had the chance to read this . No big deal though , Wes . Put that one behind you . You can fix it in the next game . You 're away at Only Connect .
Jill Halfpenny took part in All Star Family Fortunes on Sunday night . Brown 's team lost heavily to soap star Wes Brown and her family . Sunderland defender put in a terrible performance throughout .