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Taskmaster star Mark Watson, 41, on being told he’s going to die at 78, the difficulty of writing a film for Toni Collette and being a comic dad.January is a cheerless month at times. Many people might feel that we could do without a January and February altogether given that the past 18 months has been somewhat like a permanent winter. I suppose I’m offering a better form of escape from the gloom than most things on offer in your specific town on that specific night.A worrying amount of time has passed.

Lorraine Kelly raised the impressive amount of £18,750 after winning Jimmy Carr's latest game show, I Literally Just Told you.

The star is a huge Arsenal supporter and has produced 181 episodes of his weekly podcast about the club.Elsewhere, Alan is appearing on the latest series of Taskmaster with Greg Davies and Alex Horne.The comedian is competing against Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, Morgana Robinson and Victoria Coren Mitchell in the much-loved show.This sees him undertaking several unique tasks as he tries to wrack up points in the weekly show.Speaking to Whattowatch.com, the QI star opened up about why he decided to join the series.He said: “I was very aware of it, friends of mine have done it, so I've watched episodes.

Maya Jama is rooting for Scotland to do well at Euro 2020, saying: “They have a special place in my heart”. The 26-year-old, from Bristol, is TV’s hottest property right now, following the likes of Davina McCall and Emma Willis.

Taskmaster co-creator Alex Horne is taking his band on tour later this year.The Horne Section will be setting out across the UK from October to December, performing a mix of music and stand-up comedy.

Taskmaster star Alex Horne has a very famous wife who has starred on TV herself. Star of the weekly Channel 4 show Horne is married to BBC business journalist Rachel Horne.

Love Actually star Thomas Brodie-Sangster addresses 'anger'Laughing, Alex continued in their interview with the Radio Times: “I get people using my admin skills to try to basically plan their wedding or stag night.“They say, 'Can you just come up with six tasks for us on our hen night?’”Greg, who starred in The Inbetweeners, christened his sidekick with the name ‘Little Alex’, despite him being 6ft 2in, in the earlier stages of the show.The name stuck and has become a running gag at the start of each episode.When asked if they were friends away from the show, Greg’s co-star admitted the pair “lead quite different lives”.Elaborating, he revealed he lived in a house in the countryside and does the school run, while Greg lives “a single

Alex Horne addresses 'unlikely friendship' with co-star Greg DaviesHe went on to say that Mike Wozniak won the task and Tim didn't, which he was happy about.Alex then revealed that he didn't think to invite his now co-host, Greg, to complete a task.The latter confessed he knew he wasn't chosen at the time which he said felt "cliquey", after one of his pals was.He shared: "I was in a sketch group, We Are Klang, and one of the members had been invited by Alex, so I knew about it."Greg, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood produced the sketch show for BBC Three for six episodes in 2009.Alex replied: "That must have looked like a quite cliquey sort of thing," to which the host added: "Yeah, it felt like there was a real Edinburgh clique going on and I

Debbie McGee will appear alongside radio presenter Dev Griffin, comedian Alex Horne and TV presenter June Sarpong as they test their knowledge in Richard Osman's House of Games.

Will Thorne Staff WriterOne task that “Taskmaster” couldn’t quite, erm, master is making it beyond a single episode on the CW.The U.K. panel game show has been dumped from the network’s Sunday schedule after it premiered to terrible numbers last weekend.

Taskmaster will be back in the autumn for series 10 with a whole crop of new celebrities who will be competing in tasks for the approval of hosts Greg Davies and Alex Horne.While the lineup for the show's first Channel 4 run looks excellent, the hosts have revealed their wish list of celebrities they would like to pin down for the show – and yes, they are as entertaining as you'd imagine.From comedy royalty, to actual royalty, we wouldn't say no to these contestants...Horne said: "I've mentioned Jack Dee in every single interview I've done – so Jack Dee."Because I watched him on Celebrity Big Brother, it must have been 10 years ago now, trying to escape by digging a hole with a spoon, which I think... that's Taskmaster behaviour.

As the series draws to an end, Maya Jama and fellow hosts Peter Crouch and Alex Horne will be joined virtually by some well-known faces including comedian Mo Gilligan and pop artist Anne-Marie.Maya does not have any children; however, in the past ex-boyfriend, Stormzy has spoken of how he wanted to have children with the Save Our Summer presenter.During a YouTube interview with Charlamagne tha God earlier this year Stormzy spoke of his love for Maya.The grime artist said: "She's a f***ing G, bro."I love her wholeheartedly.

Chris Evans, 53, learnt something new about his co-star Rachel Horne on Thursday morning's show, as she revealed she and her husband met the Pope during a special wedding service after they got married.

Maya Jama, 25, will appear alongside Alex Horne and Peter Crouch tonight for BBC's talk show Save Our Summer.The trio will bring some of the biggest names from the worlds of sport, comedy and music back into our lives.Maya is currently single and has taken to Instagram to confirm her relationship status.In a post to her story, Maya told her followers: "Hey, my friends just rang me, 'Are you seeing so and so,' somebody I don't know."It's not the time of day to talk about it.

Here's football ace Peter Crouch ­getting a point the hard way…

Ever since Peter Crouch debuted his hysterical robot dance goal celebration during an England game in 2006, he’s been cracking up football fans with his natural wit and warm humour.