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Matt Lucas has gone from Bake Off to the beautiful game as Sky’s revival of Fantasy Football League enters its third series. The comedy show was first made popular in the 90s when it was hosted by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner.Today, it brings Matt together with broadcaster Elis James and comic Andrew Mensah to poke fun at the week’s football news, with a different celebrity guest manager in each episode. Best known for sketch comedy, Matt is a passionate footie fan.The lifelong Arsenal supporter was even a ball boy for the London club as a 14-year-old.

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A string of high-profile figures from the entertainment world attended a march against antisemitism on the streets of London yesterday, in what is thought to be the biggest rally of its kind for nearly 90 years.

David Mitchell has broken his silence after welcoming his second baby with wife Victoria Coren Mitchell last week.

David Mitchell has spoken out after his wife Victoria Coren Mitchell welcomed their second baby at 51. Victoria shared their joyous news on social media on Wednesday, revealing her clothes no longer fit her after giving birth to their second child earlier in the week.

BBC TV star Victoria Coren Mitchell has welcomed her second child with comedian David Mitchell.The 51 year old Only Connect presenter announced the joyful news on social media platform X, previously known as Twitter. Victoria posted: "Many people are assuming my tweet yesterday was a Halloween costume. Not at all; last week I had a baby and nothing currently fits me except cloaks.

Peep Show has been a much-loved Sitcom on TV screens since 2003 and David Mitchell is still famed for his bumbling, nerdy character Mark, alongside his comedy partner Robert Webb as Jeremy.

Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan have added a huge football pitch to their already incredible £3.5million Essex mansion.The Towie star - who is known for his love of the game - revealed he'd installed the large pitch, complete with perfectly-cut lawn lines, in the grounds of the new house he shares with wife Michelle, 36. Posting a video of himself having a kickabout, a topless Mark, also 36, was clearly thrilled at the latest addition to the property, which already boasts a cinema room and swimming pool.

The world of entertainment has paid tribute to Mike Yarwood after the death of the comedian and impersonator famed for his impressions of a young King Charles.

Oppenheimer.The Jewish comedian and writer suggested in a new interview that he isn’t totally on board with Murphy, an Irish actor who isn’t of Jewish descent, portraying “the father of the atomic bomb”.Tom Conti, who portrays the Jewish theoretical physicist Albert Einstein in the film, isn’t Jewish.“Authenticity casting I think of as an a priori thing that exists,” Baddiel told The Times.“Whatever the rights and wrongs of it, I can promise you that in this business – and I am in this business still – casting directors are now frightened to cast except in line with the minority they are casting. But they are not so worried about Jews.”Baddiel has previously spoken about non-Jewish actors playing Jewish characters in film and TV productions.In an opinion piece published in The Guardian last year, Baddiel discussed Maureen Lipman’s comments that Helen Mirren should not play former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in the 2023 film Golda because she isn’t Jewish.Baddiel wrote at the time: “Casting a non-minority actor to mimic that identity feels, to the progressive eye, like impersonation, and impersonation may carry with it an element of mockery.”The real-life Oppenheimer was the child of two Jewish immigrants.

Holly Willoughby 's much talked about 'Are you OK?' speech left many people scratching their heads when she retuned to the This Morning sofa on Monday.

Holly Willoughby's speech on the Phillip Schofield scandal raised eyebrows when she returned to This Morning earlier in the week.

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Frank Skinner has opened up about the apology he received from Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, after a remark she made at the Royal Variety Performance. The comedian, 66, shared the fallout on Monday morning's Lorraine, hosted by Ranvir Singh. Frank detailed the incident at last year's Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall, after which Sophie approached him and told him not to "give up the day job" following his performance of Three Lions with David Baddiel.

Gabby Logan, 49, and Gary Lineker, 62, have led the tributes to former colleague John Motson following the news of his death. The legendary sports commentator had an incredible 50-year career with the BBC. Taking to Instagram, Gabby posted a touching tribute on her story in view of her 178,000 followers.

Channel 4 has paid tribute to the “wonderful and generous” PR exec Lesley Land, who died unexpectedly last week.

HE has built a career on the back of TV comedy, but David Baddiel has returned to our screens tackl­ing something that couldn’t be more serious or personal to him. The star of The Mary Whitehouse Experience and Fantasy Football League is fronting new Channel 4 documentary, Jews Don’t Count.

It's been confirmed that a new version of Frank Skinner, David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds' UK Number 1 single and country-wide footballing anthem, Three Lions, is getting a new version for the 2022 World Cup.

Sir Mo Farah, Sir Trevor MacDonald, and Jennifer Saunders will be among the celebrity guest managers in the new 'Fantasy Football League' series. The show is back from September 29th for a 16-episode series with new hosts, Matt Lucas and Elis James, on a new channel, Sky Max, and Sky have confirmed the likes of Succession’s Brian Cox and singer Tom Grennan will also feature in the new-look programme, which is returning after 18 years. Each week a pair of celebrity guest managers will join Matt and Elis to discuss the week in football and share their fantasy teams from the digital dugout.

BBC for not stopping him and David Baddiel poking fun at footie player Jason Lee - who they mocked for having a ‘pineapple on his head’.The 65-year-old joker, famed for his stand-up shows and presenting TV shows Fantasy Football League and Room 101, said the sketches for the 90s show were in bad taste. He said that when fellow host David Baddiel performed a skit in ‘blackface’ as the Nottingham Forest player they should have been stopped by BBC bosses.Jason Lee, who retired from playing footy in 2011, scored 118 career goals - including 14 for Forest - was known for wearing his hair in a ‘distinctive’ way, resembling a ‘pineapple’.READ MORE: Win 2 tickets to watch England vs Germany in Nations League action at Wembley Stadium Speaking recently, Frank said: “It was bad...I spoke to Dave about it recently, from a ‘how the-f**k did that ever happen’ point of view.

Frank Skinner has been forced to cancel his Edinburgh Fringe run because of a family health issue. The comedian was set to kick off a run of his new show 30 Years of Dirt at Assembly Roxy tonight (Thursday) but has pulled out.