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Nick Grimshaw and restauranteur Angela Hartnett have unveiled a brand-new weekly food podcast series, and we’re salivating at the thought of it already. The series, named Dish, will see former BBC radio host Nick, 37, and Gordon Ramsay protégé and Saturday Kitchen star Angela, 53, competing against the likes of other hit food podcasts including Jessie and Lennie Ware’s Table Manners, and Off Menu with comics Ed Gamble and James Acaster.

Ricky Gervais’ Netflix special SuperNature.Gervais has faced criticism over “transphobic” jokes in the special that was released on Tuesday (May 24), with LGBT rights organisation GLAAD describing the show as “full of graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes”.Since the special was released, a clip from Acaster’s show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 has been shared across social media, which targets “edgy comedians” who “slag off transgender people”.In the clip, Acaster says: “They say whatever they like, edgy comedians. No one tells them what they can and can’t say.

Wilson Chapman editorAmy Schumer, James Acaster, Jimmy O. Yang and many other comedians have joined the lineup of Just for Laughs Montreal’s 40th anniversary festival.

READ: ITV The Chase fans brand show as ‘disgusting’ during celebrity special rerun When Clive Myrie asked James what his special subject was, the comedian said: "The history of ice cream". Despite his seeming confidence in the topic, as soon as questioning began, it was obvious that James did not know all there is to know about the frozen dessert. Many viewers took to social media to react to James' poor knowledge of ice cream, reports Birmingham Mail.

Read more: Only Fans model shows off what she looked like before spending thousands on plastic surgery Many viewers took to social media to react to James' poor knowledge of ice cream. One person typed: "The history of ice cream has to be the best specialist subject ever on Mastermind. Well done James Acaster.

James Acaster made quite the comparison between Squid Game and Celebrity Mastermind after appearing in front of host Clive Myrie. The comedian, whose topic of choice was ‘the history of ice cream’, managed to gain three points on his unique subject in the first round, with answers like ‘Creamy Boys’ and ‘Monsieur Ice Cream,’ before comparing his situation to being in Squid Game. The South Korean survival drama sees hundreds of cash-strapped players accept an invitation to compete in children’s games with a deadly twist – not quite the same as answering on Haagen-Dazs or Ben & Jerry’s.

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Great Celebrity Bake Off Stand Up to Cancer. Gamble, 36, is also a co-host of the Off Menu podcast and a Taskmaster winner. He features on Mock the Week and is a judge for the Great British Menu.

Jimmy Carr will be making his grand return as host for The Big Fat Quiz of Everything, a gig he's been running for over a decade now. The quiz show encapsulates anything and everything of note and pitches several rounds of questions to a panel of hosts, celebrities and personalities.

The Subways, Andy Bell and more.‘A Night For Ukraine’ will take place at the west London venue next Friday (March 25), with 100 per cent of profits going towards the Disasters Emergency Committee‘s (DEC) Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.Bell (Ride, Oasis) will take to the stage alongside Subways frontman Billy Lunn, Sleeper (acoustic), Get Cape. Wear Cape.

Jackie Weaver will be competing on Celebrity Mastermind – and her specialist subject is a Vin Diesel film franchise. BBC has released a line-up of 56 stars who will compete on the celebrity version of the long-running quiz show. Weaver’s name was announced along with James Acaster, Tracey Beaker’s Dani Harmer, and Drag Race UK winner, The Vivienne.

Celebrity Mastermind is gearing up for a new year of specialist subjects, with 56 stars from across all walks of life set to take a seat in the infamous Mastermind chair. Ahead of the new series, which will begin next month, Celebrity Mastermind has unveiled its line-up for 2022 – and it features everyone from actors and journalists to comedians and drag queens.

Michelle Keegan has an enviable figure, but she’s claimed she loves tucking into tasty treats – including custard creams for breakfast. Speaking about her love for food on the Off Menu podcast with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, Michelle, 34, said: “I am a massive, massive foodie.

 She penned in the comments section of Charlie’s Instagram post: “So frikkin beautiful guys!!! Love to you both.”Australian comedian Felicity Ward added: “Yayyyyyyy.

Sweet-toothed fitness guru Joe Wicks has admitted he adores desserts so much he sometimes starts his meals with one.

Jon Snow is known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News having first joined the show in 1984.Tonight he will join James Acaster, Stacey Solomon, David Mitchell, Maya Jama, Richard Ayoade and Joe Lycett on the Big Fat Quiz but what is known of Jon's love life away from his career?The Channel 4 newsreader is married to wife Precious Lunga with the pair having tied the knot in 2010.They said their vows on the stunning beach of private island Mustique and continued their celebrations at the £800-a-night Firefly Hotel which has previously been visited by Mick Jagger and Liz Hurley.The presenter prefers to keep their relationship out of the spotlight, however, said at the time: "Yes, I have got married."But I have absolutely no

Claudia Winkleman has revealed she has a phobia of water and as a result of it, she refuses to have sex with her husband Kris Thykier if he's just drunk some.The 48-year-old Strictly Come Dancing host, who recently opened up about having therapy, made the bizarre revelation when she appeared on the Off Menu podcast with hosts Ed Gamble and James Acaster. "I don't like or believe in water, I won't have it," she admitted.

Slipknot’s Corey Taylor consoled Daphne and Celeste after they were bottled off stage at Reading Festival in 2000.During Celeste Cruz and Karen DiConcetto – aka Daphne’s – three-song set, they were attacked with bottles and, according to them, a wheelchair.Corey said that Daphne and Celeste ‘stood there and took it’ and he comforted them after.‘I was like “hey, you did something that a lot of people wouldn’t have done.

Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor has revealed how he went backstage to comfort Daphne & Celeste after the pop duo were bottled off stage at Reading Festival in 2000.The ‘Ooh Stick You!’ singers faced one of the most hostile reactions in the festival’s history and were constantly pelted with bottles throughout their three-song set.Appearing on Ed Gamble & James Acaster’s Off Menu podcast, Taylor revealed that he gave the duo some words of wisdom after Slipknot shared the bill with them.“You know what’s fucked up about Leeds & Reading at that time is that I was out in the audience when they started getting bottled,” Taylor revealed.“Oh my god! I was hanging out with some friends of mine and I was like ‘who are these people’ and they were trying to