Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete.
Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L. D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner won the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero".
Given the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.
The Big Questions: Josh Widdicombe on being pied by Caitlyn Jenner, the cancel culture myth, and why he’s far cooler than people realise
metro.co.ukWelcome to Metro.co.uk‘s The Big Questions, where we ask, well, the big questions (and the smaller ones too) and this week, we’re getting stuck in with Josh Widdicombe.The comedian has had a glistening career on a number of the nation’s most treasured panel shows, including The Last Leg with Adam Hills and Alex Brooker, and Mock The Week.His latest series of Hypothetical with co-star and fellow comic James Acaster has just been released on Dave, and the 39-year-old is also keeping himself busy with his podcast Parenting Hell, which he co-hosts with Rob Beckett.Amid his busy schedule, Josh sat down with us to chat all things Hypothetical, how he was once pied by Caitlyn Jenner, and the ‘myth’ that is cancel culture.It was lovely to return to doing the TV show in kind of the way it was intended to be, with people in the audience.
Hypothetical really works off the energy of the audience and is about being in the moment and being in the room, so it was so nice to have the audience back.
We’ve got so many great guests this series, partly because people want to work again. It’s the easiest series to book, everyone wants to be out working so it’s been really good fun.Rosie Jones and Masie Adam are among the guests, then you’ve got legends of comedy that we’ve always wanted to get on, like Frank Skinner or Bill Bailey or Ross Noble.We were allowed to reference Covid which was good, because last time we weren’t allowed to reference it.
They’ve now made the decision that people are going to remember Covid and it’s a reference that people will know for the next 50 years.We’ve booked so many this series that we’ve ticked off a lot of people that we wanted to book.
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