Taskmaster is about to drop a New Year Treat to see 2023 kick off in the silliest way possible, with Amelia Dimoldenberg, Carol Vorderman, Greg James, Sir Mo Farah and Rebecca Lucy Taylor/Self Esteem joining Greg Davies and Alex Horne for some task-based fun.
While we won't reveal any actual spoilers here, one contestant really stood out, and unsurprisingly that contestant is the tall one with the name Greg.
"It felt great [having Greg on the show]," Greg Davies said. "and I was delighted to learn that Greg gets the same thing as me, with people calling him Greg Davies, because I often get Greg James. Sometimes after I’ve posed for several pictures, I’ll get Greg James, and it’s at that point I want to erase the photographs. But I thought Greg was great.
"It’s always interesting what people perceive winning Taskmaster means. And I think Greg has got a good handle on that, and the best way to approach winning it."
"I think he could have won every task, if he wanted to," Alex Horne added. "He’s good at everything. He’s clever, physical, and he understands escape rooms and stuff. He played it for fun, which was the right thing to do."
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While Greg (James) was the "perfect boy" as Greg (Davies) called him, Amelia was very much not, with Alex stating that she "found everything bewildering. I think her 'thing' is to be bewildered".
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Greg noted that Amelia plays bewildered really well in Chicken Shop Date, but the duo genuinely couldn't tell if she was just acting that way on Taskmaster or if it was for real.
Taskmaster's New Year Treat 2023 airs on January 1 at 9pm on Channel 4 and will return for an all-new series next year.
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