I’m A Celebrity winner Scarlett Moffatt signs up for celebrity version of Great British Bake Off
SHE’S already been crowned queen of the jungle, now Scarlett Moffatt is taking part in The Great British Bake Off.
The Gogglebox star and winner of 2016’s I’m A Celebrity will appear on the next celeb version of the cooking show to raise funds for Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer appeal.
It will be interesting for hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, as Scarlett was once tipped as a potential host when Bake Off moved from BBC1 two years ago.
A TV insider said: “This coveted GBBO slot is just the latest in a long line of projects producers are keen to sign her up for since she made a spectacular exit from the jungle three years ago.”
Later this year, viewers will see Scarlett and her family’s County Durham home rebuilt in Africa for Channel 4’s bizarre The British Tribe Next Door.
She travelled to Namibia with her parents and sister to live side by side with the Himba tribe.
Hopefully they gave her some baking tips . . .
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Emma's looking shifty
EMMA WILLIS shows she is the master of disguise in the new trailer for the second series of Channel 4’s The Circle.
The TV presenter shape-shifts into a series of different guises including a punk rocker, old woman, blonde and even a bloke to advertise the show – which sees contestants catfish their way to £100,000 prize money.
The reality series sees players living in separate apartments in a single building and playing games and chatting with each other online.
Former Big Brother host Emma has taken over from Maya Jama and Alice Levine, who fronted the first series. She said: “I’m delighted to be part of something incredibly relevant and can’t wait to see how mischievous people are prepared to be.” The series starts this autumn.
It looks like Emma has had a head start.
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WHAT? Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, BBC2, 8pm.
WHY? Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer make fishing for perch a fun watch as they exchange insults at the Upper Tamar Lakes.
EAMONN: CURSE IS BLESSING
MOANING celebrities could learn a thing or two from Eamonn Holmes.
The daytime host admits he didn’t fear the Strictly curse when wife Ruth Langsford took part in the BBC1 show two years ago – he actually embraced the idea.
Speaking on The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan, which airs on Channel 4 this Friday at 10pm, Eamonn said: “One man’s curse could be another man’s blessing.
“If Ruth had run off with a dancer there, I would have had to go into public grieving and been on the front of all the women’s magazines. Everybody saying, ‘Poor Eamonn, she left him in the lurch’.
“I’d have had to seek comfort in the arms of some poor woman, that would have me.”
Fellow guest Caroline Flack, who won the glitterball trophy in 2014, also saw a good side of finding love on the show.
She said: “I try to see the positives. As much as people’s relationships can be ruined, a lot of relationships are made by Strictly.
“You’ve got a lot of marriages and a lot of people who have got together. It isn’t always affairs.” Try telling that to Neil Jones.
Royal kick-off
PRINCE William will be tackling the tough subject of mental health in a new documentary for BBC1.
Working with the Football Association, A Royal Road To Wembley: Tackling Mental Health will use the game to highlight this growing problem among young men.
It kicks off a series of new programmes from the channel that will also see TV royalty, Sir David Attenborough, return to our screens. He brings a one-off show looking at endangered species in Extinction: The Facts, it was announced at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Other new offerings will include thriller Roadkill, starring Hugh Laurie, about a politician’s troubled private life.
Bizbit
CAREY MULLIGAN and Helena Bonham Carter will join Sir Mark Rylance and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas in Channel 4 documentary My Grandfather’s War, exploring their relatives’ Second World War contribution.
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Ruby Lou rant
LOUIS Theroux may want to run for cover on Monday.
Ruby Wax tells Baroness Helena Kennedy QC on The Power Of Women how BBC bosses replaced her with the documentary maker. She has previously accused Louis of copying her style of film making.
Rosemary Reed, director of the Sky Arts programme, said: “She talks about how they sacked her for Louis to take over her role, because she was too old and not as attractive any more. She says, ‘Helena, if I ever wanted to murder somebody would you represent me? There’s some producers here I’m going to kill’ – and she says Louis. She’s hysterical.”
SOAPBOX
SLIPPERY Hunter becomes the hunted in EastEnders.
Mel initially learns that he has been transferred to another prison and asks for Gray’s help to put a stop to it.
Then cops tell her that he has actually done a runner and she orders them to find him, but he could be closer than any of them imagined.
Meanwhile, Max, Rainie, Ian and Kathy get in a tiff over baby Abi.
In Coronation Street, Eileen is moping about in her pyjamas after learning her boyfriend is part of a human-trafficking ring. Tim tells her to pull herself together.
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