Taskmaster Season 20 Cast: 5 Celebrities On The New Line-Up Announced

Posted on 03/07/2025 by Boris Clair

The five celebrities taking part in the next season of the hit comedy competition series Taskmaster have been unveiled.

On Thursday evening, Channel 4 revealed the line-up for the Bafta-winning show’s 20th run, which will air later this year.

Joining the cast this time around will be The League Of Gentlemen and Inside No. 9 creator Reece Shearsmith and the comedian and actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, best known for his roles in shows like Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars At No. 42 and Unforgotten.

They’ll be joined by stand-up comedians Maisie Adam, Ania Magliano and Phil Ellis.

The cast of Taskmaster's 20th series — The cast of Taskmaster’s 20th series

A Channel 4 press release teased: “The almighty Taskmaster Greg Davies and his faithful admin keeper Alex Horne have gathered some of the most brilliant and eclectic comedy minds and assigned them one mission: to become a Taskmaster Champion.”

No release date for the 20th series of Taskmaster has been given, but Channel 4 has insisted that more information will be “revealed in due course”.

The last season of Taskmaster aired over several weeks earlier in the year, featuring appearances from the likes of Rosie Ramsey, Jason Mantzoukas, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Stevie Martin and Matthew Baynton.

It’s now been almost 10 years since Taskmaster first aired on Channel 4 in 2015, quickly going on to become one of the broadcaster’s most popular original shows.

Back in 2020, it won a Bafta in the Best Comedy Entertainment Programme, beating competition from The Graham Norton Show, The Last Leg and The Ranganation, and was nominated in the same category once again earlier this year.

Taskmaster has also spawned several international remakes in territories like Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Canada, with varying levels of success, while a live experience inspired by the show launched in London last year, before closing in February.

Bob Vylan Frontman Speaks Out After Band Is Dropped From Manchester Music Festival

Posted on 02/07/2025 by Boris Clair

The punk rap duo Bob Vylan have spoken out after it was reported that they had been dropped from a music festival in Manchester.

Over the weekend, the band caused controversy when they led the crowd at their Glastonbury set in a chant of “death to the IDF”, in reference to Israel’s army.

After facing condemnation from UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, the BBC – which broadcast the set live and uncensored on its iPlayer service – and Glastonbury’s organisers, it was revealed that a criminal investigation was underway following sets by both Bob Vylan and fellow performers Kneecap.

On Wednesday, BBC News reported that, in the wake of the controversy, Bob Vylan had been dropped from the line-ups of Radar Festival in Manchester, and Kave Fest in France.

Reacting to the news, frontman Bobby Vylan wrote on Instagram: “Silence is not an option. We will be fine, the people of Palestine are hurting.”

“Manchester we will be back,” he then vowed.

A screenshot of Bobby Vylan's Instagram story on Wednesday — A screenshot of Bobby Vylan’s Instagram story on Wednesday

Bobby previously addressed the Glastonbury furore in an Instagram post captioned: “I said what I said.”

He and bandmate Bobbie Vylan then released a joint statement which read: “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use ‘unnecessary lethal force’ against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.”

Referring to the activist group Palestine Action and fellow Glastonbury performers Kneecap, the duo continued: “We, like those in the spotlight before us, are not the story. We are a distraction from the story. And whatever sanctions we receive will be a distraction.

“The government doesn’t want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity. To ask why they aren’t doing more to stop the killing. To feed the starving. The more they talk about Bob Vylan, the less they spend answering for their criminal inaction.

“We are being targeted for speaking up. We are not the first. We will not be the last. And if you care for the sanctity of human life and freedom of speech, we urge you to speak up, too.”

Avon and Somerset Police said on Tuesday: “Video footage and audio from Bob Vylan and Kneecap’s performances at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday has been reviewed.

“Following the completion of that assessment process we have decided further enquiries are required and a criminal investigation is now being undertaken. A senior detective has been appointed to lead this investigation.”

RuPaul’s Drag Race Star Reacts To Cardi B’s New Album Being Named After Her Iconic Quote

Posted on 24/06/2025 by Boris Clair

RuPaul’s Drag Race favourite Scarlet Envy has reacted to Cardi B using one of her most iconic quotes as the title of her new album.

In a promo interview for the sixth season of All Stars, Scarlet inadvertently created a much-quoted meme when she pondered: “Is it me? Am I the drama? I don’t think I’m the drama… maybe I am. Am I the villain? I don’t think I’m the villain.”

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On Monday, Cardi unveiled the album artwork and title of her much-awaited second album, which comes seven years after her debut release Invasion Of Privacy, and derives its name from Scarlet’s famous quote.

Now, while not everyone in the Drag Race family was impressed with the Bodak Yellow rapper for using one of the show’s quotes, it seems Scarlet herself was more than happy to have been Cardi’s inspiration.

Popping up in the replies to the Grammy winner’s X post about her new album, Scarlet wrote: “You are the drama mamaaa.”

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You are the drama mamaaa

— Scarlet Envy (@ScarletEnvyNYC) June 23, 2025

Scarlet made her Drag Race debut in 2019, when she competed on the show’s eleventh season, finishing in 10th place overall.

After that, she was invited to compete on the sixth season of All Stars, as well as the second run of the BBC’s UK vs. The World Franchise, which is also judged by RuPaul.

Meanwhile, fans still have a bit of a wait on their hands for Cardi’s new album, which is due for release on 19 September.

Her last album premiered in April 2018, winning the Best Rap Album at the following year’s Grammys, making Cardi the second woman – and first solo woman – to win the award after Lauryn Hill triumphed as part of the Fugees in 1997. Doechii later picked up the same award for her 2024 release Alligator Bits Never Heal.

While her album has been a long time coming, Cardi has still enjoyed plenty of chart success in the last seven years, with hits like Money, Up and the Megan Thee Stallion collaborations Bongos and WAP.

Tina Fey Reveals How Season 2 Of The Four Seasons Is Going To Work

Posted on 19/06/2025 by Boris Clair

This article contains major spoilers for The Four Seasons on Netflix.

Fans who found themselves hooked on the low-stakes drama of The Four Seasons on Netflix earlier this year were delighted when the show was renewed for a second run last month.

And in a new interview with Deadline, Tina Fey – who also co-created the series, and wrote two of its episodes – is teasing exactly how the next season will work.

The first run of The Four Seasons checked in with the same group of friends on four different group trips, as we caught up with where they were all at in their different personal dramas.

In light of big changes the gang went through by the end of season one, Deadline’s reporter asked Tina whether this format would still be the case for the new episodes.

“One of the things we like about it is what we kept calling the container plate of it. The game of, we only see them on vacation,” Tina responded. “We only see them throughout the year.

She added: “We definitely want to keep the format of only seeing them when they’re together, only seeing them over four occasions.”

Tina Fey at a screening of The Four Seasons last month

Tina also spoke about the possibility of Steve Carell putting in an appearance, despite his character having now been killed off.

“I couldn’t possibly say,” she said. “We have our format.”

She then quipped: “I mean, of the many mistakes I’ve made in my career, killing him will hopefully go down as the biggest.”

Work on the second season of The Four Seasons is now underway, with cast members Will Forte, Colman Domingo, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Marco Calvani expected to return in the new episodes.

Until then, the first series of The Four Seasons is streaming on Netflix – with the platform making announcements about three other fan-favourite shows when it was first revealed that a second season was on the way.

Jason Isaacs Gets Honest About Working With Parker Posey After Latest White Lotus ‘Feud’ Claims

Posted on 16/06/2025 by Boris Clair

Jason Isaacs has opened up about his relationship with his former White Lotus co-star Parker Posey.

The pair played married couple Tim and Victoria Ratliff in the most recent season of the satirical US drama, for which most of the cast spent around seven months shooting in Thailand.

While promoting The White Lotus, the former Harry Potter star has repeatedly spoken highly of his on-screen children, played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook and Sam Nivola, but during a new interview with Vulture, it was pointed out that he’s been less forthcoming about Parker.

Asked what she was like to work with, he said simply: “She’s Parker Posey. She’s everything you think she would be.”

Pressed further, he explained: “She was playing someone out of her head, so she was given licence to be bonkers. And then I’m playing someone out of my head. So I didn’t really look at her or talk to her or listen to her because I’m so much in my own tunnel.”

“So I can’t really tell you what it’s like to interact with her too much,” he admitted.

Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey on the set of The White Lotus season three

Last month, The Sun published a piece – following claims apparently first made in the Daily Mail – alleging that Jason and Parker were embroiled in an on-set feud while they made the show.

HuffPost UK contacted both actors’ representatives for comment at the time, but did not receive a response.

During a wide-ranging piece in The Guardian published before the latest season began airing, Jason said of the filming process: “There’s no question that sometimes it is absolutely fabulous, and sometimes it’s Lord of the Flies.”

He continued: “There are tensions and difficulties, I don’t know if they spilled from on screen to off-screen, or if it would have happened anyway.

“There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke. It’s a long period of time for people to be away from their family with an open bar and all the wildness being in Thailand allows.”

“I can’t pretend I wasn’t involved in some off-screen drama,” he claimed, later adding: “We’ll all see one other again [for the premiere] and I’m sure we’ll be hugging and kissing and remembering it fondly. But there were times when things were not quite so fond.”

All three seasons of The White Lotus are streaming on Now and Sky in the UK.

Sabrina Carpenter Has Epic 4-Word Response About Who Inspired Her Single Manchild

Posted on 12/06/2025 by Boris Clair

Sabrina Carpenter is not getting involved when it comes to the internet’s obsession with the origin of her latest hit single.

Earlier this month, the US chart-topper sparked an internet frenzy when she announced the release of a new song, Manchild, prompting near-immediate rumours on social media that it was inspired by her most famous ex, Barry Keoghan.

This speculation only increased when Manchild finally came out, with lyrics admonishing an immature former beau.

Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter pictured together in 2024

During a wide-ranging new interview with Rolling Stone, Sabrina was asked directly if any of her famous exes served as the inspo for the track.

“It’s about your dad,” she quipped by way of response.

Elsewhere in the interview, Sabrina spoke about the interest in her personal life since her rise to global fame in the past year.

“When you get down the little rabbit hole is truly when people start commenting on you as a person or you physically,” she explained.

“All of those things that you’re already thinking on a day-to-day basis. You don’t need a stranger from Arkansas to remind you.”

Of the things people write about her online and in the press, she claimed: “You’re like, ‘That didn’t happen then. That did happen then. You’re missing a few key details there’. People underestimate how tricky it is to navigate being a young woman, having relationships, and then having a bunch of strangers have opinions on them.

“Because surely, all of these people that are commenting, if they had the same microscope on their personal lives, I don’t think they’d be as eloquently spoken as me. I know it’s a tale as old as time. It’s just unfortunate that it’s still a tale.”

Manchild is currently on course to get Sabrina her fourth number one single in the UK, following the success of Espresso, Please Please Please and Taste in 2024.

The song serves as the lead single from Sabrina’s newly-announced album Man’s Best Friend, the album cover for which has already raised plenty of eyebrows and led to plenty of online debate since it was unveiled on Wednesday evening.

Sziget Festival 2025: Tickets, Acts, Security Info And Everything We Know So Far

Posted on 04/06/2025 by Boris Clair

Sziget Festival returns for yet another spellbinding year, bringing the best music and performance acts from across Europe to its unique location on The Island of Freedom in Budapest, Hungary.

The festival, which is now in its 33rd year, is an immersive 24/7 experience similar to that of Glastonbury Festival in the UK, but twice the size and with a European edge!

For six days, Sziget transforms Budapest’s Óbuda Island into The Island of Freedom, and attracts “szitizens” from over 100 countries.

Having attended before, I know how fun and eclectic the event can be. So, whether you’re already attending Sziget, or you’re debating whether to go, here’s everything you need to know about this 6-day musical extravaganza.

Who is headlining at Sziget Festival 2025?

Running from 6 to 11th August, Sziget will feature a cross-section of the biggest names in music today. Opening the festival is Charli XCX, followed by Shawn Mendes, A$AP Rocky, Anyma and Post Malone, before Chappell Roan closes the festival on the Monday evening.

Who else will be playing at the festival?

There’s really something for everyone at Sziget, and the festival does incredibly well at pulling together lineups that incorporate the most popular musicians today, as well as up-and-coming musicians across all sorts of genres.

Festival-goers can look forward to the likes of Armin Van Buuren, FKA Twigs, Nelly Furtado, Papa Roach, Blossoms, Empire of the Sun, Sevdaliza, The Last Dinner Party, KNEECAP and many many more. See the full lineup here.

How do I buy tickets for Sziget Festival 2025?

There are a range of options for attending Sziget, including day passes, 3-day passes and passes to the entire 6-day festival. Here’s a snapshot of your ticket options:

Full Festival Pass €355
Full Festival VIP Pass €575
Full Festival U21 Pass €295
3-Day Pass €225
VIP daily tickets from €90
Daily tickets from €75

The festival has been known to attract over half a million visitors in a single year

How do I get to Sziget Festival?

Sziget festival is located on Óbuda Island in the heart of Budapest. The exact address is: Május 9. park, Budapest, Hungary, 1033.

If you’re heading from the UK to Budapest, you’ll want to fly into Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD). From there, the metro can get you to pretty much anywhere you want to go, including to The Island of Freedom.

Budapest also has three main railway stations for domestic and international travellers to Sziget.

Additionally, you can take the Sziget Express train from The Netherlands directly to the festival site, grab a direct flight from Dublin with one of their package deals or make use of one of the bus routes to Sziget from The Netherlands, Germany, Austria or Italy. Driving to the festival is not recommended, however, as parking spaces are very limited.

Where do I stay at Sziget Festival?

Just like Glasto, Sziget offers free on site camping in their basic camping zone, which includes community showers and toilets. You can either take a tent yourself, rent one at the site or have one pre-pitched and waiting for you when you arrive.

There are also premium camping and glamping options in their premium zones, which include extra amenities like a 24-hour reception, exclusive showers and toilets, free luggage storage and access to the Wellness Zone, depending on your ticket type. You can take a camper van or caravan to Sziget, too.

For absolutely everything you need to know about camping, including accessibility FAQs, visit here. Hotel deals and packages are also available on their website.

Festival goers revel in the eclectic mix of acts Sziget has to offer

What else do I need to know before attending Sziget Festival?

Remember to bring an identity card, passport or driving license in order to pick up your ticket!

2025 is special as a new chapter begins at Sziget. The physical venue will be restructured into new ‘districts’ – including Szoho (an urbanised area inspired by London and New York’s Soho districts), Delta (Sziget’s new nightlife epicentre) and North Field.

Within these districts, and across the entire site, you’ll find so much to do beyond seeing myriad live music acts.

There is a huge range of food and drink vendors, merch and shopping stalls, wellness activities, cabaret and comedy shows, screenings, installations, talks, a beach and much more. Make sure you download the Sziget Festival app ahead of time to keep up with it all!

WiFi is available around the site, as are first aid points. There is an Aldi City for festival-goers to buy groceries on site, and if you purchase BBQ products, they’ll grill them for free!

There is a limit on food, drink and tobacco products that you can bring into the festival. To find out more this and other important info, check out their website.

Glastonbury 2025: Music Fans Think They’ve Already Worked Out Who’ll Be Doing A Surprise Set

Posted on 03/06/2025 by Boris Clair

With just weeks to go until this year’s Glastonbury gets underway, music fans have been doing some detective work to try and decipher a mysterious act that has suddenly popped up on the line-up.

At 6pm on the Saturday of the festival, the Pyramid Stage will be host to an hour-long set from an act called “Patchwork”, who hadn’t previously been announced on the line-up.

One Reddit user claimed that Patchwork is the name of a German novel by the author Sylvia Haim, while it’s also pointed out that it’s also the title of a 2015 horror movie about a Frankenstein monster-esque creation made from the bodies of three women who come together to seek revenge on their killer.

Both of these clues seem to point to Haim – the US three-piece made up of sisters Alana, Danielle and Este – making an appearance on the Pyramid Stage this year.

Fuelling this is the fact that Haim will already be in the UK on Glastonbury weekend, with a one-off gig in Margate scheduled for the night before their rumoured Worthy Farm set.

Sarah Jessica Parker Opens Up About Deleted Sex And The City Scene That Could Have Been A Game-Changer For Carrie

Posted on 30/05/2025 by Boris Clair

Sarah Jessica Parker is lifting the lid on a deleted Sex And The City scene that would have given viewers more of an insight into her character’s background.

The Emmy winner played Carrie Bradshaw in all six seasons of Sex And The City, as well as its two spin-off films and the revival series And Just Like That.

Ahead of And Just Like That’s return, HuffPost UK spoke to Sarah Jessica about the fact that, despite Carrie having been on our screens for the better part of 30 years, there are still a lot of question marks around the character’s back story.

SJP explained that there has always been a “very conscious effort” to not shed too much light on any of the characters’ introduced in Sex And The City personal histories, but especially Carrie.

“There was a moment that we had a father for Carrie,” she recalled. “There was a scene shot where Carrie opens a desk drawer, and looks down and sees a photograph of her father, and shuts the drawer. And we cut it from the show.”

Sarah Jessica Parker at the premiere of And Just Like That season three

According to Sarah Jessica, showrunner Michael Patrick King opted to ditch the small scene as he felt it would have “complicated” the story, and might have “eclipsed” and “dominated” the bigger picture.

“I could not agree more,” she said. “There is a sort of alternate universe in which she lives, in which back story doesn’t exist.

“So, we’re not endowing her with qualities because… or saying she behaves this way because… or a parent or mother parented her this way and that’s why [she had] this response.

“[This approach is] so clean, and it kind of gives you more liberty to tell a story. Because in some ways, once you start introducing families, and the ways in which they’ve informed somebody, you lock yourself into, like, pathologies and choices and eccentricities.”

Carrie did briefly touch on her family life in season four of Sex And The City, when she disclosed that her father left the family home when she was a child.

“Do you think it really can be as simple as, ‘My father walked out, therefore I’ll always be messed up about men?‘’,” she asked Miranda in the episode A Vogue Idea, who responded: “My father came home every night at seven on the dot, and I have no clue about men either.”

The first episode of And Just Like That season three is now streaming on Sky and Now in the UK, with new instalments coming every Friday.

More interviews with the And Just Like That cast will be published on HuffPost UK in the coming days.

It’s Not Just Austen – Posh Accents Are Ruining Period Dramas, Historian Says

Posted on 28/05/2025 by Boris Clair

At this year’s Hay Festival, Jane Tranter – former executive vice-president of programming and production at the BBC and current producer of Austen adaptation The Other Bennet Sister – said actors “start speaking posh” when they get a Pride And Prejudice-era script in their hands.

“Not everybody spoke posh in those days, so you have to work with that as well,” she shared (via The Times).

Pinched voices, fussy hairdos, and “weird hats” can risk leading to “such a fetishised approach that it becomes a barrier between the audience and what is going on,” she adds.

So, we spoke to author and historian Katie Kennedy (of viral account @TheHistoryGossip and new SKY History series History Crush) about what we lose when costume drama accents all start to sound the same.

It’s not an isolated trend

Kennedy tells us the tendency isn’t limited to period costume dramas.

“It is widely known that the acting industry is dominated by the middle and upper classes,” she says.

In 2024, the Sutton Trust found that people from working-class backgrounds were four times less likely than their middle-class peers to work in any creative industry.

BAFTA-nominated actors are five times more likely to have gone to private school than the general public.

“While this is an issue in itself,” Kennedy continued, “it also heavily influences how history gets portrayed on screen.

“We’ve been sold this idea that everyone in the past was super polished and polite, and we’ve equated that with the classic RP [received pronunciation] accent.”

That’s not to say you can’t change up voices, actors, stories, or perspectives, especially in looser adaptations like Bridget Jones (expertly nicked from Pride And Prejudice) – but would-be “faithful” adaptations tend to sound distractingly, and sometimes inaccurately, similar.

The Brontës have fallen victim to the issue, too, Kennedy says

Take, the historian says, the 2022 film Emily.

“The Brontës are portrayed with soft-spoken middle-class voices, even though they most likely would’ve had an Irish or at least an Irish/Yorkshire mixed accent as their father was Irish,” she shares.

Indeed, Charlotte Brontë’s friend Mary Taylor said the author “spoke with a strong Irish accent,” while the British Film Institute admits star Emma Mackey’s “Yorkshire accent sporadically wanders down the M1″ in the movie.

“A lot of the time” in period dramas, “the working-class accent has been attributed to comic relief, or a character who has had a troubled life,” she tells HuffPost UK.

“When everyone in a period drama speaks the same, you’re not just losing historical accuracy, you’re also reinforcing the idea that the only ‘serious’ or ‘worthy’ people in history were the ones who ‘spoke properly.’”

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