Celebrity Gogglebox to star Everton legend and British boxing champ

Viewers volition spot the England subordinate and boxing leader watching telly and sharing banter arsenic they rise wealth for crab research

A peculiar instalment of Celebrity Gogglebox volition aerial time featuring 10 stars who person ne'er appeared before, successful a bid to entice viewers to ticker and donate.

England goalie Jordan Pickford is teaming up with boxer Tony Bellew to look connected the Stand Up To Cancer foundation peculiar of the much-loved bid which retur The sporting brace are longterm pals with Jordan, 30, playing for Everton and Tony, 41, being a lifelong blues fan. They volition look time successful Channel 4’s fundraiser for Stand Up to Cancer alongside 8 different first-timers comprising comics Frank Skinner and David Baddiel, Miriam Margolyes and Lesley Thomas and Stephen Marchant and Josh Widdicombe positive actors Kirstin Scott Thomas and Saskia Reeves.

Jordan - usually seen yelling instructions to his teammates down the transportation - told the Mirror: “I’m buzzing to articulation my mate Tony connected our Gogglebox sofa for Stand Up to Cancer. It's not often you get to ticker and chat astir TV, portion besides making a quality - we wanted to bash our spot to enactment this run which speeds up lifesaving crab research.” And Tony laughed: “Jordan amended not beryllium reasoning of starting immoderate fights implicit the distant – I deliberation we some cognize who would triumph that one! It’s going to beryllium an astonishing evening – what a large accidental to footwear backmost with 1 of my mates and bask immoderate of the weeks’ champion TV, each whilst helping rise wealth for a bully cause.”

Skinner, 67, said he’d been watching TV with aged person David Baddiel, 60, for the past 3 decades truthful this was a mean nighttime for him. “We utilized to laughter uncontrollably astatine infomercials and past Dave would really bargain the product,” helium said. “The lone TV I refused to ticker with him was worldly featuring me. He ne'er laughed enough. Stand up to Cancer is an astonishing origin and Dave and me, backmost connected a sofa, seems a overmuch amended woody than cycling up K2, carrying a fridge to Istanbul oregon immoderate of that different sweaty worldly that radical bash for charity.” Baddiel said that his determination to instrumentality portion “wasn’t a hard yes”. He added: “If we tin rise consciousness and currency to combat this unspeakable disease, past it’s worthy the tremendous effort of slumping successful beforehand of the surface with my aged person and saying immoderate stuff.”

Merchant, 49, seen astir precocious successful BBC drama The Outlaws which helium besides wrote, has admitted helium mightiness conflict with the conception of Gogglebox. “I don't usually let talking erstwhile the TV is on, due to the fact that I cognize however overmuch hard enactment goes into making shows, truthful I effort to springiness them my afloat attention.” Miriam, 83, said she couldn’t deliberation of thing amended than watching TV with her aged person of astir 40 years Lesley, 79, portion raising wealth for crab research.

- Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand up to Cancer, Friday 25 ^th October, 9pm, C4.

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