Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern team up to host ITV reboot of an iconic 1980s game show

Coming soon to ITV primetime, Holly and Stephen bring backmost 2 action-packed specials of the deed situation amusement You Bet!

Do you stake that a antheral tin seat property a washing instrumentality portion riding a unicycle? Do you judge it’s imaginable to acceptable disconnected fireworks with a digger that’s doing a wheelie? How astir the chances of identifying a cactus blindfolded conscionable by licking it?

Prepare to spot each these bizarre feats and much arsenic Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern articulation forces to big this nostalgic, but modern reboot of iconic situation amusement You Bet! The deed crippled show, primitively hosted by the large Sir Bruce Forsyth and aboriginal by Matthew Kelly, aired connected ITV for 10 bid successful the 1980s and 1990s and was a stalwart of Saturday nighttime primetime TV. Now, it’s back…supercharged and reimagined for 2024.

In 2 action-packed specials, starting connected Saturday 7th December, the epic crippled amusement volition spot mean radical instrumentality connected bonzer challenges and mind-blowing feats. In 2 amusive action-packed specials, starting connected Saturday 7th December, the epic crippled amusement volition spot mean radical instrumentality connected bonzer challenges and mind-blowing feats. Walking retired into the large shiny studio, with agleam lights, cheering workplace assemblage and personage panel, a smiling Holly says: “Over 2 peculiar nights, we’re going to beryllium serving up the biggest, craziest, scariest and downright weirdest challenges connected TV.”

Expect spectacular daredevil stunts to quirky tests of passions and pastimes, arsenic a sheet of celebrities ‘bets’ connected whether the situation tin beryllium achieved. For each challenge, a star-studded personage panel, including Rob Beckett, Alison Hammond, Harry Redknapp, Olly Murs, Mary Earps, Judi Love and Rosie Ramsey, and the workplace assemblage indispensable stake if the challengers tin bash it – yes oregon no? And the stakes couldn’t beryllium higher due to the fact that the audience’s favourite challenger of the nighttime volition triumph a monolithic £10,000. The losing personage indispensable instrumentality portion successful the dreaded forfeit finale - performing unrehearsed with the formed of Tina - The Tina Turner Musical successful occurrence one, and the formed of Back To The Future: The Musical successful occurrence two.

Among the brainsick challenges to expect - operation works relation Will bets helium tin usage his digger to acceptable disconnected 3 fireworks portion doing a wheelie, gym teacher Mila bets she tin ascent the extracurricular of a multi-storey carpark faster than a contention car, goat farmers Lauren and Ian stake they tin sanction immoderate of their goats by looking astatine conscionable 1 portion of their body, and transportation operator Elliott bets helium tin present 4 takeaways connected his motorcycle faster than a drone.

Holly says: “I retrieve watching You Bet! arsenic a kid, and I loved it. For me, it felt similar existent Saturday nighttime telly. I retrieve being glued to the TV whilst watching a digger prime up six delicate eggs successful its elephantine jaws and placing them connected ovum cups, each successful a minute. I retrieve looking astatine my Dad who was arsenic arsenic enthralled arsenic I was. I deliberation the amusement works for each ages and is existent household viewing.” Asked what her You Bet! situation would be, Holly adds: “My accomplishment acceptable is truly minimal and the infinitesimal I’m enactment nether unit it each goes retired the window. I deliberation it’s rather a skill, getting 3 kids dressed, ready, fed and retired the doorway successful the morning. So possibly that would beryllium my skill, getting a household of kids to schoolhouse connected time.”

Stephen explains: “The large happening astir You Bet! is that, dissimilar immoderate different crippled amusement connected TV, everybody watching tin play along. Everybody tin stake connected the challenges, deciding whether our challengers tin bash it…or whether they can’t. Every clip I've ever been asked if determination was a amusement that I could ever bring back, I've ever said You Bet! So present is the accidental for younger viewers who person ne'er seen the amusement earlier to bask it and the older assemblage to reminisce and besides spot the amusement being brought up to date.”

He adds: “There are each kinds of things going on. There’s the instrumentality of the digger challenge, a existent favourite from the archetypal series, to quirkier challenges, similar identifying a committee crippled by proceeding the contents being poured retired into a box. We besides person a caller Quick Bets conception with fast-paced smaller challenges...like a pistillate folding 5 frying pans successful fractional utilizing her bare heads successful conscionable 20 seconds and idiosyncratic bench-pressing a washing instrumentality whilst riding a unicycle.”

On his astir memorable infinitesimal from the series, Stephen reveals: “In 1 situation a transportation motorcycle operator takes connected a transportation drone successful a race. But who volition win…human oregon machine? It's You Bet! similar you've ne'er seen it before. So I anticipation each the viewers that retrieve the amusement volition bask it conscionable arsenic much, and the younger audience, if they emotion societal media, past they're going to emotion this show. In each occurrence the loser has to execute with the formed of a large West End philharmonic wholly unrehearsed...and the results are genuinely spectacular...in each sorts of ways.”

Holly, a self-confessed instrumentality of the original, says: “It’s a crippled amusement that the full household tin get progressive successful and a elemental ‘yes’ oregon ‘no’ guessing game. We besides person the personage forfeit astatine the extremity of the amusement - and nary 1 wants to bash that.” On the challenges, 1 successful peculiar is memorable for Holly. She says: “The 1 that stands retired to maine the astir was a beauteous mates whose unsocial situation was that they could place antithetic types of cactuses - whilst blindfolded - by licking them. Yep…only utilizing their tongues, they had to place galore antithetic types of cacti successful bid to walk the challenge. It’s a existent dainty successful each way.”

She says: “For the spectator experience, I’m astir looking guardant to the information that they’ll beryllium watching thing they tin truly consciousness a portion of and play on with astatine home. I besides person to accidental the personage forfeit astatine the extremity of each amusement is not to beryllium missed. It’s hilarious and sometimes hard to watch, but conscionable brilliant.”

Holly, 43, and Stephen, 47, who volition besides big the caller bid of Dancing On Ice unneurotic successful January, intelligibly emotion moving together. Holly says: “We started moving unneurotic erstwhile I was successful my twenties and person known each different for a precise agelong time. There were tons of amusive moments erstwhile filming this amusement together, we couldn’t assistance but play on and vie with each other.”

Stephen adds: “Holly and I emotion moving unneurotic and we had truthful overmuch amusive connected the show. But immoderate of the challenges are truly nail-biting and we were virtually hanging onto each other. In 1 situation the challenger is attempting to standard the extracurricular of a multi storey car parkland to get to the apical faster than a nonrecreational operator tin thrust up it. The climber slipped, the operator was astir hitting the posts, we could hardly watch, truthful I’m truthful gladsome we had each different for support.”

*You Bet! airs connected ITV and ITVX astatine 8.15pm connected Saturday 7th December

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