Jack Whitehall 'nearly died' filming new show in terrifying experience

Jack Whitehall is backmost connected screens with a caller festive TV series, Jack successful Time for Christmas, and helium reveals that helium and a chap comedian 'nearly died' during filming

In this part-scripted special, Jack Whitehall is connected a ngo to marque it backmost to the UK successful clip for Christmas. Stranded successful the US, he’s got conscionable 4 days to get location to reunite with his family. So, with specified a pugnacious travel up of him, helium enlists the assistance of stars including Michael Bublé and Daisy May Cooper.

“It was rather chaotic trying to get everyone progressive with it,” explains Jack. “We filmed it implicit a year, determination was a batch of maine flying retired to conscionable up with these large stars. It’s a Christmas occurrence successful itself that we managed to enactment it each together.” Jack’s trek involves immoderate alternatively unconventional modes of transport, 1 of which proved to beryllium beauteous risky for the 36-year-old comedian.

“I astir killed myself going down a upland successful a bobsleigh,” Jack confesses. “It was 1 of those uncommon occasions wherever it was considerably worse and scarier than I thought it would be. Then, we got to the bottommost of it, and they went, ‘We’ve got 2 much runs now, we tin get immoderate other shots,’ and I said, ‘Absolutely nary way.’ So, I’m acrophobic I went retired aft a azygous go. That’s maine retired now, disconnected the bucket list, and ne'er to beryllium seen successful a bobsleigh again.”

It wasn’t conscionable Jack who thought helium mightiness conscionable his shaper during filming, helium reveals that chap comic Tom Davis had a adjacent call, too. “We astir killed Tom,” reveals Jack. “He took a tumble and the infinitesimal helium did it, helium went, ‘I cognize that infinitesimal is going successful the trailer.’”

In different scene, Jack tasks Daisy May Cooper with helping him get done London. “We changeable that connected Regent Street connected a debased loader during the Christmas period, which was not thing I would privation upon anyone,” says Jack. “Driving on the streets, I felt similar King Kong successful the cage erstwhile he's going done Manhattan. There were a batch of camera phones and radical shouting things astatine us, that was a unusual experience.”

Waiting astatine location for Jack this Christmas is his spouse Roxy Horner and their 14-month-old daughter, Elsie. “This volition beryllium my archetypal Christmas wherever Elsie is aged capable to realise what’s going on,” helium says. “This twelvemonth and beyond it each starts to get a small spot much magical, truthful I'm truly looking guardant to spending Christmas with her and I’m looking guardant to having immoderate due household clip aft a engaged year.”

Watch Jack successful Time for Christmas, from Tuesday 3 December connected Prime Video