Sam Thompson awkwardly reunites with Zara McDermott in Michael McIntyre TV surprise after 'split'

The mates reportedly parted ways successful December aft 5 years unneurotic but they volition marque 1 much TV appearance

Sam Thompson and Zara McDermott are acceptable to awkwardly reunite connected Michael McIntyre's Big Show, pursuing their split.

The mates reportedly parted ways successful December aft 5 years together, with Sam precocious admitting that it had been a "really pugnacious month".

At the weekend, Zara appeared to corroborate that she has moved retired of the West London location she shares with the erstwhile Made successful Chelsea star, aft filming a TikTok vlog that saw her aftermath up successful a antithetic house.

Prior to their split, Sam and Zara filmed unneurotic for the latest bid of Michael McIntyre's Big Show, which begins airing this Saturday (January 18) connected BBC One.

The duo took portion successful the show's celebrated Midnight Gameshow segment, which sees the big burst into celebrities' bedrooms successful the mediate of the nighttime to inquire a bid of amusive questions.

A trailer for the caller bid sees Michael unexpectedly waking Sam and Zara arsenic they slept. As a speechless Zara looked connected successful shock, Sam hilariously exclaimed: "What the hell?"

Now, Michael has teased what viewers tin expect from the "vintage" gameshow, with Sam and Zara becoming the archetypal mates to beryllium amazed astatine the aforesaid time.

"Sam and Zara's Midnight Gameshow was a item excessively arsenic they had locked their chamber doorway from the inside! So, I couldn't get in!" helium explained. "They were terrified arsenic I had to sound connected the doorway - but thankfully they past had the clip of their lives."

The caller bid volition besides diagnostic a caller point called Remember Me, which sees a personage travel face-to-face with a idiosyncratic from immoderate clip successful their past. The celebrated look indispensable past effort and conjecture however they cognize the enigma impermanent - whether it beryllium the midwife who birthed them, a vacation romance, oregon the operator who escorted them to the theatre that day.

A instrumentality of the Big Show wouldn't beryllium implicit without a circular of Send to All. Season 8 volition spot the likes of Judi Love, Michael Sheen and Tony Bellew reluctantly handing implicit their phones.

Wheel connected Wheels is besides back, with Michael and the unit taking the van to Birmingham to find idiosyncratic watching the amusement astatine home. Instead, they came crossed an Indian takeaway playing The Wheel connected TV, truthful customers were capable to instrumentality portion successful the game.

As good arsenic Sam and Zara, the "jam-packed" bid besides features appearances from Miranda Hart, Holly Willoughby, Alan Carr and Josh Widdicombe, with Jamie Oliver, Olly Murs and Luke Littler connected committee to astonishment unsuspecting assemblage members.