Getting To Know… Rylan Clark-Neal
He's following Bradley Walsh and Ben Shephard as a teatime TV star, presenting the fun quiz
◆ As much as the dolls are nice to look at, they’re quite intimidating! They’re massive – I’m 6ft and when I stand next to them they’re the same height. When they’re fully open they’re like 7ft/ 8ft – ridiculous. When I first saw them I was impressed.
◆ I have already bagsied one of the dolls. I’ve already said if I die I want to be buried in one. And, as a gift at the end of the series, I got the first ever golden Babushka!
◆ I do call them "the girls". I love them, I absolutely love them. They’ve all got their own characters. Throughout the series you start to believe things about them. You think that they’re real people.
◆ A quiz show was something I’ve always wanted to do because I love the public. I love working with Joe Public. That’s where I just feel at my easiest.
◆ I do literally feel like they’re my 10 daughters. I’ve got to look after them, but at the same time get really wound up by them because they can be absolutely brutal.
◆ I wanted to bring a bit of Strike It Lucky to Babushka. I loved Strike It Lucky with Michael Barrymore. He was such a good presenter. What I loved about Michael, he was all about the contestants. He’s the same as me. I don’t care about an autocue, I don’t care about the format, if the contestants are saying something funny, I will run with it.
◆ WATCH BABUSHKA WEEKNIGHTS AT 5PM ON ITV.