NO SEFLASH! It’s Comic Relief time
They might have imagined they’d reached the pinnacle of sport by playing for their country. But now England football stars Declan Rice and Mason Mount have to face what might be their greatest challenge yet: going up against comedian and presenter Jack Whitehall on a mini golf course – with an embarrassing forfeit awaiting the loser.
That’s just one of the many wonderfully comic moments in a feast of entertainment on Friday night for this year’s Comic Relief, presented by (above from left)
David Tennant, Alesha Dixon, Lenny Henry and Paddy McGuinness from the studio at MediaCityUK in Salford.
This year, among the charities and organisations the event will be raising money for are those supporting people under siege in Ukraine, as well as people trying to cross the border to safety.
The many highlights include an episode with a difference of The Repair Shop featuring Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Judi Dench – and you have to wonder if the familiar workshop will ever be quite the same again. The cast of the BBC1 sitcom Ghosts is joined by Kylie Minogue, while comedians Tim Vine and
Kiri Pritchard-McLean face each other in the challenge that is One Red Nose And Their Dog.
Plus, Bedtime Stories gets a decidedly adult makeover, courtesy of Stephen Fry and other personalities, and Little Britain duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas are reunited to subject the music stars taking part in this year’s charity single to a merciless mickey-taking in Rock Profile.
Look out, too, for the celebrities who attempt to belt out a spot of opera at the London Coliseum, while the twinkle-toed Strictly Come Dancing winners Giovanni and Rose should be turning up, and we can also look forward to the climax of The One Show’s four-day egg-and-spoon race.
Then, come back later in the evening for The Great Comic
Relief Prizeathon (BBC1, 10.35pm), hosted by comedian Joel Dommett and Strictly star
A. J. Odudu, when viewers have a chance to enter the Text To Win prize draws while enjoying more live music and comedy.
Earlier in the week, in Tom Daley’s Hell Of A Homecoming (BBC1, Monday, 9pm), we can see the Olympic champion pushing himself to new limits as he makes a journey of 290 miles from the Aquatic Centre in Stratford, London, to his home town of Plymouth – rowing, swimming, cycling and running all the way. It’s an extraordinary feat of endurance that is sure to inspire generosity from the nation as he’s cheered on by the public.