It’s usually humorous to see how the TV world overlaps, recognizing hyperlinks between stars of very totally different reveals and discovering unlikely friendships you’d by no means have thought existed.
Tonight’s (Saturday, March 13) Ant and Dec ‘s Saturday Night Takeaway options a guest that has certainly one of these unlikely hyperlinks – to a star of Great British Bake Off.
No, special guest Michelle Visage is not secretly finest pals with Prue Leith – however can you think about the Drag Race / Bake Off crossover?
The hyperlink is definitely between the opposite guest – Lee Mack – and lovable gothic Bake Off presenter Noel Fielding.
In the comedy world it might usually look like everybody is aware of everybody, however Lee and Noel’s relationship goes additional than simply a informal friendship.
They used to share a flat collectively.
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Fans of the comedians have been shocked by this revelation as a result of the 2 have such totally different comedic personas – Noel’s absurdist, non-sequitur comedy contrasts with Lee’s razor-sharp wit.
In a 2014 interview with Channel 4, Noel Fielding described how the unlikely flatshare took place and what it was wish to reside collectively.
He stated: “It was at Edinburgh. We had the identical agent. Me and Julian Barratt [from The Mighty Boosh], Lee Mack and Simon Evans, who’s a actually good comic, all of us lived collectively two-years-running in Edinburgh.
Noel Fielding and Lee Mack had been as soon as flatmates in Edinburgh
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“And we did a lot of the festivals collectively – Melbourne and Sydney and Edinburgh and Montreal – so we frolicked a lot. We had been actually good pals – we performed soccer a lot collectively. He’s hilarious.
“Rich Fulcher might be the funniest individual I’ve ever met, however Lee Mack’s bought to be a shut second. He’s just about joking on a regular basis.
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“He’s superb, very humorous, he’s simply bought humorous bones. He’s so fast, I don’t assume anybody in comedy is faster than him.
“I beloved sharing a flat with him, and I look again on these occasions with a lot of fondness. We had been all beginning out, doing reveals, it was so thrilling.”
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The unlikely flatmate pairing was additionally mentioned in a 2018 episode of Celebrity Bake Off and followers had been shocked and amused.
Lee Mack and his fast wit will likely be showing on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway on ITV this night alongside RuPaul’s Drag Race decide Michelle Visage, so viewers are definitely in for a fun-filled night time of leisure.
Watch the present from 7pm tonight, March 13, on ITV.
