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Joe Lycett joins Graham Norton’s huge star-studded comedy show alongside Strictly’s Jayde Adams and RuPaul’s Drag Race icons-Samuel McManus-Entertainment – Metro
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Joe Lycett is the latest name to be added to Graham Norton’s variety show (Picture: BBC/Getty)
Joe Lycett has become the latest name added to the star-studded line-up for Graham Norton’s huge variety show coming to The O2 in London next year.
Fresh from his most elaborate stunt yet, in which he pretended to shred £10,000 in protest of David Beckham’s reported £150,000,000 deal with Qatar, Joe, 34, will take to the stage next year as part of the Just For Laughs comedy festival, raising money for Comic Relief.
Graham, 59, will oversee proceedings at the shows, taking place in March 2023.
Stand-up star and TV favourite Joe will join the likes of RuPaul’s Drag Race winners Bianca Del Rio and Danny Beard and Strictly Come Dancing star Jayde Adams for the huge gig, with many more names promised to be announced in the coming weeks.
Speaking about the upcoming event, Graham said: ‘I can’t wait to be a part of this amazing comedy event. I can guarantee people a night of big names and even bigger laughs. London in 2023 just got a whole lot funnier!’
Other events announced for the upcoming Just For Laughs festival include shows headed up by Katherine Ryan and Aisling Bea, a family show hosted by Basil Brush, a live recording of Darren Harriott and Eshaan Akbar’s Shame Is Delicious podcast and even a comedian wrestling show.
Graham will host the star-studded show at The O2 in March (Picture: Getty Images)
Another highlight of the festival is sure to be Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort show, which will see him transport the audience into his creative multiverse as he talks about everything from his accomplished acting career to being a producer and screenwriter to a successful entrepreneur alongside his Deadpool 2 co-star Rob Delaney.
Joe recently shut down speculation he may be lined up to replace Matt Lucas as host of Great British Bake Off in the most fabulous way – admitting he can’t be bothered.
Speaking on KISS Breakfast, he said: ‘I don’t want to do it, I did The Sewing Bee which is basically the same show just about sewing. They wake you up at something like 4am…you’re there until sometimes like 9/10 O’clock and I like a quiet life.
‘I work for 20 minutes max and then I have to be suspended in a salt bath for a week. I can’t be bothered. I truly can’t be bothered.
Joe has recently faced controversy over his shredding £10,000 stunt (Credits: Twitter/Joe Lycett)
‘I’d love the cash, I’d love the extra fame but no I can’t be bothered,’ he continued.
Joe will return to TV screens on Thursday in a special about his money-shredding prank, with the comedian recently revealing his ‘anxiety really spiked’ during the stunt.
The comic said it made him feel ‘like a snail without its shell’ attracting so much attention from people he knew as he attempted to get David Beckham to react due to his contradictory status as a gay icon.
‘I was getting messages from my neighbours and friends and family who were saying, “Please don’t do it” or Josie Long, who I love, who is a brilliant stand up,’ he explained on The Line-Up with Shaun Keaveny podcast.
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He added: ‘I had friends who were like super concerned about it, thinking I’d misjudged it. And I didn’t want to tell too many people about it because I didn’t want it to leak that I wasn’t actually going to do it.’
Tickets for The Graham Norton Variety Show and other Just For Laughs London events are on sale now at www.jfllondon.com
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