{"id":9748,"date":"2026-07-29T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/comedians-ready\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:41:15","slug":"comedians-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/comedians-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedians, ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"caption\">Sara Pascoe and Chris Ramsey to compete in Gladiators.<\/p>\n<p>Sara\u00a0Pascoe and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/comics\/c\/33604\/chris_ramsey\" title=\"Chris Ramsey's Chortle profile\">Chris Ramsey<\/a> are to take part in the next Gladiators celebrity special.<\/p>\n<p>The comics will be squaring up against TV presenter\u00a0 AJ Odudu and TikToker and Strictly runner-up\u00a0 George Clarke when the show returns to BBC One later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Pascoe said: \u2018Celebrity Gladiators is the ideal opportunity for me to live out my childhood dream of humiliating myself on national television.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>While Ramsey gushed: \u2018As someone who religiously watched Gladiators as a kid, it\u2019s beyond incredible to be taking part in the show myself!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018However, a large part of me does wish it could have been while I was in my 20s and not 40\u2026 but there you go. I\u2019m looking forward to the challenge, the excitement, the crowd and going head-to-head with the Gladiators and the inevitable months of rehab and physiotherapy that will no doubt follow.<\/p>\n<p>Hosts Bradley and Barney Walsh will return in the hour-long special,\u00a0 produced by Hungry Bear Media and MGM Alternative UK.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow comics <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/comics\/j\/33484\/joel_dommett\" title=\"Joel Dommett's Chortle profile\">Joel Dommett<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/comics\/e\/33795\/ellie_taylor\" title=\"Ellie Taylor's Chortle profile\">Ellie Taylor<\/a> took part in the 2024 celebrity edition \u2013\u00a0and both emerged as champions.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Chat GPT imagines Pascoe and Ramsey in the show:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"published\">Published: <\/span><em>29 Jul 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/news\/2026\/07\/29\/61088\/comedians%2C_ready%3F?rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Pascoe and Chris Ramsey to compete in Gladiators. Sara\u00a0Pascoe and Chris Ramsey are to take part in the next Gladiators celebrity special. The comics will be squaring up against TV presenter\u00a0 AJ Odudu and TikToker and Strictly runner-up\u00a0 George Clarke when the show returns to BBC One later this year. Pascoe said: \u2018Celebrity Gladiators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/images\/photos\/small\/gladiators-mockup.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[738,2754,740,742,741,1731,739],"class_list":["post-9748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theatre_and_comedy","tag-chortle","tag-comedians","tag-comedy-clubs","tag-comedy-news","tag-comedy-review","tag-ready","tag-uk-comedy-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}