This week's edition of Michael McIntyre's The Wheel is almost like a mini-Celebrity Traitors reunion, with Jonathan Ross and Ed Gamble among the experts answering – or trying to answer – the questions. It's good to see Gamble appearing on something that isn't a podcast for a change.

 

Traitors fans will obviously know Gamble for his Uncloaked visual podcast that follows the main show. But to many podcast fans he is most famous as the co-host with James Acaster of Off Menu, the foodie hit where celebrities get to eat their dream menu in their dream restaurant. Guests have included Robert De Niro and another Traitors star, Nick Mohammed. 

 

But of course, like many current podcast stars Gamble is also a stand-up comedian. The first time I went to see him do a gig in Leicester Square a decade ago I didn't actually see him - there was a power cut in the centre of London and the show had to be postponed.

 

Since then though I've seen him lots of times. He's a great storytelling comedian, delivering comic updates from his life in each show, including tales of his marriage, his stag weekend and the joys of the pastries in hotel buffets.

 

Food has never been far away from Gamble, who is diabetic. On his Hot Diggity tour he posed for the posters eating a hot dog (the food had to be changed to a cucumber on London Underground adverts as it seemed to be promoting junk food). When he first started out in comedy he was overweight and in his book Glutton: The Multi-Course Life Of A Very Greedy Boy he talked candidly about how he battled against the bulge and ultimately managed to shed the stones.

 

These days the slimline Gamble is a familiar face on television. He has been a regular on Mock the Week and won Taskmaster (he also presents the Taskmaster podcast). Food was back on the menu again when he became one of the judges on The Great British Menu. 

 

So let's see how he does on Michael McIntyre's The Wheel. He is a big fan of metal (the musical variety) so should be fine if e gets asked about that. And if anything to do with cuisine comes up Gamble really should be a safe bet.