This week's experts on Michael McIntyre's The Wheel are Dermot O'Leary, Lucy Beaumont, Mark Chapman, Anita Rani, Alex Brooker, Natalie Cassidy and Angela Scanlon. It will be particularly interesting to see how Lucy Beaumont fares as last time she was on she was devastated when her advice meant that a contestant lost the chance of winning £79,000. Beaumont posted online that she would try to make it up to him, maybe do a benefit comedy gig in Newcastle.
Beaumont would be sure to sell out the gig. In recent years she has become a familiar face on television. She rose to fame after her mock reality TV fly on the wall series for Dave, Meet the Richardsons, which followed her relationship with Jon Richardson. The couple have now divorced.
She was recently seen on Celebrity Traitors where she was not sure how she would do: "People who know me have said I’ll either be the worst person they've ever had on the show or I’ll win it. Nothing in between," she said.
The Hull-born star also made a splash on Taskmaster where her offbeat sense of humour stood her in good stead. She got on so well with fellow contestant Sam Campbell, who went on to win the series, that they launched a podcast, Lucy & Sam’s Perfect Brains.
I've seen Beaumont a number of times on the stand-up circuit. The first time was when she was a finalist in the Leicester Mercury New Comedian of the Year Awards in 2013. the compeition that year was won by a former teacher called Romesh Ranganathan. Whatever happened to him?
More recently I saw Beaumont at the Royal Court Theatre in 2024 where she was filming her most recent solo show The Trouble & Strife! for broadcast on Sky. Beaumont puts her anecdotal down to growing up in Hull, a place where everyone had either "gangrene or a perm." Let's see if those skills help her out this time round on The Wheel.
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, Saturday, December 6, 8.03pm, BBC One
Pictured: Dermot O'Leary, Lucy Beaumont, Mark Chapman, Anita Rani, Michael McIntyre, Alex Brooker, Natalie Cassidy, Angela ScanlonCredit: BBC/Hungry McBear/Gary Moyes
