Taskmaster star Joe Lycett responds after poo podcast "cancelled indefinitely"
Taskmaster star Joe Lycett's poo-themed podcast Turdcast has been "cancelled indefinitely" – but the comedian has revealed that not all is what it seems.
Lycett, who has a history of pulling stunts to attract attention to social issues such as David Beckham's endorsement of Qatar's FIFA World Cup, was set to launch the podcast on Friday (November 24).
The podcast's premiere was meant to feature Gary Lineker as the first celebrity guest; each episode would star a different interviewee to share their "most satisfying, horrifying and frankly awful toilet stories".
But, the comedian took to X on the day of the launch to write that the podcast had been cancelled "indefinitely", due to an "ongoing investigation" of sewage spilled into the waters at Liverpool Albert Docks in a PR stunt gone wrong.
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However, in a new video message, Lycett has revealed that both the podcast and the spillage were part of a larger stunt to help "get people talking about the real sewage, which is being spilled every year in their billions of litres by our water companies."
"Everything went exactly to plan," Lycett said. "Of course I didn't spill raw sewage into the Royal Albert Dock. I'm not spilling sh*t in public everywhere.
"It was fake sewage, from a fake toilet to promote a fake podcast," he shared.
A statement from Miss Sue Idgehttps://t.co/lXb12MyxBS pic.twitter.com/TNN2FowYli
— Joe Lycett (@joelycett) November 25, 2023
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However, fans desperate for more Lycett won't go hungry, because he added that he and Lineker have actually recorded a real instalment of ... something.
"Turdcast was never real, although we did record a real one with the real Gary Lineker," he confirmed. He also added: "An hour special on the water companies will be coming to Channel 4 next year."
Lycett said that by heading to turdcast.co.uk, members of the public could send an email to their water companies urging them to direct some of their profits to help stopping spills.
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