The Great Pottery Throw Down: The Great Celebrity Pottery Throw Down 2025
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm, Sunday, December 28 on Channel 4 +1 (15)
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The Great Celebrity Pottery Throw Down 2025
Season 1, Episode 1
Siobhán McSweeney hosts, as novice celebrity potters Amber Gill, Colin Murray, Sarah Hadland and Tim Vine roll up their sleeves and brave the clay, as they attempt to become champion of the Festive Pottery Throw Down 2025. Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller task them with a hand-built North Pole scene and a surprise second challenge where speed is of the essence - as they attempt to throw the most reindeer water bowls
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Siobhan McSweeney
(Host)
Keith Brymer Jones
(Judge)
Rich Miller
(Judge)
Amber Gill
(Contestant)
Colin Murray
(Contestant)
Sarah Hadland
(Contestant)
Tim Vine
(Contestant)
Emma Reynolds
(Series director)
Jennifer Morrison
(Series producer)
Luke Byrne
(Executive producer)
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Siobhan McSweeney
(Host)
Keith Brymer Jones
(Judge)
Rich Miller
(Judge)
Amber Gill
(Contestant)
Colin Murray
(Contestant)
Born:
March 10, 1977
in
Dundonald, east Belfast
Best Known For:
Co-hosting the Colin and Edith Show on Radio 1
Early-life:
Born on March 10, 1977, and raised on the Ballybean Housing Estate in Dundonald, east Belfast. Expelled from grammar school at 16 for being disruptive in class, Murray was keen on entering a career in journalism, becoming a trainee on The Ulster News Letter and spending a year's fellowship at the Toronto Star. He then set up a pop magazine called Blank and wrote a pop column in the Sunday People.
Career:
He got his big break when he was signed up to co-host Radio 1's Session programme alongside Donna Legge in 1999. His witty one-liners and laidback presenting style proved popular, and the pair often deputised for the likes of John Peel, Steve Lamacq and Mary Anne Hobbs. In 2002, Colin was headhunted to front Channel 4's ill-fated breakfast show RI:SE but left to front the channel's late-night music shows. In late 2003, he was reunited with RI:SE co-host Edith Bowman for The Colin and Edith Show, which pulled in more than five million listeners before the pair went their seperate ways in 2006. Since then, he has presented Five's American football show, NFL Live, and the channel's European Poker Tour Series. He currently presents the channel's coverage of the UEFA Cup and hosts the topical sports-based news show Fighting Talk on BBC Radio Five Live. However, he hasn't forgotten his roots and also presents a late-night weekend show on Radio Ulster.
Quote:
"It used to be that you'd turn on a TV chat show, and you'd learn by the end something about the person. These days, it tends to be just an interviewer cracking bad jokes."
Trivia:
Murray supports the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team.
Sarah Hadland
(Contestant)
Born:
May 15, 1971
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing Stevie in Miranda.
Early-life:
Sarah was born in London on May 15, 1971. She trained in dance from an early age and became involved with the Scamps youth group in Wilmslow. She went on to train at the Laine Theatre Arts College in Epsom and it wasn't long before she began starring in West End musicals such as Cats and Grease.
Career:
Hadland began making her mark on TV in episodes of Bad Girls, Casualty, The Bill, Peep Show and Doctors. She landed bigger roles in Green Wing and Broken News. Since then, she has starred in Moving Wallpaper, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Horrible Histories, Waterloo Road, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff and The Job Lot. On the big screen, she has starred in Confetti (2006), Magicians (2007) and Leap Year (2010). She reached a wider audience in 2009 when she began playing Stevie in BBC sitcom Miranda.
Quote:
"You start to realise that everyone's got an inner Miranda or Stevie that they're struggling with; who feels that they don't fit in, or can't get it right with men."
Trivia:
Hadland has been the voiceover artist for a number of commercials and voiced characters in a number of video games.
Tim Vine
(Contestant)
Born:
March 04, 1967
in
Cheam, London
Best Known For:
His superb one-liners.
Early-life:
Born Timothy Mark Vine in London, on March 4, 1967. The son of a structural engineering lecturer and a part-time medical worker, Tim demonstrated a love of performing from an early age. His elder brother is broadcaster Jeremy Vine and his younger sister, Sonya, is a painter. Tim first got into comedy when he used to take part in a weekly competition night at the Comedy Cafe in central London. As his reputation and confidence grew, so did his fan base and he soon branched out on his own.
Career:
Vine burst onto the stand-up circuit by winning the Perrier Best Newcomer Award for The Tim Vine Fiasco at the Edinburgh Festival in 1995. Tim's solo shows in Edinburgh include Tim Vine Flat Out, I'm Vine Thanks, Tim Vine and the Minotaur, Punslinger and Joke-amotive. He was in both series of ITV's The Sketch Show and appeared alongside his friend Lee Mack in five series of BBC One sitcom No Going Out. They also took part in Let's Play Darts for Comic Relief, with Vine finishing runner-up to competition winner Mack. He's acted in Blandings and is a resident comedian on Celebrity Squares alongside Joe Wilkinson.
Quote:
"Velcro - what a rip off."
Trivia:
In 2004, Vine broke the record for telling the most jokes in an hour - 499. He held the record until November 2014, when Australian comedian Taylor Goodwin told 550 jokes in an hour.
Emma Reynolds
(Series director)
Jennifer Morrison
(Series producer)
Luke Byrne
(Executive producer)
