The Last Leg: 2025


10:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Wednesday, December 24 on Channel 4 HD (104)

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2025

Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker get into the festive spirit with the help of funnyman Harry Hill and TV presenter Alison Hammond, with Rick Astley on hand for a spot of music and chat, as the team present their own brand of comedy and seasonal cheer


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Cast & Crew

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Alex Brooker (Co host)
Harry Hill (Guest)
Tom Messer (Series producer)
Jack Murray (Series producer)
Andrew Beint (Executive producer)
Danny Carr (Executive producer)

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Adam Hills (Host)
Born: July 10, 1970 in Sydney
Best Known For: Hosting The Last Leg.
Early-life: Adam was born in Sydney on July 10, 1970. He was born without a right foot and wears a prosthesis. He went on to study a degree in communications at Macquarie University in Sydney. His first taste of stand-up comedy came in 1989 at the Sydney Comedy Store.
Career: In Australia, Hills is best known for hosting the music-themed quiz show Spicks and Specks. In Britain, he has hosted The Last Leg on Channel 4 since 2012. Since 1997, he has toured internationally with his stand-up shows. He earned consecutive Perrier Award nominations for his Edinburgh shows in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He regularly uses his artificial right foot as a source of humour in his act. He has also hosted the comedy panel show Monumental and quiz show Celebrity Fifteen to One. Hills voiced Buddy Pendergast in an epsiode of the TV series Thunderbirds Are Go.
Quote: "Even when people talk about my disability, for a number of reasons I feel weird. There's nothing I can't do, so technically I don't think I am disabled."
Trivia: In 2002, Hills released a single in Australia called Working Class Anthem.
Josh Widdicombe (Co host)
Born: April 08, 1983 in Dartmoor
Best Known For: Being a comedian and a regular on The Last Leg.
Early-life: Joshua Widdicombe was born in Dartmoor on April 8, 1983. He has a brother, Henry. Josh went on to study linguistics at the University of Manchester. He began performing stand-up in 2008 and made it to the final of So You Think You're Funny at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the same year.
Career: In 2011, Widdicombe performed his debut solo show in Edinburgh and was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award in the best newcomer category. Since 2012, he has been a regular on Channel 4's The Last Leg, alongside Adam Hills and Alex Brooker. He has also appeared on Mock the Week, QI and Have I Got News for You.
Quote: "The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols."
Trivia: In December 2013, Widdicombe won his edition of Celebrity Mastermind - his specialist subject was Blur.
Alex Brooker (Co host)
Best Known For: Co-hosting The Last Leg.
Early-life: Alex was born in Kent in 1986 with hand and arm deformities and a twisted right leg which had to be amputated when he was a baby. He now wears a prosthetic leg. He studied journalism at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and during his time there he spent a day working at the Liverpool Echo, wrote a column for a student magazine and was presenter on a student radio station.
Career: Brooker was the Disabled Rights Officer for LJMU before he went to work for the Press Association on a trainee editorial scheme. His big break came in 2012 when he beat thousands of people to become the face of Channel 4's 2012 Paralympics coverage. He was a co-host on The Last Leg with Adam Hills, a nightly alternative look at the Games. In 2013, he returned as a regular on The Last Leg. In January 2014, he began co-hosting Channel 4's celebrity reality series The Big Jump alongside Davina McCall but did not return for the second series in 2015. He started presented The Superhumans Show for Channel 4 in 2016.
Quote: "While we are advanced in this country in terms of our attitudes towards disability, there is still a level of unease about what you can and can't say."
Trivia: He supports Arsenal FC.
Harry Hill (Guest)
Born: October 01, 1964 in Woking, Surrey
Best Known For: His zany humour.
Early-life: Born Matthew Keith Hall on October 1, 1964, in Woking, Surrey. He's one of five children. The family later moved to Kent and spent two years in Hong Kong. After doing well at his A Levels, Hall studied at St George's Hospital Medical School in London. He worked for several years as a junior doctor, then in 1990 toyed with the idea of becoming a full-time stand-up comedian. When none of his superiors at Doncaster Royal Infirmary discouraged him from doing so, he quit medicine.
Career: In 1993, after doing the rounds at comedy clubs, Hall, now calling himself Harry Hill, launched Radio 4 show Fruit Corner, which ran for four years. In 1994, he wrote and starred in experimental TV series Fruit Fancies, before appearing in three seasons of Harry Hill on Channel 4. In 2001, he moved to ITV, where The All-New Harry Hill Show proved a winner with fans. TV Burp, a look back at the week's TV, became hugely popular, although to the horror of its fans, Hill announced the 2012 series would be its last. In 2013, The Harry Hill Movie was released, and in March 2014 his musical, I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical, opened in London. He's also the narrator of You've Been Framed!, and continues to tour and write books.
Quote: "I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But one day I turned to my bullies and said 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me', and it worked! From there on it was sticks and stones all the way."
Trivia: In 2014, Hill received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent.
Alison Hammond (Guest)
Born: February 05, 1975 in Birmingham
Early-life: Alison was born in Birmingham on February 5, 1975. Her first claim to fame was a short appearance as a contestant on Big Brother in 2002 - she was the second housemate to be evicted.
Best Known For: Being a presenter on This Morning.
Career: Since leaving the Big Brother house, Hammond has carved out a career as a TV presenter, notably on This Morning. She has also managed to fit in appearances on a number of other reality shows, including Celebrity Fit Club, Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes, Celebrity Ready Steady Cook, Celebrity MasterChef and I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! In 2014, she was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. Hammond had an acting role in two episodes of children's drama series The Dumping Ground in 2016. She also participated in the TV shows Sugar Free Farm and Let's Sing and Dance.
Quote: On working on This Morning: "I love the fact that no two days are the same."
Trivia: Hammond is the voice of one of the bingo callers on the Crown Bingo website.
Rick Astley (Guest)
Born: February 03, 1966 in Newton-le-Willows
Best Known For: His chart-topping single Never Gonna Give You Up
Early-life: Rick Paul Astley was born in Newton-le-Willows on February 3, 1966. As a child he attended St Peter's Primary School and Selwyn James High School, earning respect and acclaim for his vocal skills from a young age. As well as singing, he learnt how to play the drums, guitar, keyboard and saxophone. As part of the boyband FBI, he performed at local venues. During one of these sets in 1985, he was spotted by music mogul Pete Waterman who became the catalyst for his early career.
Career: Two years after his first meeting with Waterman, Rick released his debut single, Never Gonna Give You Up. It went straight to number one, making him a household name. Other hits followed, including Together Forever, She Wants to Dance With Me, and his acclaimed cover of Nat King Cole's When I Fall in Love. In 1988 he was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy Award, but as the decade drew to a close, success waned. He returned in 1993 with a new album, but this failed to set the charts on fire, so following the birth of his daughter, he unofficially retired from the industry. In 2004, he toured for the first time in 14 years.
Quote: On his career to date and new album, Portrait: "I've come full circle. I'm so removed from 1987, I can look back on it myself and say 'Wasn't that a bit of fun?'"
Trivia: He has sold more than 40 million records worldwide.
Tom Messer (Series producer)
Jack Murray (Series producer)
Andrew Beint (Executive producer)
Danny Carr (Executive producer)