Celebrity Catchphrase: Celebrity Catchphrase: Christmas Special 2023


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Celebrity Catchphrase: Christmas Special 2023
Season 1, Episode 1

Stephen Mulhern hosts a festive edition of the game show, with Davina McCall, Jarvis Cocker and Jo Brand hoping to win the £50,000 jackpot for their chosen charity. That's if they can guess what Mr Chips is doing


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Cast & Crew

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Davina McCall (Contestant)
Jarvis Cocker (Contestant)
Jo Brand (Contestant)
Geraldine Dowd (Director)
Sam Munday (Series producer)
Gary Chippington (Executive producer)

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Stephen Mulhern (Host)
Born: April 04, 1977 in Minehead
Best Known For: Presenting various ITV shows.
Early-life: Stephen Daniel Mulhern was born in Minehead on April 4, 1977 to Maureen and Christopher. He has two older brothers and a younger sister. He started to learn about magic when he was 14 and his first break as an entertainer came when he performed his magic show at Butlins when he was 17. It led to him being offered a job as a Redcoat at Minehead. His first taste of TV began in 1998 as a CITV presenter. He went on to co-host Finger Tips with Fearne Cotton and Naomi Wilkinson, children's show Tricky TV and Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown with Holly Willoughby.
Career: Mulhern moved on to more adult fare in 2006 when he hosted ITV2 spin-off Dancing on Ice: Defrosted. Since then, he has been involved with ITV2 spin-off Britain's Got More Talent, game show Magic Numbers, The Big Quiz, Big Star's Little Star and Sunday Side Up. Since 2013, he has presented a revived version of ITV game show Catchphrase. He has also appeared in a number of pantomimes. In 2012, he began co-presenting a Sunday breakfast show on Heart radio alongside Emma Willis.
Quote: "I wanted to be the new Paul Daniels," he says. "I wanted to have that show where the best and biggest acts from around the world would do a couple of tricks and I'd introduce them."
Trivia: Mulhern has released a number of children's magic sets, toured the UK with Stephen's Mega Mad Magic Show and performed his magic act in front of the Queen at a Royal Variety Performance.
Davina McCall (Contestant)
Born: October 16, 1967 in London
Best Known For: Hosting Big Brother.
Early-life: Davina Lucy Pascale McCall was born in London on October 16, 1967, to Florence and Andrew. At the age of three, Davina went to live with her grandparents in Surrey after the break-up of her parents' marriage. She moved in with her father and his new wife in London when she was 13.
Career: Davina started out as a singer (her demo was produced by Eric Clapton) and worked for the Models One agency before securing a presenter's job on Ray Cokes' Most Wanted on MTV Europe. ITV's middle-of-the-night series God's Gift led to the higher profile Streetmate, Don't Try This at Home and Popstars: The Rivals, although she tasted failure with her sitcom Sam's Game, series He's Having a Baby, and her self-titled BBC chat show. She's also fronted Love on a Saturday Night and co-hosted both Sport Relief and Comic Relief. Big Brother remains her biggest hit (she quit after 11 series as host in 2010), but has another hit on her hands with The Million Pound Drop. In August 2013, she began presenting ITV's dancing reality series Stepping Out, and in January 2014 began co-hosting Channel 4 reality series The Jump alongside Alex Brooker. The following month she ran, swam and cycled her way across the UK for Sport Relief.
Quote: "I've been on telly for 20 years, and I've done some awful TV."
Trivia: Davina performed in a band at school called Foghorn. She has released several workout DVDs.
Jarvis Cocker (Contestant)
Born: September 19, 1963 in Sheffield
Best Known For: Being in the band Pulp.
Early-life: Jarvis Branson Cocker was born in Sheffield in 1963. He has a sister, Saskia. His uncle and father were both musicians, but the latter left the family when Jarvis was seven, leaving his mum to bring up the children on her own. Singer Joe Cocker was a friend of the family, and used to babysit the youngsters. At the age of 15, Jarvis founded the group Arabacus Pulp, which went through numerous line-up changes. In 1981, they sent a demo tape to DJ John Peel, and were invited to record one of his famous sessions.
Career: Their first mini-LP It was produced in 1982, but mainstream success eluded the band for several years, despite releasing three albums. In 1992, they signed to Island records and the disc His 'n' Hers became their breakthrough long player. Three years later, they were at the forefront of the Britpop phenomenon, but by 2001, their success began to wane and Pulp went on hiatus in 2002. Jarvis began devoting more time to his other band, Relaxed Muscle, until they fizzled out in 2003. Since then, he's turned his hand to directing music videos, writing songs for other artists and contributed to the soundtrack for Harry Potter film The Goblet of Fire (in which he also briefly appears).
Quote: "I'm not as famous as I was. Tube travel is possible now. I could get used to this and not pop up again until they do Britpop, The Golden Years."
Trivia: In 2010, Cocker won the Sony DAB Rising Star Award for his BBC Radio 6 Music Show.
Jo Brand (Contestant)
Born: July 23, 1957 in Wandsworth, London
Best Known For: Acerbic gags about men.
Early-life: Born Josephine Grace Brand in Wandsworth, London, on July 23, 1957. She grew up in a village near Tunbridge Wells. Her father was a civil engineer and her mother a social worker. She has a brother called Matt. Jo was heading for Oxbridge, but rebelled and left home at 16 for a boyfriend her parents didn't approve of. When the relationship broke up, she trained as a nurse. Her first job was in a Dr Barnardo's home, but she ended up working in psychiatric units in London hospitals.
Career: Brand's sense of humour kept her going while dealing with difficult cases at work. She began doing stand-up at London clubs in the mid-1980s and eventually gave up nursing to concentrate on comedy. She was shortlisted for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival before landing her own comedy show, Jo Brand Through the Cakehole. Since then she has regularly appeared on TV, including as a frequent guest on Have I Got News for You, Question Time and QI. She continues to do stand-up, performing at venues around the country. Brand also took part in Celebrity Fame Academy, and the reality shows Play It Again and Comic Relief Does The Apprentice. She enjoyed a bona fide hit as an actress and writer with dark medical comedy Getting On. She is a judge on ITV reality series Splash!
Quote: "Anything is good if it's made of chocolate."
Trivia: Brand has written a number of hugely popular books.
Geraldine Dowd (Director)
David Reilly (Writer)
Sam Munday (Series producer)
Gary Chippington (Executive producer)