Celeb Pottery Throwdown

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Celeb Throwdown coming soon.👍

The best bit...... will be hosted by the wonderful Lisa Tarbuck.😃
Bring it on.

Leyton annoys me by being so desperate to win. I bet he is a nightmare at UNO, and he would probably get really upset at Monopoly in my family though, because we make alliances that turn out to be temporary and there is a lot of ganging up. There used to be strict rules about not starting games after 6 o’clock because they always ended in tears.

Yes, that too re Leyton.

Ha at monopoly, we havent played as a family since my sister's ex MiL decided to quit giving all her money and property to her son, so my mum did the same as tit for tat to my sister, I was furious with the lot of them as was my other sister, my dad retired to another room with a whisky taking my DP with him and it all descended into an Xmas day slanging match. Unedifying all round, although we laugh about it now.

I like Leyton! He is very competitive but he doesn't pretend not to be at least!

I love Layton. I didn't really know him before Strictly but loved him in that too.

He was brilliant in strictly, I loved his argentine tango, but he was also a total ringer.

I agree. But I also think Strictly would be really quite bad without a few ringers.

True, and they often don't win anyway. At least we get to see some good dances!

Liza Tarbuck was hilarious on Taskmaster too (and won it). I love her and although I'm in a minority here, I'd like to see her replace Siobhán McSweeney, who I find totally unfunny.

I'm enjoying Fatiha showing a much more approachable side than she usually does.

I agree re Liza hosting, she's great at it. I'd keep her given the choice.

My favourite taskmaster moments of hers were when she made Alex sit on the cake, and when she figured out the hopping and was diligently hopping to 100 while the men ignored her and persisted in failing to figure out how to win it. And then called out the sexism.

I want Siobhan back! I love her quirky dress sense and her humour.

I like Layton. I like both Siobhan and Lisa.

We had Monopoly for Sore Losers last Christmas. It was fun.

Lisa Tarbuck is great. I wish we saw more of her on TV.

Team Lisa here aswell .

Lisa all the way. I think she’s been fantastic.

Well, I enjoyed that! i think I cried more than Keith at tonight’s episode.

Now I want them to do a series like this with non celebrities- and I’d apply.

Ah, maybe I'm becoming a grumpy old git but I found this really overwhelmingly mawkish tonight. I don't want to go on a 'journey' into someone elses uterus or bollocks on a trifle bowl (which should be glass, btw), I just want to watch people make pottery.
Or is it just me?

I'm with @CheerfulBunny .

Do I gather Layton might be gay?

I’m with @BestIsWest. I didn’t find it mawkish at all and was really moved by it. That is what art is about. Being able to express yourself in whatever medium you choose. I was very disappointed when I realised this series was a celebrity one but I’ve really been touched by it and unlike a lot of others genuinely felt the celebrities embraced it and as Faita said ‘it was more than just a TV programme’.

I thought it was a great series and I was probably more consistently engaged with the episodes than I sometimes have been with the civilian ones.

All the contestants seemed genuinely invested and not just there for the 'exposure'.
Lovely stuff.

LT is fab, I also like Siobhan so would be torn if I had to choose between them. But would definitely like to see more of Liza on TV.

I was really happy that Layton won.

I actually enjoyed this series more than the normal one. I thought it was really good seing absolute novices learning about the different techniques of pottery and getting better week by week.

The normal one is good but they all start off being pretty good

Agreed . I found it unnecessarily tmi . It’s a pottery show not a therapy session . I think Layton was a worthy winner but then I think they were all deserving winners and wouldn’t have been disappointed if any of them had won .

Pottery IS therapy 😊

I haven't seen the last episode yet so will comment more when I've caught up.

Yes, that was my immediate response — trifle bowls are glass so you can see all the layers!

I was surprised Layton won, tbh. I suppose it was in large part because he got much better at throwing than any of the others, which gave him a huge advantage in both the technical and the main task.

@hattie43 I'd have been happy whoever won too, I liked all of the contestants. I saw Layton in Jesus Christ Superstar in September and he was fabulous. I like to think that maybe one or two will go off and have a little pottery studio at the bottom of their garden. I'm just fed up of everything having to be 'a journey' and 'for awareness' on these sort of programmes. I feel it spoils it because watching people make things and them learning and improving is enough for me.

It was a series for stand up to cancer so i really didn't have a problem with talking about cancer. It's kind of the point. Same as the bake off version.