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Manford joins 8 Out Of 10 Cats

Jason Manford is to take over from Dave Spikey as a team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats.

The former Perrier nominee will join the Channel 4 show for the fifth series next month.

Jimmy Carr remains as host, with Sean Lock as the opposing team captain.

Manford – who is also a breakfast DJ on Manchester’s XFM radio station – has previously appeared as a panellist three times, and on the last occasion had a run-in with former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan who relentlessly teased him as a ’fat northerner’.

He said: ‘I’m going to have a busy summer with this, the breakfast show, going to Edinburgh and getting married – but I’m only young and you can sleep when you’re dead.

‘But I’m really looking forward to it. I got on well with Sean and Jimmy when I went on the show before. It will be good fun.’

The first show of the new series will be recorded on June 14, and will air on Channel 4 soon afterwards.

Published: 17 May 2007

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