Celebrity puppets get raunchy

Steamy fanfic bought to life in new E4 comedy

A comedy series remaking erotic fan fiction with puppets is finally hitting screens after seven years of development

No Strings Attached was first announced in 2022 when it was called the The Really Really Rude Puppet Show – and even then programme-makers said it had been four years in the making.

Fronted by Mel Giedroyc, it is finally set to air on E4 from November 11.

Scarlett Moffat, Martin Kemp, Coleen Nolan, Melvin Odoom, Kerry Katona and Sam Thompson will be taking part – reading out steamy stories written about themselves by a fan online Lookalike puppets will then act out the raunchy scenes.

Neither the celebrities nor Giedroyc will know what the stories are before they read them.

Giedroyc

When the show was first announced, Giedroyc, above, said: 'This is going to be a celebration of erotic fan fiction. With puppets.'

'Imagine a world where Jackie Collins meets Thunderbirds. I’m so looking forward to a trip to Love Island ... via Tracy Island.’

And even then, Maia Liddell, from production company RDF Television called it ‘a passion project four years in the making’.

Vivienne Molokwu, the programme’s commissioning editor, said at the time: 'I’m very much looking forward to steamy storytime with Mel, a gang of celeb mates and a bunch of look alike puppets.

'This is a very Channel 4 way of encouraging creative writing, where artistic self-expression will be encouraged.

'We may well unearth the next E.L. James in the process, which has got to be a good thing’ – a reference to the 50 Shades Of Grey author starting out as a Twilight fan fiction idea.

Here are some of the participants and their foam-based alter-egos: