List of Who Do You Think You Are? episodes

Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004. In each episode, a celebrity traces their family tree. It is made by the production company Wall to Wall. The programme has regularly attracted an audience of more than 6 million viewers.[1] More than 150 episodes have been produced.

List of episodes

Series 1 (2004)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Bill Oddie	12 October 2004 (2004-10-12)	5.79
Oddie, brought up by his father and paternal grandmother, goes back to the Birmingham area to learn more about his mother's life and struggles with manic depression and her mother-in-law. Then he learns more about his grandmother's life, her husband and family in Rochdale, Lancashire. He ends his journey learning more about his Oddie ancestors in Grindleton, Lancashire.
2	Amanda Redman	19 October 2004 (2004-10-19)	4.63
3	Sue Johnston	26 October 2004 (2004-10-26)	4.25
4	Jeremy Clarkson	2 November 2004 (2004-11-02)	4.95
5	Ian Hislop	9 November 2004 (2004-11-09)	4.96
Hislop, who was 12 when his father died, never met his grandfathers. Hislop traces his family history by travelling to his late mother's native Jersey, where for five years of her childhood, the island was occupied by Nazi Germany. He travels to Clary, France, where his paternal grandfather fought with the 9th Highland Light Infantry against the Hindenburg Line. He then goes to South Africa, where his maternal grandfather fought with the Royal Lancaster Regiment in the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer War. While in South Africa, he discovers that his father's maternal great great grandfather had gone to South Africa in 1795 with the 72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders in an expedition to capture Cape Town from the Dutch.
6	Moira Stuart	16 November 2004 (2004-11-16)	5.35
7	David Baddiel	23 November 2004 (2004-11-23)	4.60
8	Lesley Garrett	30 November 2004 (2004-11-30)	4.41
9	Meera Syal	7 December 2004 (2004-12-07)	3.97
10	Vic Reeves	14 December 2004 (2004-12-14)	4.46

Series 2 (2006)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Jeremy Paxman	11 January 2006 (2006-01-11)	5.48
2	Sheila Hancock	18 January 2006 (2006-01-18)	5.43
3	Stephen Fry	25 January 2006 (2006-01-25)	5.86
4	Julian Clary	1 February 2006 (2006-02-01)	5.94
5	Jane Horrocks	8 February 2006 (2006-02-08)	5.64
6	Gurinder Chadha	15 February 2006 (2006-02-15)	3.96

Series 3 (2006)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Barbara Windsor	6 September 2006 (2006-09-06)	6.40
2	Robert Lindsay	13 September 2006 (2006-09-13)	5.95
3	Colin Jackson	20 September 2006 (2006-09-20)	5.19
4	David Tennant	27 September 2006 (2006-09-27)	5.75
Tennant traces his paternal roots to the Isle of Mull, and is surprised to find his family came not from the lowlands but the Scottish Highlands. He discovers his maternal grandfather was a star player for Derry City F.C. in the 1930s, and expresses concern when he finds that other relatives were members of the Orange Order. He is disturbed to learn that his great-grandfather played a key role in suppressing Catholics in Derry, Northern Ireland, and that Catholic cousins came under fire on Bloody Sunday.
5	David Dickinson	4 October 2006 (2006-10-04)	5.80
6	Nigella Lawson	11 October 2006 (2006-10-11)	6.15
She traced her ancestors to Ashkenazi Jews who originate from eastern Europe and Germany, leaving Lawson surprised not to have Iberian-Sephardi ancestry in the family as she had believed.[3] She also uncovered that her maternal great-great-great grandfather, Coenraad Sammes (later Coleman Joseph), had fled to England from Amsterdam in 1830 to escape a prison sentence following a conviction for theft.
7	Jeremy Irons	18 October 2006 (2006-10-18)	5.82
8	Julia Sawalha	25 October 2006 (2006-10-25)	5.54

Adoption special (2007)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Nicky Campbell	11 July 2007 (2007-07-11)	4.32
Campbell traces his adoptive family's roots in Scotland and Australia.

Series 4 (2007)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Natasha Kaplinsky	6 September 2007 (2007-09-06)	6.78
Kaplinsky follows her paternal line to Slonim in Belarus and is shown official documentation relating to her cousin's family. This includes the death of family members during the "liquidation" – massacre – of the Slonim Jewish ghetto by the Nazis and another's escape to the partisans and eventual immigration to Australia. Her maternal line includes an apothecary to King George III.
2	John Hurt	13 September 2007 (2007-09-13)	5.80
3	Griff Rhys Jones	20 September 2007 (2007-09-20)	5.75
4	Carol Vorderman	27 September 2007 (2007-09-27)	6.53
Vorderman discovers that her father was an active member of the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation. He died while the programme was being filmed. Her great-grandfather Adolphe Vorderman played a key role in the discovery of vitamins.
5	Alistair McGowan	4 October 2007 (2007-10-04)	6.17
6	Graham Norton	11 October 2007 (2007-10-11)	6.88
It was discovered that Norton's Walker ancestors were originally planters from Wentworth, South Yorkshire, who were sent over from England in the 17th century to settle in Ireland. Some members of his family fought for against the United Irishmen during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and took part in the Carnew massacre. Another member of his family was later killed in battle by the United Irishmen.
7	Matthew Pinsent	18 November 2007 (2007-11-18)	6.57

Series 5 (2008)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Patsy Kensit	13 August 2008 (2008-08-13)	7.10
2	Boris Johnson	20 August 2008 (2008-08-20)	7.04
3	Jerry Springer	27 August 2008 (2008-08-27)	6.71
Springer, who was born in England but emigrated to the United States at a young age, travels to the UK to find out how his parents were allowed in as refugees from Nazi Germany in August 1939. He discovers that someone in England paid £50 as a guarantor to sponsor his parents, but the rest of the family was left behind. He travels to his great-grandfather's hometown of Neustettin (now Szczecinek, Poland), where his great grandfather, Abraham Springer, successfully appealed for outside help after anti-Semitic politician Ernst Henrici stirred up violence in 1881. Springer then travels to Łódź, where his maternal grandmother, Marie Kallmann, was deported in 1941. She was sent to the Chełmno extermination camp in May 1942. Springer's paternal grandmother, Selma Springer, died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
4	Esther Rantzen	3 September 2008 (2008-09-03)	6.44
5	Ainsley Harriott	10 September 2008 (2008-09-10)	6.70
6	David Suchet	17 September 2008 (2008-09-17)	6.79
Suchet, who has a love of water, discovers that his maternal great-great-great-grandfather was captain of a brig which foundered off the east coast of England. His paternal ancestors were Russian Jews and he traces their flight from Russia to Turkey, Prussia, South Africa, and then the United Kingdom. He learns about his grandfather and great-grandfather, both of whom were noted photographers.
7	Jodie Kidd	24 September 2008 (2008-09-24)	5.87
8	Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen	29 September 2008 (2008-09-29)	4.72

Series 6 (2009)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Rory Bremner	2 February 2009 (2009-02-02)	6.44
2	Fiona Bruce	9 February 2009 (2009-02-09)	5.86
3	Rick Stein	16 February 2009 (2009-02-16)	5.64
4	Zoë Wanamaker	23 February 2009 (2009-02-23)	5.82
5	Kevin Whately	2 March 2009 (2009-03-02)	5.99
6	Davina McCall	15 July 2009 (2009-07-15)	6.92
7	Chris Moyles	22 July 2009 (2009-07-22)	5.23
8	Kate Humble	29 July 2009 (2009-07-29)	5.19
9	David Mitchell	5 August 2009 (2009-08-05)	4.55
10	Kim Cattrall	12 August 2009 (2009-08-12)	6.27
Cattrall researches her maternal grandfather, George Baugh's mysterious disappearance in 1938. She discovers that he became a bigamist in 1939 and had four more children. The episode reveals that Baugh's new family emigrated to Australia in 1961 and had lived there until Baugh's death in 1974.
11	Martin Freeman	19 August 2009 (2009-08-19)	6.48
Freeman researches his paternal grandfather, who he learns died while serving as a medic during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II. He discovers that his great-grandfather was blind, married three times and meets a cousin he never knew he had. He also discovers how syphilis (a common disease at the time) ravaged his family in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Series 7 (2010)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Bruce Forsyth[4]	19 July 2010 (2010-07-19)	7.22
2	Rupert Everett	26 July 2010 (2010-07-26)	5.97
3	Dervla Kirwan	2 August 2010 (2010-08-02)	5.58
Growing up, Kirwan knew she was related to Irish national hero Michael Collins but did not know how. She discovers he was her great-great uncle: his sister, Margaret Collins O'Driscoll, was the mother of Kirwan's maternal grandfather. Kirwans seeks to find how her grandfather, Finian O'Driscoll, was involved in the IRA. She travels to Clonakilty, County Cork, birthplace of Michael Collins. On her father's side, she finds out her great grandfather, Henry Kahn, was a Polish Jew from the Russian Empire who broke with his community to marry an Irish Catholic girl in the late 19th century. Kirwan was surprised to discover they were married in the Protestant Church of Ireland, after the Catholic church refused to marry them.
4	Monty Don	9 August 2010 (2010-08-09)	5.95
5	Rupert Penry-Jones	16 August 2010 (2010-08-16)	5.68
Penry-Jones travels to India and confirms the family rumour that they have Indian ancestry. His great-great-great grandfather, Thomas Johnstone, was a sergeant major in the Royal Madras Fusiliers, and was part of the British attempts to quell the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He discovers Johnstone's wife, Louisa Collum, was of Anglo-Indian heritage.
6	Alexander Armstrong	23 August 2010 (2010-08-23)	6.46
Armstrong traces his mother's side of the family, who are descended from Irish landed gentry. The McCauslands were originally seated in Drenagh, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland and trace their ancestry through the Rouse-Boughton family, to Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of William the Conqueror via Edward III and the Beauforts, Dukes of Somerset.
7	Jason Donovan	30 August 2010 (2010-08-30)	5.55
8	Hugh Quarshie	6 September 2010 (2010-09-06)	5.42
9	Alan Cumming	13 September 2010 (2010-09-13)	5.15
Cumming traces the life of his maternal grandfather, who the family was told died while cleaning his pistol while serving as a British police officer in Malaya. He learns about his grandfather's terrifying experiences as a war hero during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II, his battle wounds received while helping stave off the Empire of Japan's invasion of India during the Burma Campaign and his psychological problems which led to his death while playing Russian roulette in Malaya.

Series 8 (2011)

#	Celebrity[5][6]	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	June Brown	10 August 2011 (2011-08-10)	6.62
2	J.K. Rowling	17 August 2011 (2011-08-17)	7.00
Rowling researches her mother's paternal great-grandfather, Louis Volant, a French head waiter who previously worked at Savoy Hotel in the 1920s. Volant had won the Croix de Guerre for his bravery during the First World War. She also learns about Volant's mother, Salomée Schuch, an unmarried maid working in Paris at the time of his birth. At age 17, she had fled her hometown of Brumath in Alsace – which became part of the German Empire during the Franco-Prussian War – to become a naturalised French citizen when she eventually married Louis' father.
3	Sebastian Coe	24 August 2011 (2011-08-24)	5.45
4	Larry Lamb	31 August 2011 (2011-08-31)	5.45
5	Emilia Fox	7 September 2011 (2011-09-07)	6.06
Fox researches her family history hoping to discover where the acting bug in her family originated from. Fox's father believes that Fox's paternal grandfather, Robin Fox, a theatrical agent, likely would have wanted to be an actor. Fox learns that Robin's mother was Hilda Hanbury, an actress who appeared on the London stage in the late 1890s. Hanbury traveled to America with theater manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, though did not find great success and was reduced to small roles. Fox also learns that Sampson Fox, father of Hanbury's husband Arthur ("Willie") was a millionaire who rose to prominence from a child laborer in a textile mill to the owner of the Leeds Forge Company. With his large fortune, Sampson Fox was the sole donor for the Royal College of Music in London. However, Sampson Fox was also involved in a scandal regarding his promotion of watergas as an energy source as well as the financial success of its investors.
6	Alan Carr	14 September 2011 (2011-09-14)	5.49
7	Robin Gibb	21 September 2011 (2011-09-21)	4.37
8	Richard Madeley[7]	28 September 2011 (2011-09-28)	5.05
9	Len Goodman	5 October 2011 (2011-10-05)	5.03
10	Tracey Emin	12 October 2011 (2011-10-12)	Unknown (under 4.21)

Series 9 (2012)

#	Celebrity[8]	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Samantha Womack	15 August 2012 (2012-08-15)	5.30
2	Gregg Wallace	22 August 2012 (2012-08-22)	5.46
3	Patrick Stewart	29 August 2012 (2012-08-29)	4.58
4	Annie Lennox	5 September 2012 (2012-09-05)	4.86
5	Hugh Dennis	12 September 2012 (2012-09-12)	4.87
6	Alex Kingston	19 September 2012 (2012-09-19)	4.97
7	William Roache	26 September 2012 (2012-09-26)	4.30
8	Celia Imrie	10 October 2012 (2012-10-10)	4.89
9	John Barnes	17 October 2012 (2012-10-17)	Unknown (under 4.10)
10	John Bishop	6 December 2012 (2012-12-06)	5.53

Series 10 (2013)

#	Celebrity[9]	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Una Stubbs	24 July 2013 (2013-07-24)	5.24
2	Nigel Havers	31 July 2013 (2013-07-31)	5.39
3	Minnie Driver	7 August 2013 (2013-08-07)	4.95
4	Lesley Sharp	14 August 2013 (2013-08-14)	4.52
5	Gary Lineker	21 August 2013 (2013-08-21)	5.37
6	Nick Hewer	28 August 2013 (2013-08-28)	4.52
7	Nitin Ganatra	4 September 2013 (2013-09-04)	4.31
8	Sarah Millican	11 September 2013 (2013-09-11)	4.57
9	Marianne Faithfull	18 September 2013 (2013-09-18)	3.78
10	John Simpson	25 September 2013 (2013-09-25)	3.99

Series 11 (2014)

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
—	Who Do They Think They Are?: 10 Years, 100 Shows[10]	6 August 2014 (2014-08-06)	Unknown (under 3.34)
1	Julie Walters[11]	7 August 2014 (2014-08-07)	5.23
Walters traces her Irish great-grandfather, Anthony Clarke.
2	Brian Blessed	14 August 2014 (2014-08-14)	5.31
Blessed traces his great-great-great-grandfather, Barnabus Blessed, a bookbinder, and discovers that after moving from London to Portsmouth, his four children were left orphans. Blessed's great-great-grandfather, Jabez Blessed, became a "real life Oliver Twist".[12]
3	Tamzin Outhwaite	21 August 2014 (2014-08-21)	4.94
4	Brendan O'Carroll	28 August 2014 (2014-08-28)	6.06
5	Sheridan Smith	4 September 2014 (2014-09-04)	4.74
6	Mary Berry	11 September 2014 (2014-09-11)	4.75
7	Martin Shaw	18 September 2014 (2014-09-18)	5.39
8	Reggie Yates	25 September 2014 (2014-09-25)	4.18
9	Billy Connolly	2 October 2014 (2014-10-02)	5.74
10	Twiggy	9 October 2014 (2014-10-09)	5.33

Series 12 (2015)

On 23 June 2015, the BBC confirmed the lineup for Series 12, which began on 13 August 2015.[13][14]

#	Celebrity	Original air date[15]	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Paul Hollywood	13 August 2015 (2015-08-13)	5.08
2	Jane Seymour	20 August 2015 (2015-08-20)	5.14
Seymour traces the lives of two of her Polish Jewish great aunts during World War II.
3	Derek Jacobi	27 August 2015 (2015-08-27)	4.68
Jacobi, a descendant of Huguenots who fled persecution by Catholics, travels to France, where he discovers the horrors his Protestant ancestors faced during persecution. His sixth great-grandfather, Joseph de la Plaigne, a prominent financier of Louis XIV, lived as a covert Protestant following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. He was uncovered and imprisoned by the king in the Château de Loches in 1701. He apparently bribed his way out of prison the next year and fled to London. In 1708, two years before his death, the 70-year-old de la Plaigne married fellow Huguenot Salomé de la Bastide, sister of Colonel Armand de la Bastide, and 45 years his junior. In 1709 they had a son, Guillaume, who was baptised with William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire as his godfather. Guillaume anglicised his name to William Laplain and was chaplain to the Dukes of Devonshire.
4	Jerry Hall	3 September 2015 (2015-09-03)	4.38
5	Gareth Malone	10 September 2015 (2015-09-10)	4.56
6	Anne Reid	17 September 2015 (2015-09-17)	4.70
7	Frank Gardner	24 September 2015 (2015-09-24)	4.41
8	Anita Rani	1 October 2015 (2015-10-01)	4.38
9	Mark Gatiss	8 October 2015 (2015-10-08)	Unknown (under 3.80)
10	Frances de la Tour	22 October 2015 (2015-10-22)	3.83
Actress Frances de la Tour discovers aristocratic lineage. Her great-great-great-great grandmother Maria Elizabeth Adderley, stepdaughter of Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, married captain Alan Gardner in 1796. They divorced in 1805 after he discovered her affair with Henry Jadis, nephew of the Earl of Strathmore. Lady Gardner had an illegitimate child with Jadis, Henry Fenton Gardner (born in 1802), who was declared illegitimate by the House of Lords in 1825 following the Gardner Peerage Case, in which Henry unsuccessfully attempted to prove he was the rightful heir to the Gardner peerage. De la Tour visits Doddington Hall and Seaton Delaval Hall to find out more about Jadis' mother, the Hon. Sophia Ann (née Delaval), daughter of John Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval. De la Tour discovers Sophia's sad story of becoming pregnant before marriage with Henry, and rushing to marry a man beneath her status, John Jadis. After suffering abuse from a drunken Jadis, Sophia divorced him but became ostracised socially. She developed an addiction to laudanum and died at 38.

Series 13 (2016–17)

On 13 July, the line-up for the 13th series was confirmed.[16] The series started on 24 November 2016.

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Danny Dyer	24 November 2016 (2016-11-24)	5.45
Dyer discovers that his 3×great grandmother had a criminal record for concealing the birth of her baby, who died, that his 15× great grandfather was Thomas Cromwell, his 14× great grandmother was Elizabeth Seymour, the sister of Jane Seymour, who was Henry VIII's third wife and Queen, and that his 22× great grandfather was Edward III.
2	Amanda Holden	1 December 2016 (2016-12-01)	4.71
Holden investigates a family rumour that she is of French heritage on her mother's side. She discovers that her 5× great-grandfather Collin Thomas served a year's imprisonment after breaking his apprenticeship as a cordwainer by enlisting in the Royal Navy aged 15. Following his sentence, he enlisted in the British Army's 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot in 1807 and fought in the Peninsular War. In 1814, while with his regiment in Bordeaux in South Western France, he met a local woman, Radegonde Charbonnel. He deserted from the army shortly before he was due to muster out, married Radegonde in 1816 and began a family, moving his wife and eldest children back to his home in Cornwall several years afterwards. She also discovers that her paternal grandfather, Frank Holden, a psychiatric nurse, survived the June 1940 bombing of the RMS Lancastria, which sank with the loss of thousands of lives, outside the port of Saint-Nazaire.
3	Liz Bonnin	8 December 2016 (2016-12-08)	3.94
Bonnin travels to Trinidad to discover her maternal family's Indian heritage, discovering that her 2× great-grandfather, Timothy Sirju, travelled to Trinidad from India with his family in 1872, where he worked as an indentured servant. She then travels to Martinique to trace her paternal family's French heritage and discovers that her 3× great-grandfather, François Alexandre Gros Désormeaux, was a plantation and slave owner who married one of his freed slaves, Marie Joseph, in 1835, and was actually born a slave. He and his mother, Pauline Zoé, were freed by his father, also François Alexandre Gros Désormeaux, and Pauline Zoé was a rare example of a freed female slave inheriting a plantation and becoming a slave owner.
4	Cheryl	15 December 2016 (2016-12-15)	4.81
Cheryl researches her maternal family. Research shows that her paternal line is from Tyneside and that there were a number of coal miners amongst Cheryl's forebears. When tracing further back, in one of the branches of her paternal line, researchers find that her ancestry includes several mariners. The investigation into Cheryl's maternal line shows that her grandmother, Olga Ridley, was one of twin girls born to Edith Annie Burton, the housekeeper for a widower named Joseph Ridley who already had a number of children from his marriage. Joseph Ridley had fought in World War I in the Durham Light Infantry as a pioneer in France and, from an examination of the census, before the war, he had been a grocery warehouseman.
5	Ricky Tomlinson	22 December 2016 (2016-12-22)	4.28
6	Ian McKellen	25 January 2017 (2017-01-25)	4.21
McKellen discovers that his great uncle, Frank Lowes, was an actor, and his great-great-grandfather, Robert Lowes, campaigned for a half-holiday for Manchester's workers on Saturdays, an event that led to the evolution of the modern weekend.
7	Greg Davies	1 February 2017 (2017-02-01)	4.63
8	Warwick Davis	15 February 2017 (2017-02-15)	5.24
9	Sunetra Sarker	22 February 2017 (2017-02-22)	3.97
10	Sophie Raworth	8 March 2017 (2017-03-08)	4.45

Series 14 (2017)

On 23 June 2017, the BBC announced the line-up for the programme's 14th series, which again would comprise 10 episodes.

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Charles Dance	6 July 2017 (2017-07-06)	4.32
2	Craig Revel Horwood	13 July 2017 (2017-07-13)	4.43
3	Clare Balding	20 July 2017 (2017-07-20)	4.83
4	Adil Ray	27 July 2017 (2017-07-27)	3.82
5	Emma Willis	3 August 2017 (2017-08-03)	4.25
6	Lulu	17 August 2017 (2017-08-17)	4.67
7	Fearne Cotton	24 August 2017 (2017-08-24)	4.08
8	Noel Clarke	31 August 2017 (2017-08-31)	3.48
9	Lisa Hammond	7 September 2017 (2017-09-07)	3.71
10	Ruby Wax	4 October 2017 (2017-10-04)	4.47

Series 15 (2018)

On 10 May 2018, the BBC announced the lineup of celebrities taking part in Series 15, which aired during the summer of 2018.[17]

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[2]
1	Michelle Keegan	6 June 2018 (2018-06-06)[18]	3.19
2	Olivia Colman	9 July 2018 (2018-07-09)	4.19
3	Lee Mack	16 July 2018 (2018-07-16)	4.31
4	Boy George	25 July 2018 (2018-07-25)	4.54
5	Shirley Ballas	30 July 2018 (2018-07-30)	4.36
6	Marvin Humes	6 August 2018 (2018-08-06)	4.26
7	Robert Rinder	13 August 2018 (2018-08-13)	5.43
8	Jonnie Peacock	20 August 2018 (2018-08-20)	3.92

Series 16 (2019)

On 9 June 2019, the BBC announced the celebrities taking part in Series 16. The line-up features Kate Winslet, Daniel Radcliffe, Sharon Osbourne, Mark Wright, Naomie Harris, Paul Merton, Katherine Ryan and Jack and Michael Whitehall.[19] The series began on 22 July 2019.[20]

#	Celebrity	Original air date	Viewers (millions)[21]
1	Daniel Radcliffe	22 July 2019 (2019-07-22)[22]	5.33
2	Naomie Harris	29 July 2019 (2019-07-29)	4.19
3	Jack and Michael Whitehall	5 August 2019 (2019-08-05)	5.56
4	Kate Winslet	12 August 2019 (2019-08-12)	4.96
5	Katherine Ryan	19 August 2019 (2019-08-19)	4.19
6	Paul Merton	28 August 2019 (2019-08-28)	4.85
7	Sharon Osbourne	4 September 2019 (2019-09-04)	TBA
8	Mark Wright	11 September 2019 (2019-09-11)	4.26

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