Celebrity Gogglebox 2025 line-up: Kieran Culkin and Josh Hartnett first stars to be confirmed for this week's Stand Up To Cancer special
Kieran Culkin and Josh Hartnett will appear on the Gogglebox with their wives, Jazz Charton and Tamsin Egerton
Celebrity Gogglebox will return this week for its 2025 Stand Up to Cancer special, and Succession star Kieran Culkin and Josh Hartnett have joined the line-up.
Every year, celebs take part in Channel 4’s popular shows in support of Stand Up to Cancer.
Earlier this year, the likes of Roman Kemp and The Celebrity Traitors star Kate Garraway took part in The Great Celebrity Bake Off. This Friday, Claudia Winkleman will star alongside other famous faces in a Taskmaster sketch during The Last Leg.
Best of all, Culkin and Hartnett have joined the pantheon of Celebrity Gogglebox’s telly fans for its 2025 special.
Celebrity Gogglebox 2025 line-up so far
Two duos have been confirmed for the Celebrity Gogglebox 2025 Stand Up to Cancer special: Kieran Culkin and his wife Jazz Charton, and Josh Hartnett and his wife Tamsin Egerton.
The show’s official Instagram account announced the news today (December 10), sharing the first photos of the couples on the sofa together.
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“Meet Kieran and his wife… just a regular Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA winner watching this week’s TV with us,” it wrote. “Some more Hollywood help,” the account wrote in its caption for Hartnett and Egerton.
It has sparked unanimous excitement, with BBC broadcaster Greg James commenting: “This is the best booking on anything ever.”
Kieran Culkin is a huge Gogglebox fan
Culkin is best known for playing Roman Roy, the twisted, youngest sibling in Succession, a role that saw him win an Emmy in 2023.
He also earned worldwide acclaim and a slew of awards for his performance in A Real Pain, including his first Oscar and a BAFTA.
However, did you know that he loves Gogglebox?
In an interview with Ally & G last year, Culkin revealed he’d been trying to explain Gogglebox to his co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
“The pitch for it may sound [bleep] but it’s one of the best shows ever,” he said, comparing it to Beavis and Butthead.
“It’s great… I don’t watch a lot of TV so it gives me a sense of what’s happening in the world of television. Great show, it really is.”
Josh Hartnett has loved Gogglebox ‘for years’
Josh Hartnett is a world-famous actor, known for his roles in Trap, Pearl Harbour, and The Faculty.
Speaking about taking part in Gogglebox, he revealed it was his wife Tamsin who introduced him to the show “many years ago… and [he’s] been a fan ever since”.
“Having the chance to sit with her, share a few laughs and inevitably say something that embarrasses us both, all while helping raise awareness for the worthiest of charities, is the perfect way to kick off the holiday season,” he said.
“I’m incredibly excited to be a part of it, and to support Stand up to Cancer.”
Egerton also said: “We first started watching Gogglebox during lockdown in 2020, I found it so comforting watching other families around the country watching TV ‘with’ us.
“It’s such a great cross-section of the UK. Ever since then, Josh and I have tried to watch it together whenever we can. I can’t wait to snuggle up on the sofa with him for such an important cause as Stand up to Cancer.”
Celebrity Gogglebox: Other rumoured stars
Channel 4 has yet to confirm who else will appear on this week’s Celebrity Gogglebox special. However, there are other stars rumoured to appear.
Clare Balding, who has previously appeared on the show with her wife Alice Arnold, may return.
According to reports, popstar Jessie J, Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy, presenter Hannah Fry, and comedians Meera Syal and Rosie Jones are also set to appear.
Jessie J is another Gogglebox alumnus, having appeared on the show with Jamal Edwards in 2019. Similarly, it wouldn’t be Guru-Murthy’s first time on a Gogglebox sofa: he was on the show earlier this year with his daughter, Jasmine.
It would be Bonneville’s first-ever Gogglebox appearance, so fingers crossed it comes to fruition.
When is the Celebrity Gogglebox 2025 Stand Up to Cancer special?
The Celebrity Gogglebox 2025 Stand Up to Cancer special airs at 9pm on Friday, December 12, on Channel 4.
It will come around halfway through the night’s Stand Up to Cancer programming, with Adam Hills and Hannah Fry kicking off a live broadcast at 7:30pm. This will be followed by Cancer Clinic Live, presented by Davina McCall.
After Gogglebox, the event will conclude with The Last Leg special.
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