BBC Outnumbered viewers forced to voice 'concern' for star ahead of Christmas special

BBC Outnumbered viewers have been left concerned for one of the stars of the show ahead of the Christmas special. The show will return featuring all the old cast - but in promotional images, Tyger Drew Honey (who plays Jake) has sparked concern.

One Twitter/X user asked "what has happened" to Tyger, who looked washed out and pale in recent images. Others earmarked the bags under his eyes as signs all was not well with the actor, who is set to reprise his role alongside the likes of Hugh Dennis.

"It's just make up due to the storyline they are doing, won't say if not read. He hasn't actually got those rings around his eyes," said one. A second reassured others adding: "If you read the reviews he's got a daughter who doesn’t sleep in the show."

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Drew Honey's credits include BBC Three sitcom Cuckoo, playing some guest roles in Midsomer Murders and Citizen Khan, and taking on real-life challenges in Celebs Go Dating, Celebrity Mastermind, Celebrity MasterChef and 24 Hours in the Past.

He has more recently made his pantomime debut playing Prince Charming in Lighthouse Poole's production of Cinderella in 2022. "It seems absurd people don't realise that we age at the same rate as everyone else on the planet" the now 28-year-old previously told Radio Times.

"People say 'I thought you were 11!' I was…" Dennis said: "Every family pretty much has had experience of that kind of stuff. And we've had, not within my nuclear family, but my dad had cancer at 66 and survived until he was 88. It has touched everyone, really.

"And I'm pleased to have done it, actually. Partially because I got nabbed once by Prostate Cancer UK, and I'm now one of the faces of 'go and get your prostate cancer self-check'. So, as well as it being a story which resonates, I'm sort of delighted if it means that anybody goes and gets a check.

"That's a sort of little victory, isn't it? Because everybody has been touched by cancer in some way. So, essentially, no research [is] needed because it's such a common thing."