Celebrity Gogglebox fans threaten 'boycott' and forced to tune out within seconds

Celebrity Gogglebox fans threaten 'boycott' and forced to tune out within seconds

by · Birmingham Live

Celebrity Gogglebox fans have ripped into Channel 4 just minutes into a "new episode" before switching of. Channel 4 Celebrity Gogglebox returned on Friday night - but sparked fury by showing a best bits compilation episode of the famous faces.

One fan wrote: "Really getting f****d off with the TV recently! EVERYTHING seems to be repeats! Got settled to watch Celeb Gogglebox thinking it was a new series, or a Christmas special! Oh how wrong am I! YET AGAIN ANOTHER REPEAT!"

A second fumed: "A Christmas compilation episode on the last Friday before Christmas is very disappointing." A third fumed on Twitter/X: "Where is Gogglebox? Why have Ch4 put on a summer edition with so called Celebrities in it?

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"Not good I'll watch No Time To Die. Thanks for nothing, Ch4." And another said: "Why are you calling this a new episode? It's not new." An episode synopsis explained: "Top moments from Series 6, from Bridgerton to MILF Manor and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders."

"The celebrity version of #gogglebox is always c**p. Not funny. Would rather watch the regular version. Even a repeat is better than a repeat of #celebritygogglebox," another fumed on Twitter. "#celebritygogglebox how can this be advertised as 'new celebrity gogglebox' it was basically filmed In the summe<" another said.

"Not up to date at all. A lot has happened since then," wrote another social media user. Some of the famous faces who appeared in the episode included Rylan Clark and his mum Linda, Danny Dyer and his daughter Dani, Clare Balding and Alice Arnold and Stephen Mangan and his sister Anita.

Others to appear included Happy Mondays legend Bez and Shaun Ryder. New arrivals to the 2024 cast have included Josh Widdicombe and Stephen Merchant, David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, Dame Kristin Scott Thomas and Saskia Reeves, Miriam Margolyes and Lesley Joseph and Jordan Pickford and Tony Bellew.