Oscar-winning star is joining Celebrity Gogglebox and our minds are blown

Celebrity Gogglebox will see two huge additions to the line-up this weekend for a one-off instalment, including an Oscar-winner.

The Channel 4 favourite is set to air a special episode for Stand Up To Cancer this Friday, in which some new famous faces will join the regulars to react to this week’s tele.

The new additions to join from their homes will be the ever-witty Succession star Kieran Culkin and his wife Jazz Charton, as well as acting couple Josh Hartnett and Tamsin Egerton. 

Culkin will be best known to TV fans as one of the four inept Roy offspring over on HBO’s late, great prestige saga, as well as for his role in A Real Pain as Jesse Eisenberg’s unruly little brother – in a not entirely dissimilar schtick to his Succession days – for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

Meanwhile, Josh Hartnett has returned to acting in recent years with Trap and a particularly harrowing Black Mirror episode, having taken a break from the screen to raise his family with Egerton, who starred in noughties favourites including St. Trinian’s and Chalet Girl. 

The announcement was made on Wednesday’s instalment of Good Morning Britain, with Susanna Reid asking: ‘Are they going to make Kieran Culkin watch Home Alone?’

Entertainment reporter Richard Arnold replied: ‘35 years after the fact as well. That’s extraordinary, isn’t it? I’d love to see him watch Succession.’

Gogglebox fans have already shared their delight at the news, with radio host Greg James writing underneath the announcement of Culkin’s casting on Instagram: ‘This is the best booking on anything ever.’

‘At home with Roman Roy. Awesome,’ wrote Gogglebox viewer Jonathan Whitehouse while Chris Woodrow joked: ‘Fuller go easy on the Pepsi,’ in a reference to Culkin’s early career role in the Home Alone film starring his brother Macaulay. 

Meanwhile, on the announcement for Hartnett and Egerton, @nagor_neleh wrote: ‘Whoever is doing these bookings – bravo,’ alongside a clapping emoji.

It comes after Hannah Waddingham joined the celebrity Channel 4 show earlier this year, sitting on the sofa with Tim Minchin, in what was dubbed one of the biggest signings in years.

Arguably, they might have already topped it with these bookings for the upcoming special!

Celebrity Gogglebox’s Stand Up To Cancer special airs this Friday on Channel 4.

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