Oct 16, 2026 · 46 min · 16 segments
AJ is joined by Asha and Ellie to pick apart the semifinal and grand final of the UK’s favourite celebrity clay-based light entertainment programme! Featuring: Paul Merson’s Bouba Gnomes Fatiha’s Nans…
And at the top of the bill, I just wanted to give Paul his flowers about his emotional journey over this programme.
Yes, everyone has had different emotional journeys, but this one, I really like the sort of, we're getting a little glimpse behind the football net, if you like.
We're getting some real family history with him.
Shall we look at his gnome first then? Because he's got, let's say it's back in my day, going on the coal rounds.
Who
remembers coal? A job that you have to explain quite a lot to a young person.
Yes.
I don't think I knew anyone who had a coal fire growing up, and I am in my 40s.
But, you know, I recognise that I mostly lived in the South.
Oh, we had coal fires.
Like, I still remember the smell of the coal fires.
I'm from a mining family and at some point that got you free deliveries of coal.
So the coal went on for quite a long time.
Did you get a cheeky kiss from the coal delivery man? Because there seems to be a...
Was the coal man like the forerunner of the milkman for your possible father?
But in under 10, so it would have been inappropriate.
That is true.
That's fair enough.
I just think that it's quite nice about the whole, like, you know, getting up at 4am in the school holidays is some commitment, but, you know, this is when you had to go and just help out with the hard labour, lads.
That's just how it works.
It's coal-stained as well.
There is something about the convention of the gnomes having massive heads and legs and not really anything else.
Yes.
And at the top of the bill, I just wanted to give Paul his flowers about his emotional journey over this programme.
Yes, everyone has had different emotional journeys, but this one, I really like the sort of, we're getting a little glimpse behind the football net, if you like.
We're getting some real family history with him.
Shall we look at his gnome first then? Because he's got, let's say it's back in my day, going on the coal rounds.
Who
remembers coal? A job that you have to explain quite a lot to a young person.
Yes.
I don't think I knew anyone who had a coal fire growing up, and I am in my 40s.
But, you know, I recognise that I mostly lived in the South.
Oh, we had coal fires.
Like, I still remember the smell of the coal fires.
I'm from a mining family and at some point that got you free deliveries of coal.
So the coal went on for quite a long time.
Did you get a cheeky kiss from the coal delivery man? Because there seems to be a...
Was the coal man like the forerunner of the milkman for your possible father?
But in under 10, so it would have been inappropriate.
That is true.
That's fair enough.
I just think that it's quite nice about the whole, like, you know, getting up at 4am in the school holidays is some commitment, but, you know, this is when you had to go and just help out with the hard labour, lads.
That's just how it works.
It's coal-stained as well.
There is something about the convention of the gnomes having massive heads and legs and not really anything else.
Yes.
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