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<\/p>\nChannel 4 viewers were all left saying the same thing as television presenters Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer welcomed some more famous guests to the Sunday Brunch studio<\/p>\n
Dan Laurie Deputy Editor of Screen Time<\/p>\n
12:11, 11 Jan 2026Updated 12:11, 11 Jan 2026<\/p>\n
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Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer were back on Sunday Brunch on January 11(Image: )<\/p>\n
Sunday Brunch sparked complaints from fed-up viewers minutes into the latest edition of the Channel 4<\/a> show.<\/p>\n The programme hosted by Tim Lovejoy<\/a> and Simon Rimmer<\/a> retuned on January 11 with its usual three hours of celebrity interviews, culinary demonstrations and light-hearted entertainment.<\/p>\n The latest guests<\/a> were comedians Bridget Christie and Russel Howard, actors Malachi Kirby and Mark Benton, musician Bellah and chef Jeremy Pang.<\/p>\n However, the line-up left viewers divided with some claiming they “didn’t know any of them”.<\/p>\n Taking to social media, one fan penned: “Another week of z list “celebrities” time to knock this show on its head.”<\/p>\n A second added: “Don’t know any of them.” A third person said: “Sorry but used to love it …getting past it’s used by date.”<\/p>\n Comedian Russel Howard was on the line-up(Image: )<\/p>\n However, some fans were delighted with the celebrity guests, with someone else writing: “A way better and funnier line up than last week.”<\/p>\n Another agreed: “I love Sunday Brunch! It\u2019s a must watch tradition in our house.”<\/p>\n It comes just a week after viewers branded a recent interview on the show “a tough watch”.<\/p>\n The exchange between Tim and Simon with Black Ops and The Wheel of Time actor Hammed Animashaun was criticised by fans watching at home.<\/p>\n Some fans moaned about the celebrity guests (Image: )<\/p>\n **For the latest showbiz, TV, movie and streaming news, go to the new **Everything Gossip<\/a>** website**<\/p>\n Discussing Black Ops, Simon enquired: “How far into the first series did you know that season two was going to be commissioned?”<\/p>\n Hammed responded: “Um, it was quite a while until we found out the second series was picked up.”<\/p>\n Tim subsequently brought up Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time, where Hammed plays Loial, a gentle Ogier character.<\/p>\n “The Wheel of Time, that’s in the States as well. So you’ve got yourself a USA agent now?”<\/p>\n “I don’t know about that. I hope so. One day. Maybe,” Hammed replied.<\/p>\n Fans recently branded one of Tim and Simon’s interview “a tough watch”(Image: )<\/p>\n Tim pressed further: “So you haven’t got it yet? You’re not going to go out there?”<\/p>\n Hammed then stated: “No, I want to stay at home and work here.”<\/p>\n The uncomfortable nature of the interview wasn’t lost on audiences, with Sunday Brunch<\/a> fans flocking to X, formerly Twitter<\/a>, to share their observations. “Tim and Simon don’t really know what questions to ask this guy. Cringe,” one viewer remarked.<\/p>\n Another concurred: “Wasn’t sure if it was the guest not giving enough for them to work with or if they were just lacking material to keep a good chat going.”<\/p>\n A third chimed in, declaring: “It’s a tough watch!”.<\/p>\n Sunday Brunch continues every weekly at 10am on Channel 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Channel 4 viewers were all left saying the same thing as television presenters Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1633,96,23557,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-364528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-channel-4","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-sunday-brunch","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Russel](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_Screenshot-2026-01-11-at-120105.png\")
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