The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2022: Siobhán McSweeney hosts a fabulously festive dollop of Christmas clay, as four celebs roll up their sleeves and take on two yuletide challenges set by judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller.
On Christmas Day, four celebs will take to the wheel in a bid to impress the show’s host Siobhan McSweeney and judges Keith Brymer Jones and Richard Miller. They’ll have to show off their craft skills to be within a chance of becoming the show’s first-ever celebrity and festive champ. The Great Pottery Throw Down is a British television competition programme first broadcast on BBC Two from 3 November 2015. It is a contest in the style of The Great British Bake Off and The Great British Sewing Bee, but with pottery.
In each episode, a group of amateur potters compete to complete two pottery challenges. In the “main make” challenge, contestants undertake a substantial multi-stage creative task: subject to given specifications, they must design a ceramic creation, build it from raw clay, and decorate it; the finished products are fired in the kiln and presented to the judges for evaluation. In between stages of the main make, potters are given a “second challenge”, a smaller-scale task testing a specific pottery skill, on which they are ranked from worst to best by the judges. At the end of each episode, the judges designate the best-performing contestant as “potter of the week”. The contestant with the worst results is dismissed, and all others return for the following episode; the winner of the final episode is the overall winner of the series.
The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2022
The four celebrities taking part are James Fleet, Jenny Eclair, Sunetra Sarker and Jamie Laing.
James Fleet
James Fleet is an English actor, who is best known for his role as Tom in the 1994 British romcom Four Weddings and a Funeral. He also played Hugo Horton in the BBC’s The Vicar of Dibley.
Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair is an English comedian, actress and novelist. She’s well known for her roles in Grumpy Old Women, which she starred in from 2004 to 2007. Between 2011 and 2012, she appeared on ITV’s daytime chat show, Loose Women, as a regular panelist.
Sunetra Sarker
Sunetra Sarker is a British actress and presenter. She rose to fame as Nisha Batra in Channel 4 soap Brookside, which she appeared in from 1988 to 1990, before returning in 2000 until 2003.
Jamie Laing
Jamie Laing is a TV presenter, best known for appearing on E4 reality series Made in Chelsea, which he joined for the second season in 2011.
