Jason Manford is to front a new family game show for ITV.
The 36-year-old comic – who has eight-year-old twin girls, a six-year-old daughter daughter and a five-year-old son with ex-wife Catherine, and a 22-month-old daughter with girlfriend Lucy Dyke – will pit parents against one another in ‘What Would Your Kid Do?’ as they predict how their youngsters will fare in a number of tasks.
The children will be unaware they are being filmed for the show and Jason thinks it will make for hilarious viewing.
He said: "As a dad of five, I am constantly left in tears laughing at some of the stuff that comes out their mouths, but I’m also often bowled over by their inquisitive minds and sense of right and wrong.
"So the idea of putting them in this kind of situation, where we get to watch them in as natural an environment as possible, seeing how they react, whilst I’m in the studio quizzing the parents…"
The parents who correctly predict how their child will get on will then play for a prize alongside their offspring.
The former ‘One Show’ presenter recently vowed never to let his work get in the way of his commitments to his own children.
He said: "There is no point getting to a ripe old age and all your kids have got is good reviews of stuff you have done.
"You still have to work to live and not the other way round. I make sure I take school holidays off, and if I have a couple of months just writing at home, I can do the school runs and sports days.
"It is tough juggling it all, but the thing that suffers most is my sleep. I’m like Margaret Thatcher and get about four hours a night, but she ran the country on that so I can’t really moan, can I?"
Jason Manford to front new family game show
