Search
23 Oct 2025
Search
23 Oct 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
ITV gameshow You Bet! will return in the autumn with Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern at the helm.
The reboot of the show, which originally aired from 1988 to 1997 with hosts including the late Sir Bruce Forsyth, will feature “epic challenges, mind-blowing feats, big name celebrities and nail-biting suspense” in an updated format.
“I’m so excited to be part of this iconic game show with the fabulous Stephen Mulhern,” Willoughby said.
“I’m looking forward to seeing the astonishing skills on show from the challengers and which of our celebrity panellists can come out on top.”
Willoughby quit ITV’s This Morning after allegations of a plot to kidnap, rape and murder her emerged. Security guard Gavin Plumb was later jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years.
Earlier this year she returned to present Dancing On Ice on ITV alongside new host Mulhern, who replaced Phillip Schofield after he resigned from the broadcaster having admitted to a relationship with a male This Morning employee.
Willoughby and Mulhern previously presented ITV Saturday morning children’s show Ministry Of Mayhem together from 2004.
Mulhern added: “I loved You Bet! as a kid, so I’m very excited to be hosting this with the wonderful Holly Willoughby.
“From the big and spectacular to the unique and unexpected, I can’t wait to see what extraordinary skills the challengers have up their sleeves.”
The show will return with two “action-packed primetime” specials with a panel of celebrities and the studio audience predicting “if each challenger can complete the extraordinary challenge with which they are faced”.
“Guess correctly and points are added to the celebrities’ score, based on the percentage of studio audience who voted the same way,” ITV said.
At the end of the show, the studio audience vote for their favourite challenger who will take home a £10,000 prize, while the celebrity with the highest score wins £10,000 for their chosen charity.
The celebrity with the lowest score takes on the final forfeit, ITV said.
The show, which is to return on ITV1 and ITVX, last aired on ITV in 1997, with Darren Day as host.
It ran for nine years, with Matthew Kelly and the late Sir Bruce also previously at the helm.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
