A QUICK WORD with JOE THOMAS Fresh Meat Star Joe Thomas Tells ZOO About University, Crap Football Teams and the Inbetweeners Movie Sequel

Mind those hands. Louise is watching... EXCLUSIVE! ZARA PHILLIPS and jamie: best of teammates A QUICK WORD WITH JOE THOMAS Fresh Meat star Joe Thomas tells ZOO about university, crap football teams and The Inbetweeners Movie sequel

Hi Joe! The new series of your uni comedy Fresh Meat is currently on. What’s new? Oh, lots of good stuff! There’s Is she, Jamie? plenty of new relationships Where is and new characters. There’s she, then? Freddie has a a girlfriend character for augh with Kingsley and there’s also l a new housemate who’s LAUrA TROTT a much older Dutch woman they all hate, so she stirs up the house. On-set with A League More importantly, She’s under you’ve got a little Of Their Own this table...! beard… WITH THE FRESH It’s known as a “soul patch”. CAST! I’m not committed to it. I’d MEAT rather go rugged full-beard, or no beard at all. There’s something about cultivated facial hair I find a bit weird. “Mo Farah feels A beard should be rugged; trimming it defeats the object. Is this your biggest hair fail? I had really long hair at gathering drugs or going to university, but I didn’t consider commit mass suicide! ZOO takes on the road it an unusual thing. I only cut What about sport? like one of our kids!” it when I started doing The I played for the second 11 in cycling challenge… Gold-medal guests, huge sporting challenges and Olympic “children”: we talk about the Inbetweeners. So, I didn’t even football, where there was an realise that it looked sh*t. It unspoken agreement people new series of A League Of Their Own with the stars of the show… just got taken off me. shouldn’t try that hard. Tell us more about I remember one time, a player League Of Their Own global, and it’s all I got on my phone, you’d think really enjoyed having him your uni days… scored a really good goal, is nothing short of down to this show… that I’d just won a Gold medal! on the show in the time he’s I remember jumping in rivers where he cut in and slotted A a phenomenon. It’s the James Corden Crazy, right? I kept going, “I can’t believe it, become a national treasure. a lot. I thought if I jumped in the ball into the corner, and highest-rated entertainment No one could have imagined I can’t believe it!” Jack Whitehall Charlotte rivers, girls would think I was everyone reacted like, “That’s show on Sky 1, boasts the cream that it would take off in such Who are your Jackson, the Sky Sports brave. This is honestly a bit off, mate. Come on, don’t of British sport on its panel, and a way. It’s amazing that he did it favourite guests on presenter. She’s really fit. a problem I have had be a dick.” even created Mo Farah’s iconic and he really went for it! He’s on the new series? ZOO took the road …and wins Gold! throughout my life, as it’s Finally, The “Mobot” celebration. So we the first show of the new series JR Sir Chris Hoy – he’s very cycling challenge. obviously not true. Nothing Inbetweeners sequel! headed on-set to talk about and he’s an absolute inspiration competitive, but also just a really Are there challenges were actually disappointed that JR In the morning, I was ringing really changes when you get Any news? the new series with the stars to everyone. He’s one of the best nice guy, classy and good fun. you’re not allowed none of us injured ourselves. up, like I was pulling a sickie. out of the river, except you’re We are working on one, but of the show – James Corden, guests we’ve ever had. He just Freddie Flintoff Vincent to do? JW I reckon this show is JW He had a sick note a lot wetter. there isn’t a script yet and it’s Freddie Flintoff, Jamie comes in with the right spirit. Kompany was brilliant. I’m JC I don’t think there’s insured by some guy they met from Harry! Did you join any weird quite a long way off. But I hope Redknapp and Jack Whitehall Jamie Redknapp It’s funny – a Man City fan, sat next to their anything they won’t let us do down the pub. It can’t be through university societies? that it’ll come to fruition. – and took on one of their when he passed the line, he did captain! He’s proper cool. – they’re quite open to us some legitimate company! The new series of A I was on an email list of Watch this space. infamous sporting challenges… it and you felt like he was one of JC Having Mo back was great. injuring ourselves! JC Jamie tried hard to get League Of Their Own starts a society that was planning Let’s start with the your kids. He did it for us! The roof just came off the JR We went to a velodrome for out of the synchronised on Friday 26 October, 10pm a visit to Colombia, but it Fresh Meat is on

WORDS: Jon Moody. JOE THOMAS INTERVIEW: Simon Ward PICS: Channel 4 Pictures, Rex Features, Photos PA “Mobot”. That’s gone JC The amount of calls that studio when he walked in. I’ve one challenge and I think they swimming challenge. on Sky 1 sounded like they were either Tuesdays, Channel 4, 10pm

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