Taskmaster creator hosts care home competition

Taskmaster creator Alex Horne has hosted a competition inspired by the Channel 4 TV show at a care home.

The 46-year-old comedian visited Seccombe Court in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, where he set a series of challenges that saw four residents compete against each other.

Tasks included identifying everything related to pineapples and residents closing their eyes and raising their hand when they thought one minute had passed.

Horne said it had been “perhaps the most memorable task session for me”, 15 years on from when he first launched the show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

“The four contestants were as competitive as anyone I’ve tested before, and they demonstrated different ways of lateral thinking, as well as some creative interpretations of my rules,” he said.

“I’ve done Taskmaster with kids in schools, stags and hens in pubs, boys and girls in scout huts, executives in offices and over a hundred comedians on telly over the last 10 years, but this was perhaps the most memorable task session for me.”