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Holly Willoughby and Bradley Walsh to host new Christmas show taking families to Lapland

This Morning's Holly Willoughby and The Chase's Bradley Walsh will be spreading some Christmas cheer later this year with their brand new TV show.

The presenting veterans are teaming up for one off special Take Off With Bradley and Holly, which will air on BBC 1.

The festive show will give lucky studio audience members the chance to win a trip to Lapland - the famous snowy home of Father Christmas and his elves.

Families will compete in mystery challenges to win the one in a lifetime trip.

This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby will co present the show (ITV)
The Chase host Bradley Walsh will also be presenting the brand new show (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

The BBC has teased that the show will be "jam packed with incredible pries,a gaggle of games and much more leading up to a spectacular end of show finale".

As bizarre as it might seem to be getting excited for Christmas telly already... we can't wait!

Excited Holly said: "This Christmas Brad and I are going to be on the telly, on a Saturday night, surprising the nation with Christmas gifts of all shapes and sizes.

"And I couldn't be happier! Christmas is without doubt my favourite time of year.

"Happy Christmas everyone!”.

Bit early Hols, but thank you.

Bradley added: “Holly and I are going to help people have a wonderful Christmas this year... and we’re going to have a right laugh whilst we do it!

"I can’t wait to cheer up the nation with Holly at my side. Bring. It. On”.

This won't be the first time Holly and Bradley present together - they also appeared on ITV sports comedy panel game show Play to the Whistle in 2015.

Holly and Bradley appeared together on ITV sports comedy panel game show Play to the Whistle (Steve Peskett/ITV)

In the meantime, telly fans can look forward to the return of I'm A Celebrity , which will be landing on our screens in November.

With the phenomenal success of last year's show - hosted temporarily by Holly = (who was standing in for Ant McPartlin) and Declan Donnelly - the 2019 series is set to be better than ever with the jungle reunion of Ant and Dec .

From the looks of things, the line-up will be a cracker, with Ant and Dec finding out who's going in and sharing their hilarious reactions on social media.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! returns in November (ITV)

Casting celebrity executive Micky Van Praagh and her team recently revealed how they go about choosing celebs.

"It's very early days, but we've already started casting," she said at a BAFTA Masterclass for I'm A Celebrity.

"I think we know what works. I think of our show as a comedy and so I'm looking for people who are funny and high energy as we know those types of things always work."

She added: "But otherwise you want to do something completely different every year. You're never looking for the next Harry Redknapp or the next John Barrowman or the next Fleur East. You've got to do something different."

Ant and Dec will be reunited again in this year's I'm a Celebrity after Ant missed last year's series (ITV)

Creative director Richard Cowles told the same crowd that I'm A Celebrity goes out of its way to create harmony in camp, unlike other shows like Celebrity Big Brother , which focuses on conflict.

"We have never casted for conflict - if arguments go on for too long it can get a bit dull and relentless," he explained.

"We will always try and cast for warmth and for people to get on. But we want it to be as stressful as it can be because that's when you see people's true colours and how they would react."

Take a look at the rumoured line up for 2019.

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