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Hider in the House is a multi award winning children's show presented by Jason King
Jason King (radio)

"JK" is a United Kingdom radio Disk jockey....
 and Joel Ross
Joel Ross

Joel Ross is a United Kingdom radio DJ. Along with Jason King , he presented the coveted UK Top 40 show on BBC Radio 1 each Sunday from March 2005 to October 2007....
 (aka JK and Joel
JK and Joel

JK and Joel are a British duo who have co-presented radio shows since 1999 and are most famous for hosting the UK Singles Chart on BBC Radio 1 between 2005 and 2007 and then presented on Virgin Radio, from 10am - 1pm at weekends and covering the breakfast and hometime shows....
). In the programme, a celebrity has to be hidden in a family's house by three children and a parent. If the family have fewer than three children, they use friends or related children to make up the numbers. The other parent of the family thinks they are taking part in a totally different programme.






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Hider in the House is a multi award winning children's show presented by Jason King
Jason King (radio)

"JK" is a United Kingdom radio Disk jockey....
 and Joel Ross
Joel Ross

Joel Ross is a United Kingdom radio DJ. Along with Jason King , he presented the coveted UK Top 40 show on BBC Radio 1 each Sunday from March 2005 to October 2007....
 (aka JK and Joel
JK and Joel

JK and Joel are a British duo who have co-presented radio shows since 1999 and are most famous for hosting the UK Singles Chart on BBC Radio 1 between 2005 and 2007 and then presented on Virgin Radio, from 10am - 1pm at weekends and covering the breakfast and hometime shows....
). In the programme, a celebrity has to be hidden in a family's house by three children and a parent. If the family have fewer than three children, they use friends or related children to make up the numbers. The other parent of the family thinks they are taking part in a totally different programme. The children involved must undergo a series of tasks to win prizes which they will receive if the unaware parent does not work out what is really happening. The tasks are sometimes very messy or involve getting the unaware parent to do strange things.

The format was devised by Eyeworks UK.

Series History

In late 2006 CBBC put an advert on their website for families wishing to take part in a new Saturday morning gameshow, advertised as Our House. This was in fact the cover show for Hider in the House. The first series was shown on Saturday mornings between 9am and 10am on BBC Two
BBC Two

BBC Two is the second major terrestrial television channel of the BBC, aimed at a wide range of subject matter and interests, and specialising in intelligent yet popular programme genres....
 and the CBBC Channel
CBBC Channel

The CBBC Channel is a BBC television service aimed at 4 to 12 year olds. It complements the CBBC programming that continues to air on BBC One and BBC Two....
. The first episode was shown on 17 February 2007 and the first series finished on the 30th June 2007. The second series was shown from Sunday 6 January, 2008. It was changed from Saturday to Sunday because of Basil's Swap Shop
Basil's Swap Shop

Basil's Swap Shop is a children's television series produced for CBBC. Based on the BBC Saturday morning show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, which ran on BBC1 from 1976 in television to 1982 in television, it is hosted by television presenter Barney Harwood along with veteran puppet character Basil Brush, from whom the show takes its titl...
.

For Series 2, the show went through a reformatting, with JK and Joel being joined by presenter, Kate Edmondson
Kate Edmondson

Kate Edmondson is a United Kingdom television presenter from Portsmouth, England and older sister of former CBBC presenter Matt Edmondson.In 2006, Kate was selected after a nationwide search to present The Loaded Hour, sponsored by Loaded , on Freeview channel TMF UK and has since gone on to present TMF Live and TMF Kicks,...
, as JK and Joel had to go undercover as too many people knew about Hider in the House. Kate is the supposed presenter of a new cover show Big Kidz. Two challenges were cut from the show and the final challenge (Hider in the House) was also changed slightly. Instead of just the unspecting parent trying to find the real celebrity, it was changed so the children have to find mini cut outs of the celebrity and the unsuspecting parent the real one with clues from JK and Joel. Also the celebrity has to Push the Pedal and gunge the unsuspecting parent, otherwise the children don't get the prizes they have won. During the Chico episode, Push the Pedal backfired and all the gunge landed on Chico's leg. However JK had a bucket of gunge ready and poured it over the parent. The unsuspecting parent also received a large cardboard certificate, as well as being "hidered".

For Series 2, JK must go undercover for the fourth challenge to get the unsuspecting parent out of the way so the kids and the hider can get out of the house. JK sometimes cheekily drops hints of Hider in the House (e.g. while pretending to be a gardener, he said the name of a fake plant which involved the word "hider" (hiderdendrum) and while pretending to be from the army he said his last name was "hider" ). The parent rarely notices these hints.

David Grant

In the sixth episode of the second series, David Grant
David Grant (singer)

David Grant is a English people pop music singing and celebrity human voice coaching....
 was busted early when an unfortunate incident led to him being discovered on the first day. In view of the unusual circumstances, and because JK felt partially responsible, the three presenters discussed what to do. They offered the children the opportunity to continue playing, but on the condition that if they lost the challenges they would lose all the prizes they had already won. Unsuspecting friends and family were substituted for the unsuspecting parent.

Episode List


SERIES 1

Week 1: Matt Stevens - busted on challenge 8

Week 2: Christopher Parker
Christopher Parker

Christopher Parker is an English actor and television presenter....
 - completed

Week 3: Anna Ryder Richardson
Anna Ryder Richardson

Anna Caroline Ryder Richardson is a British interior designer and television presenter. She is best known for being a designer on the BBC shows Changing Rooms and House Invaders....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 4: Colin Jackson
Colin Jackson

Colin Ray Jackson Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people former Sprint and hurdling Athletics of Jamaican, Jamaican Maroons, Taino, and Scottish people ancestry, who now works as a Sportscaster for athletics and television presenter predominantly for the BBC....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 5: Bonnie Langford
Bonnie Langford

'Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford' is an England actor and entertainer. She came to prominence as a child actor in the early 1970s then subsequently became a companion of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who and has appeared on stage in various musicals such as Peter Pan: The Musical, Cats and The Pirates of Penza...
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 6: Myleene Klass
Myleene Klass

Myleene Angela Klass is an England actress, singer, Model , pianist, radio presenter and television presenter presenter, formerly a member of the short-lived UK pop music band Hear'Say....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 7: Lee Dixon
Lee Dixon

Lee Michael Dixon is a former England professional footballer. Born in South Manchester, England he attended Old Moat Junior School at the same time as Eric Nixon of Manchester City fame....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 8: Charlie Dimmock
Charlie Dimmock

Charlie Dimmock is an England gardening expert and presenter. She was one of the hosts on Ground Force, a BBC gardening makeover program, and well known for going braless under a t-shirt in all weather....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 9: Louisa Lytton
Louisa Lytton

Louisa Claire Lytton is an English actor who was born in London Borough of Camden and lives in Islington. She rose to fame in 2005 when joining EastEnders as Ruby Allen....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 10: Garth Crooks
Garth Crooks

Garth Anthony Crooks Order of the British Empire is a retired England Football player of Jamaican ancestry. He currently works in broadcasting with the BBC as a journalist....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 11: Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan

Jason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK he has sold in excess of 3 million records, and his d?but album Ten Good Reasons was the highest selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million copies....
 - busted on challenge 7

Week 12: Ian Watkins - busted on challenge 7

Week 13: Sarah Cawood
Sarah Cawood

Sarah Cawood is an England television presenter. She grew up in the Cambridgeshire village of Maxey....
 - busted on challenge 7

Week 14: Tommy Walsh - busted on challenge 8

Week 15: Nadia Sawalha
Nadia Sawalha

Nadia Sawalha is an England actor and television presenter of Jordanian, British people, and French Huguenot descent.Sawalha is perhaps best known for her role as Annie Palmer in the BBC soap opera EastEnders during the 1990s, although most of her television work is now as a presenter rather than an actress....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 16: Jenni Falconer
Jenni Falconer

Jenni Falconer is a Scottish people television presenter....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 17: Nigel Marven
Nigel Marven

Nigel Marven is a British wildlife presenter, television producer, author, and ornithologist....
 - busted on challenge 8

Week 18: Siān Lloyd
Siān Lloyd

Si?n Lloyd is an ITV Weather weather forecasting....
 - completed

Week 19: Sheree Murphy
Sheree Murphy

'Sheree Murphy' , is an England actress and television presenter. A former student of the prestigious Italia Conti Academy, Murphy is best known for her role as Tricia Dingle in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale and her appearance on the fifth series of the Reality TV show I'm a Celebrity......
 - completed

Week 20: Linda Barker
Linda Barker

Linda Thomas Barker is an interior designer and television presenter from Clayton, West Yorkshire.Barker studied Fine Arts at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College....
 - busted on challenge 8

SERIES 2

Week 1: Dani Harmer
Dani Harmer

name = Dani Harmer, Tracy Beaker| image = Replace this image female.svg only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people....
 - completed

Week 2: Matt Di Angelo
Matt Di Angelo

Matt Di Angelo is an England actor of Greek and Irish descent.He is known for playing fictional character Deano Wicks in the popular British soap EastEnders....
 - busted on challenge 6

Week 3: Lil' Chris
Lil' Chris

Christopher James Hardman , more commonly known by his stage name Lil' Chris, is an English people singer-songwriter and Celebrity....
 - completed

Week 4: Carol Smillie
Carol Smillie

Carol Smillie is a Scottish people television personality. Smillie is probably best known for presenting the award winning British Broadcasting Corporation series Changing Rooms ....
 - busted on challenge 6

Week 5: Barney Harwood
Barney Harwood

Barney Harwood is a BAFTA-winning England television presenter, known for his work with CBBC....
 - busted on challenge 6

Week 6: David Grant
David Grant (singer)

David Grant is a English people pop music singing and celebrity human voice coaching....
 - busted on challenge 4, later completed (see above)

Week 7: Lee Sharpe
Lee Sharpe

Lee Stuart Sharpe is a retired England football player. Predominantly a winger , Sharpe once played for Manchester United F.C. and was a promising young player in English football, but his career went into rapid decline while he was still in his twenties....
 - completed

Week 8: Saira Khan
Saira Khan

Saira Khan was the runner-up on the first UK series of reality TV show The Apprentice in 2005.Khan has since become a regular face on British TV....
 - completed

Week 9: Ray Quinn
Ray Quinn

Raymond Quinn is an English actor, singer, and dancer. In 2006, he finished second in talent show The X Factor....
 - completed

Week 10: Mark Ramprakash
Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was selected for English cricket team aged 21....
 - completed

Week 11: Keith Chegwin
Keith Chegwin

Keith "Cheggers" Chegwin is an English people television presenter, former child actor and singer. He is the brother of DJ Janice Long...
 - completed

Week 12: David Seaman
David Seaman

David Andrew Seaman Order of the British Empire is a former England football goalkeeper who played for several clubs, most notably Arsenal F.C....
 - completed

Week 13: Aggie MacKenzie
Aggie MacKenzie

Aggie MacKenzie , is a Scottish international television presenter. Mackenzie was born in Rothiemurchus, Aviemore in the Cairngorms mountain region of the Scottish Highlands and went to school at Kingussie High School....
 - completed

Week 14: Michaela Strachan
Michaela Strachan

Michaela Evelyn Ann Strachan is a United Kingdom television presenter....
 - busted on challenge 6

Week 15: Kirsten O'Brien
Kirsten O'Brien

Kirsten O'Brien is an England television presenter.She presents SMart, and presented Smile and Totally Doctor Who alongside Barney Harwood on CBBC....
 - completed

Week 16: Dominic Littlewood
Dominic Littlewood

Dominic John Littlewood is a British television presenter, journalist and comedian.Littlewood attended St Thomas More's High School for Boys, Westcliff-on-Sea from 1976 to 1981 and, on leaving, worked in the new and used car business in Essex, setting up his own business in the late 1980s....
 - completed

Week 17: Jennie Bond
Jennie Bond

Jennie Bond is an England journalist and television presenter. She worked for fourteen years as the BBC's monarchy correspondent. She has most recently hosted Cash in the Attic and the three series of Great British Menu....
 - completed

Week 18: Hayley Tamaddon
Hayley Tamaddon

Hayley Tamaddon , is an English actress of Iranian descent, who is most notable for portraying Delilah Dingle in ITV's Emmerdale....
 - busted on challenge 7

Week 19: Chico Slimani
Chico Slimani

Yousseph Slimani , known as Chico, is an Wales singer of Morocco descent who rose to prominence in the United Kingdom after reaching the quarter-finals of the The X Factor of the talent show The X Factor ....
 - completed

Week 20: Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian dancing, choreography, and theatre director in the United Kingdom....
 - busted on challenge 6

Week 21: Hider In The House Awards

Week 22: Best Bits Of Hider In The House (Part 1)

Week 23: Best Bits Of Hider In The House (Part 2)

Forfeits

If the Hider fails a challenge, they are given a forfeit for the children to win back the prizes. In Series One, it was 'Suck the Sock' where the celebrity had to suck a smoothie out of a sock. Sometimes the sock was changed to other things associated with the celebrity. For example, for it was changed into 'Suck the Pot' for Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh. In Series Two, sometimes the forfeit was Lick the Tash, where they had to lick a horrible substance moustache off their face. In certain episodes, it was still 'Suck the Sock'. However, there can only be one forfeit per episode, and that is taken on the first challenge that was failed.

Awards

The series won the Best Entertainment prize at the prestigious 2008 Rose d'Or
Rose d'Or

The Rose d'Or is a television award. It has been given annually in spring since 1961 at the Festival Rose d'Or. Since 2004, the festival has been held in Lucerne, Switzerland....
 ceremony.

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