Meet Next Week's (19th July) Celebrity Crystal Maze Contestants

It seems tonights choice of contestant, naming no names, has been a sore topic online. Hasn't so much been a kick of a hornets' nest as it has been a good, hard, wet towel flick to a raging bulls danglers. However it's over, done with and out the way. 

Moving on, here's next weeks intrepid interlopers.

Melvin Odoom (Captain)

Currently heard on BBC Radio 1's 9-11pm show Mondays through to Thursdays alongside Rickie Haywood-Williams and Charlie Hedges, the trio having worked together on the Kiss FM breakfast show previously. However to those of a certain age/immaturity level, he'd be more recognizable as a regular on mid-00's BBC Saturday morning show Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, joking and dancing his way through various sequences usually whilst covered in a variety of... everything.

Al Murray

Comedian, actor, host and one-time parliamentary candidate, Al Murray is best known as The Pub Landlord, a fictional English publican with strong conservative values, Murray has used the character both on stage for his stand up act and as part of a two series sitcom 'Time Gentlemen Please'. In 2015 Murray, as the Pub Landlord, stood in the election for the seat of South Thanet and his reaction to seeing Nigel Farage beaten in his target seat made headlines.

Kara Tointon

First known as an actress on Eastenders, Tointon is most famous now as a former winner of Strictly Come Dancing and is a regular treading the boards in productions of shows such as Pygmalion and Twelfth Night. This year she will be seen in the play 'The Man In The White Suit' opposite comedian and actor Stephen Mangan.

Ashley Taylor Dawson

Mainly known as an actor in the Channel 4 soap 'Hollyoaks', Ashley Taylor Dawson has been in the show since 1999. He left a year after his debut to follow a career in pop music as part of the group allSTARS* but returned after the group split up in 2003. He's also another contestant who can list competing in Strictly Come Dancing on his list of achievements.

Olivia Attwood

Another former Love Island contestant to appear on the show, Attwood appeared on the ITV reality show in 2017. Since her time on the island, she's also appeared on 'Celebs Go Dating'.