Ryan and Adam Thomas reveal all on 99 to Beat
FOR years, Ant and Dec have ruled Saturday-night TV, thanks to their brotherly-like, best-mate banter – but there’s a new, younger, real-life-sibling presenting duo in town. So, are Ryan and Ada…
FOR years, Ant and Dec have ruled Saturday-night TV, thanks to their brotherly-like, best-mate banter – but there’s a new, younger, real-life-sibling presenting duo in town.
So, are Ryan and Adam Thomas about to give the kings of primetime a run for their money?
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Ryan and Adam Thomas have compared themselves to The Chuckle Brothers on their new gameshowCredit: ITV3
The brothers are hosting new ITV gameshow 99 to BeatCredit: ITV“Our presenting style is more like The Chuckle Brothers – to me, to you!” laughs former Corrie star Ryan, 40, during TV Mag’s exclusive chat.
“But I love The Chuckle Brothers. I actually met them once and that was probably the most starstruck I’ve ever been, so I’d be happy to be at that level and anything else is a bonus.
“No one should ever compare us to Ant and Dec because they are the kings of ITV and Saturday night – we’ve grown up with them and love them.
“It’s just lovely to even hear ‘Saturday night’ and ‘game show’ and know that me and my brother are doing it together. Whether they’ll have us back or not, though, I don’t know!”
read more in ITVAdam – best known as Waterloo Road’s Donte Charles, and Emmerdale’s Adam Barton – agrees that walking on to the set of their very own Saturday-night entertainment show for the first time was a real pinch-me moment.
“In 99 To Beat, we’re on the lookout for a winner, but genuinely we feel like competition winners ourselves,” he smiles.
“Being able to have a show like this on ITV – a channel that we were basically born on – is a very special moment for us. Between me and Ryan, we’ve done every show that is out there [Celebrity Big Brother, Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing On Ice and I’m A Celebrity], so to be on the other side, hosting the show, is definitely a dream come true.”
In 99 To Beat, 100 players are whittled down to one through a series of off- the-wall games, such as having to defrost a frozen T-shirt with their body or balancing a ping-pong ball on a spoon in their mouth.
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“The object of the game is just don’t come last. That’s it,” explains Ryan. “It’s a family-friendly, ridiculously stupid, funny, competitive game that anyone can play. That’s what we love about it the most – it’s not something that you’ve got to be super-fit or intelligent to do. It’s just like: ‘Get a slinky, put it on your head and see how quickly you can get it to stay there.’”
“This show’s definitely me and Ryan in a nutshell because it’s daft, funny and we don’t take ourselves too seriously,” adds Adam, 36.
Ant and Dec share major update on Limitless Win return with cheeky new video“Expect the unexpected because some of the games are so simple but so bizarre – catching a potato on a fork doesn’t seem that hard on paper, but when you’re in a studio with people watching and there’s £25,000 at stake, there’s a lot of drama involved.
“People are crying over catching a potato on a fork – if that’s not great TV, I don’t know what is!”
The format has already had the seal of approval from the boys’ biggest fans (and sometimes critics).
“I’ve shown it to my son and he really liked it,” smiles Ryan, who is dad to Roman, five, and Lilah, three, with fiancée Lucy Mecklenburgh, and Scarlett, 16, his daughter with Corrie’s Tina O’Brien. “He particularly liked the slinky game.”
“My oldest son Teddy, who’s 10, will tell me how it is,” says Adam, who’s also dad to Elsie, six, with wife Caroline.
“If I’m ever wondering what’s good or what’s bad, I’ll just show it to them and they’ll give me their honest opinion – but so far, so good.”
Family couldn’t be more important to the pair and they share a close bond, with Ryan having recently moved his loved ones back to Manchester so he could be closer to Adam and their other brother – and Adam’s twin – Love Island contestant Scott.
“We’ve been here for a year and a half now, the kids are in school and we’re all settled – Lucy loves it more than me!” grins Ryan.
Ryan's Corrie comeback
After Coronation Street actress Sue Cleaver, aka Eileen Grimshaw, announced that she was leaving the soap after 25 years, it was reported that Ryan would be returning to the cobbles as her son Jason as part of her exit storyline.
“It would be amazing to revisit where it all started,” teases Ryan. “And yeah, it might be happening… Sue rang me and said: ‘Would you come back for my exit storyline?’
So you can imagine the answer, can’t you? If Mother asks you to do something, you’ve got to do it!”
“I’ve got a community down south, and Lucy’s family are my family now, so I love going back there – it’s like a holiday. We’ve got the best of both worlds. And you know what we’re like, we’re all about family – my kids get to grow up with Adam’s kids. That, for me, is worth everything.”
So with all three Thomas brothers back on home soil, could we see them join forces again for a reality show?
After all, they previously let cameras into their lives for 2020 ITV travelogue Mancs In Mumbai with their late dad, Dougie.
“Never say never,” says Adam. “We have really gone in hard on our social media recently and it’s brought us closer together. We have so much fun doing the videos and, honestly, all people say is: ‘You need to do Gogglebox’ – they’ve never actually asked us – or: ‘You need your own reality-TV show.’
“But as it stands, we’re just having fun doing content on TikTok. I never thought I’d be a TikToker, but my kids absolutely love it and we have a ball.”
“For three brothers to go away with their dad – and then not long after, our dad passed away – is probably my proudest moment as jobs go,” says Ryan.
“And for our children to be able to see that and we can say: ‘That’s your grandad and our background, and where we came from.’”
“We were a bit apprehensive at first when we did Mancs In Mumbai, as we didn’t want it to be a fly-on-the-wall reality-TV show or an ‘At home with the Thomases’,” continues Adam. “We wanted people to be able to tune in and not only learn a little about us, but also something else as well.
“Someone asked me the other day: ‘What is your passion and what do you love doing?’ And I said: ‘Just to be able to work with my family.’ If we can do something together, the whole family, that would be great.”
For now, though, the pair are focusing on their new career as game-show hosts, while not forgetting their acting roots.
“It would be really cool to do an acting job together,” reveals Ryan, who’s returning to the Street as the character he played for 16 years until 2016, Jason Grimshaw.
“Adam took my daughter off me on Waterloo Road [Scarlett plays Adam’s on-screen daughter] but won’t do it with me. Get me in Waterloo Road, Adam!”
“After soap, it’s hard to stay in this industry,” reflects Adam. “I said to Ry recently that the fact that we’re still here, still relevant and we’re being given these great opportunities, it genuinely doesn’t get better than that.
“We just feel very lucky that we are where we are because it’s not easy. It has been a struggle and there have been times where we’ve not been working.
“I remember an agent dropped me years ago because I said I wanted to do presenting and acting, and she said: ‘Well, you can’t do both, Adam.’
READ MORE SUN STORIES“Now I’ve just done a series of Waterloo Road and I’ve got a brand-new show coming out where I’m presenting. It’s a small little win for me and I’m very proud. So whether people love 99 To Beat or not, for us and our family, it’s everything.”
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Rianne Ison exclusively interviewed the duo for the Sun's TV magCredit: The SunRead the full interview with Ryan and Adam Thomas in this week's TV Mag, available for free every Saturday, only in The Sun
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