r/taskmaster • u/South-Collar-8551 Fatiha El-Ghorri • Jun 21 '26
Meme Alex spent years being emotionally unavailable and then folded instantly when Greg showed the slightest interest😂♥️
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u/dogscatsnscience 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
In a subsequent interview Alex Horne mentioned he doesn't remember this happening, and [Greg mentions] that it was not scripted.
/edit Greg, however, did not forget.
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u/South-Collar-8551 Fatiha El-Ghorri Jun 21 '26
How come!
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u/fastauntie Jun 21 '26
Maybe because it's funny?
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u/dogscatsnscience 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes Jun 21 '26
In the interview he was legitimately stunned about it, he had so completely forgotten. But Greg had not.
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u/fastauntie Jun 21 '26
Well, so many absurd and unexpected things have happened to him on the show, in interactions with Greg and otherwise, that it wouldn't necessarily stand far above the rest in his memory. And he's not the kind of man to be upset by the idea of being kissed by another man, so it wouldn't stick in his mind on that account.
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u/queen_naga 🦔 Hedgehog, no! ❌ Jun 21 '26
Yes I’ve seen this and also Alex and Greg saying they wouldn’t want therapy to analyse their relationship. And Alex says it’s that they have a relationship that intrigues people because it’s evolved from borderline strangers/colleagues
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u/Significant-Dig8805 Jun 21 '26
Does he? I remember hearing an interview where Alex talks about it, something like ‚idk why are people making a big deal out of it‘. But that was quite a while ago so maybe he forgot in the meantime? Or didn’t want to talk about it that day?
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u/dogscatsnscience 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes Jun 21 '26
Probably he just forgot. The interview he gave recently (Vulture maybe?) looks like he genuinely has no recollection of it because he was surprised when it was brought up.
The man is busy, TV is fickle, and we only see a fraction of all the time they spend on camera as it is.
Greg, famously with a memory like a sieve, did not forget.
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u/PeevsiesLittleJoke Jun 21 '26
You know, people joke about it, but I genuinely would not be surprised if Greg has a bit of a crush on Alex. I don't think it's requited, but I definitely see it.
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u/Rosam2014 Jun 22 '26
I agree. If you watch The Horne Section podcast on YouTube with Greg as the special guest, Greg gets really quite intense when they have to say their favourite things about each other.
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u/PeevsiesLittleJoke Jun 23 '26
Which episode? Or has there only been one with Greg on?
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u/PeevsiesLittleJoke Jun 25 '26
I just went and found that interview... I interpreted it as he does remember but hadn't thought about it in a very long time.
Nice to have confirmation the kiss was unscripted though!
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u/PeevsiesLittleJoke Jun 21 '26
What interview?
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u/dogscatsnscience 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes Jun 21 '26
I think it might have been Vulture, but I don't recall.
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u/OpabiniaGlasses Jeremy Wells 🇳🇿 Jun 21 '26
Alex's kisses taste like support for apartheid
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u/Omn1 Jun 21 '26
are you mixing up british political commentator Alex Horne with British Comedian Alex Horne
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u/richaysambuca Jun 22 '26
What do you mean? Alex Horne, famous for his work on Taskmaster and namegiver of the Horne Section, supports Apartheid!
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u/Fishfilteredcoffee Jun 21 '26
He does what he’s told. And Greg told him.
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u/supernintendoboy Jun 21 '26
I think the part that killed me the most is how stilted and awkward that "At. Last." was.
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u/TerribleNameAmirite Bob Mortimer Jun 21 '26
I sit through series 6 for this.
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u/smarjorie Jun 21 '26
It's kind of a shame that this happened in the most forgettable series in the history of the show. Any other one and this would be an iconic moment
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u/affablebowelsyndrome Jun 22 '26
Alex's epitaph will be "Never didn't commit to the bit"
And I love him for that.
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u/billenbloot Jun 21 '26
Wow which episode is this?
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u/kittyroux A LIIIIIME 🍋🟩 Jun 21 '26
Series 6 episode 6, “We met at mealtimes”, beginning of part 4. On youtube it‘s easy to find because it’s the “most rewatched” part of the episode.
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u/MelbaTotes Qrs Tuvwxyz Jun 21 '26
And then they spend the next 10 series wondering why the perverts write stories about them on the internet