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Former Popworld presenter Simon Amstell is to take over as host of TV music quiz Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Amstell will replace Mark Lamarr when the show returns to BBC2 later this year. Lamarr had hosted the show since it began in 1996. Amstell proved a hit with viewers when he appeared as a guest host in March.
"I hope I can be the one exception to the universal, exceptionless rule that when a new host takes over an old show it is a horrible, embarrassing disaster," he said. Bill Bailey and Phill Jupitus will continue as team captains.
Amstell, 26, is a stand-up comic in addition to his TV work. He presented Channel 4 show Popworld alongside Miquita Oliver for five years until both bowed out in April.
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How awful, Mark Lamarr makes that show. It won't be worth watching without him.
- Debi, london, 23/08/2006 16:06
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