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Chapter 1: What is the significance of the final episode of Series 21?
Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. It's me, Ed Gamble, host of the Taskmaster podcast. And today, it's a bittersweet day. We'll be talking about episode 10. That is the final episode of series 21. And we will, of course, be talking to the winner of series 21. Now, if you don't know who that is, that means you've come too far in your podcast journey.
You need to go and watch Taskmaster episode 10 on channel4.com, etc., but very excitingly, we will be speaking to the winner. If you don't know who that is, turn off.
Chapter 2: Who is the winner of Taskmaster Series 21 and what was their experience?
This is your chance. Three, two, one. Okay, if you're still with me, you will know that Joanna Page is the winner of Taskmaster Series 21. What a competitor. Always surprising that she was in the lead because brilliant at the tasks, but never fully seemed like she knew that she was brilliant at the tasks or what she was doing in some of them, but...
I think some people are just hilariously chaotic and also incredibly competent. And that's what we got with Joanna Page. So we are going to be speaking to Joanna Page in this episode. It's another brilliant interview. She really is just fantastic company. So let's get on with it. This is Taskmaster Series 21, the final episode as discussed by Joanna Page.
Welcome back, Joanna, to the Taskmaster podcast, or should I call you the champion of Taskmaster.
Oh, my God. Series 21. Oh, I tell you what, absolutely bloody brilliant. It felt fantastic. I think you can just see on my face, well, the fact actually that I'm riding Greg's head around the stage at the end. I was beside myself. So, so excited.
Chapter 3: What were Joanna Page's personal highlights from the series?
I didn't think I'd won. But when it's just me and Armando together, I thought it was going to be close between me, Armando, and Amy. And I was surprised when she then went out first. I was like, oh my God. Because I kind of let it go by the end because I thought, oh God, it's all over the place. And you keep your eye on what the scores are.
But it does get to a point when you think, I don't have a clue what's going on now and I'm just going to let it go.
Alex is very sneaky. He only gives series updates now and again.
Yes.
So you sort of don't know where you are.
You don't know. And I didn't have a clue. And I knew I'd started out pretty good, but then I was starting to taper off a bit. I ended up being not very good at the live tasks. And so I was kind of a bit like, oh, you started out good and you've shown in some of them, but there's quite a few mistakes. that you haven't. You've taken quite a few one-pointers. So I was a bit like, oh, I don't know.
And then when it got to me and Armando, it was hilarious because we're clinging each other. And he was saying to me, you need this, you're young, you need to fly. And I was going, but you're Armando Iannucci. And then when they said him and we were all cheering and then when they said me, I felt a bit like Russell Crowe in Gladiator or Mel Gibson in Braveheart.
You know, like standing up at the end and I did like my pose that, you know, like my power stance. And you can, I think you can see in my face, I'm so raw that I could have fought someone. I could have fought, I probably could have fought the taskmaster. I'm so raw and it's so like I've done it. Yeah.
And then I ride Greg's head and then I just remember, I just thought, I've got to get on the chairs. I've got to get on the chairs.
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Chapter 4: How did Joanna Page feel about her performance in the final tasks?
And I was wearing platform boots and I didn't care. If I'd have fallen, I would have just thrown myself and they would have caught me. And what's gorgeous is that everybody was just all clutched around me making sure
and I just do this warrior scream at the end oh my god I think you can see it's ten weeks worth of emotion from all of us and just like oh my god the end of just an amazing job and you know I've hidden Greg's head for a year
Have you?
Came home right afterwards and I was hiding Greg's head in my suitcase. And I walked in through the door. My kids weren't there, but my husband was. And I wasn't going to tell him. And I thought, I've got to tell someone. I've got to tell someone. And so I told James, my husband, showed him Greg's head. And we were like, oh my God. God, it breaks my head.
And then I went upstairs and I wrapped it in towels, hid it at the top of the wardrobe behind a load of dresses. And then my daughter and the kids came in from school and she was like, have you won, mummy? Have you won? I said, oh, I'm not going to tell you anything at all because I don't want to spoil it for you. She said, I'm searching the house.
She went out into the garage, searched all around the garage, trying to find the trophy. And then she came in and she was searching the house and she went into the wardrobe. And as soon as she went in, I was a bit like...
you know take it easy don't panic don't panic and she looked around and went to look up and she walked out i've hidden that bloody head for a year really because we're obviously recording this before the episode goes out yes so your kids don't know they don't know my children don't know they don't know i can't believe right because i'm kind of good at keeping secrets if it's a big one i'll keep it right but most of the time i cannot help it and i need to tell someone and so but they don't know amazing yeah that's gonna be such a moment when you're watching it with them
It's going to be huge. I'm going to try and secretly film them because I can't wait to see what they're going to be like. And then the head's going to come out and it's going to go in the little window sill right by the front door. So everybody who comes and goes gets to see it.
Amazing. Well, you are a very worthy champion, Joanna. I think you've been brilliant all series.
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Chapter 5: What memorable moments occurred during the final live task?
Do you have any highlights from the series as a whole? Because obviously the last time we spoke on this podcast was episode three. So there's a lot that's happened in between. We're going to be talking about episode 10, but do you have anything that stands out to you?
Yeah, do you know what I loved? It was the very first episode, and it was the task that I was just really, really scared about. It's weird, right, because I'm an actress, so you'd think that any creative sort of things, acting, writing a sketch, making a song... You know, or doing something creative, I'd find easy. But those were the ones I was scared about.
I thought, if you give me something, a puzzle, or I've got to work something out, just put me in the lab, I'll be fine. Do not put me in the scary room, because I'm going to be scared about that.
The scary room, for those of you who didn't listen to episode three, is just the living room area.
It's the living room, with Greg's portrait behind you.
No one else would think that is the scary room. They'd say the lab, they'd say the caravan.
Yeah. But yeah, that is the scary room. Because, oh my God, do you remember the episode where I go in and I think, was it for this one or it might have been for something later, but when I went in and there was the lion's head.
Yeah.
And I go in and as I walk into the room, you can see that I'm feeling edgy because there was never anything good which came from that room.
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Chapter 6: How did the contestants react to the challenges presented in the final episode?
I don't know if I'm screaming. so much in my life.
And you've done a lot of screaming on this series.
I screamed a lot through this series, right? That was utterly terrifying. And I think that might have been from, oh no, no, that was for the one, do something brave. That was for the one, do something brave.
Which is a personal highlight from you, this series, I think. You standing just out here, or, you know, on top of the ladder. Yeah. And screaming at the top of your lungs.
Yes, I don't think I've ever, ever been so frightened before. ever, and actually done something in a show where I genuinely was that frightened. So yeah, seeing that, the head lunged towards me. They told me that they didn't do that head with another person's head inside it to anybody else. So I was already like this. And then I thought, oh my God, do something brave.
And I thought, well, the only things I don't really like doing is singing. I don't like heights. And I really, really don't like worms. I don't like spiders, right? But since having children, I've had to deal with that. But I don't like a worm. And when we did the task where I had to find a worm, I found a worm. And I was really pleased with that.
Yeah, you did that very well.
But I hold it on a stick. I will not hold it in my hand. Oh, God. Because there's something about, they're soft.
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Chapter 7: What were the dynamics between the contestants during the final tasks?
But if you cut them in half, they're hard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I was just like, oh my God. So I thought, you know what, right? Go with it then. You genuinely, you got to do something. You got to do something brave. And so I sat on top of the smallest ladder going, right? So I managed to get up there. That was kind of, that was all right. But I'd made up a song. Oh my God. And the song, it came quite quick to me. And it was something like...
Was it I'm Joanna Page or I'm 48 and I don't like worms? Something, something, something, something. And I remember singing, I'm doing this for my kids. And so I'm singing that. And then Alex collected some worms and spiders. And I thought, you know what? You're very good at mind over matter. Just blank it out, right, and just get on with it. And you are showing bravery.
So I'm sitting at the top of the stair, of the ladder, and then it was like waiting for it. And I had to hold my hands out, basically like I was Jesus or something, right? And I'm holding these hands out.
Classic Jesus. Yeah.
And then Alex was going, are you ready for them? Are you ready for them?
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Chapter 8: What are Joanna Page's future plans after winning Taskmaster?
Oh, my God. And it was just waiting. It was waiting. And then they're just so gentle. And they went into my hand. And they were there. I could feel them there. And they're gentle, but that they curve. And I don't like that. It's like, obviously, their muscles are contracting. And I don't like that, like that curve. Oh, my God, it was awful. It was awful.
And I thought, just, you know, you can power through this because you are good at powering through stuff. And it was impossible. It was impossible. I went absolutely hysterical.
Did you even realise you were screaming that much?
No, God, no. I'm trying to sing the song. And I don't think I was even screaming. It was more sort of like, I think I'm going like that, aren't I? It's like...
I would call that screaming.
It's serious. What was mad that I was so, I was so hysterical. And then there were these fellas in the golf course next door. And I didn't even know that anybody was there because I was like, I was delirious at this point. And then these men went, hello, hello. Are you all right in there? Is everything okay? And we all just stopped and froze like we'd been caught. And it was like, oh my God.
And then Alex just on his own went, yes, thank you. Everything is fine. And then the men were happy with that. Oh,
as if why would you be happy with the man's voice saying, yeah, fine.
The man's saying it's fine, everything's okay.
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