Michael McIntyre’s Big Show returned with an array of famous guests including Jonathan Ross, Rylan Clark and West Life.
Rylan Clark was forced to hold back tears during unexpected emotional reunion on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show(Image: BBC)
Rylan Clark was overcome with emotion when he was reunited with a familiar friendly face.
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show is Saturday night’s primetime series where the comic plays various silly games and pranks on celebrities and audience members.
One of the BBC show’s most popular segments is the game Remember Me? which sees a celebrity come face-to-face with people from their past and they have to recall who they are.
This week, it was presenter and TV personality Rylan Clark’s turn to sit in the hot seat where he was reunited with a series of guests, including former X Factor star Gathan Cheema.
But it was the last guest, his former theatre school teacher Yvonne, who really caught his eye.
As soon as she walks through the door, Rylan couldn’t help but beam before covering his face and mumbling “Oh my God”.
Comedian Michael comforted Rylan’s former theatre school teacher Yvonne who welled up on stage(Image: BBC)
When Yvonne asks if she remembers him, Rylan nods with a big smile as Michael points out that he knew it “off the bat”.
Rylan confirms: “I do. It’s Yvonne”, and it is at this point that she starts tearing up at the realisation that her former pupil remembers her.
She tells him: “I’m so proud of you”, with Rylan emotionally replying: “Oh don’t you’re going to get me going. That’s crazy.”
Yvonne says: “You’re wonderful. We’re so proud of you.”
Teary-eyed, Rylan tells her: “Oh my God I’ve stopped singing for so many years. Are you well?”
Yvonne smiles even wider and holds out her arms as she exclaims: “Here I am!”
Seeing how happy the reunion made them, Michael shouts up to the balcony: “Rylan come down, it’s gone all emosh!”
Rylan was reunited with his former theatre school teacher Yvonne (Image: BBC)
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While they wait for him to make his way to the stage, Yvonne tells Michael as she wipes away her tears: “I knew him when he was 12-years-old. It’s a long time. I trained him.”
Michael then jokes: “Can you be sure it was him?”, referring to the old pictures he showed to the audience of Rylan as a child with ginger hair.
When the former Celebrity Big Brother winner makes it to the stage, he warmly hugs Yvonne, telling her: “You look exactly the same”, as she cheekily says: “I’m not sure you do.”
She continues: “Congratulations. You’re fantastic. I’m so proud of you. Love to your mum.”
Michael comments: “It’s so, so nice you can see Yvonne again and what’s so nice is how proud she is of you Rylan.”
“Who wouldn’t be? He’s done amazing. He’s flown”, Yvonne chips in, causing the audience to swoon.
Yvonne and Rylan then head off stage hand-in-hand and he can be heard saying: “Come on, let’s catch up!”
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show continues every Saturday on BBC One and BBC iPlayer