SHANIA TWAIN, BEN HARPER and PAMELA ANDERSON are special guests this week on THE PROJECT

If you like welcoming best-selling performers, dirty dancers, and crack-up comedians into your living room, next week is your week.  

Saddle up cowboy, because this Sunday Shania Twain is boot-scootin’ onto your screen. Shania is the best-selling female artist in country music history for a reason, and she’s just launched her brand spanking new album, Queen of Me. We’d recommend tuning in, then heading straight to Spotify to blast this pop-spiked country record on repeat all week long. Yeehaw! 

Not to be outdone in the vocal stakes, American multi-instrumentalist Ben Harper is swinging by the desk to help shake off the Monday blues. In addition to riffing on the day’s latest topics, expect the panel to unpack all the sizzling (and fizzling) looks from the Grammy Awards red carpet.  

Next up, Waleed chats with Baywatch’s own Pamela Anderson. One of the most iconic 90s blonde bombshells, Pamela pulls back the curtain on her lesser seen side in this candid chat, and in her new memoir, Love, Pamela. From overcoming innate shyness to caring for injured animals and diving headfirst into the world of art and literature, there’s a lot about this multi-faceted superstar you don’t know.  

Did someone call the fire department? No, that’s just Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek coming in hot ahead of the premiere of Magic Mike’s Last Dance next week. Catch the dynamic duo spilling on the steamiest scenes of this guilty pleasure franchise. 

On Wednesday, it’s one of the most recognisable laughs in comedy: Jimmy Carr. Just in time for his Terribly Funny 2.0 comedy tour, Jimmy joins the desk with his signature witty one-liners and deadpan delivery. 

Sam Taunton has got competition this week with another comedy heavyweight gracing the desk on Thursday. It’s television’s own Taskmaster, Tom Gleeson. Loved for his acerbic wit and scathing takedowns, don’t expect him to pull any punches on the panel.

If you want more Tom for your buck, stay tuned for the second episode of Taskmaster straight after The Project.  

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