The British comedian Russell Howard confirmed to Lorraine he had no plans to leave TV work behind just yet. Comedian Russell Howard has shut down reports that he is retiring from TV, renouncing the rumours as “clickbait”. The British comedian, 44, best known for his show Russell Howard’s Good News, as well as regular appearances on comedy panel show Mock the Week, made comments in press interviews that implied he would not be making any more TV, instead focusing on his live stand-up shows.
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However, in an interview with ITV’s Lorraine on Tuesday (14 January), Howard debunked these claims, confirming he had no plans to leave TV work behind just yet. Speaking to host Lorraine Kelly, Howard said that reports of his alleged departure from TV had been a misunderstanding, and headlines about his retirement were “clickbait”.
Sharing more about his thoughts on the TV world, Howard said "I was just doing a load of interviews and I was waxing lyrical about how much I adore doing stand-up. It’s just a different process to TV — in TV there are loads of people working here and it’s a team, whereas stand-up you’re on your own. So it’s quite nice sometimes just working on your own.
"Then somebody was like, ‘Howard quits TV’. It was all over the press, it was really weird. "It was like, ‘you won’t believe the shocking reason why’. We all do that with clickbait. It’s ‘you won’t believe what Piers Morgan said’ and then you click it and you’re like, ah, I believe it. It’s never surprising.".
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