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Daily Mail
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Noel Edmonds, 76, reveals the weird and wacky secrets to his surprisingly ripped physique - from 'tranquil power training' to an alkaline diet and using a 'cancer-tackling' yoga mat
Noel Edmonds has sent fans into a frenzy after showcasing his surprisingly ripped physique. The Deal Or No Deal presenter, 76, looked incredible as he showcased his muscular torso in a pair of blue patterned swimming trunks after being named Torso Of The Week by Heat magazine. And the TV star has revealed the key to his secret health regime which he calls 'Tranquil Power'. Taking to Instagram after receiving Torso Of The Week, Noel joked with followers: 'So many of you have asked how do I get the body of a 76 year old? 'Step 1: Turn 76. Step 2: Tranquil Power (see my Positivity Formula on Noel Edmonds Kiwi Adventure)' He then teased: 'If that fails bribe the lighting guy!' before falling into his outdoor pool. The TV star revealed the key to his secret health regime which he calls 'Tranquil Power' where you hold the weight and feel the muscle burn then let go (pictured on I'm A Celeb in 2018) Speaking to The Sun, Noel explained: 'The exercise I do, I call tranquil power. It's about quiet and slow. You hold it [the weight], you feel the muscle burn and then let go.' Later discussing his morning routine he added: 'I normally have a warm shower in the morning and wash it off with a cold shower. 'And then a sauna, infra red. It's proven science and very good for you.' Fans went wild for Noel's impressive physique as they exclaimed: 'Great physique, and fabulous hair. Could easily pass for 55'; 'Looking strong'; 'Looking really good, fit and healthy'; 'You've not aged in all these years, infact if anything your looking absolutely amazingly fit!!'; 'You do look incredible for your age just goes to show lifting weights does make a huge difference to your life'. Noel is also enjoying more of an outdoor lifestyle after he and his wife Liz quit the UK in 2018 to build a new life in New Zealand. The couple have now opened a hospitality business in the small rural, riverside town of Ngatimoti, which includes a vineyard, coffee cart, general store, restaurant and pub. Taking to Instagram after receiving Torso Of The Week, Noel joked with followers: 'So many of you have asked how do I get the body of a 76 year old? Fans went wild for Noel's impressive physique as they exclaimed: 'Great physique, and fabulous hair. Could easily pass for 55' And in his upcoming reality show Noel Edmonds' Kiwi Adventure, set to launch on June 20, follows the couple as they start their life from scratch 11,500 miles away. In the past Noel has revealed he also practises meditation, exercising slowly in darkness while listening to electronic pulses for an hour a week. He also explained he lies on a £2,300 electro-magnetic mat for 15 minutes a day, which he claims helped cure his cancer. Back in 2016 Noel sparked controversy after he revealed that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that he had 'tackled' it with his the very upmarket yoga mat. The star alleged that he had used the EMPpad, a machine which aims to stimulate 'cellular resonance' in the body, as part of a regime to cure himself from cancer that he said was caused by stress. Speaking about his experience in an interview on This Morning, Noel infuriated host Phillip Schofield, and the show's doctor, Dr Ranj Singh, who said that there is no evidence that a machine can harness the effects of positive energy. Other experts have also disputed his claims. Noel said: 'The point here is that when I found out I had prostate cancer, I went out there and started to ask as many questions as possible. 'I changed my diet, I exercised in a different way... I then had my tumour destroyed by sound waves, proving yet again energy is at the heart of this issue.' He continued: 'I was, I thought, very, very healthy. I know why I got my cancer: because I had gone through a very stressful, very negative period in my life.' Phillip asked: 'The stress in your life gave you prostate cancer?' He replied: 'Yes, because the definition of stress is negative energy. It didn't just decide to manifest itself, there was cause. 'You have cancer in you, we all have it. Something triggers it, I don't believe what you say or think triggers it, but outside forces trigger it... All I want to encourage is get the information.' Phillip gave a statement from the makers of the EMPpad, which said they did 'not agree with it (Mr Edmonds' statement) in any way, shape or form'. He replied: 'Fine, all I'm saying is, by using pulsed electromagnetism and a series of other things, I am now free of prostate cancer.' Noel added that after using the mat: 'I could see my hair was thicker, my nails were stronger, the exercise I was doing in the gym was easier and less painful.' In terms of diet, Noel is believed to avoid red meat and maintains an alkaline diet which aims to balance the pH of your body. Alkaline foods include fresh fruits, nuts, seeds, beans, and non-starchy vegetables, rather than more acidic foods like meat, cheese, eggs, grains, and processed foods. Noel has also struggled with his mental health in the past after he confessed he tried to kill himself in January 2005. The presenter was discovered in woodland on his estate in Devon after taking handfuls of prescription pills washed down by a bottle of vodka. The TV host even recorded heartbreaking goodbye messages for his four daughters and in an interview with ITV in 2017 he confessed: 'My world imploded. And I lost my home. I went to a very dark space. 'The only way I can describe it is it is the darkest space that the human mind ever occupies. 'I wrote a letter to my now ex-wife explaining as best I could why I'd reached the end, and I recorded little dictaphone messages to my daughters, basically saying goodbye.' He said: 'The fact that I did not become another suicide statistic is solely due to the swift response of a Devon ambulance crew and the compassionate support of the Priory in Bristol.' Noel also believes in cosmic ordering after he was given a book about it by his reflexologist. He said that four of six wishes he wrote down and offered to the cosmos then came true, including his wish to front another hit show – which was Deal Or No Deal. 'You'll think I've gone away with the fairies, but its fantastic!' he said. He wrote a book, Positively Happy: Cosmic Ways To Change Your Life, in 2006. He explained: 'To me cosmic order is all about being a positive person who takes charge of your own life. 'You have to make conscious decisions to go out and make things happen for you.
Daily Mail
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Noel Edmonds' Kiwi Adventure review: Noel is the greatest tragicomic character of our time and this dark horse has as much charm as Clarkson's Farm
Noel Edmonds ' Kiwi Adventure Rating: The pitch for Noel Edmonds' Kiwi Adventure must have been: let's do Clarkson's Farm, but with Noel Edmonds. Yes, let's. And it does not disappoint. It's as if one of Alan Partridge's most desperate pitches finally got made. I had, in fact, stopped holding out for 'youth hostelling with Chris Eubank ' or 'arm wrestling with Chas and Dave' but now feel hopeful again. This is top-quality entertainment, possibly not for the right reasons, but I watched two episodes (of the six) and was transfixed. Edmonds may be the greatest tragi- comic character of our time. Noel Edmonds moved to New Zealand in 2018. Ah, so that's where he's been for the past seven years, you probably hadn't been wondering. He was no longer a fan of Britain. He says: 'All the things I miss about Britain are the reasons I left. It changed so much, so fast, so fundamentally, that I found myself missing a quieter country.' He then adds perceptively: 'We are not trees so we can move.' His estate, River Haven, is a monumentally stunning 800 acres. Here he is attempting to run a restaurant, a pub, a vineyard, a wellness centre, a general store and a coffee shack. He wants to be clear: this is not about him. He and his 'earth angel' wife, Liz, 'could sit in a big house somewhere but we feel we need to make a difference'. He met Liz when she was his make-up artist on Deal or No Deal. She first walked into the make-up room at 11.06 on October 6 in 2006, so now all the clocks in their house are set to 11.06. 'I knew she was in the room before I turned round,' he remembers. 'You will never pull us apart… we are one.' They are happy together. They have warrior statues in their private garden 'because Liz believes I was an emperor or leader of men in my past'. (He also has a giant praying knight statue to counter 'dark forces'.) It's one fascinatingly bizarre moment after another. They look through a box of old photos and he finds one fromLive Aid. 'My company organised the air transport,' he says, 'at no cost to them.' He later says, randomly, 'I pay my tax.' It feels as if he's pleading with us: how could you not love me? How? That's the 'tragi' part, I guess. He is 76, with hair that still defies gravity and, you could say, fashion. He looks remarkably unchanged. He has, it turns out, quite the wellness regime. It involves lying on a bed under suspended crystals, pulse electromagnetism therapy, 'tranquil power' – using a multigym slowly, from the looks of it – saunas, ice-baths, a hyperbaric chamber ('it shoots pure oxygen into your body; I'm rocking!') and also 'VIBE'. This he explains, is his acronym for 'visualisation of body energy'. (Let's all pretend we haven't noticed it should be 'VOBE'.) He and Liz only drink 'structured water', which they make themselves. (Look it up.) Wikipedia describes it as a 'scam' but he says it is better absorbed than regular water. He likes to round off his sentences with: '…and that's a scientific fact'. Later it is: 'Your body is lighter after death because your soul weighs something… scientific fact.' No one has yet identified the scientific universe Edmonds gets his facts from. Remember when he said bad vibes could give you cancer? Or did he mean vobes? All this, and we haven't even got to his business yet! So, his pub is not called The Farmer's Dog and he doesn't sell a beer called Hawkstone. Instead, it is called 'The Bugger Inn' and his beers include Tits Up, Boring Bastard and Old Git. There is also a Dickens Cider 'that is very popular with the ladies.' No one has yet identified the humour universe he gets his jokes from either. He doesn't draw Clarkson-style crowds. On the day his restaurant opens for the season only a couple of people turn up. (It is pouring with rain, to be fair.) The pub stages a Halloween party that seems to have all the atmosphere of an underpopulated Saga event. He worries that the local community won't accept him but, lest we forget, 'there are people who have lived here all their lives who are saying thank you, thank you'. No, thank you, Noel. This is a blast.
Daily Mail
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Channel Ten reveals fate of beloved game show Deal or No Deal after announcing new current affairs program in the wake of The Project being axed
Network 10 has finally unveiled its new current affairs show in the wake of The Project being axed. The premium news program, titled 10 News+, is set to hit screens on Monday, June 30, at 6pm on Channel 10 and 10Play. The show's lineup will include former 7News journalist Denham Hitchcock and Walkley Award-winner Amelia Brace, who will be regular faces during the 6pm bulletin from Sunday to Thursday. Following the announcement, viewers clamoured to the comments section to ask an important question about their favourite game show - Deal or No Deal. 'So you're bumping Deal or No Deal? As well as getting rid of The Project?' one concerned viewer asked. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Network 10 has finally unveiled its new current affairs show in the wake of The Project being axed 'So you're bumping Deal or No Deal? As well as getting rid of The Project?' one concerned viewer asked 'What about fkn [sic] Deal or No Deal,' said another. 'Is Deal or No Deal getting shelved?' queried a third. Deal or No Deal? first aired on the Seven Network from 2003 to 2013. Ten acquired the rights to revive the Australian version of the show in 2023 and it returned to air in 2024, hosted by Grant Denyer. Fans did not have to worry though, as Ten realised the error and quickly assured them that Deal or No Deal is not secretly getting the chop. It will be moving to the later 7pm timeslot instead. Meanwhile, 10 News+ will be broadcast across the country after Network 10's 5pm local news bulletins, offering a deeper analysis of some of the biggest stories of the day. 7News journalist Denham Hitchcock and Walkley Award-winner Amelia Brace, will be regular faces during the 6pm bulletin from Sunday to Thursday. Ursula Heger and Hugh Riminton will take the lead during the new Friday broadcast. The anchor team will be supported by reporters including Ashleigh Raper, Bill Hogan, Brianna Parkins, Samantha Butler, Carrie-Anne Greenbank, and Claudia Vrdoljak. Ten's Entertainment Editor Angela Bishop will also bring insight into the biggest stories in entertainment, including red-carpet events and exclusive interviews with Hollywood's elite.
Telegraph
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
How TV's great survivor Noel Edmonds is taking on Jeremy Clarkson
'We're not trees,' says Noel Edmonds in his new TV series. 'We can move.' Hard to argue with that as a rationale, yet hot-footing it 11,500 miles away to put down virgin roots in New Zealand was also partly so that the septuagenarian TV star could get as far away from Britain as humanly possible. But don't go thinking that means we've reciprocally got shot of the host of Noel's House Party, Deal or No Deal? and Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. Oh no. If there's one lesson we have learnt by now, it's never to write off Noel; he's television's great survivor. And so it proves, as he returns this week in ITV1's antipodean answer to Clarkson's Farm, Noel Edmonds' Kiwi Adventure, which follows his attempts to run a pub, vineyard and wellness centre on 800 acres of land at the tip of the South Island. But can Edmonds challenge Clarkson? Both men have presented Top Gear, yet where Clarkson's appeal could probably be summed up by this outburst in the fourth series of his hit Amazon show – 'Turns out I'm not Jethro Tull, I'm just a hapless f---wit' – Edmonds's hold over the British public is more mysterious, rather like his age-defying powers. 'People say, 'Well, what's your secret?' And I say, 'Well, I've been researching it for 76 years,'' he quips. Cold showers, ice baths and mystic crystals, it turns out, all have a role to play. Of course, Edmonds is happy to be the butt of the joke, and Kiwi Adventure has great fun sending up his eccentricity and David Brent-like self-belief. For example, his pub – The Bugger Inn – serves locally-brewed drinks, with names such as Boring B-----d, Hop Licker, Old Git, T-ts Up and Dickens Cider ('Very popular,' says Noel, 'particularly with the ladies'). The show also introduces his wife, Liz Davies, whom he met when she was a stand-in make-up artist on Deal or No Deal? This happened at 11.06 on October 6, 2006, as will become obvious to anyone who watches Kiwi Adventure. The couple married three years later, and Davies proves a likeable foil. 'Somebody's got to look after him… it's my little bit of care in the community,' she says in the show. But what exactly is Edmonds's secret? Well, let's start at the beginning, when this headmaster's son from Ilford in Essex thought he'd blown his big chance to be a DJ after leaving his news-reading job on the pirate station Radio Luxembourg. Some say it was because of the stinking fish that he'd taped to the underside of his boss's desk, but Edmonds always maintained that he quit. It wasn't the end, though, of his pranks or his ambitions. In fact, it was just early training for the role of comeback king. Edmonds would wash up at Radio One in 1969, making programme trailers, before his unruffled voice and manner recommended him as a stand-in presenter. In 1970, he took over Kenny Everett's Saturday show and in 1973, he was handed the coveted Breakfast Show, which he made his own for five years and described as 'of its kind, the most important radio show in the world' when he appeared on Desert Island Discs in 1978. This was the era of the superstar DJ, and Edmonds had scooped the pool. He was attractive and trendy, with his long-but-not-too-long hair and tidy beard. He looked and sounded like a young version of the suave cats that ruled the TV studios. He also had the de rigueur terrible taste in music that Radio One demanded for the daytime hours. He was, though, really good at his job, polished and creative. And he was sillier than those suave cats, more influenced by the radio comedy of Round the Horne and Kenny Everett than the laconic wit of the day. His radio show featured invented characters, such as the lascivious milkman Flynn, and playful prank calls to members of the public. Children's TV seemed a logical next step. He left the Breakfast Show in April 1978, and launched the Saturday morning show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop on BBC One that October. If the concept was a little thin – kids rang up with something they wanted to swap – Edmonds's engaging personality (and able sidekicks Keith Chegwin and Maggie Philbin) turned it into a phenomenon, creating the sort of magazine-style children's show that would dominate for the next two decades. It was also very polite, very BBC, in comparison with the absolute anarchy of Tiswas on ITV, where Edmonds's future gameshow rival Chris Tarrant mucked about, poured gunk over children and had punk and heavy metal bands on to play in the studio. Edmonds set his sights on an adult audience when he left Swap Shop in 1982 to host The Late, Late Breakfast Show. It aired in the Saturday early evening slot on BBC One, and took a while to find its feet, but with the right sidekick in place – fellow car-racing enthusiast Mike Smith, who'd once lent Noel his race car, which he had promptly crashed – Edmonds's rise would continue apace. Occasionally, his way of making fun of his guests could come across as charmless, as when Abba appeared on the show in 1982 and Edmonds, after receiving a kiss on the lips from Agnetha Fältskog, cheekily insulted each member in turn. When Agnetha and Anni-Frid Lyngstad professed frustrations with how they were depicted in the English press, with Agnetha declaring, 'I'm more than a sexy bottom', and Anni-Frid icily quoting, 'I am 'alarmingly ageing'.' Edmonds was soon joking about her being old and saying 'we get a little bit of sexy bottom' on Fernando. 'Is it necessary?' Agnetha replied. The band split up one month later. Then came the first major setback in a career that had made Edmonds one of the most famous celebrities in Britain. In its 'Give it a Whirl' strand, the show was playing with fire; it was a stunt segment performed by a volunteer from the public after just a few days of training. One viewer had broken her shoulder having been fired from a cannon, and the government's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) had intervened to stop another dangerous endeavour going ahead. A professional stunt driver had also been badly injured in a calamitous Evel Knievel-style attempt to jump over parked cars in a Jensen Interceptor. DJ John Peel, helming the outside broadcast, fell silent after what appeared to be a fatal incident. Edmonds visibly swallowed as he tried to maintain a veneer of calm when the show was handed back to him. Yet even after that shocking example – the Jensen had no roll cage and was at risk to concertina if the jump went wrong – in 1986, a death did occur. A volunteer who had phoned in – 24-year-old Michael Lush – was killed in the very first rehearsal of a bungee jump from a box strung from a crane. No airbag had been provided in case the stunt went wrong; the connecting clip sprang loose and Lush fell to his death. Three days later the BBC announced on air that the episode – and all future ones – had been cancelled. The inquest recorded a verdict of misadventure, and magistrates in a later prosecution by the HSE imposed a £2,000 fine and chose not to refer the case to crown court, where the levy could have been unlimited. Although Edmonds was not to blame for the failures that led to Lush's death, he was tarnished by the event. He reportedly considered quitting TV but continued to host the Telly Addicts TV gameshow, to which he owned the rights, although it took another two years before his return to the big time, in 1988, with The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow. That series was directed by Michael Leggo, who saw in Edmonds a TV natural. 'He's just got a sparkle in his eyes. They come alight on camera,' he tells me. 'And he's very good at putting people at their ease. He might get up to a bit of mischief, but it's good fun, it's not malicious… a bit like a good best man speech at a wedding.' He contrasts Edmonds's 'Gotchas' – hidden camera tricks played on the public and celebrities, such as DJ Dave Lee Travis – with the crueller set-ups of Jeremy Beadle on Game for a Laugh. Edmonds had been teasing people on the radio since the mid-1970s, yet today even his gentler japes would be unlikely to make it past Ofcom's strictures on contributor welfare that were introduced in 2020. The Roadshow effected a partial restoration of Edmonds's pulling power, but the series that he and Leggo dreamt up next – Noel's House Party – which launched in 1991 and ran for eight years, would propel him to the summit of light entertainment. It was filmed live, taking advantage of Edmonds's plate-spinning gifts, which by this time were so well developed that when Leggo turned the 'Gotcha' tables on the presenter and had him rehearse an entirely fake show the day before, leaving him to wing it on air, the producer says he knew that they could get away with it. 'I wouldn't have dared do that to anyone else, because multi-segmented live television – where you've got to be able to move swiftly from one thing to another – it's hard enough when you know what's coming next, bloody impossible when you don't.' The show, set in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom, was like a greatest hits compilation of everything that had worked for Noel in the past, with an added anarchic edge. It regularly attracted 18 million viewers, thanks at least in part the infamous presence of Mr Blobby. The character began life as a felt tip doodle by Leggo, but would gradually take over the show (and top the charts at Christmas in 1993). At first, Noel wore the pink and yellow spotted costume to catch out unsuspecting celebrities, but Mr Blobby soon took on riotous life of his own. He could later be found wrestling Edmonds to the floor of the studio and causing mayhem that would be copied in playgrounds around the land. Leggo knows it is an unusual legacy. 'I said to my sons, ages ago, when I go, you can put anything on my headstone, except for 'Blobby, blobby, blobby',' he tells me, 'And my youngest said, 'We'll see about that.'' When ratings finally dropped off, the Beeb retired the show; the Crinkley Bottom theme parks that Edmonds had set up in the mid-'90s had failed; and it seemed that finally Noel's race might have been run. Not so. In 2005, he was back with what seemed like a fairly low-rent daytime show, Deal or No Deal?, based on a Dutch format. Edmonds took it seriously, made the whole thing fun, and a huge hit was born. Along the way, he became a proponent of 'cosmic ordering', explaining it was a form of manifestation: '[You] say to the cosmos... 'This is what I'd like''. He also advocated an electromagnetic therapy device which he said 'slows ageing, reduces pain... and tackles cancer' and launched a radio station, Postively Pets, 'exclusively for our animal chums'. When Deal or No Deal? was cancelled in 2016, Edmonds made his decision to move to New Zealand, where we now find him. The money to build his new life came partly from a successful fight against Lloyd's Bank, after a criminal employee pushed Edmonds's Unique business into bankruptcy in the noughties. Displaying the kind of tenacity that's kept his career buoyant, Edmonds had attended Lloyd's AGMs to call out bank bosses and even set up a radio station dedicated to anti-banking messages. After his pay-out, Edmonds commissioned a huge statue of a knight in prayer, named Guardian, from Wētā Workshop to commemorate his own fortitude, which was installed on his New Zealand estate. The inscription on its base reads: 'The devil saw me with my head down and thought he'd won, until I said amen.' So far, Edmonds' new venture has attracted some hostile press in his chosen outpost, where he has been accused of sacking workers without notice – something he rails repeatedly against in the new show, explaining he was standing them down for the off-season, a standard practice in hospitality. Let's hope it was just a misunderstanding and that Edmonds can win over the Kiwis as he did so many millions of us at home. Who would bet against Noel's new show defeating the odds again? We shall see.
Daily Mirror
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
New ITV quiz channel slammed by fans who all have the same complaint
ITV bosses have released a new channel specifically tailored to gameshow lovers called ITV Quiz, which features programmes like Deal or No Deal and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? ITV's brand-new quiz channel has already come under fire just hours after its launch by viewers who are calling for a scheduling shake-up. ITV Quiz launched on Monday, June 9, and offers a range of game shows that are broadcast over an impressive 16 hours a day. Viewers can watch classics and recent hits like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Wheel of Fortune, Tenable, Lingo, Tipping Point, and Deal Or No Deal between 9am and 1am. But despite the star-studded line-up and round-the-clock quiz content, viewers have voiced their disappointment online over the channel's repetitive scheduling and lack of variety. One X user hit out: "ITV Quiz is dire, it needs retro ITV game shows not just modern, challenge tv." Another chimed in, saying: "Too much same schedule episodes of same shows together too often, need more variety!! Aussie version of The Chase be good addition." A few other viewers suggested ITV should diversify the line-up with international versions of popular shows. One wrote: "ITV get Aussie version of The Chase and other countries' versions of other game and quiz shows in schedule, so not just all repeats of UK versions. Such mass options of alternative versions of shows available to fill the daily schedule that aren't even on ITVX." Someone else said ITV bosses should bring back Quizmania, which was an old favourite in the early 2000s. ITV's official announcement about ITV Quiz described the channel as "promising the very best in game show entertainment from the iconic classics to recent hits and with an array of star-studded quizmasters at the helm, including Graham Norton, Stephen Mulhern, Warwick Davies, Mel Giedroyc, Jeremy Clarkson and more. Their statement added: "Whether it's trivia games, picture games, parlour games, general knowledge or simply luck and chance, ITV Quiz has something for everyone from the devoted trivia buff to the casual quizzer." Viewers can find ITV Quiz on Freeview channel 28, Freely 22, YouView 28, Freesat 119, Sky Q 131, Sky Glass 125, Virgin 119, and it's also available for streaming on ITVX. Some of the game shows available on the new channel include Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson since 2018, Deal Or No Deal, presented by Stephen Mulhern since its 2023 revival, and Wheel of Fortune, fronted by Graham Norton following its 2024 comeback. The launch of ITV Quiz comes just days after the closure of popular reality-focused channel ITVBe, which had entertained viewers since 2014 with shows like The Only Way Is Essex and Real Housewives. Those programmes have now moved to ITV2, which is strengthening its line-up with returning hits such as Big Brother and Love Island alongside fresh commissions. ITV described the changes as part of a "supercharged ITV2 offering" aimed at bringing the network's best-known reality series and newer content to the UK's biggest digital channel for 16-34 year-olds.
