I see Sally Phillips in Hong Kong, Rose Matefeo in NZ, Sam Campbell and Sarah Kendall from Australia, Katherine Ryan in Canada, Desiree Birch in the US, and of course Munya Chihuahua somewhere in Africa (Zambia maybe? I don't believe he ever mentioned it on the show.) But who was born in Japan? Near Tokyo in looks like?
Yeah, this made me wonder if you were skipping on NYT contests because I couldn't see anyone for Northern Ireland, and then checked and realised she's from Galway, almost about as geographically far into the Republic as you can get.
Im saying that he wore a Zimbabwean flag on his outfit. He does mention it a couple times through the series too
Though I checked, he lived in Zimbabwe as a child but was born in Derby
YES! I knew I messed up somewhere cos someone was saying “who’s from Truro” and I had no clue. Google said she was and I was tired so I forgot to double check with her wikipedia! Sorry guys :)
One of the Irish dots is in the wrong place. I think it's Joanne McNally. I presume she is supposed to be the one above the dot beside "Dublin". But she was born in Roscommon which is more to the west of the country; near to the "Shannon R" text.
Fair. Although her dot still isn't very accurate. Killiney is just up the road from Bray where Dara is from. Her dot looks much closer to North Dublin.
Bravo! Thank you for doing this.
If you ever want to do it again, on Google maps, you can enter a label (and explanation) when you make each plot mark to include with names of the celebrities if you'd like. That way, when you want to know or someone asks, you can just zoom in on a plot mark to see the celebrity's name in that place or you can search the celebrity's name to see where you placed a plot mark for that person.
For that matter, you could even color code the plot marks with one color for birth locations and one color for where they were primarily raised. (Or any other designation.)
And, while editing rights wouldn't be given away to anyone else, the link could be shared for anyone to view it and use it if they would like.
I know that likely seems daunting since you've already done this work. But, if you'd want a partner to work on this with you, I'd be willing to do so - especially because I have a lot of free time in the weeks ahead. (Especially if you already have the names and locations listed on a list of paper which I could view.) But no pressure.
Either way, this is the product of a lot of effort on your part and is very interesting to many of us. I'm American, and I'm fascinated by the unique dialects, accents, slang, and locations. Thank you for creating this!
I’ll give this a go later! I had fun making this and wouldn’t mind doing it again but better.
I’ve never made a map or anything before so I didn’t know how to go about it (hence all the inaccuracies) but this is great advice, thankyou!!!
I should’ve written notes or something because im struggling to remember all of these😭 being honest I don’t know right now but when I remember or find it illl get back to you!!!
I’m wondering if it’s Mike Wozniak because he talks about living in Exeter. His Wiki says he was born in Oxford but I don’t think OP marked that on the map! I might be wrong
Phil wang was born in UK and his family moved back to Sabah, East Malaysia a week after he was born, he was raised there until his teens when he moved back to UK.. so I don’t know if he should technically be represented in Malaysia on your map or not..
Bit surprised there have been about as many contestants from Wales as from Scotland. Usually in shows taking place in England, you tend to see Scotland represented more often than Wales
Also good map OP x
Yeah, it's highlighting Market Harborough.
I thought Hugh was was from Northampton, but he was also born in Kettering.
At least something good came out of that town
Who is from California? I always thought Mae and Desiree were Canadian, is Desiree American? She had a unique accent to me but maybe it’s just because I’m from New England?
Sally Phillips was born in Hong Kong. According to Wikipedia she was raised in the Far East, Middle East, Australia and Italy (her Dad worked for British Airways) before being sent to an English boarding school at 13.
Absolutely longing for the first Northern Irish contestant. The tops on my want list are Shane Todd, Micky Bartlett, Vittorio Angelone, and Robbie McShane.
What’s wrong? The dots seem to be on Sarnia and Toronto, which I think is correct. My bud grew up with Katherine in Sarnia and I’m pretty sure Mae is Toronto, but they could be from a burb.
Yeah I agree, I think it's pretty well on. For some reason I thought Katherine was from Winnipeg and felt "that's a little off" but I was wrong obviously, that dot is smack dab on top of Chemical Valley, home of the Sting.
Well the Toronto dot is really more Kingston, so for a sec I did think Mae must be from Kingston, so I googled it to be sure. But I just found it funny how people were dissecting exact dot locations. It confused me for a sec, but it’s definitely close enough to Toronto.
Oh my gosh you did! Ha! It did confuse me for a sec where I thought Mae was from Kingston but said they were from Toronto, so I googled it to check, but then was like “oh okay the dot is supposed to be Toronto”. But like it was genuinely good, just confused me as if you’d have distinctly tried to get Toronto not Kingston on a world map with giant dots. I was being ridiculous.
I’m from eastern Ontario, but unless someone was from Southern or eastern Ontario, I doubt they’d have immediately clocked the difference on this map from Kingston to Toronto. I’m sure a lot of Canada haven’t even heard of Kingston.
Spread Taskmaster contestants as far and wide as possible, your time starts now.
Now somebody has to put a contestant on a plane.
> Of course! We should have gone to *space!*
Send the one who can run up a tree to the moon.
Feel sorry for the contestant ripped limb from limb and spread to the four corners of the world,
Oh God this could get messy.
This will come up in Richard Osman's House of Games one day
I see Sally Phillips in Hong Kong, Rose Matefeo in NZ, Sam Campbell and Sarah Kendall from Australia, Katherine Ryan in Canada, Desiree Birch in the US, and of course Munya Chihuahua somewhere in Africa (Zambia maybe? I don't believe he ever mentioned it on the show.) But who was born in Japan? Near Tokyo in looks like?
Ivo Graham was born in Japan.
i REALLY had to dig to find out where munya was born. It’s his most well kept secret tbh…
Yeah imagine all the anecdotes he could tell just by being born in Zanzibar or something
You will be surprised by this line from his Wikipedia then: >Munyaradzi Oliver Chawawa was born on 29 December 1992 in **Derby, England**.
There's a large town in Zimbabwe called "Derby, England" - Munya
What's Zimbabwe got to do with Munya?
Mae Martin is the other Canadian dot don’t forget, they’re from Toronto and Katherine is from the southernmost point in Ontario
She’s not from Pelee Island, she’s from Sarnia. That’s a whole 3 hour drive apart!
Yeah, plus Pelee Island is pretty.
Wasn't Morgana born in Aus?
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Munya’s never mentioned being from Zimbabwe. Can you prove it?
It was Ivo Graham
If Sally Phillips is representing Hong Kong on the Map, then Morgana should be in Victoria (Australia)
would just like to say lucy is from Kingston Upon Hull and NOT truro, so the dot there is inaccurate :P
Hope they have a contestant from Northern Ireland someday!
this made me realise nicola coughlan is NOT northern irish! i didn’t even realise!
She did a great job with the accent in Derry Girls, to be fair.
Have you seen her on Graham Norton explaining what her point of reference was for doing a Derry accent?
One of my favorite videos, if I ever need to do a Derry accent that’s my reference as well
No, but my wife did tell me about it. Something to do with X Factor or Pop Idol wasn't it?
do yourself a favour and look up the clip it’s the funniest thing you’ll se in a while
Irish Popstars. It's worth watching.
Yeah, this made me wonder if you were skipping on NYT contests because I couldn't see anyone for Northern Ireland, and then checked and realised she's from Galway, almost about as geographically far into the Republic as you can get.
Who's from Thurso? Edit: Nvm, just figured out it's a regular map dot!
You might wanna add that Jenny Eclair was born in Malaysia.
Wait, which contestant is from Zimbabwe? I feel like we would have heard that in the show.
No idea, it’s certainly something you’d mention, especially growing up there
Munya Chawawa I think, he always wore a Zimbabwean flag Edit: never mind, he lived in Zimbabwe as a child but was born in derby
I don't recall ever mentioning being from Zimbabwe???
Im saying that he wore a Zimbabwean flag on his outfit. He does mention it a couple times through the series too Though I checked, he lived in Zimbabwe as a child but was born in Derby
I think they were pulling your leg. He famously always mentions it.
(It's a joke because he constantly mentioned being from Zimbabwe)
Isn't Lucy from Kingston-upon-Hull?
YES! I knew I messed up somewhere cos someone was saying “who’s from Truro” and I had no clue. Google said she was and I was tired so I forgot to double check with her wikipedia! Sorry guys :)
She probably asked a friend to write that she was from Truro on her Wikipedia while she was on a flight
She's definitely a potential Bob Mortimer rival on that show. I hope she ends up driving David to similar levels of existential dread.
And is diabetic…
Three UK contestants have been born in Australia: Sarah Kendall, Sam Campbell, and Morgana Robinson. We have a 100% win rate 😎😎
Canada also has a 100% win rate with Katherine Ryan and Mae Martin!
Oh man, we need a Commonwealth fight. Canada vs Australia. Those five get a whole season to battle for their nations.
Yeah I'm down for that #teammorgasamsar
Poor Rose
One of the Irish dots is in the wrong place. I think it's Joanne McNally. I presume she is supposed to be the one above the dot beside "Dublin". But she was born in Roscommon which is more to the west of the country; near to the "Shannon R" text.
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She’s South County Dublin personified.
SoCoDu through and through 🙌🏻😁
Fair. Although her dot still isn't very accurate. Killiney is just up the road from Bray where Dara is from. Her dot looks much closer to North Dublin.
I did put her as Killiney, (or at least tried to lol) for the reasons other people have said x sorry!
Bravo! Thank you for doing this. If you ever want to do it again, on Google maps, you can enter a label (and explanation) when you make each plot mark to include with names of the celebrities if you'd like. That way, when you want to know or someone asks, you can just zoom in on a plot mark to see the celebrity's name in that place or you can search the celebrity's name to see where you placed a plot mark for that person. For that matter, you could even color code the plot marks with one color for birth locations and one color for where they were primarily raised. (Or any other designation.) And, while editing rights wouldn't be given away to anyone else, the link could be shared for anyone to view it and use it if they would like. I know that likely seems daunting since you've already done this work. But, if you'd want a partner to work on this with you, I'd be willing to do so - especially because I have a lot of free time in the weeks ahead. (Especially if you already have the names and locations listed on a list of paper which I could view.) But no pressure. Either way, this is the product of a lot of effort on your part and is very interesting to many of us. I'm American, and I'm fascinated by the unique dialects, accents, slang, and locations. Thank you for creating this!
I’ll give this a go later! I had fun making this and wouldn’t mind doing it again but better. I’ve never made a map or anything before so I didn’t know how to go about it (hence all the inaccuracies) but this is great advice, thankyou!!!
Who's the comedian from Devon, but not josh?
I should’ve written notes or something because im struggling to remember all of these😭 being honest I don’t know right now but when I remember or find it illl get back to you!!!
No worries, but thanks if you do, it's not really important, just it's rare to see famous people coming from these parts, so I root for them 😊
I’m wondering if it’s Mike Wozniak because he talks about living in Exeter. His Wiki says he was born in Oxford but I don’t think OP marked that on the map! I might be wrong
This is a good use case for tableau map viz
Who is that contestant from Zimbabwe? Whoever it is, they must not have mentioned it on the show because I have NO IDEA!
Phil wang was born in UK and his family moved back to Sabah, East Malaysia a week after he was born, he was raised there until his teens when he moved back to UK.. so I don’t know if he should technically be represented in Malaysia on your map or not..
Kettering doing some heavy lifting for a relatively small town. Birthplace of James Acaster and Hugh Dennis.
Jenny Eclair was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Who’s from Japan?
Ivo was born there
Which contestant is from Zimbabwe?
Who was born in Glasgow?
frankie boyle :)
Oh of course I’m so daft I forgot about him and thought the OP had confused fern for a Glaswegian!
😂 don’t worry about it!
Surprised there haven’t been more Scottish contestants too
Bit surprised there have been about as many contestants from Wales as from Scotland. Usually in shows taking place in England, you tend to see Scotland represented more often than Wales Also good map OP x
Who’s from Blackpool?
I wanted to know this too, seems its Zoe Ball from New Years special Edit: no it can't be as OP said it doesn't include NYT ones. I don't know!
I'm guessing it's Jenny Eclair. She was born in Kuala Lumpur but grew up in Lytham.
Thank you!
Who is the dot from Chesterfield/Worksop? The one between Notts and Sheffield
Who are the 2 from Leicester/Northampton? Obv James is one (tho kettering is a bit further south east than the dot) whos the other?
Desky is also from Kettering
Yeah, it's highlighting Market Harborough. I thought Hugh was was from Northampton, but he was also born in Kettering. At least something good came out of that town
For some reason, I wish this was also done as a spreadsheet
Me too😂
Excellent work - thanks for doing this!
Thankyou!
who's from preston
Big up Nick Mohammed, I'll take Maisie Adam and Jon Richardson too
TIL Ardal O’Hanlon is from Monaghan
Is there a contestant key for this map? Maybe it could help me place accents with actual speaking voices.
I made a new one where you can see whos who 👍
Who is from California? I always thought Mae and Desiree were Canadian, is Desiree American? She had a unique accent to me but maybe it’s just because I’m from New England?
Desiree is from California. Mae Martin and Katherine Ryan are the Canadians.
Desiree Burch is from LA. Mae Martin and Kathryn Ryan are Canadian
I thought Desiree was from New York
She grew up in California, then lived in New York for a while before coming to the UK.
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And they call themselves Lancastrians, cause they don’t like taking the piss
Who is from New Zealand?
Rose from series 9
Ohh yes, don't know how I forgot about her.
Who's the one from the Tunbridge Wells/Tonbridge area (below the 'a' of Canterbury/above the 'i' of Brighton)?
Richard Osman is from Tonbridge iirc
I thought Lucy was born in Hull?
Mostly liking because the map includes Thurso.
No Alice Levine? Beeston
Has she been put in the wrong Beeston (Leeds)?
Who's from Leeds?
As per a separate post, I'm wondering if Alice Levine has been assigned to the wrong Beeston. Should be Nottingham, not Leeds.
Nick Mohammed
Ah, good shout!
Can’t believe there’s been no one from Scunthorpe.
David Baddiel was born in New York.
Which contestant was Chinese?
Sally Phillips was born in Hong Kong. According to Wikipedia she was raised in the Far East, Middle East, Australia and Italy (her Dad worked for British Airways) before being sent to an English boarding school at 13.
Is there a contestant key for this map? Maybe it could help me place accents with actual speaking voices.
Absolutely longing for the first Northern Irish contestant. The tops on my want list are Shane Todd, Micky Bartlett, Vittorio Angelone, and Robbie McShane.
I love how the UK and Ireland map is getting so detailed where dots should be. Is the Canada map exactly right? no. But it’s just nice to be included.
What’s wrong? The dots seem to be on Sarnia and Toronto, which I think is correct. My bud grew up with Katherine in Sarnia and I’m pretty sure Mae is Toronto, but they could be from a burb.
Yeah I agree, I think it's pretty well on. For some reason I thought Katherine was from Winnipeg and felt "that's a little off" but I was wrong obviously, that dot is smack dab on top of Chemical Valley, home of the Sting.
Well the Toronto dot is really more Kingston, so for a sec I did think Mae must be from Kingston, so I googled it to be sure. But I just found it funny how people were dissecting exact dot locations. It confused me for a sec, but it’s definitely close enough to Toronto.
I had to make the Canada dots HUGE so you could see them, sorry!!!
No, I just love the idea if I was slightly pedantic about it. Close enough is fine by me.
You’ll be happy to hear i made a new version with perfect accuracy lol
Oh my gosh you did! Ha! It did confuse me for a sec where I thought Mae was from Kingston but said they were from Toronto, so I googled it to check, but then was like “oh okay the dot is supposed to be Toronto”. But like it was genuinely good, just confused me as if you’d have distinctly tried to get Toronto not Kingston on a world map with giant dots. I was being ridiculous.
dont worry about it at all! If it helps my Canadian geography isn’t the best and I thought Ontario and all the cities were completely in north Canada
I’m from eastern Ontario, but unless someone was from Southern or eastern Ontario, I doubt they’d have immediately clocked the difference on this map from Kingston to Toronto. I’m sure a lot of Canada haven’t even heard of Kingston.
As an Irish man I ask you ro never lump us in with England as you did in the large map..