Matty Healy is set to appear alongside his mum Denise Welch on a rather unexpected reality series.
The 66-year-old Loose Women panellist has signed up for Channel 4’s Celebrity Hunted, where she’ll be joining famous faces on the run to evade an elite team of hunters.
She’ll be teamed up with her husband Lincoln Townley, 52, and it’s now been revealed that the 1975 frontman will be making an appearance in a new trailer for the upcoming instalment.
A new trailer ahead of the series airing on Channel 4 on Sunday sees the former Coronation Street star and her spouse hiding backstage at the Somebody Else group’s Radio 1 Big Weekend show.
Matty – whose father is Benidorm star Tim Healy, 72 – tells his mum: ‘Seriously what’s been going on? It’s been mental. I’ve been sending random messages to your phone.’
Denise replies, according to The Mirror: ‘They [the hunters] have got our phone.’
Suggesting their time on the programme could be over, Matty adds: ‘Well I’ve been saying I’ll meet you in Sunderland and stuff.’
The musician has kept largely out of the public eye since The 1975 wrapped their Still… At Their Very Best tour in March.
Denise will be joined on Celebrity Hunted by former Strictly Come Dancing star Giovanni Pernice, who will be partnered with fellow Strictly professional Kai Widdrington in an effort to escape a team of Hunters in an adventure across the UK.
The Stand Up To Cancer special also features popstar Duncan James and model Christine McGuinness, podcasters David Whitely and Zeze Millz, soap stars Danielle Harold and Kimberland Hart-Simpson and news anchors Simon McCoy and Lucrezia Millarini.
The aim of the game is to evade capture from a team of Hunters for 14 days as the famous faces go on the run across the UK, avoiding the police and military experts and their specialist resources, helicopters, drones, dogs, and cyber forensic technology.
Denise spoke about filming the show earlier this year, as she announced a temporary break from Loose Women.
She told her followers: ‘I’m going off on a little adventure for a couple of weeks so I’m going to be off here and off my phone.
‘I don’t quite know how I’m going to cope, but I’m going to give it a try, so don’t think I have disappeared.
‘It’s just a temporary little holiday and I’ll be back soon, so lots and lots of love.’
This comes after Matty recently found himself in the headlines after a spat with Azealia Banks, who is seeking $1million in damages from him.
The 33-year-old rapper was locked in a social media row with the 35-year-old singer, and she sent him a cease-and-desist letter in which she demanded the huge settlement, as well as a public apology, in the wake of him allegedly making ‘threats of violence’ towards her.
Azealia shared the notice on her X account, which read in part: ‘Your attacks against my client’s professional reputation, your overt racial epithets, and your most recent threats of physical violence against my client have been well-documented since you published them worldwide online.’
The pair reignited their long-running feud earlier this month when Matty hit back after Azealia said Charli XCX ‘used to be so pretty’.
He replied: ‘All the women you attack seem to be culturally relevant, attractive, divisive and NICE people. I think this makes you jealous cos you’re so talented but everything else about you is a failure. Just rap bro.’
The Chocolate hitmaker then vowed to ‘slap’ Azealia ‘so hard’, but after facing an online backlash, he apologised and wrote: ‘Nah I can’t be saying I’m gonna hit a girl that’s insane I’m sorry.’
He also added: ‘Ok I’m gonna delete that tweet that was not cool even if I was angry.’
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He deleted the offending post, acknowledging it was ‘not cool’, but Azealia continued to lash out.
Sharing a close-up photo of Matty’s teeth, she wrote: ‘It’s clear you do not floss enough, don’t use the right toothpaste, should quit cigs, and you wait till after coffee to brush your teeth. Your gums look inflamed like early signs of gingivitis.
‘You must brush your teeth first thing in the am because morning breath is not a result of having a closed mouth all night, it’s actually the refuse from what your heart detoxes up while you sleep.’
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Healy then insisted his outbursts on the platform come during ‘manic episodes’.
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