Josh Homme is set for Jake and Josh celebrity Gogglebox on Friday July 17, sharing the sofa with Jake Shears for the season eight episode. The pair arrive on Channel 4 while Celebrity Gogglebox continues its Friday run and is followed by on-demand streaming shortly afterwards.
Jake Shears and Josh Homme
Jake Shears is not just another guest on the sofa. He is a Scissor Sisters singer and actor, and a longtime friend and former collaborator of Homme’s. Their history runs through Jake Shears’ 2018 solo song Big Bushy Mustache, where Homme made a cameo, and later through Desert Sessions.
That pairing gives the episode a sharper edge than a routine celebrity watch-along. Celebrity Gogglebox in season eight has already included Shaun Ryder and Bez, Fearne Cotton, Martin Kemp and James Buckley, while earlier years brought Liam and Noel Gallagher, Yungblud, Self Esteem, Mel C, Sam Ryder and Tom Grennan into the format. Homme and Shears fit the show’s existing pattern of putting musicians in front of the same TV feed and letting the reactions do the work.
Channel 4 at 9pm BST
Friday July 17 at 9pm BST is the practical detail viewers need. The episode airs on Channel 4 first, then becomes available on the official streaming platform shortly afterwards, which makes the same-night slot useful for anyone trying to avoid spoilers or catch the pair live with the broadcast audience.
The episode lands while Queens Of The Stone Age are still in motion. The band returned with Easy Street, their first new single since the 2023 album In Times New Roman…, and they have been touring hard enough to play London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Monday July 13 and again on Wednesday July 15 while opening for System Of A Down on the UK and European stadium tour.
Queens Of The Stone Age on tour
That schedule is the wrinkle here. Homme is appearing on Celebrity Gogglebox while Queens Of The Stone Age are also promoting new music and working a live campaign that has already stretched from the Catacombs tour to the Parisian Catacombs concert film Alive In The Catacombs, with a four-star review attached to the release. He has also said, late in 2023, that the group should be making things faster-er and better-er, which makes any outside-TV appearance feel like part of a broader promotional cycle rather than a detour from it.
What viewers get next is simple: a Friday July 17 episode with Josh Homme and Jake Shears on the sofa, and the usual Celebrity Gogglebox setup of watching what they choose to watch. The unresolved detail is the only one that still matters on the night itself — which programmes, news broadcasts and films they will be reacting to when the cameras roll.
