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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Michael Savage Media editor

‘It’s not tokenistic’: how The Assembly became an international hit

Danny Dyer sits fielding questions, surrounded by his interviewers in The Assembly
The Assembly had more international commissions than the all-conquering reality hit The Traitors last year. Photograph: ITV

It is an interview like no other. One which has seen Emmanuel Macron confronted over whether it was right to marry his former teacher and Danny Dyer probed about whether he has a joint bank account with his wife. Celebrities have been caught off guard, or left sobbing and laughing in equal measure.

The Assembly, in which an audience of autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people ask unpredictable, probing and often remarkably direct questions of a celebrity, has won plaudits and rave reviews since launching in 2022. It has now become an international phenomenon.

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