Overview

• The second episode of Taskmaster’s 20th series featured a task to identify hidden items using only one sense.
• Rules assigned five points for hearing, four for smell, three for taste, two for touch, and one for sight.
• Maisie Adam and Reece Shearsmith chose taste and licked items including a stapler, a frozen sock, yoghurt and a bowl of wet human teeth.
• Posts on X described the segment as disgusting and disturbing, with some saying Channel 4 should have cut the round.
• No official broadcaster response or regulator action was reported, while the Mirror said Shearsmith won the episode with 22 points.