This time last year, Hassan was working in sales and spent his evenings gaming.

Now, he's working as a prison officer.

You know what's going to happen. It's not worth it.

He's tackled sail fires, got through to some of the most challenging prisoners,

and helped support their rehabilitation.

He's done things he once thought he was never capable of,

but he still loves his gaming.

An extraordinary job done by someone like you.

Search prison jobs now. Welcome, Nicola to the Taskmaster podcast.

Well, thank you for having me.

It's so exciting to have you here.

Thank you very much for agreeing to come on.

My pleasure.

You are, not only are you a fan of the show, I'm told. You're also a previous contestant in the New Year's special. I was a one offer. I was like, also it was funny because it kind of, the offer came through at the time of like my biggest obsession with Taskmaster. Because my mom, I can't get her to watch anything other than whatever

is on ITV3. And I was like, look, there's a show. I think you might like it. Oh my God, I've just spotted your trophy behind you. That's really exciting. That is where the trophy lives. Whenever we have people on the podcast, it does look like I'm just sort of rubbing it in their faces by having it Yeah, I mean, I wasn't even close.

But, look, yeah, but so I started getting my mom to watch it and she absolutely loves it and then the email came through and i was like yes yes yes yes yes yes and then when it finished it was so quick i was really sad i came home in the car from the studio and i was like i feel really sad oh yeah because i've no more taskmaster i've done it but it was yeah it was brilliant a one-off that that must that must feel really sad. Oh yeah, because I've no more taskmaster. I've done it. But it was brilliant. A one-off. That must feel really difficult because I felt pretty bummed out after 10 episodes, but you think 10 episodes is probably enough. Like it's a lot of filming and you know, you really go through it over five nights. But one episode, just enough to get a taste of how fun it is and then have it snatched away from you.

But it's like,

it's funny because I say to people,

sometimes you do shows that look really fun and you're like, yay! And then you get there, you're like, oh, it's okay. It's not, but Taskmaster is as fun as it looks like it is. It was just pure joy. and Alex Horne is like the world's nicest man.

So he spent the day doing the tasks.

Also,

I thought I'd done absolutely phenomenally incredible at all my tasks. I literally, my friend

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