Jon and Lucy Richardson’s new show battling sound levels after rowdy audience

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Jon and Lucy Richardson’s new show battling sound levels after rowdy audience
Jon and Lucy Richardson’s new show battling sound levels after rowdy audience

COMEDIAN Jon Richardson and his wife Lucy's new show has been "forced to turn the volume down" after complaints.

The couple - who are known for appearing together on Channel 4's Celebrity Gogglebox - recently debuted their new show Jon & Lucy's Odd Couples.

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Jon and Lucy's new show received laughter complaintsCredit: chANNEL 4
This week's show will see the volume "turned down"
This week's show will see the volume "turned down"Credit: chANNEL 4

Jon, 40, and wife Lucy, 39, sat down for the first episode of their new Channel 4 panel show last week.

The programme sees the couple pit famous guests against each other in a series of mischievous games that probe into their private lives and relationships.

Across the six episodes, the husband and wife duo are joined by a marriage therapist to help air the dirty laundry.

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The show takes place in front of a live studio audience, who have already been causing trouble among viewers at home.

During the debut episode, Jon and Lucy were joined by Strictly's Pasha Kovalev and Countdown's Rachel Riley.

The pair were quizzed over their bathroom habits during the episode, as laughter rang out from behind the camera.

Rachel and Pasha both revealed they peed in the shower, with the dancer admitted to "private material" on his phone.

Furious viewers flooded social media to hit out that the "laughter track" was "too loud" in the background.

"Odd Couples seems good, but the canned laughter is very off putting," one hit out on Twitter after the show.

Another said: "I wish Channel 4 would cut out the canned laughter on virtually everything. Even when there is a studio audience, they aren't laughing that much."

However, after discovering it was actually a live audience going wild, the show was forced to turn its volume down.

An insider told The Sun: "The studio audiences were so lively and raucous, producers had a tricky job turning their volume down.

"Odd Couples was definitely a hit with the local crowd in Salford where the series was filmed.”

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This week's programme will see Jon and Lucy quiz boy band hunk Duncan James and his boyfriend Rodrigo Reis.

The show will see the audience laughing as Duncan, 44, revealed that he sleeps with earplugs at night.

"Sometimes we're having a whole conversation," Rodrigo began, as Duncan chimed in: "I've just got my ear plugs in."

The marriage therapist asked: "Rodrigo, when you want to have sex, how do you let him know? Do you just touch him?"

"Yes, touch him," Rodrigo added as the audience broke out into laughter, before revealing: "He keeps [the earplugs] in."

Jon & Lucy's Odd Couples returns tonight at 9pm on Channel 4

Jessica Lester

Gogglebox, Channel 4

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