If you follow Emily Hampshire’s Instagram account, you already know she’s an inveterate entertainer who should be hosting her own talk show – or just doing weird, fun stuff with a camera and her talented friends.
Well, it’s happening. The actor – whom Schitt’s Creek fans worship as laconic motelier Stevie Budd, while Twelve Monkeys stans still hail her performance as the unhinged Jennifer Goines – is using the coronavirus lockdown to launch a weekly web series, Humpday With Hampshire.
Launching to benefit The Actors Fund, an American organization that provides a safety net for performers over their lives, the show will live-stream its first episode today (April 1) at 5 pm ET on The Actors Fund YouTube channel.
The guests on today’s premiere are Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk, actor and activist Sophia Bush, Olympic medalist Adam Rippon and Hampshire’s Schitt’s co-star Annie Murphy – all appearing from their “bedrooms, kitchens, garages or closets” to talk about how they’re coping with the new normal of COVID-19. (It’s a fairly popular concept nowadays.)
And in case you were wondering where the weird, fun stuff is, the press release also promises “quarantine-themed games including Show Us Your Junk (Drawer), What is your quarROUTINE, and Phone a Friend Roulette.”
Humpday With Hampshire will live-stream weekly “until film, TV and theatre productions are back up and running.” Fortunately, the host has a lot of famous friends who aren’t doing much right now.
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