68 h. ago Tom Daley launches craft range aimed at getting Britain knitting

After retiring from diving, Tom Daley is trying to get more people to take up the knitting and crocheting he loves so much

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6 d. ago Here’s how to get Tom Daley’s new Christmas cardigan and win £500 for the festive season

Olympian Tom Daley has just launched a brand new Christmas cardigan, and you can be in with a chance of winning one for yourself – plus £500 for the festive season

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1 week ago Shetland locals slam Tom Daley's Channel 4 knitting show for 'cultural appropriation'

The Channel 4 show Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter, has sparked controversy among a Scottish knitting group

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1 week ago Where was Game of Wool filmed? Channel 4 show's stunning Scots location revealed

Tom Daley has embarked on a new career venture in Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter

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1 week ago Where was Game of Wool filmed? Inside Channel 4 show's stunning Scots location

Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter premiered on Channel 4 last week

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter: Stylish Tom Daley is the perfect host for the Great British Knit Off

Have you knitted yourself an emotional support chicken yet? Apparently, in the homespun world of crafting, it's a bit of a craze.

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2 w. ago Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter review – Tom Daley is a twinkling, passionate joy of a presenter

The ex-diver is so fantastic that this needle-based Bake Off wannabe is 80% better every time he’s on screen. He absolutely makes this show‘A new generation of knitters is taking the world by storm,” says Tom Daley, striding towards us in his ankle-length woollen poncho. “With just two needles, they are testing the limits of creativity.”And so it proves, as 10 of “the nation’s finest” amateur wool enthusiasts join the Olympic diver (and recently murdered Celebrity Traitor) “to battle it out, stitch by stitch” for the chance to win the ineffably snuggly eight-part series Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Game of Wool review – Tom Daley’s new Bake Off for knitting is must

It’s a privilege to watch these talented, tolerant and thin-skinned folk compete

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3 w. ago ‘One contestant makes wool vulvas!’ Tom Daley on his knockout knitting show – and arguing with Traitors producers

As he prepares to host The Game of Wool, the Olympian diver talks about trying to get murdered faithfuls resurrected on Traitors – and the time he knitted himself a woollen chandelierIn The Game of Wool, Channel 4’s quest to find Britain’s best knitter, you can’t take your eyes off Tom Daley’s outfits. One of his goals for the series, he says, is that “what I was wearing would get progressively more interesting”, which is ridiculous because in the very first episode he’s wearing a vivid, asymmetrical shawl that in some places reaches the floor, and he looks like a wizard who might seem chaotic but is actually very powerful.“Sheila [Greenwell, one of two judges, along with Di Gilpin] made that for La Fetiche,” he says, referring to the avant garde house of knitwear. “Later on I wear some stuff by Hope Macaulay, a Northern Irish textiles designer, then Boy Kloves, right out of Central Saint Martins, then towards the end, two archival Stella McCartney looks.” Continue reading...

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