Rob and Romesh Vs season 7: release date, exclusive interview, episodes and superstar guests

Rob: “I think doing something very stressful, like being set on fire or performing a song in front of 40,000 heavy metal fans, makes our friendship stronger. I don’t think I could do it without Rom, because he supports me as a friend but he also cracks me up, so it brings us closer together.”

Romesh: “Yes, as we do more of these challenges we take each other right to the very edge and, just as there’s going to be a full breakdown, say something supportive. That’s the formula! Also, as the money goes up, you can’t help feeling it’s worth being friends with each other.”

Romesh: “It’s the journey that everybody hopes for. A journey that starts with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt and finishes with us doing a TV stunt on Hollyoaks! We really got on well with Ryan and Emily, but I think they do so much PR they're good at making you feel that you're the only people they've ever spoken to and that you have a connection with them that nobody else has done in an interview. I reckon as soon as they walked out they couldn't even remember it happening.”

Rob: “I mean, we had to sit in a room for three hours waiting for them to pop in for ten minutes, but apart from that we've got on really well. To be honest I was distracted by how sexy and attractive Ryan Gosling is, he has this aura around him. It’s disgusting that a man can wander around being that fit and funny. Normally the fit ones don’t have a personality as well but he does - it’s a joke!”

Romesh: “He must have been ugly when he was younger, you just can't explain the charisma otherwise.”

Romesh: “The truth is I’ve been surprised by what we've been able to do, in terms of putting ourselves through it. Most of the time we perform par to expectation, but extreme stuff like the fire stunt in this episode is so mad, it tests your fear, anxiety and your nerves to the absolute limit.”

Rob: “I actually didn’t want to do it, but when I saw Romesh ahead of me on fire and could smell it and feel the heat, I knew I couldn’t stop there. I definitely wouldn't have been able to do this a few years ago. I had to calm my breathing down and tell myself that these are professionals, who do this all the time, because you don’t want to have a panic attack when you're on fire.”

Romesh: "It doesn’t sound as extreme as being set on fire, but Rob finds any kind of music performance utterly horrifying. Even when we’re just talking about it you can see he doesn't feel comfortable from his body language. 

"I love music and have grown up with it, but Rob hasn’t so he finds it anxiety inducing. I was looking across at Rob during the performance - and he was really giving it some! There’s no way he would have done that even two years ago. It was amazing to see and a really proud moment as a friend."

Romesh: "‘I’ve learned that the production company doesn't care about comfort zones! I think our boundaries of what's acceptable have moved as we’ve become slightly hardened to it. I mean, there's stuff that we've done in the most recent series that we would never have dreamed of doing in the early series."

Romesh: "One of the things Rob and I have accepted is that people watching the show want to see us go through a real ordeal. It's not fun watching two people just have a whale of a time, what you want is humiliation. Rob and I are essentially two clowns in the circus – but that’s showbiz!"

Romesh: “Rob and I often talk about how the more series that we do, the more high anxiety, embarrassing and humiliating the things that we do are, and you can only go back to that well so many times. There will be an episode at some point where we just completely break down. It will be a really dark ending, fade to black, and there’ll be a caption saying, ‘And that was the last episode they ever did.’ Then you never see us again!”