Nick Grimshaw to host weekly panel show on BBC Three

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Nick Grimshaw Nick Grimshaw already hosts the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast show

Nick Grimshaw has signed up to host a new panel show on BBC Three.

The Radio 1 Breakfast presenter will host eight weekly 30-minute programmes called Sweat the Small Stuff where he'll be regularly joined by The Saturday's Rochelle Humes.

She'll appear as a guest alongside other celebrities where they'll be be put through a series of games and questions.

"Really excited about my new show," said Nick Grimshaw.

"Being the host of a panel show is what self centred dreams are made of and I can't wait to show off on both the radio and now, primetime television."

The Saturdays Rochelle Humes, second right, from the Saturdays will feature as a regular guest

In the latest radio listening Rajar figures for across the UK, The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw had an average audience of around 6.7m - slightly down on the last three months of 2012.

The number of 15 to 24-year-olds listening to Radio 1 went up by 250,000 listeners though - the key Radio 1 demographic.

BBC Three's target audience is a very similar age group.

Kiss FM DJs Rickie and Melvin will be the team captains for the show.

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