Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing

Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing

Channel 4 Running

1 Season · 6 Episodes · Premiered March 2, 2026

Could you survive being handcuffed to a total stranger 24/7? In a brand-new social experiment, Jonathan Ross challenges 18 brave Brits to stay together, as they compete to win £100,000.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

6 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Mon, Mar 2 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Jonathan Ross hosts this reality challenge in which nine pairs of strangers with different beliefs, lifestyles, opinions and habits are handcuffed together for as long as they can stand it. The pairs must navigate eating, dressing and even sleeping just inches apart as they are sent on a road trip across the UK - with the ones who last the longest in the running for £100,000. From a bar tender and a millionaire to an alpha male and a proud feminist, which couple will be the first to take the cuffs off?
E02
Episode 2
Tue, Mar 3 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
The unlikely manacled couples are still living cheek by jowl as they get to know each other - for better or for worse. Housewife and self-confessed prude Charlie hopes being handcuffed to a total stranger will help broaden her mind. After her initial shock at being chained to 6' 7' heavily tattooed Rob, they settle into domestic bliss at Charlie's cottage. Meanwhile, the forced friendship between Christian hairdresser Nina and chatty mum of seven Sara could be the start of something beautiful - until the former realises just how talkative her partner is.
E03
Episode 3
Mon, Mar 9 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Jonathan Ross hosts this reality challenge in which nine pairs of strangers with different beliefs, lifestyles, opinions and habits are handcuffed together for as long as they can stand it. The pairs must navigate eating, dressing and even sleeping just inches apart, with the ones who last the longest in the running for £100,000.
E04
Episode 4
Tue, Mar 10 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Some of the pairs have had enough and called it quits. But not 70-year-old Yorkshireman Bob and 38-year-old London youth worker Chris. However, when the latter learns about a shocking incident from his partner's past, he wonder whether he can continue. Meanwhile, eco-warrior and vegan campaigner Morag is shocked when the woman she is chained to, petrol-head and beauty salon owner Angie, reveals her views on climate change. 
E05
Episode 5
Mon, Mar 16 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
With the final getting ever closer, the handcuffed couples face a new challenge: their first holiday away together. Jonathan Ross sends them across the UK on iconic British breaks, from beautiful canal trips to camping in the wild countryside, and enjoying all the fun of the fair at the great British seaside. On neutral territory, and without friends and family around, how do they cope with just their cuff-partner for company?
E06
The Final
Tue, Mar 17 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Jonathan Ross presents the final of the reality challenge. With £100,000 at stake, the remaining couples take part in several challenges designed to test their friendships to the limit. Along the way, some of them are eliminated, leaving only the strongest to take on the final test - a race from Scotland to London with no phones and no money.

Cast

Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross as Host

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