Lee Peart went to film a TV job and, for a moment, security's idea of why he was there was a food delivery. On Bottoms Up!, the podcast he hosts with Alan Carr, he tells the story of showing up for Big Brother Group Chat and being asked, "Deliveroo?"
Clip: Viral Podcast Shorts YouTube Short from the full source linked below.
This article follows the Short and keeps to Peart's own account. The other speaker in the clip isn't named there, so the article calls that person the host.
"First day at school vibes"
Peart sets it up simply. "I was on the side show of Big Brother," he says. "Now, the Big Brother is called the Big Brother group chat."
The trip in already went sideways. "The car drops me off at the wrong place." He was "walking down the street with my suit bag," and the mood, as he puts it, was "first day at school vibes, very excited."
At the security desk he buzzed and introduced himself: "hello, I'm Lee here." After a "Who?" he tried again. "I'm just here for the group chat." They let him sign in and told him someone would come and get him. He "stood there for about 10 minutes."
"Deliveroo?"
A young runner did come out. Peart thought, "oh, he's coming to get me."
The runner walked up and asked a different question: "Deliveroo?"
Peart's answer was immediate. "No, no, not not Deliveroo." The runner said okay and went back into the office.
Peart didn't say that part to the runner's face. He told a friend later, and he tells it on the show with two questions of his own: "am I in turquoise?" And: "Do I have a massive box on the end of an electric bike?"
"You look you're more Uber Eats to me"
The host is already enjoying this. There is a back-and-forth about whether Peart looked as if he was "on a bike." Then comes the line that lands the joke: "You look you're more Uber Eats to me."
Peart plays along. "Thank you," he says. "That means the world."
He doesn't say in the Short what he was wearing under the suit bag, or why the runner jumped to a delivery app. The mix-up is the whole story.
Then they asked the same runner to take him in
The runner went back inside, Peart says, and "he collects it." Then the security guard asked a follow-up that made the mistake complete: "would you mind taking Lee to accreditation?"
The runner's reaction, as Peart tells it, was instant. "Lee?" He describes the look on the young guy's face and adds, "bless him."
That is where the Short ends: not with the taping, but with the person who had just mistaken him for a delivery rider now being asked to walk him in.
The job he was actually there to do
ITV lists Lee Peart as a guest on Big Brother: The Group Chat on October 19, 2026, describing him as a comedian and actor. That official series name uses a colon. In the Short, Peart just calls it "the Big Brother group chat," the "side show of Big Brother."
Bottoms Up! is the podcast Peart hosts with Alan Carr. Carr's official site, in a November 26, 2025 post, calls Peart a long-time friend and comedian. The Apple Podcasts episode listing for this installment, dated November 11, 2026, marks it as the show's 50th episode.
None of that changes the scene at the door. He showed up ready to work, and the first question he got was whether he was there to drop off someone's dinner.
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FAQ
Why was Lee Peart mistaken for a Deliveroo rider?
He says he arrived to film Big Brother Group Chat, was dropped at the wrong place, and walked in with a suit bag. After he waited at security, a young runner came up and asked, "Deliveroo?"
What did the host say to him?
After some joking about whether he was "on a bike," the host told him, "You look you're more Uber Eats to me."
Did the same runner then take him into the studio?
Peart says the security guard asked that runner to take him to accreditation, which is when the runner realized who he was. "Bless him," Peart adds.
What is Big Brother Group Chat?
Peart calls it the "side show of Big Brother." ITV lists the series as Big Brother: The Group Chat and lists Peart as a guest on the October 19, 2026 episode.