The Crystal Maze's new presenter Richard Ayoade will have plenty of comedy company when the series reboot hits Channel 4 later this month.

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Comedians and actors Jessica Hynes and Adam Buxton will both make cameos as part of The Crystal Maze's "fiendish" new challenges.

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Buxton sets up shop in the Futuristic Zone as disembodied head Jarhead. It's his job to set a contestant a series of riddles. If they answer them correctly, they win a crystal.

Hynes meanwhile will guard another of the Maze's game zones, Medieval Zone, complete in period appropriate suit of armour.

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The series begins on Friday 23rd June at 9pm on Channel 4. The first episode will be a celebrity special, with Strictly's Ore Oduba, former Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison, The Last Leg's Alex Brooker, TOWIE star Lydia Bright and dancer and reality star Louie Spence.

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