Nick Jonas and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker are set make visitor appearances on new episodes of the hit CBeebies present, Bedtime Tales.
The collection sees well-known faces participate and skim tales to kids to assist them sleep. Earlier company have included the likes of St. Vincent, Billie Eilish, Dave Grohl, Harry Kinds, Elton John, Josh Homme, Jack Black, Phoebe Bridgers and IDLES’ Joe Talbot.
Jarvis Cocker has just lately been confirmed as showing on the subsequent episode of the present, and might be studying Wally the World’s Best Piano-playing Wombat, which is written by Ratha Tep and illustrated by Camilla Pintonato.
The ebook follows protagonist Wally, who’s a proficient pianist and turns into caught up in competing with fellow piano participant, Wylie. It teaches younger kids about dealing with rivalry and embracing what brings them pleasure, even when they’re not the easiest at first.
The slot comes because the Pulp star carried out as a part of BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room Month earlier this week, and saying the upcoming slot on Bedtime Tales, he mentioned: “Studying tales to my son when he was younger was one of many nice pleasures in my life. He’s 22 now: a bit previous for bedtime tales, so thanks CBeebies for inviting me to expertise this pleasure as soon as once more.”
Additionally collaborating in an upcoming episode is Nick Jonas, who shares a four-year-old daughter together with his spouse, actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
He might be showing on an episode after Cocker’s, and studying The Ballad of Cactus Joe by Lily Murray, illustrated by Clive McFarland. The heartwarming story follows a cranky cactus and a persistent woodpecker whose unlikely encounter leads them on a collection of sudden adventures.
“We’re elevating our daughter to embrace the entire tradition that’s round her, each from India and from the US. It’s actually thrilling for us as mother and father to consider the issues that we love about our cultures, whether or not it’s clothes, meals or sure traditions which can be necessary to us,” Jonas mentioned.
“Giving her the chance to find out about it by means of books, programmes and spending time with household, the place she will be able to actually have interaction and perceive the place she comes from and her household’s historical past, has been a very particular factor for us as mother and father.”
Jarvis Cocker’s episode airs on CBeebies tonight (Friday 6 February) at 6.50pm, and Nick Jonas’ episode might be broadcast tomorrow (Saturday 7 February) on the similar time. Each might be obtainable to watch on BBC iPlayer after broadcast.
For Cocker, the slot comes after Pulp shared ‘Extra’ final yr – their first full-length file in 24 years, which earned them their first UK Quantity One album since 1998’s ’This Is Hardcore’.
The LP was additionally shortlisted for final yr’s Mercury Prize, however misplaced out to Sam Fender’s ‘Folks Watching’, and has seen the group nominated for Group Of The 12 months on the BRITs 2026.
‘Extra’ landed at Quantity 16 on NME‘s 50 greatest albums of 2025 listing, with the one ‘Spike Island’ coming in at Quantity 9 on our 50 greatest songs of the yr rundown.
Since then, the band have contributed to the star-studded new ‘Assist(2)’ charity album in support of Struggle Little one, and might be enjoying their “solely main UK headline live performance” at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park later in the summertime.
After, they’ll prime the invoice at Finish Of The Street 2026 and headline Mad Cool Competition in Madrid, too.
