joe lycett

Joe Harry Lycett (born 1988), also known by the self-given moniker "Mummy", and officially self-renamed briefly as Hugo Boss in 2020, is a British comedian, television presenter, and painter. He has appeared on many TV shows, including Live at the Apollo, Taskmaster, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI, as the announcer on Saturday BBC One show Epic Win, the narrator for Ibiza Weekender and as the presenter on BBC Two's The Great British Sewing Bee, and Channel 4's Joe Lycett's Got Your Back and Travel Man. He is also recognised as one of Britain's most high-profile queer or pansexual men, and has advocated for the LGBTQ community on many occasions.

Joe Harry Lycett was born in 1988 at Hall Green, Birmingham, to David Lycett and Helen née Scholey, and grew up in Solihull. His paternal Lycett family hailed from Staffordshire, while his grandmother's Wilkinson family came from the East Midlands being distantly related to the Wilkinson baronets. In 2021, appearing on the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, he researched the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes of which his great-grandfather was a member. And he discovered his great-great-grandfather, Robert Wilkinson, worked as a chimney sweep as a child and later joined the Royal Marines, serving in China during the Second Opium War.