The Big Breakfast returns: ‘It was fun and joyous – that’s what we want to bring’

Channel 4 show returns this weekend, 20 years after it was axed, and its hosts say it has modernised for today's audience

It was chaotic, cheeky and in your face, making household names of presenters such as Chris Evans, Gaby Roslin, Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen. Now, two decades after it was axed, the show on which Paula Yates wrapped her legs around INXS's Michael Hutchence, Sara Cox snogged Will Smith and Posh Spice revealed that David Beckham liked to secretly wear her knickers is back.

Famed for brightening up the anaemic landscape of 90s breakfast television, The Big Breakfast returns to Channel 4 on Saturday fronted by the comedian Mo Gilligan and the presenter AJ Odudu. But while it retains some of its original, irreverent spirit, the show that once failed to have a single Black or Asian main presenter has been modernised for a 21st-century audience by being more inclusive and far less slapstick, its new hosts say.

The Big Breakfast is on Channel 4 on Saturday, 10am-12.30pm.