Rylan Clark and Jon Richardson, the British voices of Vanity and Grouchy Smurf, presented Paramount’s animated Smurfs at Cineworld Leicester Square.
Rylan Clark, the British voice of Vanity Smurf, hosted a UK special screening of Paramount’s animated Smurfs at Cineworld Leicester Square in the West End on Sunday 13 July 2025. Jon Richardson, who voices Grouchy Smurf, joined him.
Clark was born Ross Clark in Stepney in 1988 and took the name Rylan from a baby-name book as a teenage model. The ninth series of The X Factor made him known in 2012, and he won Celebrity Big Brother the following year. He has since presented This Morning and It Takes Two.
Chris Miller directed the film, a reboot of the series from the Belgian artist Peyo’s comics. Rihanna produced it and voices Smurfette, who leads the Smurfs into the real world when the wizards Razamel and Gargamel take Papa Smurf, voiced by John Goodman.
The screening came with ice cream, a bakery and a Smurfette disco, and the two presenters met the characters in costume.
Richardson, born in Lancaster in 1982, left a Hispanic Studies degree at Bristol to work as a chef. He earned a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007 and became a regular on 8 Out of 10 Cats.