Have I got news: In true Gen Z style, Bella Hull did a tarot reading for Paul Merton backstage before Have I Got News For You. This week she returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her new show, Mad Cow DiseaseBella Hull is riding the crest of a wave. After her headline-making Edinburgh Fringe show, the 27-year-old’s 2025 peaked when she became the first Gen Z comedian to appear on Have I Got News For You. It was Cambridge Footlights honed Hull and veteran Private Eye editor Ian Hislop versus the sardonic Paul Merton and prodigious Richard Osman, moderated by The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade. And, a true Gen Z-er she read Paul Merton's tarot for him backstage.