Cirque de Celebrité
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Host
Ruby Wax (2006)
Jenni Falconer (2007)
Co-hosts
Judges: Louie Spence (choreographer), Ann Dorwin (aerialist), Phillip Gadney (circus producer)
Broadcast
Love Productions for Sky One, 15th October 2006 to 2007
Synopsis
Live! From Sandown Park Racecourse! Or Woolwich Common! It's Ruby Wax!
Twelve celebrities (or eleven according to the website - seems they've carelessly lost one already) compete in a range of circus skills such as the rolling globe, the human pyramid and the swinging trapeze. The finale sees the final three attempt a blindfolded trip across the high wire.
To call the show "shambolic" would be unfair to shambles. Wax - a good choice on paper - proved to be out of her depth, frequently breaking (rather, smashing) through the fourth wall to hunt for clues from the director as to what to do next. Also, the eliminations proved to be a fraught affair, with Wax sometimes reading out the incorrect name of the person to be eliminated, and othertimes the celebrities mishearing the name called out leading to much confusion-type hilarity.
Due to the bizarreness of the whole thing, it at least got noticed enough to punch through for Sky One more than many of its other shows. Therefore, it's returning in 2007 but without Ruby Wax.
Participants
- Grace Adams-Short (Big Brother contestant), winner
- Nicola Wheeler (Emmerdale actress)
- Ninia Benjamin (one non-blonde)
- Mark Bright (ex-footballer)
- Syed Ahmed (not The Apprentice)
- Kenzie (popular music personality)
- Sinitta (former popular music personality)
- "Handy" Andy Kane (joiner)
- Sophie Anderton (model)
- Emma B (model)
- Lee MacDonald (Zammo off Grange Hill, 1983-6)
- Jamie Baulch (athlete)
