Celebrity Juice is a British televisioncomedypanel game show on ITV2 that has been airing since 24 September, 2008. The show is presented by Keith Lemon, with regular captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton, alongside regular panellist Rufus Hound. Since the third series, the show has also featured Jedward, David Hasselhoff and Verne Troyer as the regular challengers in the VT challenges. The series is produced by Talkback Thames and filmed at Riverside Studios. The show is produced by Dan Baldwin. The idea of the show is to see which team knows most about the week's tabloid news stories. The show is also renowned for the mocking of it's team captains - with Lemon often referring to Willoughby as "Holly Willoughbooby" and mocking Cotton for her large nostrils and small breasts. Lemon has also given Cotton the nickname "Dot Cotton" and generally favours Willoughby's team over Cotton's. In 2011, the series won the Best Entertainment Show Award at the TV Choice Awards.
Rufus Hound made two guest appearances in this series. Episodes 1-3 featured the round 'Have A Dig In Winehouse's Wig', with Winehouse's wig containing a selection of categories. Episode 4 introduced the regular 'Cover Stories' round, which has featured ever since. The magazine in this series was 'Gape'.
Rufus Hound joined the show full time as a panelist. Fearne Cotton was not present during Episodes 2 and 3 due to her commitments with the Comic Relief Mountain Climb clashing with filming. Holly Willoughby was not present during the second half of Episode 4 due to illness.[1]
Holly Willoughby was not present during Episodes 3 and 10-14 as she was on maternity leave. Episode 15, however, was recorded beforehand and left over until the end of the series.
Rufus Hound did not appear in Episodes 1-3 as he was recording scenes for Big Fat Gypsy Gangster, which clashed with filming.[5] Fearne Cotton was not present during Episode 3 as she was in hospital at the time having an operation.[6] Ant and Dec were scheduled to appear in Episode 1, but later postponed their appearance until Episode 9 due to the death of Dec's father.
Specials
A special stand-alone episode was filmed on 5 March 2011 as part of Comic Relief's special 24 Hour Panel People featuring David Walliams, who appeared in various old and new panel game shows throughout a 24 hour period. The various shows including Celebrity Juice, were streamed live on the Red Nose Day website, and parts of each show will be shown during 5 half hour specials on Comic Relief night. The teams were captained by Germaine Greer and Lauren Laverne. On Greer's team were Jedward and on Laverne's team were Rufus Hound and David Walliams, while Brian Belo appeared as the 'Morerer Magazine Head' for the episode.[7]
