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Created by | Leigh Francis |
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Presented by | Keith Lemon |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 26 |
No. of episodes | 309 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 30–60 minutes (inc. advertisements) |
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Network | ITV2 |
Release | 24 September 2008 – 15 December 2022 |
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Celebrity Juice is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on ITV2 between 24 September 2008 and 15 December 2022. The show was written and presented by Leigh Francis in the role of his alter ego Keith Lemon. The format for the series was first suggested in 2007, after the final series of Francis’s Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta! . ITV approached him to create a show featuring Lemon, and after the success of the five-part series Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour , the channel commissioned Celebrity Juice. The original premise of the show was to see which team knows most about the week's tabloid news stories, although later series focus more on the comedy factor of the participating celebrity guests and games involving them, rather than discussing the week's news.
Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby were the show's original team captains. In December 2018, Cotton announced that she would leave the series after ten years in order to pursue other projects. [1] She was replaced by Paddy McGuinness, [2] though he left after one series and was replaced by Mel B. On 4 May 2020, Willoughby revealed her decision to quit the series after 12 years on the show. She made her final appearance as team captain at the end of the 23rd series. [3] Mel B also departed at the end of series 23. On 10 September 2020, it was announced that Laura Whitmore and Emily Atack had joined the show as team captains. [4] On 29 March 2021, it was announced that Maya Jama had joined the show as a regular panellist. [5] In December 2021, Celebrity Juice became one of three shows by Francis to get recommissioned for 2022, [6] along with ITV2's Shopping with Keith Lemon and the E4/Channel 4 mockumentary series, The Holden Girls: Mandy & Myrtle. [7]
On 29 June 2022, it was announced that Celebrity Juice had been cancelled by ITV; the series concluded with two specials which aired on 8 and 15 December 2022. [8]
Celebrity Juice was filmed at the Riverside Studios from 2008 until 2014. In August 2014 it was announced that the show, along with the BBC's Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Sweat the Small Stuff , would be hosted at Elstree Studios Stage 9 whilst redevelopment takes place at their former home. [9] For its first seven series, the show was produced by Talkback Thames, and it has been produced by Talkback since series eight (Same production company, only re-branded). The show is produced by Dan Baldwin and Leon Wilson.
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | Team captains | Regular panellist | |||
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Series premiere | Series finale | ||||||
1 | 8 | 24 September 2008 | 12 November 2008 | Fearne Cotton | Holly Willoughby | — | |
2 | 10 | 25 February 2009 | 29 April 2009 | Rufus Hound | |||
3 | 10 | 18 March 2010 | 20 May 2010 | ||||
4 | 14 | 9 September 2010 | 30 December 2010 | ||||
5 | 16 | 10 February 2011 | 26 May 2011 | ||||
6 | 13 | 1 September 2011 | 29 December 2011 | ||||
7 | 13 | 9 February 2012 | 3 May 2012 | ||||
8 | 15 | 30 August 2012 | 21 December 2012 | Chris Ramsey | |||
9 | 13 | 28 February 2013 | 23 May 2013 | Kelly Brook | |||
10 | 15 | 29 August 2013 | 26 December 2013 | Fearne Cotton | |||
11 | 12 | 20 February 2014 | 22 May 2014 | — | |||
12 | 13 | 11 September 2014 | 30 December 2014 | Gino D'Acampo | |||
13 | 10 | 19 March 2015 | 21 May 2015 | Holly Willoughby | Gino D'Acampo | ||
14 | 14 | 10 September 2015 | 30 December 2015 | Gino D'Acampo | — | ||
15 | 10 | 17 March 2016 | 19 May 2016 | Fearne Cotton | Gino D'Acampo | ||
16 | 14 | 8 September 2016 | 29 December 2016 | ||||
17 | 11 | 23 March 2017 | 8 June 2017 | ||||
18 | 12 | 14 September 2017 | 21 December 2017 | ||||
19 | 11 | 22 March 2018 | 7 June 2018 | ||||
20 | 12 | 13 September 2018 | 20 December 2018 | ||||
21 | 10 | 21 March 2019 | 23 May 2019 | Paddy McGuinness | Stacey Solomon | ||
22 | 8 | 10 October 2019 | 19 December 2019 | Mel B | — | ||
23 | 6 | 9 April 2020 | 14 May 2020 | ||||
24 | 10 | 22 October 2020 | 27 December 2020 | Laura Whitmore | Emily Atack | ||
25 | 8 April 2021 | 16 December 2021 | Maya Jama | ||||
26 | 24 March 2022 | 26 May 2022 | — | ||||
Specials | 2 | 8 December 2022 | 15 December 2022 | ||||
Title | No. of disc(s) | Year | No. of episodes | DVD release | Blu-ray release | ||
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Region 2 | Region B | ||||||
Celebrity Juice – Too Juicy for TV | 1 | 2008, 2009 & 2010 | Best bits from series 1–3 and various unseen footage | 21 November 2011 [12] [13] | – | ||
Celebrity Juice – Too Juicy for TV 2 | 1 | 2010 & 2011 | Best bits from series 4–6 and various unseen footage | 19 November 2012 [14] | 19 November 2012 [15] | ||
Celebrity Juice – The Bang Tidy Box Set: Too Juicy for TV 1 & 2 | 3 | 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011 | Best bits from series 1–6 and various unseen footage | 19 November 2012 [16] | – | ||
Celebrity Juice: Obscene and Unseen | 1 | 2012 & 2013 | Best bits from series 7–9 and various unseen footage | 4 November 2013 [17] | – | ||
Celebrity Juice: T'Box Set | 4 | 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013 | Best bits from series 1–9 and various unseen footage | 4 November 2013 [18] | – |
In 2009, 2010 and 2011, the show was voted "Worst British TV Panel Show" in the British Comedy Guide's annual awards. [29] [30] [31] In 2011, the show won the Best Entertainment Show Award at the TV Choice Awards [32] and in 2012, it won an National Television Award for Best Comedy Panel Show [33] and a BAFTA Award for the Best YouTube Audience. [34]
Year | Award | Category | Result |
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2011 | TV Choice Awards | Best Entertainment Show | Won |
British Comedy Awards | Best Comedy Panel Show | Nominated | |
2012 | TV Choice Awards | Best Entertainment Show | Won |
National Television Awards | Most Popular Comedy Panel Show | Won | |
British Comedy Awards | Best Comedy Entertainment Programme | Nominated | |
BAFTA | YouTube Audience | Won | |
2013 | National Television Awards | Most Popular Entertainment Presenter | Nominated |
Television and Radio Industries Club Awards | TV Satellite/Digital Programme | Won | |
2015 | National Television Awards | Multichannel | Won |
2017 | Entertainment Programme | Nominated | |
2018 | The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award | Nominated | |
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