Fame in the Family

Fame in the Family
Genre	Game show
Narrated by	Pippa Haywood
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	15
Production
Executive producers	Sally Evans, Amanda De Freitas
Running time	23 minutes
Production company	Salamanda Media
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	14 March (2022-03-14) – 1 April 2022 (2022-04-01)

Fame in the Family is a British reality series that aired on Channel 4 over three weeks beginning 14 March 2022. It is narrated by Pippa Haywood. All episodes are currently available to stream on-demand on All 4. ^[1]

Format

Four strangers meet up in Manchester Hall for dinner with a surprise celebrity host. At least one of the guests will be related to the host.

Over dinner they talk about their families and play fact-finding games to help them decide whether they could be related to one another.

At the end of the dinner party, the diners hold up a card on which they have written the name or names of who they think is a cousin of the celebrity. The host opens an envelope to reveal the DNA results. If anyone guesses correctly they win a share of a £1,000 cash prize.

The relevant parts of the family tree are then shown on-screen as the narrator explains how the guest or guests share a DNA match.

The show has been both praised ^[2] and panned ^[3] by the press. There has been no announcement yet as to whether it will return for a second series.

Episodes

Series 1 (2022)

#	Celebrity	Original air date
1	Craig Revel Horwood	14 March 2022 (2022-03-14)
2	Shaun Ryder	15 March 2022 (2022-03-15)
3	Neil Ruddock	16 March 2022 (2022-03-16)
4	Rustie Lee	17 March 2022 (2022-03-17)
5	Kerry Katona	18 March 2022 (2022-03-18)
6	AJ and Curtis Pritchard	21 March 2022 (2022-03-21)
7	Joe Pasquale	22 March 2022 (2022-03-22)
8	Toyah Willcox	23 March 2022 (2022-03-23)
9	James Argent	24 March 2022 (2022-03-24)
10	Ann Widdecombe	25 March 2022 (2022-03-25)
11	Hayley Tamaddon	28 March 2022 (2022-03-28)
12	Will Bayley	29 March 2022 (2022-03-29)
13	Christopher Biggins	30 March 2022 (2022-03-30)
14	Martin Offiah	31 March 2022 (2022-03-31)
15	Carl Fogarty	1 April 2022 (2022-04-01)

Similar programmes

The show borrows heavily from another Channel 4 daytime show Come Dine with Me mixed in with the long-running BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? and a touch of the ITV1 series Long Lost Family . According to the end credits, and in line with most genealogy programmes, the DNA results are provided by Ancestry with assistance from family history expert Brad Argent.

References

1. "Fame in the Family on All 4".
2. "500 more episodes please! Fame in the Family is perfect teatime TV". The Guardian . 12 March 2022.
3. "Fame in the Family fans switch off after one episode due to 'pointless' format". Birmingham Mail . 16 March 2022.