Celebrity Juice | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by | Leigh Francis |
Directed by | Toby Baker Ollie Bartlett |
Presented by | Keith Lemon |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 16 |
No. of episodes | 196 (as of 10 November 2016) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Dan Baldwin Leon Wilson |
Producer(s) | Ed Thomas |
Location(s) |
Riverside Studios (2008–2014) Elstree Studios (2014–) |
Running time | 30–60 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Talkback (2012–) Talkback Thames (2008–11) |
Release | |
Original network |
ITV2 (2008–) ITV2 HD (2010–) ITV (2012; one episode) |
Picture format |
16:9: 576i (2008–2010) 16:9: 1080i (2010–present) |
Original release | 24 September 2008 | – present
Chronology | |
Related shows |
Keith Lemon's LemonAid Lemon La Vida Loca Through the Keyhole |
External links | |
Website |
Celebrity Juice, often referred to as Celeb Juice, is a British television comedy panel game on ITV2, broadcast since 24 September 2008. The show is written and presented by Keith Lemon, the alter-ego of comedian Leigh Francis.
The format for the series was first suggested in 2007, after the final series of Leigh Francis' Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta!. ITV approached Francis to create a show featuring popular alter-ego Keith 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.
The show's regular team captains are Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton. Occasionally, guest captains will fill in for Willoughby or Cotton when they are absent for personal reasons, with Emma Bunton, Chris Moyles, Jonathan Ross and John Barrowman being the most notable guest captains. For the ninth series Kelly Brook replaced Fearne Cotton while she was on maternity leave. Willoughby appeared in episode 1 of series 12, but was replaced by Gino D'Acampo for the rest of the series. D'Acampo became a regular panelist from series 13 following the return of Willoughby.