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Celebrity Duets

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Celebrity Duets
StarringWayne Brady
David Foster
Little Richard
Marie Osmond
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes9
Production
Executive producersSimon Cowell
Michael Levitt
Arthur Smith
Production companiesSyco TV
A. Smith & Co. Productions
Fox Television Studios
Original release
NetworkFox
ReleaseAugust 29 (2006-08-29) –
September 29, 2006 (2006-09-29)

Celebrity Duets is an American reality television show, of the progressive game-show type, which combined celebrities of different backgrounds with professional singers in a weekly elimination competition.

History

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The show was a take-off of the Australian series program It Takes Two and its predecessor, the BBC's Just the Two of Us; however, unlike the British and Australian shows, the celebrities sang with different partners each week. Indeed, Celebrity Duets was meant to be transmitted in the UK first, under the title Star Duets. But the BBC bought the format before Simon Cowell got to produce it on ITV. There was even court action, which the BBC won. Thus, Star Duets never came into production.

Transmissions

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The show debuted on Fox, with a 2-hour premiere installment on August 29, 2006. It then moved to its normal Thursday timeslot the following week, and stayed there until its season finale on September 29, 2006.

Associated personnel

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Simon Cowell of American Idol and The X Factor fame created the program, and Wayne Brady of Whose Line Is It Anyway? fame, himself a singer and the former host of a variety show on ABC, hosted the show. The judges were renowned composer and producer David Foster, rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, and singer Marie Osmond.

Contestants

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Celebrity Notability (known for) Placing
Alfonso Ribeiro The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor Winner (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)
Lucy Lawless Xena: Warrior Princess actress Runner-up (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)
Hal Sparks Former Talk Soup host 3rd (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)
Jai Rodriguez Emmy Award-winning television host 5th Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 22, 2006)
Cheech Marin Stand-up comedian & actor 4th Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 22, 2006)
Carly Patterson Former Olympic artistic gymnast 3rd Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 15, 2006)
Lea Thompson Film & television actress 2nd Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 8, 2006)
Chris Jericho WWE wrestler 1st Eliminated (Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006)

Results summary

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Celebrity 1 2 3 4 Final
Alfonso Ribeiro Safe Safe Safe Safe Winner
Lucy Lawless Safe Safe Safe Safe Runner-up
Hal Sparks Safe Safe Bottom three Safe 3rd place
Jai Rodriguez Safe Safe Safe Eliminated
Cheech Marin Safe Bottom three Bottom three Eliminated
Carly Patterson Safe Bottom three Eliminated
Lea Thompson Safe Eliminated
Chris Jericho Eliminated

Duet partners

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Duet partners by contestant

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Judges

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Host

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Ratings

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For the season, the series averaged 3.8 million viewers, making it the lowest-rated Fox series of the entire season, and indeed one of the lowest-rated programs on any network for the season that year.[1] This ratings failure precluded any production of a second season.

International versions

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  Currently airing franchise
  Franchise no longer in production
Country Name Host(s) Network Date premiered Judges Winner(s)
Arab League Arab world ديو المشاهير
Duo El Mashahir
Dina Azar (1-2)
Hilda Khalife (3)
Annabella Hilal (4)
LBCI (1-3)
Murr Television (4)
October 22, 2010 Romeo Lahoud (1-2)
Joumana Haddad (1)
Marwan Rahbani (1)
Abdullah Bakhir (2)
Osama Rahbani (2-4)
Hassan al-Raddad (3)
Mona Abu Hamza (4)
Tariq Abu Jouda (4)
Season 1, 2010: Nadine Al Rassi
Season 2, 2011: Maggie Bou Ghosn
Season 3, 2012-2013: Tony Abu Joudeh
Season 4, 2015: Tony Issa
Hungary Hungary A nagy duett Claudia Liptai (1-4; 6)
Majka (1, 4)
Attila Till (2-3; 5)
TV2 (1; 3-6)
Super TV2 (2)
April 8, 2011 Tibor Kasza
Klári Balázs (1-3)
Ákos Dobrády (1-3)
Andrea Szulák (4-5)
Cooky (4-5)
Adri Nagy (6)
Joci Pápai (6)
Season 1, 2011: Ferenc Molnár & Nóra Trokán
Season 2, 2013: Attila Kökény & Katinka Cseke
Season 3, 2014: Hien & Cooky
Season 4, 2016: Szilvia Péter Szabó & Péter Pachmann
Season 5, 2017: Veca Janicsák & Kornél Simon
Season 6, 2018: Tamás Horváth & Andrea Balázs
Jordan Jordan Celebrity Duets Jordan Mona Al Omari Channel 1 Jordan January 7, 2021 Omar Al-Abdallat
Zain Awad
Najem Al-Salman
Season 1, 2021: Rahaf Sawalha
Lithuania Lithuania Žvaigždžių duetai Vytautas Kernagis
Algis Ramanauskas and Inga Jankauskaitė
Rolandas Vilkončius
LNK June 2, 2007 ? Season 1, 2007: Renata Ražanauskienė & Deiviu
Season 2, 2008: Romas Bubnelis & Aiste Pilvelyte
Season 3, 2009: Giedrius Leškevičius & Mia
Season 4, 2010: Marius Jampolskis & Iruna Puzaraitė
Season 5, 2011: Rūta Pentiokinaitė & Merūnas Vitulskis
Season 6, 2012: ?
Season 7, 2013: ?
Season 8, 2014: Donata Gutauskienė-Laisva & Radzi
Season 9, 2015: Simonas Storpirštis & Liepa Mondeikaitė
 Philippines Celebrity Duets: Philippine Edition Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez GMA Network August 11, 2007 Mitch Valdez (1)
Mitch Valdez (1)
Louie Ocampo (1)
Buboy Garovillo (1)
Freddy Santos (2-3)
Danny Tan (2-3)
Tessa Prieto-Valdez (2-3)
Season 1, 2007: Tessa Prieto-Valdez
Season 2, 2008: Bayani Fernando
Season 3, 2009: Joel Cruz

References

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  1. ^ The Star Ledger. May 2007.
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