Celebrity Duets

*Celebrity Duets*
Celebrity Duets
Starring	Wayne Brady; David Foster; Little Richard; Marie Osmond
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producers	Simon Cowell; Michael Levitt; Arthur Smith
Production companies	Syco TV; A. Smith & Co. Productions; Fox Television Studios
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	August 29 –; September 29, 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

Duet partners by contestant

Judges

Host

Wayne Brady

Ratings

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

Currently airing franchise

Franchise no longer in production

Country	Name	Host(s)	Network	Date premiered	Judges	Winner(s)
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	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	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	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

^ The Star Ledger. May 2007.

External links

Celebrity Duets at IMDb

[1] The Star Ledger. May 2007.

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