FAMOUS FACES READY TO DO THE ROUNDS...
Reveals all you need to know about The Celebrity Circle for Stand Up To Cancer
PART social experiment, part engrossing reality entertainment, you could say Channel 4 show The Circle was ahead of its time – confining contestants to their apartments while life plays out through social media.
Following two series of the show, The Circle is returning wth a celebrity version in aid of Stand-Up To Cancer.
Battling it out to be crowned the most popular player (all while raising money for charity), the contestants will be split into two camps – those staying true to their identity and those using a catfish profile (and plenty of guile) to play a different celebrity.
So who is in the star studded line-up for this year’s charity special?
Best known for appearing in the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Baga Chips, 31, aims to catfish fellow celebs into thinking she’s queen of clean Kim Woodburn.
“I’ve got a leg up because we are very, very good friends, and I’ve been on the phone to her. I’m going to flirt with the lads and I’m going to be a mother to the girls!”
Star of stage and screen, Denise Van Outen, 46, is shunning a catfish profile in favour of entering The Celebrity Circle as herself.
“I’m just looking forward to having a nice week on my own. It’s going to be like a holiday for me! I’m not doing it to prove anything, I just think really fun.”
Radio DJs Rickie HaywoodWilliams and Melvin Odoom, both 40, are teaming up to try to convince fellow contestant’s they’re musician will.i.am.
“When I was growing up, used to listen to the Black Eyed Peas. I’m talking about the real deal, hip hop, Black Eyed Peas. People just think he’s a musician, or people just it’s
I think he’s like that guy on The Voice. There’s stuff that people don’t know about him.” says Melvin.
Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby, 30, is embracing the concept of catfishing, entering The Celebrity Circle as none other than Mysterious Girl hitmaker Peter Andre.
“I’ve met Peter Andre a couple of times. I mean, we’re not friends, but who doesn’t like Peter Andre? He won Dad of the Year about 75 years in a row. How can you not like Dad of the Year?”
Former Blue boyband member Duncan James, 42, is playing himself. “It’s just something to escape from the lockdown. I’ve been with my mum the whole time... If I was going to go in as anybody, I’d go in as Lee [Ryan, also of Blue] because literally I know him so well. I’ve known him for 20 years, and he’s like the cheeky, straighter version of me.”
Loose Women presenters Kaye Adams, 58, and Nadia Sawalha, 56, are entering under the guise of The Only Way Is Essex icon Gemma Collins. Nadia says: “The thing about playing the GC is, she’s a very complex character. I think even people that hate her, love her.”
Also taking part in the series are self-confessed best mates, The Only Way Is Essex star Pete Wicks, 32, and Made in Chelsea’s Sam Thompson, 27, who are teaming up to catfish fellow contestants into thinking they’re Countdown mathematician, Rachel Riley. YouTube star and social media influencer Saffron Baker, 20, will be entering The Celebrity Circle as herself, while British rapper Lady Leshurr, 32, is set to go undercover as fellow rapper Big Narstie. ■ The Celebrity Circle for Stand Up To Cancer is on Tuesday on Channel 4 at 9.15pm