Celebrity Duets

Celebrity Duets
Starring	Wayne Brady David Foster Little Richard Marie Osmond
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producer(s)	Simon Cowell Michael Levitt Arthur Smith
Production company(s)	SYCOtv A. Smith & Co. Productions Fox Television Studios
Distributor	FremantleMedia
Release
Original network	Fox
Original release	August 29 – September 29, 2006 (2006-09-29)
External links
Website

Celebrity Duets was 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

• Chris Jericho - 1st Eliminated (Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006)
• Lea Thompson - 2nd Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 8, 2006)
• Carly Patterson - 3rd Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 15, 2006)
• Cheech Marin - 4th Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 22, 2006)
• Jai Rodriguez - 5th Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 22, 2006)
• Hal Sparks - 3rd (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)
• Lucy Lawless - Runner-up (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)
• Alfonso Ribeiro - Winner (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)

Results summary

	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
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

• Michael Bolton
• Boyz II Men
• Chaka Khan
• Jesse McCartney
• Clint Black
• Smokey Robinson
• Dionne Warwick
• Gladys Knight
• Brian McKnight
• Patti LaBelle
• Kenny Loggins
• Richard Marx
• Randy Travis
• Belinda Carlisle
• Peter Frampton
• Taylor Dayne
• Aaron Neville
• Lee Ann Womack
• James Ingram
• Wynonna Judd
• Michelle Williams
• Jeffrey Osborne
• Anita Pointer
• Toby Keith
• Dennis DeYoung, formerly of Styx
• Deniece Williams
• Dee Snider, of Twisted Sister
• Al Jarreau
• Sebastian Bach, formerly of Skid Row
• Bonnie Tyler

The Contestants's Specific Duet Partners

• Alfonso Ribeiro - Michelle Williams, James Ingram, Jeffrey Osborne, Deniece Williams, Chaka Kahn, Jon Secada, Gladys Knight
• Lucy Lawless - Michael Bolton, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Loggins, Dionne Warwick, Richard Marx, Bonnie Tyler
• Hal Sparks - Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Wynonna Judd, Dennis DeYoung, Dee Snider, Sebastian Bach
• Jai Rodriguez - Gladys Knight, Michelle Williams, Brian McKnight, Taylor Dayne, Patti LaBelle
• Cheech Marin - Peter Frampton, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Aaron Neville, Al Jarreau
• Carly Patterson - James Ingram, Lee Ann Womack, Anita Pointer, Jesse McCartney
• Lea Thompson - Randy Travis, Michael Bolton, Belinda Carlisle
• Chris Jericho - Lee Ann Womack, Peter Frampton

Judges

• David Foster
• Little Richard
• Marie Osmond

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. This ratings failure precluded any production of a second season.

International versions

     Currently airing franchise

     Franchise no longer in production

Country	Name	Host	Network	Date premiered	Winner
Arab world	ديو المشاهير Duo El Mashahir	Season 1, 2010: Dina Azar Season 2, 2011: Dina Azar Season 3, 2012-2013: Hilda Khalife Season 4, 2014: Annabella Hilal	LBCI ( Seasons 1 - 3 ) Murr Television ( Season 4 )	October 22, 2010	Season 1, 2010: Nadine Rassi Season 2, 2011: Magie Bou Ghosn Season 3, 2012-2013: Tony Abou Jaoude Season 4, 2015: upcoming season
Hungary	A nagy duett	Majka (Season 1) Claudia Liptai(Season 1 and 2) Attila Till(Season 2)	tv2 (Season 1) Super TV2 (Season 2)	April 8, 2011
Lithuania	lt	Vytautas Kernagis Algis Ramanauskas & Inga Jankauskaitė Rolandas Vilkončius	LNK	June 2, 2007
Philippines	Celebrity Duets: Philippine Edition	Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez	GMA Network	August 11, 2007	Season 1, 2007: Tessa Prieto-valdez Season 2, 2008: Bayani Fernando

External links

• Celebrity Duets at IMDb
• Celebrity Duets at TV.com