Celebrity Juice
Celebrity Juice is a British television comedy panel game on ITV2, broadcast since 24 September 2008. The show is written and presented by Leigh Francis in the role of his alter ego Keith Lemon, and its current team captains Laura Whitmore and Emily Atack. 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 his 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. Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby were the show's original team captains. In December 2018, Cotton announced that she would leave the series after ten years in order to pursue other projects. She was replaced by Paddy McGuinness. McGuinness left after one series and was replaced by Mel B. On 4 May  2020, it was announced that Willoughby had decided to quit the series after 12 years on the show. She made her final appearance as team captain at the end of the 23rd series. Mel B also departed at the end of series 23. On 10 September 2020, it was announced that Laura Whitmore and Emily Atack had joined the show as team captains. On 29 March 2021, it was announced that Maya Jama had joined the show as a regular panellist. In December 2021, "Celebrity Juice" became one of three shows by Francis to get recommissioned for 2022, along with  ITV2's "Shopping With Keith Lemon" and the E4/Channel 4 mockumentary series, "The Holden Girls: Mandy & Myrtle". Production. "Celebrity Juice" was filmed at the Riverside Studios from 2008 until 2014. In August 2014 it was announced that the show, along with the BBC's "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" and "Sweat the Small Stuff", would be hosted at Elstree Studios Stage 9 whilst redevelopment takes place at their former home. For its first seven series, the show was produced by Talkback Thames, and it has been produced by Talkback since series eight (Same production company, only re-branded). The show  is produced by Dan Baldwin and Leon Wilson. In 2011, the show won the Best Entertainment Show Award at the TV Choice Awards and in 2012, it won an NTA for best comedy panel show and a BAFTA Award for the Best YouTube Audience. Guest appearances. The following have made more than one appearance on the show as a guest panellist (as of 20 September 2018). Reception. Critical reception. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, the show was voted "Worst British TV Panel Show" in the British Comedy Guide's annual awards.