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 RibeiroSafe Safe Safe Safe Winner Lucy LawlessSafe Safe Safe Safe Runner-up Hal SparksSafe Safe Bottom three Safe 3rd place Jai RodriguezSafe Safe Safe Eliminated Cheech MarinSafe Bottom three Bottom three Eliminated Carly PattersonSafe Bottom three Eliminated Lea ThompsonSafe Eliminated Chris JerichoEliminated
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
Duet partners by contestant Alfonso Ribeiro - Michelle Williams, James Ingram, Jeffrey Osborne, Deniece Williams, Chaka Khan, 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.The Star Ledger. May 2007. 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; 7-) TV2 (1; 3-)Super TV2 (2) April 8, 2011 Tibor Kasza (1-)Zsófi Szabó (7-)Tamás Horváth (7-)András Hajós (7-)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 TrokánSeason 2, 2013: Attila Kökény & Katinka CsekeSeason 3, 2014: Hien & CookySeason 4, 2016: Szilvia Péter Szabó & Péter PachmannSeason 5, 2017: Veca Janicsák & Kornél SimonSeason 6, 2018: Tamás Horváth & Andrea BalázsSeason 7, 2025: Ramóna Lékai-Kiss & Bence Brasch Jordan Celebrity Duets Jordan Mona Al Omari Channel 1 Jordan January 7, 2021 Omar Al-AbdallatZain AwadNajem Al-Salman Season 1, 2021: Rahaf Sawalha Lithuania Žvaigždžių duetai Vytautas KernagisAlgis Ramanauskas and Inga JankauskaitėRolandas Vilkončius LNK June 2, 2007 ? Season 1, 2007: Renata Ražanauskienė & DeiviuSeason 2, 2008: Romas Bubnelis & Aiste PilvelyteSeason 3, 2009: Giedrius Leškevičius & MiaSeason 4, 2010: Marius Jampolskis & Iruna PuzaraitėSeason 5, 2011: Rūta Pentiokinaitė & Merūnas VitulskisSeason 6, 2012: ?Season 7, 2013: ?Season 8, 2014: Donata Gutauskienė-Laisva & RadziSeason 9, 2015: Simonas Storpirštis & Liepa MondeikaitėŽvaigždžių duetai nauja era upcoming 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-ValdezSeason 2, 2008: Bayani FernandoSeason 3, 2009: Joel Cruz
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