Produced by none other then American Idol's Mr. mean himself Simon Cowell. Normally I wouldn't bother writing about a reality show. Since I hate almost all of them with the exception of American Idol and Amazing Race, but I thought I would for the benefit of people who maybe haven't heard about it yet.
This new show is very similar to Dancing with Celebrities, but in this case the show takes established singers and pairs them together with celebrities who are outside of the music industry. The established singers basically become their coaches throughout the competition.
They will then perform live in front of a studio audience and with a panel of judges. The people at home vote for the best duet, the winner gets one hundred thousand dollars for their favourite charity. The host is Wayne Brady (Who's Line is it Anyway) and the judges are David Foster, Marie Osmond and Little Richard.
Some of the singers include, (and this is the best part) people like, Cyndi Lauper, Smoky Robinson, Belinda Carlisle, Peter Frampton, Richard Marx, Macy Gray, Micheal Bolton, Dionne Warwick, Brian McKnight, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan and many more.
The 8 competing celebrities are, Lucy Lawless (Xena), Chris Jericho, Lea Thompson, Alfonso Ribeiro (Fresh Prince), Cheech Marin; 2004 Olympic Gold Medal-winning gymnast Carly Patterson, Jai Rodriguez, (Queer Eye), Hal Sparks (Queer as Folk).
The show starts this Tuesday August 29 at 8pm EST on Fox.
Of course to the readers of this blog it should be no shock or secret that my main reason for even watching this is because of Lucy Lawless. It'll be great for other people to see what only Xena fans have known for years. Lucy can really sing!;). Oh, and yeah I guess getting to hear all those great singers on one show doesn't hurt either:D.
For more info on the show you can check out Fox's official Celebrity Duets site:
http://www.fox.com/celebrityduets/bios/index.htm
also here are a couple of related articles:
http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah1242.shtml
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/osmond%20joins%20celebrity%20duets%20as%20judge_1006048
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