''Celebrity'' was a British entertainment news programme, broadcast every weekday afternoon on ITV between 25 September and 22 December 2000.

Background

''Celebrity'' featured entertainment news, celebrity interviews and coverage of events from the world of television, music and film - in a similar format to that of ''

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presenter Andi Peters and

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's studios in Camden every weekday afternoon between 5.05 pm and 5.30 pm. Other contributors included Richard Blackwood,

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, Josie d'Arby, Keith Duffy and Melanie Sykes who would present interviews for the programme, or host when Peters and Smith were unavailable. The programme was intended as a stop-gap after ITV lost the rights for ''

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's '' Weakest Link'' and did not return after the first series.

References

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