Boy band Blue fooled in new prank show
Pop group Blue have been revealed as the unwitting stars of a new prank comedy series for ITV2.
The four-part Blue Go Mad In Ibiza will see the quartet challenged to "take over a chilled beach bar and turn it into a fun-seekers' hotspot", unaware that the other members of staff are comedians charged with making their lives difficult.
The boy band is comprised of Antony Costa, Duncan James, Lee Ryan and Simon Webbe.
The comics going undercover for the series were Clever Peter's Richard Bond, Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Georgia Brown, Sam Pamphilon and Milo McCabe.
ITV say the band "soon find themselves at the mercy of a chauvinistic head bar man and a flamboyant PR representative as they become embroiled in amusing gaffes and situations at the partying hotspot".
The continue: "However, unbeknown to the band their 'staff' and acquaintances are actors and comedians, whose deliberately outlandish comical creations are contrived to cause mischief and make their two weeks in Ibiza a stay they'll never forget!
"With exclusive access as the drama unfolds, viewers will be able to follow the popular quartet as they have just 14 days to try to make their bar a success whilst falling foul of hilarious hoaxes all specially created to cause maximum mayhem!"
According to comedy website Chortle, Ed Gamble and Georgia Brown play troublesome newlyweds; McCabe plays local policeman Juan; Pamphilon is the band's head bar man; Nish Kumar appears as Polaris the Shamen; and Richard Bond plays a "flamboyant" PR man.
Blue say: "We thoroughly enjoyed running the bar and definitely see a potential future in this for Blue, but we still can't believe we were fooled into believing our closest confidants in the bar were genuine! We've got into some unusual predicaments during our time in the band, but what the team tricked us into on the show was unbelievable... we're still shocked we didn't guess!"
Filmed over two weeks at the end of August and start of September in San Antonio, Ibiza, the series will be on ITV2 early in 2015.