Celebrity Juice to return with another live special
- Celebrity Juice will return with a live episode broadcast from Elstree Studios on the 23rd March
- Jonathan Ross and Scarlett Moffatt will join the four regulars on the live special
- The new series will begin later in March, with Series 17 taking the hit panel show to 195 episodes
ITV2 and producers Talkback have announced that Celebrity Juice will return with another live-broadcast episode.
Series 15, broadcast from March 2016, launched with a live special and - following its success - the idea is being repeated for the hit panel show's new run.
Host Keith Lemon (Leigh Francis) will be joined again by Holly Willoughby, Fearne Cotton and Gino D'Acampo for the new ten-part Series 17, which will debut on Thursday 23rd March.
Jonathan Ross and Scarlett Moffatt have been confirmed as guests for the live episode.
Producers tease: "Expect the unexpected and everything else that Keith Lemon has to offer."
Keith Lemon says: "Very excited to be back with me Juice Family. Juice 'completes me' like what Tom Cruise said in Jeremy McGuire. He's not on it, he said 'no', but Jonathan Ross and Scarlett Moffatt is! It's gonna be fun! And live! I like live it's exciting like the first time I climbed a rope. Hold on Tom Cruise wasn't in Jeremy McGuire it was called Jerry McGuire that film. Ding Bat! BAFTA wing Ding Bat."
Here's a trailer:
Managing Director of Talkback and Executive Producer of Celebrity Juice, Leon Wilson comments: "After the successful and completely chaotic first 'Live show launch' a year ago, the production team have suitably recovered and decided what better way to launch series 17. Last year we killed Rylan by running him over with a tank. What could possibly go wrong this year?"
Paul Mortimer, ITV's Head of Digital Channels, said: "After more than 8 years of ratings-busting on ITV2, Celebrity Juice remains as fresh and as popular as ever. I'm thrilled Keith, Holly, Fearne and Gino are back for a 17th season of the funniest, most irreverent entertainment show on TV."
The hit panel show was first broadcast in September 2008. At the completion of Series 17 it will have clocked up 195 episodes, not including highlights and out-takes specials.