Well, the official names for the Celebrity Apprentice Australia have been released... and it seems to have landed with more of a thud than a bang- but hopefully there will be some surprise packages.
Here are the "celebrities" for this inaugural series:
OK, so there's your sports stars in Wendell Sailor (NRL), Lisa Curry, Warwick Capper and Shane Crawford (AFL).
Reality TV veterans in Jason Coleman and Polly Porter (of "Polly and Waz" fame from the Block)
There's a comedian in Julia Morris.
There's a model/actor in Didier Cohen and Jesinta Campbell...
And a singer in Deni Hines
There are also some live-wires in Max Markson and Pauline Hanson.
Now here are some observations
-On the surface, it doesn't look to be a particularly exciting line-up. OK, there are some talented people in the mix, but in a show like this, you'd hope for more "personalities" to stir things up a bit... but hopefully all of them together could be a winning combination (?)
-A great deal of these people are serial reality-show pests, with Pauline Hanson and Wendell Sailor appearing on Dancing with the Stars, Julia Morris appearing on It Takes Two
-The show has a great deal to prove to viewers that a "Celebrity" version is more worthwile than an average Joe version- the first series was an underrated, decent little show, and Mark Bouris is a fearsome, yet great asset to the show. Smash-hit The Block was perhaps indicative of a shift back towards watching average people, rather than the flood of It Takes Twos, Dancings, The Singing Bees, etc.
-Surely it's some sort of irony that Channel Nine are simultaneously employing Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee and Warwick Capper.
File this one under a tentative One to Look Out For.
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