3.4 /10 1 Votes
3.9/10 TV No. of series 1 Running time 60mins (inc. comms) First episode date 23 April 2005 | 3/10 IMDb Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 8 Final episode date 12 June 2005 Number of episodes 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Celebrity WrestlingKate ThorntonRowdy Roddy PiperCelebrity wrestling: Bring It OnJack OsbourneHolly Willoughby Genres Reality television, Sports Cast Similar Love Island, Holly & Stephen's Saturday, Celebrity Juice, Extreme Celebrity Detox, Queer Eye for the Straight G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Celebrity Wrestling was a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in 2005. It involved two teams of celebrities, competing against each other in wrestling style events. The series was presented by Kate Thornton and Rowdy Roddy Piper. British mixed martial arts fighter Ian Freeman was the show's referee.
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The aftershow programme on ITV2, called Celebrity Wrestling: Bring It On was presented by Jack Osbourne and Holly Willoughby. The winning team was The Warriors and the winning wrestlers were Annabel Croft (Solitaire) and Iwan Thomas (The Dragon).
After five weeks the show was moved from its primetime Saturday evening slot to a graveyard Sunday morning slot due to its extremely poor ratings and being comprehensively beaten in audience share by Doctor Who on BBC One.
It was received with a feeling of derision by professional wrestling fans, due to the lack of actual wrestling content. The show featured heavily upon games which involved grappling and the real life interactions of team members in training (and usually not the training process itself).
Teams
Bold indicates that the celebrity won their gender championship
Masked Celebrity
Each week there was a "mystery celebrity" who joined in the wrestling. The celebrities included: