Celebrity Duets

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Celebrity Duets was an American reality television show of the progressive game-show type, which combined celebrities of different backgrounds with professional singers in a weekly elimination competition.

The show was a take-off of the Australian series program It Takes Two and its predecessor, the BBC's Just the Two of Us; however, unlike the British and Australian shows, the celebrities sang with different partners each week. Indeed, Celebrity Duets was meant to be transmitted in the UK first, under the title Star Duets, but the BBC bought the format before Simon Cowell got to produce it on ITV, there was even court action which the BBC won; thus, Star Duets never came into production.

The show debuted on Fox, with a 2-hour premiere installment on August 29, 2006. It then moved to its normal Thursday timeslot the following week, and stayed there until its season finale on September 29, 2006.

Simon Cowell of American Idol and The X Factor fame created the program, and Wayne Brady of Whose Line? fame, who himself is a singer and was the former host of a variety show on ABC, hosted the show. The judges were renowned composer and producer David Foster, rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, and singer Marie Osmond.

Contestants

Chris Jericho - 1st Eliminated (Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006)
Lea Thompson - 2nd Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 8, 2006)
Carly Patterson - 3rd Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 15, 2006)
Cheech Marin - 4th Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 22, 2006)
Jai Rodriguez - 5th Eliminated (Friday, Sept. 22, 2006)
Hal Sparks - 3rd (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)
Lucy Lawless - Runner-up (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)
Alfonso Ribeiro - Winner (Friday, Sept. 29, 2006)

Results summary

	1	2	3	4	Final
Alfonso Ribeiro	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Winner
Lucy Lawless	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Runner-up
Hal Sparks	Safe	Safe	Bottom three	Safe	3rd
Jai Rodriguez	Safe	Safe	Safe	Eliminated
Cheech Marin	Safe	Bottom three	Bottom three	Eliminated
Carly Patterson	Safe	Bottom three	Eliminated
Lea Thompson	Safe	Eliminated
Chris Jericho	Eliminated
Eliminated	Chris Jericho	Lea Thompson	Carly Patterson	Cheech Marin Jai Rodriguez	Hal Sparks Lucy Lawless
Not eliminated	??	Carly Patterson Cheech Marin	Hal Sparks Cheech Marin	Alfonso Ribeiro Lucy Lawless Hal Sparks	Alfonso Ribeiro

The Contestants's Specific Duet Partners

Alfonso Ribeiro - Michelle Williams, James Ingram, Jeffrey Osborne, Deniece Williams, Chaka Kahn, Jon Secada, Gladys Knight
Lucy Lawless - Michael Bolton, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Loggins, Dionne Warwick, Richard Marx, Bonnie Tyler
Hal Sparks - Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Wynonna Judd, Dennis DeYoung, Dee Snider, Sebastian Bach
Jai Rodriguez - Gladys Knight, Michelle Williams, Brian McKnight, Taylor Dayne, Patti LaBelle
Cheech Marin - Peter Frampton, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Aaron Neville, Al Jarreau
Carly Patterson - James Ingram, Lee Ann Womack, Anita Pointer, Jesse McCartney
Lea Thompson - Randy Travis, Michael Bolton, Belinda Carlisle
Chris Jericho - Lee Ann Womack, Peter Frampton

Judges

Host

Wayne Brady

International Versions

Country	Name	Host	Network	Date premiered
Arab World	??? ?"?"???"??? Duo El Mashahir	Dina Azar (Season 1 and 2) Hilda Khalifeh(Season 3)	LBC	October 22, 2010
Lithuania	?vaig?d?i? duetai	Vytautas Kernagis Algis Ramanauskas & Inga Jankauskait"? Rolandas Vilkon?ius	LNK	June 2, 2007
	Celebrity Duets Philippine Edition	Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez	GMA Network	August 11, 2007

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