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Fox has slotted its Stars In Danger: The High Dive two-hour reality special for Wednesday January 9. Jersey Shore co-star JWoww, Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills‘ Kyle Richards, actor Antonio Sabato Jr. and former NFL star Terrell Owens are among the celebrities tapped for the Bunim/Murray-produced special based on a long-running German format. Fox greenlighted the special in October, shortly after ABC gave a series order to the similar Celebrity Diving, which was just scheduled to premiere March 19.
After an intense training period, the eight celebrities in Stars In Danger will compete in a series of Olympic-style dives, including solo high diving and synchronized diving, from a variety of heights. Providing expert commentary during the special will be Olympic diving medalist and commentator Troy Dumais. Here is the full cast list:
WOMEN:
JWOWW – aka Jennifer Farley, one of the eight original cast members on reality series Jersey Shore.
BETHANY HAMILTON – professional surfer, public speaker, role model, author of the book and subject of the feature film, Soul Surfer.
ALEXANDRA PAUL – actress (star of more than 75 movies and TV shows, including Baywatch) and endurance athlete (Ironman athlete, long distance swimmer, marathoner).
KIM RICHARDS – former child actress (Escape To Witch Mountain), sister of Kyle Richards and cast member on The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills.
KYLE RICHARDS – former child actress (Little House On The Prairie), sister of Kim Richards, cast member on The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills and author (Life Is Not a Reality Show: Keeping It Real With The Housewife Who Does It All).
MEN:
DAVID CHOKACHI – actor (Baywatch, Witchblade, Beyond The Break), TV host, avid surfer and paddle boarder, honorary chair for Surfrider Foundation.
TERRELL OWENS – former NFL wide receiver and six-time Pro Bowl selection, who starred in his own cable reality series, The T.O. Show, and has recurring roles on network comedy Go On and cable drama Necessary Roughness.
ANTONIO SABATO JR. – actor (Melrose Place, The Bold And The Beautiful, General Hospital), former model, and reality TV star (My Antonio, Celebrity Circus, But Can They Sing?).
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All i can say is this, I will not be watching. The show features Reality TV has beens and never wills competing in a dangerous sport they might have ever before tried in their life. The only way you will get celebrities in a celebrity diving competition is if they were animated. As a result, you would get the likes of James Woods, Rainer Wolfcastle, Adam West, and others to appear on this diving show. Needless to say this show and ABC’s will fail.
In contrast, Dancing with the Stars succeeds because ABC is able to get current athletic stars and past and current Hollywood stars along with one or two Reality Tv has beens to appear on the show. Translation, you might be able to get Steve Martin, Richard Gere, and Tom Hanks to appear on the same season but be upstaged with the Super Bowl rematch between Eli and Peyton Manning after big brother and his Broncos crush little brother and his Giants in Super Bowl 47.
Well this will last all of three episodes…
LOL this is where all the former baywatch stars go after their careers are kaput. BMP what has become of you? this is the dribble you do now?
Yay! They aren’t showing us 3 of the episodes of Family Tools. Instead, we get to see celebrities diving. I honestly wonder if the guys at ABC are on meth.
The thing about diving is that it’s only interesting to watch every 4 years. I’ve already seen diving in August to last me until 2016 so I’ll pass on these shows.
High diving is inherently dangerous. One of these “celebrities” will most surely smack their head on the platform or get injured in some fashion. Wonder if ABC will show this live with a short delay?
The compition for the Cyrstal Skullcap will be intense!
This is only a two-hour special on Fox. Not a series.
Bethany Hamilton is a pro surfer who lost her arm to a shark. There was a feature film made about her. It will be amazing to see her atop a high dive. And T-O learning to dive? That sounds pretty cool.
I want real celebs give me Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O’Donnell, Whoppi Goldberg, Cher, Jay Leno, Hillary Clinton and then I might want to watch them do the high dive of death.
Well go ahead and do this then. I mean, why not? I’m sure there will be a total of 48 interesting seconds in the entire show and they’ll make their way onto The Soup or Kimmel’s monologue. All of American culture will eventually fit into that category. A show that gets made fun of by a sardonic guy on another show.
I mean. Jesus Christ. Doesn’t someone have a story to tell? Doesn’t someone want to let them tell it?
Look. I’m a grown up. Whenever I’ve been involved with a good show or pilot that doesn’t make it, something really good but not an easy sell, which doesn’t make it to air, I can be philosophical about it. “hey I get it. These guys have to pay the bills. They don’t see this as a home run and they’re not ready to risk it. I’ll move on to the next one”. But when stuff like this comes out. Holy moly. I want to call every executive who ever shot down a good show and say “so THIS instead, huh? THIS. Diving. Good. Good idea. Go do that.”.
Holy Toledo, man.
Diving. Come on. Celebrity diving. Hahahaha. How about celebrity dying? A celebrity dying competition. I would watch that in a second.
Okay This should be the rule. If you are a network who green lights Celebrity Diving, then you can’t ever say no to anything ever again. Every single show that ever gets pitched to you gets picked up till you run out of money. Only then will this ever make any sense. The ONLY answer to “why did you pick up celebrity dying” that makes ANY sense is “because we never say no”.
Celebrity diving. .. Come on! Let’s just do a show called “Celebrity go over and touch a thing and then walk overto that guy”.
For those who think this show is on ABC, no it’s on FOX. I am willing to bet that when this FOX special tanks, ABC will cancel their series in a nano-second.
No doubt Thornton Mellon will be in the audience with his trusty air horn!
Lmao. Celebrity Dying SHOULD be the second season!
This show is going to be such a miserable failure that whomever greenlit this series to air should be fired once those bad ratings come out on this day in question. What a stupid concept for a show with hack-type celebs participating in this nonsense. PITIFUL!!!
Weird…..,