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Celebrity Wrestling

British professional wrestling television show

Summary

British professional wrestling television show

Field	Value
runtime	60mins (inc. comms)
presenter	Kate Thornton
Rowdy Roddy Piper
starring	Ian Freeman
channel	ITV
first_aired
last_aired
num_series	1
num_episodes	8
country	United Kingdom
language	English

the British reality television programme

Rowdy Roddy Piper Celebrity Wrestling is 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.

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).

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).

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.

Teams

Bold indicates that the celebrity won their gender championship

Crusaders

This team was trained by wrestler D'Lo Brown

Celebrity	Ring Name
Jeff Brazier	Pocket Rocket
Tiffany Chapman	Princess of Power
Leilani Dowding	The Vixen
Mikey Green	Wild Boy
Michelle Heaton	Inferno
James Hewitt	Gentleman Jim
Jenny Powell	The Avenger
Lee Sharpe	Sharpe Shooter
Scott Wright	Snake Eyes

Warriors

This team was trained by wrestler Joe Legend

Celebrity	Ring Name
Marc Bannerman	El Diablo
Annabel Croft	Solitaire
Kate Lawler	The Brawler
Shauna Lowry	Tigress
Victoria Silvstedt	Ice Maiden
Oliver Skeete	Rebel Rider
Iwan Thomas	The Dragon
Phil Turner	The Handy Man
Mark Speight	The Quickdraw Kid

Masked Celebrity

Each week there was a "mystery celebrity" who joined in the wrestling. The celebrities included:

Fatima Whitbread
John Fashanu
Neil Ruddock
Antonia Okonma
Terri Dwyer
Fran Cosgrave

Other participants

Model Emma B took part in one episode as a replacement for Victoria Silvstedt using the character name Queen Bee.
Radio DJ Toby Anstis was set to appear in the series, but had to pull out when he broke two of his fingers.
The UK Pitbulls tag team appeared on the follow-up show with Jack Osbourne and Holly Willoughby.

References

Kilkelly, Daniel. (14 May 2005). "ITV confirms new 'Celebrity Wrestling' slot". [[Digital Spy]].

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