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Thursday, 10 February 2005 |
This week has already brought further massive disappointment for Martin “Chariots” Offiah, who must be wondering what exactly he has to do to win a celebrity challenge show. Having failed to impress the judges in the first series of Strictly Come Dancing, rugby league’s former try-machine walked away empty-handed from Christmas’s first and second series combined dance-off.
Within days, though, Chariots had picked himself up and was back on screen in Celebrity Mastermind. But, astonishingly, the oh-so elusive victory would not come and he was defeated by Hugh Quarshie, who played Captain Panaka in 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Just by the law of averages, you assumed that Chariots might put this terrible run of form to bed and end the drought on Living TV’s I’m Famous and Frightened, in which guests of the calibre of Toyah Willcox, the former pop star, and Jono Coleman, the disc jockey, agreed to spend three nights in a spooky old house with only their celebrity for comfort. And what happens? Chariots loses out in the final reckoning to Ruth Madoc from Hi-De-Hi. Talk about the fright of his life.
It is too early to speak of a crisis, but Chariots does appear to be running out of shows. Qualifying has finished and filming is under way for Channel 4’s Extreme Celebrity Detox, the Big Brother house is closed to celebrities for at least a year and it is unlikely that we’ll see another series of I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! this side of the autumn.
The best that Offiah can do, in all likelihood, is to keep his hand in with a few supermarket openings and pray for a second series of The Farm on Five.
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