“I’m a celebrity, get me a camera!”

Reality TV

By Tabloid Baby | Monday, April 9, 2007 | 7:45 am | 0 Comments

deadline.jpgK-Fed, Paris and Howard K. are all bound to find work when a US network gets around to copying the latest British reality TV series.

ITV’s Deadline is an “I’m from Rolling Stone” for C-listers: Ten celebrities work as paparazzi, then put together a magazine featuring their photos.

The celebs work for real tabloid bosses. Each week, one “star” is sent packing. The 12-page magazine arrives on newsstands the next morning. The show and magazine will last six weeks.

And as you might expect, the British series isn’t exactly attracting the cream of London’s glitterati… No Beckhams or Madonna’s husbands here. It’s safe to say that all ten UK contestants– including lad mag cover girl Abi Titmuss, Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s daughter and TV presenter Yvette Fielding– are unknown in the States (which opens the possibility that E! will import the series as is).

And though the show’s appeal is supposedly in watching is “the hunted becoming the hunters,” whenever the celeb paparazzi show up on stakeouts, the real paparazzi spoil the conceit by taking pictures of them.

(FUN FACT: The Brits refer to the paparazzi as “paps.”)

–Tabloid Baby

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