Celebrity Circus was an Australian reality television

Reality television

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 series which aired in 2005 on the Nine Network

Nine Network

The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

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The show took celebrities and, with the help of Silver's Circus, trained them into circus

Circus

A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...

 acts. In the final show of the series the celebrities performed in front of a live crowd and showcased what they had learned.

The participants were: actors Cameron Daddo

Cameron Daddo

Cameron Peter Daddo is an Australian actor, musician and presenter. He is the brother of Andrew Daddo and Lochie Daddo.-Australian television:...

 and Kimberley Davies

Kimberley Davies

Kimberley Davies is an Australian actress most famous for playing Annalise Hartman on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1993 to 1996...

, former Home and Away

Home and Away

Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

star Dieter Brummer

Dieter Brummer

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, Celebrity Big Brother winner Dylan Lewis

Dylan Lewis

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, Australia's Funniest Home Video Show

Australia's Funniest Home Video Show

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host Toni Pearen

Toni Pearen

Toni Pearen is an Australian actress, singer, songwriter and TV presenter born in Cronulla, Sydney on 5 June 1972. She initially became recognisable through her role on soap opera E Street from 1989 until 1992. She had a pop music career in the early 1990s which included the release of an album and...

, Vadim Dale

Vadim Dale

Vadim Dale was featured on the reality television show Outback Jack.Following his appearance on Outback Jack, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky and married the contestant he fell in love with on the show, Natalie Franzman in September 2005....

 (from Outback Jack

Outback Jack

Outback Jack was a 2004 reality TV show filmed in Outback, Australia. It was produced by Nash Entertainment. It starred Vadim Dale, a 6-foot-tall former underwear model, as Outback Jack, and started with twelve women who vied for Vadim's attentions to be selected as the woman he would choose to be...

) and his fiance Natalie Franzman, Olympic

Olympic Games

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 beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

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 gold medallist Kerri Pottharst

Kerri Pottharst

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 and Ricki-Lee Coulter

Ricki-Lee Coulter

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 from Australian Idol

Australian Idol

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It was shown over five one-hour episodes. The host was Charles 'Bud' Tingwell.

The series appeared in the Portugal on TVI in 2006 as Circo das Celebridades.

There have been plans to resurrect the series in Australia, but as of now, it has yet to be resurrected.

On 11 June 2008 an American version

Celebrity Circus (U.S. TV series)

Celebrity Circus is an American version of the Celebrity Circus reality television show based on the Australian television series of the same name originally aired in 2005...

 began airing on NBC

NBC

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International versions

Region/Country	Local name	Network	Main presenter	Date premiered
Argentina	El Circo De Las Estrellas	Telefe	Susana Giménez Susana Giménez Susana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette and television host....	26 March 2007
Australia	Celebrity Circus	Nine Nine Network The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...	Charles 'Bud' Tingwel Charles Tingwell In 1941, aged 18, he volunteered for war service overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, personnel from Commonwealth air forces were part of a joint training and assignment system. Consequently, Tingwell trained as a pilot in Canada during 1942...	8 May 2005
Belarus	Звездный цирк Zvezdnyi tsirk	HTV		2007
Brazil	Circo do Faustão	Rede Globo Rede Globo Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...	Fausto Silva	8 July 2007
Chile	Circo de Estrellas	TVN Televisión Nacional de Chile TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...	Rafael Araneda Rafael Araneda Rafael Luis Domingo Araneda Maturana is a popular Chilean TV presenter, best known for his participation in the show Rojo Fama Contrafama as the host. Also he was the host of Estrellas en el Hielo, Sin Prejuicios, Rojo VIP, Noche de Juegos, El Baile en TVN...	25 March 2010
India	Comedy Circus Comedy Circus Comedy Circus is a reality-based stand up comedy show that brings India's TV celebrities to perform with professional comedian partners on a highly competitive and challenging stage. It is judged by Archana Puran Singh. Satish Shah and Johny Lever had judged this show...	Sony TV Sony Entertainment Television (India) This article is about the SET channel in India. For the Indian version broadcasted worldwide, see Sony Entertainment Television Asia.Sony Entertainment Television, or SET, is a Hindi-language based general entertainment television channel in India. It was launched in October 1996 and is owned by...	Shruti Seth Shruti Seth Shruti Seth is an Indian television, VJ and film actress.-Early life:Shruti Shokeen was born on 18 December 1977 in Gujarat, India. She did her schooling from Ashok Academy and graduated from St. Xavier's College Ahmedabad with a degree in Economics and Commerce. She is married to film director...	16 June 2007
Italy	Reality Circus	Canale 5 Canale 5 Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....	Barbara D'Urso	17 September 2006
Mexico	Los 5 Magníficos	Televisa Televisa Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...	Marco Antonio Regil Marco Antonio Regil Marco Antonio Regil is a Mexican television personality and game show host, born in Tijuana, Mexico. He began his career as a Radio D.J. when he was 15 years old...	15 April 2007
Portugal	Circo das Celebridades	TVI TVI TVI may refer to:*Tamil Vision International, a Tamil language television channel in Toronto, Canada*TeleVideo, a manufacturer of computer terminals*Televisão Independente, Portugal's fourth television channel...	Júlia Pinheiro	19 March 2006
Poland	Gwiezdny Cyrk	Polsat Polsat Polsat is Poland's second biggest television channel, founded on December 5, 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group , which also owns other channels:*Polsat HD*Polsat 2 International*Polsat News*TV Biznes...	Zygmunt Chajzer and Agnieszka Popielewicz	6 March 2008
Russia	Цирк со звёздами Tsirk so zvezdami	1TV Channel One (Russia) Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...	Ivan Urgant and Sasha Volkovskaya	2007
Spain	Circus: Más dificil todavía	Cuatro	Josep Lobató	15 September 2008
United Kingdom	Cirque de Celebrité Cirque de Celebrité Cirque de Celebrité was a celebrity reality TV show broadcast on Sky One. The show features celebrities training for and then performing various circus acts. The winner of the 2006 series was Grace Adams-Short....	Sky One Sky One Sky1 is the flagship BSkyB entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The channel first launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the United Kingdom, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two...	Ruby Wax Ruby Wax Ruby Wax is a BAFTA nominated American comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s.-Early life:...  (2006), Jenni Falconer Jenni Falconer Jennifer 'Jenni' Falconer is a British television presenter.-Early life:After her family relocated to the South of England when she was seven, Falconer moved to Leeds in 1994 to study Spanish and Italian. Whilst studying at university, she also launched her television career...  (2007)	15 October 2006
United States	Celebrity Circus Celebrity Circus (U.S. TV series) Celebrity Circus is an American version of the Celebrity Circus reality television show based on the Australian television series of the same name originally aired in 2005...	NBC NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...	Joey Fatone Joey Fatone Joseph Anthony "Joey" Fatone, Jr. is an American singer, dancer, actor and television personality. He is best known as a member of the boyband, 'N Sync, in which he sang baritone. In 2007, he came in second place on the ABC reality show Dancing with the Stars...	11 June 2008