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{QUOTE=alan45;757131]Christine Bleakley is to host a new Stars in Their Eyes-style show for celebrities.
Celebrities will dress up as well-known singers and perform their hit tracks. A panel of judges, to include dancer Louie Spence and actress Pauline Quirke, will try to see through the flamboyant costumes and feature-*altering prosthetic make-up to identify them.
Christine, 32, is filming pilot *episodes for the programme, *provisionally called Guess The Star, at ITV’s Manchester studios.
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Channel bosses have been trying to find an entertainment role for Christine since poaching her from the BBC last summer on a *contract worth *£4million over three years. They are said to be determined to make the new show a success as it would *finally give them a chance to use Christine’s presenting talents away from breakfast show Daybreak, which has had disastrous ratings since it launched last summer.
A TV source said: “When ITV signed Christine from the BBC they made it very clear she would be working on other projects. You don’t pay someone £4million just to present a breakfast *programme, especially one that is under-*performing. The show is only in the *development stage but ITV are *hoping it will be the perfect platform for Christine to launch herself as a primetime entertainment *presenter.
“The prosthetics people are *absolutely brilliant and from what we’ve been told they make the celebs *absolutely *unrecognisable.”
If the pilots are a success the show is expected to be screened in early 2012.