Despite production halting on a planned celebrity edition of Gogglebox last year due to COVID-19 Foxtel is now moving ahead with the special
In an interview with Ben Norris on the TV Reload Podcast Foxtel’s Executive Director of Television Brian Walsh confirmed there will be a celebrity edition in an upcoming season.
In April last year TV Blackbox exclusively reported a celebrity edition was being planned, saying:
Initial plans by Foxtel for the spin-off series were thrown into chaos due to the Coronavirus but producers are forging ahead with plans in place to make the show work.
Ultimately producers found it impossible to make that series work and decided to go with a regular season of the show where crew are minimised contact with the families by setting up the cameras and mini control room while they are in another room. Everything was cleaned before the families took their positions and the crew remained in another room during the record.
There was next-to-no contact between crew and talent.
In the TV Reload podcast Walsh said Anthony Callea and Tim Campbell are on their wish list.