Celebrity Juice ending after 14 years

[Gary Baldy]

It's an interesting point that Juice used a much wider range of guests. I guess in certain aspects it's a spiritual successor to Shooting Stars.

I didn't think the Emily/Laura/Keith dynamic worked as well as the Holly/Fearne/Keith dynamic. I think part of that was that Holly and Fearne were people the audience grew up with as kids TV hosts, well known to be good friends, both presenting respectable shows as their day jobs, so seeing them swearing and play these outrageous games had an extra edge to it that the host of Love Island and a comedy actress don't really have.

Emily and Laura also seemed a lot more in the background, rather than effectively being co hosts. (Of course Holly and Fearne were both massively more experienced studio TV presenters than Leigh) Maybe that was just because of social distancing and having mainly individual rounds.

Yes; they probably should have stopped after Fearne’s departure- I think in years to come, if any one’s ever nostalgic for Celebrity Juice, it would be for the Holly and Fearne era rather than the Emily and Laura one.