PRESTON-born cricketer and presenter, Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, is to host a brand new ITV show alongside Holly Willoughby.
The Games will see 12 celebrities go head-to-head in a range of sporting challenges, hoping to be crowned top of the medals table this Spring.
They include Blackpool's Christine McGuinness and Olivia Atwood, partner of Rovers star man Bradley Dack.
The six male and six female competitors will battle it out in the athletics arena, the swimming pool, gymnasium and velodrome.
Each will put their sporting prowess to the test in events from the 100-metre sprint to diving, racking up points on the medals table.
Freddie and Holly will be presenting the show live – and it’s coming to our screens this spring.
The Games will also see former professional footballer and presenter Alex Scott as trackside reporter and former professional football player and presenter Chris Kamara as commentator.
The star-studded line up for the series has already been announced, with Blackpool-born model Christine McGuinness and Bradley Dack’s fiancé, Olivia Attwood, announced in the line-up.
Influencer and model Phoenix Brown, ex-Strictly pro and leading man Kevin Clifton, pop star Max George, song writer Chelcee Grimes, Harry Potter actor Josh Herdman, Coronation Street actor Colson Smith, newsreader Lucrezia Millarini, musician and TV star Wes Nelson, Emmerdale actor Rebecca Sarker and actor Ryan Thomas, will also go head-to-head for the new series.
As well as live coverage of the events, each episode will feature the celebrities' preparation as they’re taught the sports from scratch by some of the UK’s top coaches, following their gruelling training programme leading up to the competition, as they aim to reach their peak physical condition.
As the leaderboard takes shape each night, the series will culminate in an exhilarating final showdown in which one male champion and one female champion will be crowned.
The Games is commissioned for ITV by Nicola Lloyd, Commissioning Editor, and Sue Murphy, Head of Factual Entertainment.
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