{"id":2382193,"date":"2026-04-21T01:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2382193"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:10:30","slug":"lifted-entertainments-act-of-celebrity-sabotage-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lifted-entertainments-act-of-celebrity-sabotage-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifted Entertainment’s act of Celebrity Sabotage | Features"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ben Aston and Catherine Saint discuss format trends such as crossover hybrid shows, clippable content and comedy\u2019s renaissance, and how they are reflected in Lifted Entertainment\u2019s new ITV show Celebrity Sabotage.<\/p>\n

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The contestants on ITV\u2019s new series Celebrity Sabotage may not be the only ones getting more than they bargained for from the show.<\/p>\n

Produced by ITV Studios-backed Lifted Entertainment, it is described by exec producer Ben Aston as a \u201cshow within a show.\u201d<\/p>\n

To begin with, contestants believe they are participating in very standard gameshows and cooking formats and competing for trophies. Lifted specialises in big Ronseal (\u2018Does exactly what it says on the tin\u2019) shows for ITV like I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2026 Get Me Out of Here!, Dancing on Ice and Love Island.<\/p>\n

However, the shows are actually a ruse and are being secretly sabotaged be their guest hosts and a crew of celebrities that includes Harry Redknapp, Joel Dommet, Clare Balding, Emma Willis, Sara Davies, GK Barry and Rylan Clark.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a primetime family show that is essentially a show within a show,\u201d says Aston. We\u2019ve made six different episodes each with their own totally fake TV show, which we\u2019ve built and cast from the ground up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all for the greater good because they\u2019re doing it to win money for the contestants, so the more they sabotage it the more they win. To say it\u2019s a prank show is an understatement really, it\u2019s a high-stakes comedy gameshow.\u201d<\/p>\n

And this means it follows the recent trend for hybrid formats, such as Last One Laughing (a stand-up comedy special wrapped in a competition format) and Married at First Sight (a reality series pretending to be a relationship social experiment).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Lifted do best is entertainment and reality, and this show is absolutely both,\u201d says Aston. \u201cThis feels like a big, high-stakes game show, whilst also feeling like a reality show where you really care about people and laugh at the same time. So it felt like I\u2019ve read the perfect format for Lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It also speaks to other trends, both positive and negative, in the industry: comedy for a fatigued audience, a clippable show that will do well on socials, but also long development times.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like the two really big things at the moment are strategy gameshows and also comedy, which seems to be making this amazing, really special, exciting resurgence,\u201d says Aston. \u201cWith a format like this we can bring both together at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Line producer Catherine Saint says: \u201cWe had a digital team embedded within our main team who were getting additional content specifically for that clippable, social purpose as well. So hopefully there\u2019s lots of new content on socials that you\u2019ll see. It\u2019s a really special show for being clickable, clippable [and because] each sabotage mission can live on its own right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show was first filmed as a pilot two years ago, and Saint does admit: \u201cWe have got lots of shows that are in development at the moment just waiting for that green light\u201d \u2013 a hell that will be familiar to many producers in the current climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as we do get the green light we\u2019re primed and ready because we know we\u2019re going to need to make it straight away. That\u2019s maybe a bit of a new landscape which we\u2019re navigating as a company,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.c21media.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Aston and Catherine Saint discuss format trends such as crossover hybrid shows, clippable content and comedy\u2019s renaissance, and how they are reflected in Lifted Entertainment\u2019s new ITV show Celebrity Sabotage. The contestants on ITV\u2019s new series Celebrity Sabotage may not be the only ones getting more than they bargained for from the show. Produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2382194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lifted-Entertainments-act-of-Celebrity-Sabotage-Features.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382195,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382193\/revisions\/2382195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}