Katie Price and Heather Mills will be strapped into rollercoasters and other extreme theme park rides for a new TV gameshow.
The pair will join other famous faces such as Phil Tufnell and Matt Wills for new series Scream if You Know the Answer!, to be presented by Blue singer Duncan James, which will see celebrities team up with members of the public to take part in games and compete for a £5,000 prize pot.
The teams, who will wear special cameras, will take part on theme park rides at Thorpe Park including Stealth, one of Europe's fastest rollercoasters; Samurai and Slammer, which spin through 360 degrees; Detonator, a 115-foot drop at 45mph; and Tidal Wave, which plunges 85 feet, creating a huge wall of water.
The 10-part series, which is being made by production company Lion Television, is due to air on UKTV's Watch channel next year. Filming will begin this week.
UKTV's director of entertainment commissioning, Lisa Perrin, said: "The thing I really love about Scream is that our celebrities get to ride too, so we can watch them and the contestants being pushed and pulled here, there and everywhere by huge G forces."
Watch's channel head, Paul Moreton, added: "In theory, the tasks we're getting our contributors to do are simple – but trying to complete them whilst upside down at 55mph and experiencing 4.7Gs is another thing."
The show was commissioned by Perrin, Watch's channel head Paul Moreton and UKTV's director of entertainment, Christian Drobnyk. It is executive produced by Perrin, Tess Cuming and Simon Welton with Andy Scott as series producer and Tony Gregory as director.
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