Celebrity Sabotage: Green Face Masks and Deleted Wedding Footage Spark New Saturday Night Stunt
celebrity sabotage unfolds this week as a new hidden-camera series places celebrities inside fake studio competitions to execute covert missions aimed at adding cash to a secret prize pot; the first episode stages ‘The Applicant’ with entrepreneur Sara Davies joining the celebrity saboteurs to disrupt challenges, including a wellness away-day face-mask activity smeared with green food colouring and interference with wedding video filming.
How the show works
The format builds each episode around a fake programme. On the first instalment, business expert Sara Davies teams up with the Celebrity Saboteurs as host of ‘The Applicant’ while a roster of celebrities — Joel Dommett, Judi Love, Sam Thompson and GK Barry among them — prepare and carry out missions designed to sow chaos without being identified. Celebrities use props and disguises to sabotage tasks: examples in the opening episode range from deleting contestants’ filmed wedding footage to disrupting a wellness face-mask session by applying lashings of green food colouring.
Celebrity Sabotage: stakes and secrecy
There is a single governing rule for the saboteurs: don’t get caught. For every successful sabotage mission, money is added to a secret prize pot which is revealed at the end of each episode and shared equally among all contestants; the potential pot reaches up to £30, 000. The fake shows across the series include Couple Goals, The Applicant and The Backstabber, with hosts attached to those setups including Matt and Emma Willis, Sara Davies and Rylan Clark.
Immediate reactions from the cast
Joel Dommett, The Masked Singer host, said, “I honestly couldn’t have asked for a better set of people. We all got on so well, we really gelled as a group, and I genuinely feel that we are all going to be friends for ever. It’s a really great shared experience. I genuinely love them. They are very funny, really good people. “
Sam Thompson, Made in Chelsea star, said, “My fellow saboteurs were amazing – I honestly couldn’t have asked for a better team. We had the best time – it didn’t even feel like work, as a show sabotaging people is my actual dream show. “
Production also brought in comedian Jo Brand to join the saboteurs in the opening episode, taking part in missions aimed at disrupting on-location filming and staged activities.
Quick context
The series arrives as a new weekend entertainment option, presented in a high-energy hidden-camera format that pairs celebrity performers with unsuspecting members of the public who think they are taking part in genuine studio shows. The launch sits alongside other new Saturday night entries, including a British version of a live sketch show hosted in its opening episode by a high-profile guest.
What’s next
Future episodes will continue to reveal the secret prize pot at each episode’s close and expand the roster of fake shows and missions; viewers can expect more disguised stunts, escalating challenges for the celebrity saboteurs and further attempts to add to the episode prize pots without getting caught.
