Channel 4 green lights more Celebrity Five Go To...

Helen Warner, Head of Daytime

Helen Warner, head of daytime at Channel 4, has commissioned two further series' of hit daytime show Celebrity Five Go To... following a successful pilot run earlier this year.

 Made by RDF Television, part of Zodiak Media Group, the programme sees a host of a celebrity names packed off on vacation together and compete to be crowned the best holiday-maker. Each of them is tasked with the challenge of organising the best holiday activity for the group, and one by one the stars are shipped home before the winner is announced as voted for by the locals who have had to put up with them.

The first of the new series will see British model Paula Hamilton, Apprentice contestant Stuart "the brand" Baggs, pantomime dame Christopher Biggins, Three Degree star Sheila Ferguson, and former England cricketer Ed Giddins, all jet off to South Africa.

Celebrity Five Go To... will return to screens in May and be stripped across weekdays at 5pm. The series will be executive produced by Dan Barraclough, while Kate Bates is series producer.