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EXCLUSIVE: Fox is officially searching for nan Nation’s Dumbest.
The web has handed nan show, which is based connected a Scandinavian format, a bid order. Deadline revealed that nan task was successful improvement astatine nan extremity of past year.
The bid will now beryllium hosted by British comedian Jack Whitehall and nan web has lined up a phalanx of celebrities aiming not to beryllium nan dumbest successful nan country.
Nation’s Dumbest is nan first tv show wherever nan loser is nan winner. Celebrities conflict it retired to beryllium eliminated from nan title arsenic quickly arsenic imaginable to debar being crowned nan nation’s dumbest. From influencers to wrestlers, comedians to politicians, nan contestants are put to nan trial successful a bid of beingness and intelligence rounds astir each nan things you really should know.
Celebs featured are Dance Moms’ JoJo Siwa, TikTok prima Chase Hudson, Former Arizona Cardinals QB Matt Leinart, leader Andrew Yang, musician Elle King, The Breakfast Club prima Anthony Michael Hall, Alec Baldwin’s woman Hilaria Baldwin, who precocious competed connected Dancing pinch nan Stars, Jackass’ Steve-O, rapper Ice-T, Baywatch’s Carmen Electra, Celeb Rehab’s Dr. Drew Pinsky and Napolean Dynamite’s Jon Heder.
Many of these stars person starred connected shows for Fox earlier including Siwa, who has appeared connected The Masked Singer, Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test and Hell’s Kitchen; Ice-T, who was connected The Masked Dancer, Electra, who was a impermanent big on Domino Masters and Pinsky, who featured connected Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
Whitehall is champion known successful nan States arsenic 1 of nan stars, alongside Keke Palmer, of Peacock’s The ‘Burbs, which was renewed for a 2nd season. Nation’s Dumbest marks his first U.S. web hosting gig. He is good known successful nan UK for hosting nan Brit Awards and starring connected Sky sheet show A League of their Own arsenic good arsenic scripted drama Fresh Meat. He besides starred successful Netflix recreation bid Jack Whitehall: Travels pinch my Father. Nation’s Dumbest marks his first U.S. web hosting gig.
Fox is calling its type a personage title bid that “flips nan genre connected its caput because for nan first time, nan extremity isn’t to triumph — it’s to get eliminated”.
The bid will debut this summertime on Wednesday, July 15 at 9pm.
The U.S. type is produced by BBC Studios, which is down Fox’s Celebrity Weakest Link, ABC’s Dancing pinch nan Stars, and Netflix’s Outlast. It will beryllium exec produced by Ryan O’Dowd, Krystal Whitney and Jenny Groom. James Breen, who has worked connected The Masked Singer and So You Think You Can Dance, will service arsenic showrunner and will exec nutrient alongside Michael O’Sullivan.
Nation’s Dumbest has been a deed successful Norway, launching successful August 2024, and it is now connected its 2nd play aft becoming nan country’s most-watched show. The format comes from Montreaux Films.
“Nation’s Dumbest takes an instantly relatable format and flips it successful a measurement that’s ‘smart,’ unpredictable, and genuinely funny,” said Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network. “It’s a title wherever nan extremity is to debar winning, and that twist—combined pinch Jack Whitehall’s crisp comedic sound and a awesome personage cast—makes it a bold, high-energy bid built for big, co-viewing audiences.”
“I tin confidently opportunity we person nan absolute dumbest television format successful nan world—and for once, that’s by design,” added Ryan O’Dowd, President of Unscripted, BBC Studios. “Nation’s Dumbest celebrates humor, humility and nan cosmopolitan acquisition of not ever getting it right. With Jack Whitehall starring nan chaos and a formed afloat successful connected nan joke, it’s a bold, irreverent bid packed pinch large laughs and existent surprises.”
