After celebrity dancing, ice-skating and diving, the BBC has unveiled the latest discipline which celebrity contestants will be put through in the pursuit of small-screen entertainment – gymnastics, in a new Saturday night show called Let's Get Ready to Tumble.
The new show promises to put "some of the nation's best-loved celebrities" through challenges including vaulting, tumbling and flipping head over heels.
The BBC will hope the new show echoes the success of Strictly Come Dancing, currently into its 11th series and, with around 10 million viewers, its biggest entertainment hit for years.
It has been developed by the BBC's in-house entertainment department, which also makes Strictly Come Dancing, and was last year won by British Olympic medal-winning gymnast Louis Smith.
The BBC said the series would have the full backing of British Gymnastics, which trained Smith and Beth Tweddle, who won rival ITV reality show Dancing on Ice.
Katie Taylor, the BBC's controller of entertainment and events, said: "One thing's for certain, you can expect the celebs to be pushed out of their comfort zone in what is probably the most physically demanding show of its kind anywhere in the world."
Let's Get Ready to Tumble, which is a working title, will be broadcast live and feature celebrity contestants trying to win viewers' votes to stay in the competition.
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