CELEBS IN REALITY REHAB TV SHOW

Sunday Mirror, Feb 10, 2008 by NICK OWENS

CELEBRITIES battling to beat drink and drug addictions are to star in a controversial Big Brother-style show.

"Celeb Rehab" will follow eight stars in a clinic around the clock for two weeks - getting the kind of treatment Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty did.

The so far un-named celebs will be paid pounds 20,000 each to take part in the show, being made by Big Brother producers Endemol at the Promis addiction centre in Kent. There they will be under the care of Dr Robert Lefever, who claimed last night: "It will provide an important insight into the steps addicts take on the road to recovery.""

But alcohol expert Moira Plant said: "Going on a show like this is the worst thing a celebrity addict could do."

And David Knott, who treats dozens of celebrities a year, said: "I would never let cameras inside my clinic."