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Fame Academy is back and it's bigger and better than ever - we've even got a brand new Academy!

Comic Relief Does Fame Academy 2005 is a star-studded extravaganza in which 13 well-known celebrities go head-to-head in the ultimate singing competition that asks stars to reach every high note and scale every arpeggio to raise money for good causes in the UK and abroad.

Hosts Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty also return to present this extended series from the stunning new Academy on the banks of the Thames. The hopeful stars have to transform themselves and their voices in order to perform live on stage every evening and avoid being voted out.

But first, the celebrities will be asked to take part in a preliminary 'sing off' as the 13 are reduced to 12. On Saturday 26th February at 6.10pm on BBC ONE, watch as each celebrity performs their chosen number and then vote for ten of the students to stay by either phone or text.

The judges vote to keep an eleventh celebrity and the pressure is cranked up to maximum as the students themselves must choose a lucky twelfth star.

Over the following 10 days, under the watchful eyes of coaches Carrie and David Grant, choreographer Kevin Adams, music coach Tim Maple and tutor Jeremy Milnes, the students perform live from the Academy every night on BBC ONE. At the end of each show, one is expelled until just three are left for the final showdown on Red Nose Night on Friday 11th March.

The judges offering their professional opinions are opera star Lesley Garrett and notorious head teacher Richard Park, as well as a mystery judge who will be dropping in unexpectedly. Who is this? You'll just have to tune in to find out!

BBC THREE viewers can turn over straight after the BBC ONE show every night until Thursday 10th March, where Claudia Winkleman has the exclusive first interview with the expelled celebrity student. Broadcast live from the Academy, BBC THREE has exclusive interviews and all the latest gossip.

Digital viewers will also be able to follow all the action as BBCi gives fans the ultimate access with continuous broadcasts direct from the Academy each day from 9am to midnight. An additional highlights show will be broadcast every hour, on the hour, for viewers who missed out on vital events from earlier in the day.

And of course, check back to this very site for up-to-the-minute news as it happens plus video clips from deep within the Academy. CBBC1 and CBBC channel are also following the celebrity songsters every day with a live show presented by Jake Humphrey featuring special guests and in depth insight into life at the Academy.

Whether they turn out to have voices of angels or voices that shatter glass, it doesn't matter because for Comic Relief, it's all about just doing something fun and helping out with a good cause!