Fed: Bring back Who Dares Wins, Zaetta says

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2008
Fed: Bring back Who Dares Wins, Zaetta says

By Alyssa Braithwaite, National Entertainment Writer

SYDNEY, April 1 AAP - Gladiators has made a triumphant comeback on Australian television
screens. Could fellow 1990s game show Who Dares Wins be next?

Almost 1.85 million Australians tuned into the new incarnation of Gladiators on the
Seven Network on Sunday night, making it the most watched TV premiere of the year. The
audience peaked at 2.18 million.

Now Who Dares Wins former host Tania Zaetta says a revamped version of the hit show
would give the Gladiators remake a run for its money.

The show revolved around unsuspecting contestants who were dared to take part in a
dangerous, disgusting or embarrassing stunt of some kind in order to win prizemoney or
holidays.

It originally aired on the Seven Network between 1996 and 1998, hosted by Zaetta and
Mike Whitney (who also hosted the original Gladiators), and has since been screened in
more than 50 countries worldwide.

"I would definitely do it again. It would be great, and I reckon they should," Zaetta told AAP.

"If Gladiators can make a comeback we can definitely kick some serious butt and modernise
Who Dares Wins.

"Who Dares is probably one show that would be great to make a big comeback because
it is still on air now.

"Channel Seven keeps repeating it and it's been like 14 years or something. It's timeless
and dateless."

Zaetta said the only problem with bringing back the successful show was whether they
could come up with new stunts.

"We were so ground-breaking and ahead of our time all the way back then, we had the
best stunt guys and riggers and crew, that what else could we do apart from send a man
to the moon?" she said.

"People are still trying to replicate some of the dares and stunts that we did, like
a tandem parachute with someone bunjying off underneath.

"It's just unheard of, and we did this all like 15 years ago."

Other stunts featured on the show included riding a motorcycle out the back of an airborne
plane, swimming across a lagoon filled with 200 crocodiles, and climbing down a wire ladder
attached to a helicopter as it flew under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The now 37-year-old Zaetta said she thought the original show was contemporary in every
way - except for her fashion.

"The only way that you'd notice that it was filmed many years ago is the fact that
I'm harry high-pants," she laughed.

"My tops were really short and my shorts were up high.

"And now everything's going south - not me, but the length of tops has come down and
the length of jeans has gone all the way down to hipsters."

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