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Channel 4 has recommissioned The Circle for a third season, alongside a celebrity version, The Celebrity Circle, as part of the Stand Up To Cancer campaign.

Host Emma Willis will return, and comedian Sophie Willan will resume her role as the voiceover in the brand-new third season, which will kick off with a special week-long celebrity edition in 2021.

A set of famous faces will move in for a celebrity version, in which they will be invited to play the game in aid of Stand Up To Cancer, a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 that brings the U.K. together to speed up progress in life-saving research.

In the popularity game where anyone can be anyone, players rate each other based on whom they like—and dislike. Competing against each other, the most popular players gain power and unpopular players get blocked. Once blocked, and before leaving the show, the eliminated players will get to meet other players in person for the first time.