Finally! She shouldn’t have survived the first round and thankfully she didn’t survive the second. Miranda Hart has been voted out of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, and while she might have been quite a character, she certainly couldn’t sing!

Actress Linda Robson, who also finished in the bottom three of a viewers’ vote, was saved by her fellow students.

Comic Mel Giedroyc, whose performance also failed to win over voters, was saved by the show’s judges.

The BBC and Comic Relief today announced the names of the 13 celebrities set to surprise the nation and go head to head in the definitive, celebrity singing competition.

The celebrity students are:

Angellica Bell (presenter)

Colin Murray (Radio 1 DJ, TV presenter)

Fred MacAulay (DJ, broadcaster)

Linda Robson (actress)

Mel Giedroyc (comedienne, writer)

Miranda Hart (comedy actress)

Ray Stubbs (BBC Sport presenter)

Rowland Rivron (comedian/presenter)

Shaun Williamson (actor, Extras)

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (personality/TV presenter)

Tim Vine (comedian)

Tricia Penrose (actress)

Zoë Salmon (Blue Peter presenter)

Regular host Patrick Kielty will be joined by Claudia Winkleman who moves over from BBC Three, to preside over the live event from Fame Academy’s new and fitting venue, the Debating Chamber in London’s County Hall.

Miranda Hart (b. 1972 in Torquay, England) is an English actress, writer and stand-up comedian.

Hart starred as “Teal” in the BBC television comedy sci-fi series Hyperdrive, and has also appeared in French & Saunders, Nighty Night, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, William and Mary, Smack the Pony, for which she wrote and performed in a couple of sketches and a number of video diaries, Not Going Out and Stupid!.

Forgoing the normal stand-up circuit for more character-based comedy, she’s written her own theatre material for the Edinburgh Festival. Her one-woman shows include Miranda Hart – Throbs, It’s All About Me and Miranda Hart’s House Party. She also performed in Alecky Blyth’s 2006 play Cruising at the Bush Theatre in London.Miranda has recently completed a second series of Hyperdrive will screen in April 2007 on BBC television, in which Hart will reprise her role of “Teal”. She is also due to appear in this years Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.

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