Popstar To Operastar is madness

This has to be one of the maddest concepts ever to grace our screens.

Even more silly than Celebrity Love Island and The Farm is Popstar To Operastar, which starts on ITV1 next week. Everything about it is contrived, including the title - it pains me to write it like that, as pop star and opera star should be separate words, not run together to make it snappier.

The premise is daft enough, taking pop singers and trying to make them sing in an operatic style. Why, what's the point?

But what makes this show so bizarre is the list of people involved. Katherine Jenkins will be mentoring the likes of Bernie Nolan, Jimmy Osmond and Danny from McFly, who will perform in front of judges - wait for it - Meat Loaf and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Madness!

Myleene Klass, who hasn't been on telly for all of five minutes, pops up yet again to host with Alan Titchmarsh.

So that's a gardener and an interior designer pretending to be experts on classical music.

Other contestants include Kym Marsh and Darius, who both shot to fame on the original Popstars (which I blame for starting the whole 'pop stars as one word' craze).

Of course I'll be watching, this promises to be car crash telly. But what next, I wonder? Celebritydriver To Formulaonestar? Or Bricklayer To Brainsurgeon?