The all-new Blue Chip All Star Academy is coming to your screens this weekend – with eight new contestants, four days of challenges, new celebrity judges and a whole load of drama.
Here are the contestants, hoping to be crowned the 2017 All Star winner:
Mead Jenkins, 18 from Buckinghamshire
Mead, moved from his home at 16 to start working at an international event yard, following his ambition to become a top event rider. He hopes Blue Chip can help him realise his dreams.
Tina Wallace, 31 from Cornwall
Tina works in the motor trade industry and started riding competitively four years ago. She has a young horse Banksy who she events. He can be a little ‘over exuberant’ at times and she hopes Pammy and Charlie can help with her dressage.
Victoria Brant, 31 from Lincolnshire
Victoria works in marketing and also has her own blog, Diary of a Wimpy Eventer. She admits she can sometimes be an ‘exceptionally nervous’ rider but sets to overcome her fears. Victoria competes in elementary dressage with her horse Pat and hopes to compete in her first British Eventing competition this season.
Kelly Seager, 36 from Suffolk
A single mum of three, Kelly has been riding for 20 years and competitively for eight. She competes her Irish Cob-X Fenton in dressage and eventing. This year she is hoping to move up to medium level and also wants to “have a bash” at music to dressage.
Hannah Sutch 22 from East Sussex
Hannah is studying a degree in Equine Management at Warwickshire and works part time as a showjumping groom. She competes in dressage with Andy, who she says is her horse of a lifetime. Hannah auditioned last year, but didn’t make the final eight, and after watching the show says she has a long list of questions for Pammy.
Harry Swales, 30 from Wiltshire
After a 10-year break from riding, army officer Harry decided to challenge himself by buying a five-year-old to showjump. What could go wrong? He has done lots of training with Cleo and is now ready to start competing. Harry says what he lacks in experience he makes up for in enthusiasm.
Ceri Davies, 39 from Northamptonshire
Ceri only started riding 18 months ago. She has always loved horses and at the age of 37 fulfilled a life-long dream when she bought ex-racehorse Chimmi. She has learnt a lot in a short space of time and has even won a few rosettes in showjumping. However, she says she has a long way to go.
Ella Knight, 18 from Buckinghamshire
Ella has three jobs, working from 5am until 9pm, to pay for her horse and ensure they have the best opportunities. She has only had Frosty for three months, but they have come on in literal leaps and bounds. When she first got him they couldn’t get round a course of cross poles, but they recently entered their first British Novice showjumping competition.
Find out how they get all on, by watching the new series of Blue Chip All Star Academy when it premieres on Sunday 28 May at 9pm on Sky 253, or you can watch online on H&C Play. You can also follow the contestants’ journey with our regular updates on Facebook and YouTube.