LOS ANGELES (AP) – Craig Ferguson approached his first TV game show host’s job with a subversive attitude. Then came the simple matter of his wardrobe for “Celebrity Name Game.”
“I thought, ‘I’m not going to wear a suit. I’m going to break that rule,'” Ferguson said. Wrong decision, he quickly realized, after taping the first few episodes of the syndicated daytime show debuting Monday.
“When I watched the shows back, I couldn’t tell who was in charge,” he said.
On came the business suit, fitted over the sly, irreverent style that his nighttime fans know from CBS’ “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” which began airing in 2005.
He wouldn’t have tackled a game show without the opportunity of making it his own, Ferguson said.