‘College Hill: Celebrity Edition’: BET Sets Revival Of Reality Series With NeNe Leakes, Ray J, Lamar Odom, More

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BET has given a green light to College Hill: Celebrity Edition, a revival of its hit reality series College Hill, for premiere this summer.The eight-episode series, from Edmonds Entertainment and This Way Out Media, will feature NeNe Leakes, Ray J, Lamar Odom, Big Freedia, Stacey Dash, DreamDoll, India Love, and Slim Thug, who will head back to class to expand their educational horizons.

The celebs will live together and join the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Texas Southern University as students.In the reimagined series, per BET, each cast member is committed to focusing on their higher education as a personal challenge to prove it’s never too late.

Enrolled alongside current Texas Southern University students, the cast will work towards completing a specialty certificate program to cross the graduation stage.

Like any ordinary college student, they must complete their course work along with required internships, extra credit opportunities, group projects, and more.The original reality series that followed the lives of students at historically black colleges aired for six seasons, from 2004-2009, on BET.“We’re excited College Hill will be returning with a new celebrity edition of the franchise that will bring more awareness to the significance of HBCUs, which has a rich legacy and continued tradition of bolstering excellence through education for some of the brightest minds in the Black community,” said Tiffany Lea Williams, Executive Vice President of BET Unscripted Programming. “Furthermore, we couldn’t be more thrilled about filming on the campus of the illustrious Texas Southern University.