Ben Boyce, former co-host of Pulp Sport, is back and he's out of work. Ben is on the look out for a new job but he doesn't just want any old job, he wants to be something cool - like a rock star or fashion icon or maybe even a movie star or millionaire businessman. Ben is a Wanna-be in WANNA-Ben, Fridays, 10pm on 3. / Each week WANNA-Ben follows Ben as he tries his hand at a new career, attempting to live the life of the rich and famous, by employing the assistance of famous faces to guide him on his journey. / “At the start of the year I had no job. So I started looking for a cushy easy job like my own ‘fan mail co-ordinator' but even I wouldn't employ me,” explains Ben about how the series came about. “Then I begin thinking of people that have really cool jobs like movie star Steven Seagal, pop star Mel B, rock star Alice Cooper, and rapper Vanilla Ice. And decided I was going to try and be like them – and turn my attempts into a TV show complete with interviews with these people and everything!” / And that's exactly what he did, to find out what he will need to achieve to get his new dream job, WANNA-Ben sees Ben interview a myriad of local and international celebrities. / “WANNA-Ben will be full of skits, song parodies and experiments with the public,” Ben explains. “It also sees me endure plenty of pain and humiliation - bee stings, many paintballs, facial acupuncture and injections, drinking my own blood, kissing a dog and prostitution!” / Although WANNA-Ben has a clear link to Pulp Sport, Ben say he hopes audiences will see the new series as more than “Pulp Sport's Ben going solo”. / “The show is kind of a spin off of Pulp Sport but I'm hoping it won't be what Joey was to Friends,” he says. “With the same sense of humour, I'm hoping WANNA-Ben is similar enough to Pulp Sport so that Pulp Sport fans like it, but with the big international celebrities and a move away from sport, I hope that non Pulp Sport fans like it. So basically I'm hoping that EVERYONE will like it!?!? Or at the very least, my mum will like it!” (Source: TV 3 New Zealand)