Former Catchphrase presenter Nick Weir has been appointed vice president of entertainment for Royal Caribbean International.
Weir, the successor to Roy Walker on the popular TV gameshow, will oversee the cruise line’s onboard entertainment and guest activities programming.
Weir started his career as a singer and comedian on cruise ships and comes from a tradition of maritime entertainment.
His mother was an accomplished cruise entertainer and his father was a cruise director.
For the past 10 years, Weir has owned and operated an entertainment consulting company with projects that included television and live event production services, speech and script writing, cruise industry start-up projects and cruise director services.
He was aso entertainment consultant and cruise director for Celebrity Cruises and Costa Cruises, and consulted extensively for Star Clippers Tall Ship Cruises.
"Royal Caribbean International is known as the entertainment cruise brand and has created countless entertainment innovations at sea, such as fully licensed Broadway musicals, Vegas-style, acrobatic high-diving productions and the DreamWorks Experience," said Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, executive vice president of operations.
"With his stellar and diverse background, Nick will help lead Royal Caribbean International’s award-winning entertainment programme to the next level – not just for our existing fleet of the world’s largest and most innovative cruise ships, but also for the three Quantum-class ships and a third Oasis-class ship that will be launching starting in late-2014."
