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It’s finally here! It’s been a long wait for TV viewers, but The Mole is finally back. The MoleCelebrity Mole, with such stars as Stephen Baldwin, Corbin Bernsen and Kathy Griffin. Faithful viewers just wanted their favorite show to go back to the way it was, but instead, ABC got rid of the show altogether. Now, seven years since it’s premiere, The Mole is back, and by the way it looks, it’s finally back to its original form.

The Mole will kick off again this Monday, June 2, on ABC once again. While the celebrity version was hosted by Ahmad Rashad, and the original Mole by Anderson Cooper, this most recent version will be hosted by Jon Kelley, an entertainment and sports reporter. Faithful viewers aren’t too sure about him, but are willing to give him a try.

Twelve contestants will start the season out, and they will all work together and separately, to figure out the identity of The Mole among them. While everyone else is working on team efforts to further their opportunities, The Mole is quietly working to sabotage them. At the end of each episode, the contestants answer a series of questions about the identity of The Mole, and the ones who answers the most questions wrong is eliminated.

While I never watched the non-celebrity versions of The Mole, I was drawn in by the celebrities. Mole purists found such fault with the celebrity version, but having it be the only version I’d seen, I was quite enchanted with it. It was interesting to watch the contestants grow more and more paranoid each show about who among them was the secret Mole. The identity of The Mole isn’t known to us viewers either, so we get to play along as well.

Like most reality shows, the contestant pool seems to rely on the pretty people, yet interestingly enough, the contestants here tend to be older than they are on Survivor or Big Brother. The oldest contestant is 60, and the youngest 24. The majority of them seem to be in their 30s, an age that seems old by Big Brother standards.

Hopefully, by the end of the show Monday night, we’ll all feel like this four year wait will have been well worth the wit.

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