By Erika Gimenes, Hollywood.com Staff

HOLLYWOOD,  October  31, 2001 -- If you think that watching people eat worms or lie in a coffin filled with rats is eerie and disgusting--and entertaining--you will now have a chance to see celebrities face similar situations.

Donny Osmond, Kelly Preston (Jerry Maguire), David Hasselhoff, Brooke Burns (Baywatch), rapper Coolio, and Joanie Leurer ("Chyna" from the WWF), will be recruited for NBC's special celebrity edition of Fear, to air Nov. 27 at 8.pm.

Each celebrity contestant will donate any prize money won to charity, Reuters reported.

The network scheduled the celebrity-edition of Fear for the last Tuesday of the November ratings sweeps, and the show will run seven minutes over its usual hour-long format, lasting until after ratings competitor 24 (FOX) begins.

New episodes of Fear weren't slated to begin its 15-episode second season in January, and the celeb edition was going to serve as the second-season premiere. But when NBC executives saw a rough cut of the show, they felt it would increase the peacock network's sweeps ratings.

Some industry observers are questioning if Fear will have the same effect it had in its first season, given the daily terror alerts Americans face currently.

NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker isn't worried.

"What the audience has been telling us over the last few weeks is that they want to be entertained," Zucker told Reuters. "It's our job to entertain people, and this show is incredibly entertaining. I'm not going to get caught up in psychoanalyzing the American public."