In January 2007, Gest appeared as a judge on ITV1's "Soapstar Superstar", for one night replacing Michael Ball who was coaching the singers. Later that month it was announced that Gest had signed a one-year deal with ITV to appear in his own reality series entitled "This Is David Gest", which began on April 22, 2007. He also took cameras for a rare glimpse of the Jackson family house in Encino, California, where he met Tito Jackson and his children as well as matriarch Katherine Jackson. He was one of the four judges on ITV1's entertainment series "Grease Is the Word" and also starred on "Greased Lightnin". In 2007, Gest also appeared in an episode of Gordon Ramsay's "The F Word".