Possible Clues:

• To tell you the truth, travel agency to the stars is losing the head with 8 across going off to be a player (2,1,6,2,4)
• In reality, peasant at the centre of what interests 11 across (2,1,6,2,4)
• Truly clever chap needed in statecraft of a new order
• In reality show amateur is put in a spot leaving first (2,1,6,2,4)
• Like half of non-professionals, classy chap's to perform without hesitation. Truly! (2,1,6,2,4)
• Truly, trouble dogs a South American absent from work (2,1,6,2,4)
• In reality broadcast oafs attract fame (2,1,6,2,4)
• Swimmers unimaginative, in reality (2,1,6,2,4)