Pick your favourite Big Brother past...

First show *highlights*: masturbation of one of the characters on an almost daily basis.

Second comes 2002. Some strange journey there.

2005 had some really fantastic bits, too

"Look, she's making a cup of tea! On the telly! I've never seen the likes."

Runner up: 2004.

Jason was on some Channel 5 reality TV show last year where a group of "celebs" did marine training or something. In one of the weirdest pieces of reality show (UK edition) casting ever, one of the combatants was Ryan Dunn from Jackass.

2002 was rubbish, I hated almost all the contestants and those bars ruined the show. I have a bit of a soft spot for 2000 as well.

But the second one was best. They genuinely seemed to like each other a lot of the time and be having fun. Also some of them were honestly quite funny.

I found 2004 hard to watch, 2005 impossible, and I haven't seen a minute of it this year. Have they actually put monkeys in there yet?

- I was working from home and watching the World Cup too, what a summer.
- Living with 2 other BB obsessives, as opposed to on my own/with my wife who is less of a fan
- Trig Brother was particularly good that year too!

= BAWRIN

Bez, Mark, Cameron.

I know it's not much nowadays, but he did take over from Ant and Dec on SMTV, and didn't make a complete hash of it.

I haven't seen any of the more recent ones.

Mark has joined up with the reformed Take That and sold out arenas up and down the country, i.e. not that much.

Cameron does panto in Aberdeen every year, and writes for the Sunday Post. His brother is still more famous than him up here, if you like watching shite football highlights programmes.

I like them pretty much in descending order with 2000 at the top. The more "characters" they try to put in, the worse it gets.

there has to be a balance of people-who-like-each-other and people-who-hate-each-other

worst is 2006 as I am unable to watch the 18-yr-old and his "sexy body"

= BAWRIN

Perhaps, but I'd rather watch relatively normal people go slightly mental under the strain of living in bizarre conditions than watch fucking vapid attention whores go apeshit bonkers from minute one just because the camera's on them. The people they have on there now are like vegetables that sing and dance when you open the fridge and the light goes on.

Not that I personally have vegetables that sing and dance when you open the fridge and the light goes on, but I have seen some on telly ads.

People who didn't know who Bez was do now. I don't think Jack Dee benefitted much, being more of a household name beforehand.

Howabout now those that have been harmed by being on it?

top of the list: 2005 Lesleh.

Harmed by being on it - probably ones we never hear about. Did Sunita ruin her budding law career?

Nichola and Sada had a brief relationaship in 2001. Nichola supported Gabrielle on tour and released a single called "The Game" which flopped. She has since become a porn star.

Sada wrote a book about relationships called "Babes Bible" and returned to India, training to be a yoga instructor.

Carloline suffered from depression after an unsuccessful attempt to launch a career in pop music.

Under the news section, he says he's about to take part in the Nuremberg Rally, which sounds rather alarming.

2000 obviously had the benefit of novelty value. and the mighty craig.

2004 wasn't as good as everyone remembers, i think. or was it? looking at it now, i can't remember. i know i loathed and hated emma and marco, and that put me off the whole thing for a bit.

2003 contained gos, my favourite-ever housemate. (why? i dunno. he was fat and called "gos", and that was good enough for me.)

was eugene really only last year? my god.

best CBB? anne diamond and goldie crocheting through the night. they don't seem to do the all-night tasks any more.

Love Stuart(2001)'s bio from the website:

"Stuart describes himself as a highly confident and articulate person whose passions are fast cars and fois gras."

For some reason I miss the dependable boring types like Dean and Johnny.

I thought the first series was absolutely fascinating - and the round-table meeting/exposure of "Nasty Nick" was genuinely compelling television. The second series with "Helen&Paul" (counts as one) was good fun.

I started to lose interest with series three - I remember watching a task in which the housemates had to play musical chairs and thought "This is a bit crap really". Can't remember anything about the fourth aside from the gimmick "Christian missionary goes to Africa" trip. The fifth? That was the one with the Portugese transexual - Nadia. Aside from that, total non-recall.

I didn't watch one second of last year's series and don't intend to watch it this year either.

Has there ever been a "where are they now?" documentary on the Big Brother contestants? Aside from Jade Goody, they all seem to dropped right back into obscurity, which is admittedly where they belong.