Producers say that at least one user will become a contestant on the reality show's eighth series next year.
About 7.7m people watched 24-year-old Pete Bennett win this year's contest, taking home a £100,000 prize.
Prospective housemates will be able to upload their audition videos to E4.com when it relaunches early next year.
The website will be redesigned as a social networking site, such as MySpace, Bebo, Facebook and Friendster.
Registered users will be able to their own web pages where they can chat to other users, upload their own content and rate clips and submissions from other users.
Channel 4 hopes the website will make younger viewers of the E4 entertainment channel more loyal.
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