Celebrity Big Brother 2010: Hell Is Other Celebrities

'Hellish' Celebrity Big Brother house unveiled

and a gallery of the house...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8434141.stm

Public warning, Sov's in town. Is she the only one confirmed?

IIRC Henry Holland was signed up too. Not that that matters, really.

There's not been a lot of speculation for a BB series that's starting in only a few days (Sunday 3rd). Apart from: Russell Brand turned it down, Kym Marsh turned it down, Vinnie Jones wanted a stupid amount of money, and Boy George can't do it by order of a judge. The producers couldn't even get Steve Strange last year. Right now this year's CBB looks like it'll be very very boring - a house full of people no-one knows or cares about.

Kerry Katona still too barmy not well enough for Celebrity Big Brother.

was said to be hopeful of securing a £250,000 ($451,000) fee for participating in the new series of the Channel 4 reality show.

^^^ there's the real problem - celebs demanding to be paid huge amounts of money to appear in a dying-on-it's-arse series that no-one's ever been paid more than £100K to be on anyway.
Incidentally this all kicks off at 9PM on C4 tonight. And very possibly falls flat on it's face about half an hour afterwards.
Added to the list of rumoured housemates:
Paul Gascoine (may be nixed for psyche-eval reasons like Katona),
Basshunter (he has Tourette's, like that guy who won BB, dumped his band, dumped Nikki, then dissappeared off the radar after a week),
Dane Bowers (oh he used to go out with Katie Price!)
Alex Reid (who? oh he used to go out with Katie Price!)

According to the NOTW, it's:

Vinnie Jones
Stephen Baldwin
Alex Reid
Nicola T
Ekaterina Ivanova
Dane Bowers
Jonas Erik Altberg
Heidi Fleiss
Stephanie Beacham
Lady Sovereign

Celebrity Big Brother bosses hold crisis talks over Reid and Bowers

The Sun also claims that Ivana Trump is going to be a housemate.

(xpost) I have a feeling that was a deliberate publicity stunt cooked up between the two of them. Basically the only thing that would prevent this being from being a yawn-fest would be the presence of Jedward - they are such completely clueless tools, as evidenced by their appearance on Graham Norton's show a few days ago.

And here we go...

#1: Steve Baldwin

"A representation of the light of truth"

#2: Nicola T

awkward convo between the first two housemates virtually guaranteed

i feel terrible for asking this because lol 'celeb' bb but who is Nichola T?

Imagigoogle her :)

Page 3 model, used to be a WAG, will shortly be releasing a single with Coolio.

i did and it still didn't help. generic attractive lady = celebrity these days huh?

Previous reality TV experience on something called "WAGs Boutique", but stretching "celebrity" a bit far. As too so is Steve Baldwin - I didn't even know that Alec had brothers...

#3: Alex Reid

It's not so much "Celebrity Big Brother" as "I've Shagged / Am Related To / Have Been Seen Near A Celebrity Big Brother"

#4: Stephanie Beecham

Stephanie's proper.

I'm predicting SB will be this year's Ulrika "I don't want to win this/be here" actual winner.

ha, only Nicola knows who the hell Steph is!

#5: Lady Sovereign

So the house has Sov *and* a sad arse strippa. Nice.

xpost SABLE CARRINGTON yo

I love the way that Steve deadpanned "so who are you?" to Steph - quality pwnage within the first half hour

...she should have said "Sarah Palin, darling."

#6: Sisqo

That VT did him no favours at all.

oh dear. i guess that was in his contract.

Helpfully he's performing a bit from his only hit from ten years ago, just in case anyone (possibly everyone) is still going "who the hell is this?"

CRINGE

o_O at Sisqo and Steve being buddies!

#7: Dane Bowers

#8: Heidi Fliess

heidifuckingfleiss. a baldwin's gonna KNOW.

"I've seen you before"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time." LOL had a feeling.

i think this was the baldwin that was on the american version of 'i'm a celebrity'

#9: Jonas Basshunter

Think there were 3 baldwins on I'm a celebrity.

Touch base and then go hunting

Touch cloth and then go wiping

Heidi can't maintain eye contact with anyone, can she?

#10: Katia Ivanova

Yes. It is depressing to think the pop culture gatekeepers and participants of the moment are all the children of character actors and one-hit-wonder pop stars.

like that's not going to get worse and worse, too :(

Bob's had more than one hit!

Actually, isn't it less to do with 'kids of old celebs' and more that 'they all live in the same area, close to TVland', thanks to local TV regions now being 'shells' supplied by London (or nearest close city until they all eventually merge with bigger cities until London wins), for the most part?

one can only hope his "acting" career fizzles out

Not while Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball is picking 'em in at the straight to dvd box office.

It's weird that people in the house think he's a proper seriously a-list famous guy. Limited footballer becomes limited actor via awful (but thankfully short) singing career.
They were all wide-eyed at "I did X-Men, that was a hundred million dollar movie" when he was in it for all of 2 minutes, delivered one line and then ran into a fucking wall.

Vinnie rode in on Guy Ritchie's coattails and knows it, which is a sad indictment of who he is.

I won't write about them and nor should any journalist who complains about them, but it falls down a bit because editors are whores for this shit. Someone actually got a doc series on R4 following some of them to find out how damn hard it is to go creative when your parents are like rilly rilly famous, featuring Jennifer Saunders' daughter sqwicking with embarrassment at parents coming to watch her perform and also finding time to chat to Coco Sumner (who my mag will not cover because she's reputed to be a monster druggie).

Yeah, but admit you knew immediately when he was announced:

1) who he was
2) how he'd be in the house.
3) that all the other housemates would know who he is.

That's famous enough

vinnie jones is a total douche. i remember back when he was playing, he appeared on an irish chat show about how he was over in dublin trying to find irish roots to see if he would be eligible to play for ireland (even though jack charlton said 'we need vinnie jones like we need a hole in the head'). he was droning on, 'oh yeah the irish they got a bit of the 'ol heart, innit'. fast forward two months later hes lining out for wales with a fresh dragon tattoo and belting out the welsh national anthem.

xposts

clueless? lamb is more of a hateful bully than vinnie even, i couldn't watch bblb at all because of him being sneering and spiteful. one of the most vile people on tv right now. he's a rotten host too, his attempts at geeing up the audience are so weak and their reaction reflects it.

awesome news that vinnie is set to be the first out! although the guy who said he's one of the worst contestants of all time is waaay out, there are dozens equal or worse (sezer for one). thing is, he has flashes of decent-dadness, in how he does want a 'nice' house and cleans and offers (misguided) advice. it's just the role of alpha male requires someone to be almost 100% goodguy - any flaws become magnified, to the viewer anyway. it says a lot that everyone in there actually likes the guy. man, can't believe i'm defending vinnie jones - i still think he's a cock, but he has helped make a more unified house, esp in the past few days.

hmm, might want to googleplex that name up there, xposts..

I used to know (sot of) the daughter of a famous presenter of an ITV arts programme that's not on anymore, and she basically got by by never using her given surname. It only got out because my dad (who was on the PTA) asked him who he'd come to see (and being the proud father, naturally, gave it away)..

Then again, she 'gave it all up' and became an anglican priest.

The only person I wasn't aware of before was Nicola T!

What I meant was Vinnie's whole alpha dog thing is based on a lie.

I know plenty of famesprogs who don't call attention to themselves in a vulgar way (which is I guess what I object to - we've all gotta eat).

vinnie as horrible as the most horrible bb people ever

I expect Alex will want to be the runner up, as Katie only likes to hook up with guys that come second.

(I'll get my coat)

don't just get it

remember that ulrika was the underdog and predicted first out, i think? i haven't watched any of this, just read the thread.

Well, I have no idea how Ulrika won last year's.

I was surprised, given that UJ was the one saying "I don't wanna be here" all the time. Maybe it could be the person who least looks like they want to win.

I was surprised because nobody has ever admitted to voting for her.

5th - Stephanie

LOL at Dynasty exit music.

4th - Jonas

Sparklit is really, really OFF.

"AND I LOVE FARTS!"

3rd - Vinnie

Dressed the way he is, he should do the Madness Nutty Boys dance as he leaves.

#2 - Dane
#1 - Alex

Expect a ghoat written autobio in time for Easter/Mother's Day.

ghost I mean...

thought you meant goat

Well maybe it would be better that way.

The advantage being that if it doesn't sell, the goat will have plenty to eat.

"fresh new shart"

yeah, I heard that.

(Davina)

Finally occurred to me that Dane Bowers is Paul Morley's stunt double.

Worth a new thread for this year? So far we have Sonia off EastEnders, Michael Madsen (wtf?), and a Tesco Value Louie Spence. Rumours of Manky Cocozza.

rumors of what

Are the pole dancing twins from the Sofia Coppola movie 'Somewhere' on dis ting?

Ugh, worst ever X Factor contestant. And now he is in Big Brother.

There are also now some pole-dancing Playboy bunny twins, yes.

I didn't watch either the celeb or civilian* C5 BB's. As Cokehoser (a person who got thrown off X Factor for being, er, a coke hoser) is practically the most famous person there, I don't think I'll be watching.

(* highlight: someone shat in a fridge, but C5 couldn't show it, or seemingly even mention it)

I knew that BB would go downhill after it went over to C5, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. Josie winning BB11 seems like such a long time ago.

michael madsen, hey wha' happened?

Natalie Cassidy seems lovely, and is coping with this stupid task really well. Cockhoser will be out within a couple of days. Surely Madsen the most famous?

Assumed at first that when Ailsa mentioned Michael Madsen that it was some dude off Hollyoaks or something, subsequent posts made me realise that it's Res. Dogs MM. Wtf?

Gareth Thomas will be very dull and voted off first.

xp not much work Stateside in early Jan?

xxp Cassidy seemed nice enough on Strictly a while back, but I've no interest in seeing her surrounded by Z-list idiots and resting actors.

Yeah, she was nice on Strictly. She is kicking this task straight up the arse and tbh has probably won this thing already.

oh look, it's some no-mark twat from TOWIE. Hoo-fucking-ray.

xp. rather than - michael madsen, what are you doing there - i was referring to this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_3Szm_U-RDY/TcgvePFlTUI/AAAAAAAAC74/jh-ZWPj6rsw/s1600/Willard.png

ah well.

Oh look, it's Ryan Giggs' sister-in-law that he shagged. She seems awful.

How many "Ryan Giggs' sister-in-law is going into Big Brother for a change" jokes have there been?

Too witty for anyone involved in scripting this farrago, tbh.

Natalie ftw. Unless the papers got it wrong and someone completely awesome is going in last. Except it'll be Denise Welsh, so Natalie ftw.

The task was pure 'actor workshop' and totally meat and drink to Natalie, who Is so the obvious winner.

Apart from that, can't say I care at all.