Big Brother returns with a twist Celebrity Big Brother returns with a new formula after the racism row that overshadowed last year's series. On Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, the famous names will act as the voice of Big Brother, while the 12 housemates are described as "pure prodigies".
They include an Olympic boxing hopeful, a classical musician and the chairman of the Scottish Youth Parliament.
Little Britain's Matt Lucas will be the first star to set the rules during the live launch on Channel 4.
The rest of the series will feature footballer Ian Wright, pop impresario Malcolm McLaren and comedians Jimmy Carr and Joan Rivers.
They will set tasks, invent rules and talk to housemates in the diary room.
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)
Good thread.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:33 (seventeen years ago)
Just a thought:
You reckon that's why Malc withdrew from Celeb/Jungle, because he got offered this in the meantime?
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)
Unlikely - he'd have had plenty of time to be able to do both. Maybe he withdrew from C/J because he figured he'd get voted out early, so by withdrawing he got more publicity?
― snoball, Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:10 (seventeen years ago)
if only i had some kind of comedy jpeg to show how i felt about this. maybe some kind of meter, perhaps including a pi symbol for extra laffs?
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:12 (seventeen years ago)
He could have done both, but would Endemol be as keen after he'd come out of the Jungle? Probably not. Also, would *he* want to do the jungle if he'd been offered a nice cushty 'sit in a nice room barking orders at some young people' type job?
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:24 (seventeen years ago)
he turned it down out of punk rock principle.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)
Well I think Jungle is a bit more high profile than CBB - it's only in the last week that C4 have been running trailers for it. Last year there was far more of a build up. This year it seems kind of low key.
― snoball, Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:30 (seventeen years ago)
So low-key it's actually being shown on E4 and not Channel Four proper?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 January 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)