Big Brother’s boss says his team dream up their best ideas for the hit show in the pub while reading the Daily Star.

Phil Edgar Jones insists some of their funniest and best stunts have come about after a few pints and a good read.

And, with the new series just three weeks away, they are getting their “drinking and thinking caps” on.

Phil’s own favourite task from the past was getting MP George Galloway, 53, to wear a leotard and impersonate a cat when he appeared on Celebrity Big Brother along with singer Pete Burns, 48, in 2006.

Phil revealed: “We just thought that any mime artist worth their salt would wear a leotard. Actually, I came up with that in the pub! But it provided some great scenes.”

Big Brother 9 starts on June 5 and Phil is under pressure to make the Channel 4 show a success, especially after BB Celebrity Hijack was panned by critics earlier this year.

But Phil, 40, insisted: “Big Brother is alive and well.”

Asked about BB9’s housemates, he teased: “Some are there to chase 15 minutes of fame, some for the experience and some for the prize money.

“We try to cast outlandish characters. But we don’t have a BB bingo card looking for the Irish one, the gay one, the mad one, the transsexual one. We try to get a balance.”


Source