On Wednesday, 80 people, some unknown and some who have already appeared on TV, will appear live on Channel 4, all vying for the chance to become a fully fledged Housemate, and you can get to see their details before they have the chance to grace our screens.
The potential Housemates, in no particular order, are.....
1. First Name: Emma
Age: 22
Hometown: Morganstown, Cardiff
Occupation: Accounts Assistant
Random Fact:
Won Miss UK 2005. Has a 1 year old son. Says she hates the way women are stereotyped and that men can get away with anything.
2. First Name: Mark
Age: 24
Hometown: Lives in Reading, originally from Wales
Occupation: Charity Worker – runs cycling programmes for children & adults with disabilities
Random Fact:
Won Mr Wales 2009. Says ‘being Mr Wales does work with the birds’.
3. First Name: Jolanta
Age: 29
Hometown: Cardiff
Occupation: Finance Administrator
Random Fact:
Came to the UK from Poland 5 years ago. Wants to do Big Brother to change the perception of Polish people in the UK. Loves to gamble. She would like to be reincarnated as a man so she could see what it’s like “to have a dick. I think they’re cool and I find them fascinating.”
4. First Name: Jenna
Age: 19
Hometown: Pontypridd, near Cardiff
Occupation: Student – Media and English
Random Fact:
Born with disabled arms – which she says is a rare disability. She describes herself as a “leader not a follower.” She met her fiancé on the internet.
5. First Name: Laura
Age: 20
Hometown: Plymouth, Devon
Occupation: Sales Assistant
Random Fact:
Was expelled from school for plagiarism and once rebelled by getting her ears, tongue and navel pierced and then filmed her mum’s reaction.
6. First Name: Will
Age: 23
Hometown: Bristol
Occupation: Student (Politics)/ Runs own computer repair service
Random Fact:
Former professional computer games player. He hopes to become Prime Minister. He hates his skinny physique and is doing mixed martial arts and body building to make himself bigger. He gives himself a 10 out of 10 for intelligence and can’t stand football as he thinks it’s a “silly sport.”
7. First Name: Shane
Age: 26
Hometown: Limerick, Ireland
Occupation: Carpenter
Random Fact:
Models part time since winning a modelling competition.
8. First Name: Caoimhe (pronounced Kee-va)
Age: 22
Hometown: Dublin
Occupation: Student (BA in French and Spanish)
Random Fact:
She says ‘life’s too short’ for cleaning and says ‘cooking is beneath me’. Got sacked from a job for being ‘diva’.
9. First Name: Emma
Age: 29
Hometown: Co Limerick, Ireland
Occupation: Housewife
Random Fact:
As she’s busy being a mum, she says her social life’s mainly going to Confirmations and Communions and meeting people while walking the dog. In life she most hates “rich people because I’m not”.
10. First Name: Matthew
Age: 27
Hometown: County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Occupation: Refrigeration Engineer
Random Fact:
Northern Ireland’s Sexiest Man 2008. He repairs refrigerators for a living but unfortunately has a phobia of ice.
11. First Name: Tiffany
Age: 22
Hometown: Newtownards, Northern Ireland
Occupation: Bank Clerk
Random Fact:
She has a phobia of having to drink water. Her father has bought her a house and BMW.
12. First Name: John
Age: 19
Hometown: Co Tipperary, Ireland
Occupation: Trainee Teacher
Random Fact:
Auditioned with his twin (Patrick). He performs Irish songs with his twin in his spare time. He speaks fluent Irish and spent his summers living in a Gaelic community speaking the language. He’s Catholic and goes to mass nearly every week and sings in the choir. Hates being told that his twin’s hotter than him.
13. First Name: Patrick
Age: 19
Hometown: Co Tipperary, Ireland
Occupation: Student (BA Humanities, Irish Language, Geography, Bio-Science)
Random Fact:
Applied with his twin brother John, they are inseparable. Hates it when people say his twin’s funnier than him.
14. First Name: Kerry
Age: 20
Hometown: Ireland
Occupation: Student
Random Fact:
Born in LA and has 4 different nationalities - American, Irish, Japanese and Hawaiian. She lived in a convent while at school to save on commuting. She’s also superstitious and would like to be reincarnated as the Molly Malone statue so people would want their picture taken with her.
15. First Name: Gillian
Age: 20
Hometown: Dublin
Occupation: Student (Fashion and Business)
Random Fact:
Lives at home with family and loves it: “I want to stay here until I’m 30.” She’s a catholic girl with a sixth sense, who believes in angels and spirits - often finds white feathers belonging to angels. Would like to kiss a girl to see what it’s like.
16. First Name: Maggie
Age: 24
Hometown: Northern Ireland
Occupation: Insurance Rep
Random Fact:
13 years ago she survived a bomb blast that blew her out of bed. Once went to Australia for a month’s holiday, and ended up staying for 5 years. She doesn’t agree that “Northern Ireland should be part of England.”
17. First Name: Sarah-Jane
Age: 24
Hometown: Renfrewshire, Paisley
Occupation: Travel Agent
Random Fact:
Used to work as cabin crew. Believes in psychics and mediums.
18. First Name: Nav
Age: 25
Hometown: Glasgow
Occupation: Customer Service Assistant
Random Fact:
He lives with his Mum: “I’m very lazy when it comes to house chores. She’s my maid, my servant and cleaner!”
19. First Name: Gregor
Age: 20
Hometown: Edinburgh
Occupation: DJ
Random Fact:
This DJ/entertainer wants to reopen old bingo and cabaret halls and put on variety shows. He buys toys every week and owns 50 vintage Kermit the frogs. Has a bedroom filled with unopened toys. He says Big Brother wouldn’t change his life as he’s already a celeb where he’s from.
20. First Name: Emma
Age: 23
Hometown: Glasgow
Occupation: Events Manager
Random Fact:
Came 3rd in Miss Great Britain 2009. Used to play football in a ladies team. Says the weirdest job she’s ever had was working at Buffalo Joes where she ‘dressed up in chaps and a bikini every night and rode a mechanical bull – fun times’.
21. First Name: John
Age: 24
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
Occupation: Retired Vehicle Body Builder
Random Fact:
Australian. Changed his name to “Achilles” when he was 20. Flew backwards and forwards from Australia to the UK to audition for Big Brother.
22. First Name: Jessica
Age: 21
Hometown: London
Occupation: Model
Random Fact:
Trained dancer. Would like to become a forensic scientist.
23. First Name: Adam
Age: 21
Hometown: Surrey
Occupation: Builder / Maintenance Engineer
Random Fact:
Ex kick boxer. Happily married to the girl of his dreams. Has over 100 tattoos and would like a full body suit of tattoos.
24. First Name: Senel
Age: 30
Hometown: London
Occupation: Doctor’s receptionist
Random Fact:
Half Greek, half Turkish doctor’s receptionist whose dream man is Peter Andre. She’s Twittered him three times but he hasn’t replied yet.
25. First Name: Amin
Age: 19
Hometown: Middlesex
Occupation: Actor/Dancer
Random Fact:
Iranian dwarf who earns his living dancing in a London club.
26. First Name: Elizabeth
Age: 30
Hometown: Leatherhead
Occupation: Full time mother
Random Fact:
Married naturist and full-time mum.
27. First Name: Graham
Age: 44
Hometown: Streatham, London
Occupation: Antiques & Collectables Dealer
Random Fact:
Self-confessed wheeler dealer who claims to be the ultimate South London wide-boy. Has been a naturist since the age of 14 and has worked as a naked cleaner.
28. First Name: Adrian
Age: 25
Hometown: Middlesex
Occupation: Church Organist/Choir Master & Research scientist
Random Fact:
Started playing piano aged 3. Doesn’t believe in democracy – he believes the country should be run as an autocracy.
29. First Name: Rachel
Age: 28
Hometown: Liverpool
Occupation: Cabin Crew
Random Fact:
Sacked from her job in a Bingo hall for being too loud.
30. First Name: Victoria
Age: 23
Hometown: East Sheen, London
Occupation: Teaching Assistant
Random Fact:
Is single and has a thing for George Lamb.
31. First Name: Faith
Age: 62
Hometown: Wimbledon
Occupation: Retired – also cares for the elderly
Random Fact:
Moved to UK from South Africa in 2000. Worked as a housemaid for the Queen at Windsor. Describes herself as a ‘naughty Christian’.
32. First Name: Mark
Age: 27
Hometown: Windsor
Occupation: Salesman
Random Fact:
Once streaked in front of 15,000 people at a football match.
33. First Name: Amanda
Age: 23
Hometown: Potter’s Bar
Occupation: Restaurant Manager
Random Fact:
Half-Brazillian, half-Portugese. Has a Business Management degree and helps run the family restaurants in London and Portugal.
34. First Name: Jake
Age: 23
Hometown: Hemel Hempstead
Occupation: Recruitment Consultant
Random Fact:
This self confessed “mummy’s boy” has a strange curiosity about other people’s foot odours – he sniffs their socks when they take them off and the opportunity presents itself.
35. First Name: Frankie
Age: 18
Hometown: Chelmsford
Occupation: Cleans caravans
Random Fact:
Dream job would be a weathergirl or the Queen.
36. First Name: James
Age: 19
Hometown: Bristol
Occupation: Student
Random Fact:
Married his husband William in a Pagan ceremony at Glastonbury.
37. First Name: Sheena
Age: 27
Hometown: North Carolina, America
Occupation: Neuroscientist
Random Fact:
PhD Student and ex American beauty pageant queen. Describes herself as a genius, she believes she would be the smartest person ever to be in the Big Brother House.
38. First Name: Annabelle
Age: 28
Hometown: London
Occupation: IT Recruitment Consultant
Random Fact:
Once made Ł17K commission in a month.
39. First Name: Penny
Age: 23
Hometown: Northampton
Occupation: Risk Analyst/Model
Random Fact:
Has taken part in Miss England but her dream job is to be a writer. She is currently writing a chick lit novel.
40. First Name: Mario
Age: 28
Hometown: Essex
Occupation: Unemployed
Random Fact:
Aspiring fashion designer, doesn’t believe in love but trusts the paranormal. Owns the Diary Room chair from Big Brother 7.
41. First Name: James
Age: 33
Hometown: Cumbernauld, Glasgow
Occupation: Delivery Driver
Random Fact:
Single guy who wants to party 24/7. His best experience in life was living in Australia for a year when he was 24 years old.
42. First Name: Kimberley
Age: 21
Hometown: Swindon
Occupation: HR Assistant
Random Fact:
Miss Gay UK 2007.
43. First Name: Clinton
Age: 23
Hometown: Margate
Occupation: Process Operator (Fujifilm Sericol)
Random Fact:
Says he can’t go a day without seeing his family. He took 84 hours to fill out his application form.
44. First Name: Zoe
Age: 33
Hometown: Bexleyheath, Kent
Occupation: Social worker / minister
Random Fact:
An independent minister, she bought the title on the internet. Refers to herself as Dolly Rotten. She has an image of A-Ha’s ‘Take On Me’ video tattooed on her arm.
45. First Name: Donna
Age: 23
Hometown: Norwich
Occupation: Unemployed
Random Fact:
Was in a transsexual pop group called the Kit Kat Dolls who featured on Britain’s Got Talent.
46. First Name: Filipe
Age: 26
Hometown: Watford
Occupation: Gardener
Random Fact:
Portuguese Gardener who once wore a mankini on a flight from the UK to Thailand because he was bored. Lists immigrating to Britain as the best thing that he has ever done.
47. First Name: Emily
Age: 18
Hometown: Orpington, Kent
Occupation: Dancer / Actress / Model
Random Fact:
Claims to be the most competitive person in the word – ‘if I had to stand on a log in the middle of the ocean in the scorching sun, I’d be the last person standing’
48. First Name: Callum
Age: 18
Hometown: Portsmouth
Occupation: Lifeguard
Random Fact:
One of the top teenage swimmers in the UK, he swims 6 hours a day, 30 days a month.
49. First Name: Yvette
Age: 24
Hometown: Peterborough
Occupation: Medical Student
Random Fact:
A vegan medical student who lives on crisps and bread.
50. First Name: Govan
Age: 21
Hometown: Leicester
Occupation: Voluntary Worker
Random Fact:
Bi-curious University dropout looking to break into fashion.
51. First Name: Josie
Age: 25
Hometown: Bristol
Occupation: Financial Sales Rep
Random Fact:
A West Country sales rep who lives alone in a wooden cabin on her aunt’s farm and owns a horse and cart.
52. First Name: Jade
Age: 19
Hometown: London
Occupation: Unemployed
Random Fact:
She is 4 foot 8 inches and who wants to have a career as a jockey in horse racing.
53. First Name: Alexis
Age: 27
Hometown: London
Occupation: Logistics Co-ordinator
Random Fact:
Her strangest job was making components for heat seeking missiles.
54. First Name: John-Joe
Age: 23
Hometown: London
Occupation: Professional Boxer
Random Fact:
He is mates with Aston from JLS.
55. First Name: Allister
Age: 55
Hometown: London
Occupation: Promotions Company Owner
Random Fact:
Was a successful hair and make up artist for Vogue in the 80’s, working with the likes of Debbie Harry.
56. First Name: Ian
Age: 41
Hometown: Windsor
Occupation: Media Consultant
Random Fact:
Was once a millionaire for 6 weeks after he sold his first company before the Stock Market crashed.
57. First Name: Joel
Age: 33
Hometown: London
Occupation: Unemployed/Busker
Random Fact:
Plays West Indian steel drums and says he’s the world sexiest fat man.
58. First Name: Keeley / Shabby
Age: 24
Hometown: London
Occupation: Actress/Punk Musician
Random Fact:
Was a child actor and was down to the final two for the film “The Parent Trap”. Her rival was Lindsay Lohan.
59. First Name: Steven
Age: 40
Hometown: Leicestershire
Occupation: Ex HM Forces
Random Fact:
This former soldier is a father of 8. He’s been unemployed for 20 years having lost both legs and an eye while serving in Northern Ireland.
60. First Name: Rachel
Age: 21
Hometown: London
Occupation: Athlete/Model
Random Fact:
Was crowned Miss England in 2009 but was stripped of her title following a high profile fracas with Miss Manchester.
61. First Name: Sarah
Age: 49
Hometown: Cambridgeshire
Occupation: Media Personality
Random Fact:
A former Playboy Bunny who has spent over Ł500,000 on plastic surgery.
62. First Name: Leanne
Age: 29
Hometown: London
Occupation: Author
Random Fact:
Has had most of her leg removed due to cancer.
63. First Name: Samuel
Age: 21
Hometown: Kent
Occupation: Unemployed
Random Fact:
Was a hotel entertainer in Greece.
64. First Name: Gloria
Age: 25
Hometown: Milton Keynes
Occupation: Professional Dancer
Random Fact:
Has sung backing vocals for Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke and was one of Cheryl Cole’s dancers on The X-Factor.
65. First Name: Ben
Age: 30
Hometown: Marylebone, London
Occupation: Writer/Broadcaster
Random Fact:
Was once a political correspondence for an Arab TV Channel and has contributed to the Daily Telegraph.
66. First Name: David
Age: 38
Hometown: Pontypool, Wales
Occupation: Minister
Random Fact:
Organizer of much publicised extreme Christian Event ‘Sloshfest’, claims he travels through time and space in the spirit realm and the weirdest thing he’s done is “visit the sun’’.
67. First Name: Pritesh
Age: 31
Hometown: London
Occupation: Architect
Random Fact:
Successful, creative Architect who also models.
68. First Name: Natasha
Age: 19
Hometown: Luton
Occupation: Model / Student
Random Fact:
Miss Luton 2010 and aspiring Bollywood actress. Self-confessed Daddy’s princess who lives in the family’s 8 bedroom house and has a horse.
69. First Name: Terry
Age: 45
Hometown: Bolton
Occupation: Property Investor
Random Fact:
Bisexual, self made millionaire and Mr T lookalike who made his money through property.
70. First Name: Alexandra
Age: 20
Hometown: Manchester
Occupation: Student
Random Fact:
Brought up in the Oxford countryside, daughter of a Millionaire. She’s only ever had one job which lasted for two weeks and she did it so she could ‘learn the value of money’. She loves her life as “it’s so easy”.
71. First Name: Corin
Age: 29
Hometown: Cheshire
Occupation: Unemployed
Random Fact:
Glamorous bi-sexual who claims she is often mistaken for Katie Price. Widowed - her husband died 4 months after they were married.
72. First Name: Faye
Age: 20
Hometown: Tamworth, Staffordshire
Occupation: Wrestler/ Promo Model
Random Fact:
Sporty, body conscious part time model who dreams of becoming a WWE wrestler. Doesn’t drink alcohol, trains twice a day and hates losing, lives to be number one at everything.
73. First Name: Lee
Age: 22
Hometown: Cheshire
Occupation: Hairdresser & Model
Random Fact:
Aims to make it as model and claims he has always been beautiful, “it’s the life I lead, I’m used to it”, says he was once mistaken for a lesbian “because I’m so pretty”.Believes he is the coolest person he knows.
74. First Name: Keeley
Age: 30
Hometown: Manchester
Occupation: Travel Agent Manager
Random Fact:
Successful business woman who has won every award in her industry. Under 5 ft and says she has a superiority complex “I have to be the best at everything”.
75. First Name: Nathan
Age: 26
Hometown: Bingley, Bradford
Occupation: Joiner
Random Fact:
Claims to have an alter ego called Seahorse that is the complete opposite to him. Describes himself as an acquired taste and happy go lucky but “there is a fine line between confidence and cockiness and I straddle it well”.
76. First Name: Lesley
Age: 52
Hometown: Derbyshire
Occupation: Travelling Show woman
Random Fact:
Claims to have psychic ability and has been travelling with her own small fairground for the past 8 years. A mother of 3 who says she’s Derby’s answer to Dolly Parton.
77. First Name: Paul
Age: 25
Hometown: Manchester
Occupation: Civil Engineer
Random Fact:
Originally from Barbados, he moved to the UK seven years ago to study and now builds bridges for a living. Was named “most arrogant and egotisical” in his school year book.
78. First Name: Megan
Age: 20
Hometown: Liverpool
Occupation: Care Assistant
Random Fact:
Currently a care assistant, aiming to be a nurse. Wants to use the Big Brother prize money to buy a place in Ibiza.
79. First Name: Kimberley
Age: 24
Hometown: Chester
Occupation: Hotel Receptionist/Vintage Clothes Designer
Random Fact:
Recycles old clothes to sell and owns a Ł600 pair of Christian Louboutins. Loves knitting and knits presents for people.
80. First Name: Rachel
Age: 23
Hometown: Nottingham
Occupation: Celebrity lookalike
Random Fact:
Works as a Beyonce lookalike at corporate events, claims to look in the mirror around 100 times a day “ checking I’m still hot”.
So who do you like the look of at first glance? What are your first impressions?