BB:CH Press Pack: Introduction & House Info
It’s one of the most coveted jobs in television, and now a bunch of celebrities are about to hijack it. Making rules, creating mayhem, setting both sublime and ridiculous tasks, taking away food as punishment – who wouldn’t want to be Big Brother?
In January’s E4 series Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, Big Brother has kindly agreed to let some showbiz guests have a go in the hot seat. The identity of the celebs taking part remains tightly under wraps, but their aim will be simple: putting their stamp on the activities in the Big Brother house and generally causing mischief.
Dermot O’Leary will preside over the live eviction shows and his popular Big Brother’s Little Brother, while James Corden and Mathew Horne take the reigns on Big Brother’s Big Mouth where all the antics of the Celebrity Hijackers and the housemates will be dissected.
And these are no ordinary housemates - Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack will feature a group of exceptional, young housemates. Big Brother has combed the UK for the hottest young artists, athletes, musicians, entrepreneurs and dons of every other field, to assemble a cast of pure prodigies, who will play for a £50,000 prize fund.
So how will these gifted housemates, who have excelled in the real world, cope living under the guidance of Big Brother and the Celebrity Hijackers? And how will the hijackers perform, knowing that they are being given the chance of a lifetime to control what happens in the most famous house in Britain?
Big Brother, who will work side-by-side with the Celebrity Hijackers when they make their appearances, had these words of warning for those gearing up to take on the BB mantle: “Big Brother would like to remind all potential Celebrity Hijackers that with power comes responsibility. You are responsible not only for setting tasks, maintaining control in the house, handing out punishments and being a good listener in the Diary Room. You are responsible for making this a series to remember. Big Brother will be watching you.”
When the new housemates enter the house in January they’ll find it revamped from the summer series. The E4 purple will feature heavily in the colour scheme and gone are the pillow-fight-friendly beds that sleep 4 or 5, to be replaced by single beds. The surreal, split kitchen will be put back together again, and the pool will be replaced with a more intimate hot tub.
More surprises will be in store, but viewers will have to wait for launch night to find out what other tricks are up Big Brother’s sleeve. With a host of cheeky Celebrity Hijackers waiting in the wings, ready and willing to make the rules, bend the rules and even break the rules, E4 is set to be the home of mischief-making and mayhem this January.
Big Brother House gets an E4 Makeover
There’s a new bunch of housemates on their way, and a host of showbiz names gearing up to hijack Big Brother’s role, so what better time to give the Big Brother house an E4-style spruce up?
In readiness for the start of Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, the living area has been on the receiving end of a big splat of E4 purple paint and the sofas have also been updated with the E4 purple colour scheme.
In an arty nod to stencil-style graffiti, various pictures adorn the walls throughout the house, including a cheeky monkey in the bedroom and a very chilled out cameraman in the garden. Is that really what goes on behind those mirrors?
In the bedroom, housemates can forget they are surrounded 24 hours a day by cameras as they gaze up at the urban cityscape on the walls around them. Will viewers be able to guess which British city the picture was taken in? And gone is the 4-in-a-bed set-up of summer, as there are now 12 single beds.
Also new to the house is a gym, so the group of exceptional, young housemates have somewhere they can keep fit… or sweat out any house tensions. And they can be distracted by the alpine-themed decorative walls while having a workout on the running machine or cross-trainer.
Happily for any culinary-inclined housemates, the kitchen has now been put back together since the summer when the fridge was in the garden and the oven in the bedroom. Also back in its right place is the bath, which is returned to the house bathroom.
And it wouldn’t be the Big Brother house without some outdoor water-based shenanigans, so this series housemates will get to take the edge off the brisk winter nights with a dip in the garden’s hot tub.
E4’s hijacking of Big Brother wouldn’t be complete without one further adjustment to the house. The colour of the Diary Room chair? Purple, naturally.
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From the official BB:CH Press Pack
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