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C5 boss Ben Frow on Stormy Daniels pulling out of CBB: “We built a whole week around Stormy. I flew someone out to accompany her here. She disappeared on us. I was bloody furious actually, we built the White House and the whole goddam thing around her.”

Channel 5 boss Ben Frow has said he’s “planning for a year without ‘Big Brother’”, during an interview at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

For the past year, the future of the reality show has been called into question, after Ben said that unless he sees the show adapt and improve, he’ll axe it once its contract is up at the end of this year.

Speaking in Edinburgh, it was clear Ben had little cause to change his mind, revealing that he’s still planning to not bring the reality juggernaut back in 2019.
He said: “I have planned for a year without ‘Big Brother’. But never say never. The contract runs out at Christmas.”

It’s not known whether this also includes the show’s ‘Celebrity’ edition, which is currently in the middle of its last contracted series with Channel 5.

There’s also one more series of the regular series of ‘Big Brother’ still to come on Channel 5, which kicks off next month.

Just goes to show BB is better off on another channel if it's Channel 5 trying to pull stunts like the Stormy thing.