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Celebrity Big Brother's Rylan Clark has admitted that his spell in the house was like "rehab" for him.

Clark, who will return to host CBB spinoff Bit on the Side in January, explained that the stars going into the house need to think carefully about why they're taking part.

"Do you want the experience?" he said. "Are you doing it for money? Are you doing it to start a career or are you doing it to end a career? Are you confident enough in yourself as a person to be under a microscope 24 hours a day?"

He added: "In Big Brother every single inch of that house is covered. So I treated Big Brother as rehab - it was exactly what I needed.

"I was the most famous man in the country at that point; I needed to be locked up and it was either that or The Priory and I chose Big Brother! It was the best decision I have made in my life. A lot of people go in there at the end of their career. I went in there before I even had one."

Clark added that he gets frustrated when housemates complain about their time in the house, saying: "If you don't enjoy it, don't do it. It is that simple because the last thing we want is to see people moaning all the time.

"For five minutes it's funny, but for weeks it's not. Don't waste that place for someone else. I would hate it if I'm watching Celebrity Big Brother and people are like, 'I don't really want to be here'. You have to be invited and if you're not invited, you're not going in. Enjoy it, you've been chosen."

Rylan also revealed that he considers hosting Bit on the Side his "dream job" as Big Brother was his favourite show when he was growing up.

"I've even got a Diary Room chair!" he said. "When I was a kid I used to stick the Big Brother eye on my suitcase and write my name under it so I could pretend I was on Big Brother.

"I also worked in a pub when I was 18 and they had a fire escape that looked like the Big Brother stairs and whenever I got tipsy I'd walk up and down thinking I was on the show."

He added: "[This] is the easiest thing I have done in my life because someone can bring up something from ten years ago and I know exactly what they are going on about. I could recite it word for word. It's like I'm doing my dream job, I really am."

Celebrity Big Brother returns to Channel 5 in January.

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