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Originally Posted by benthebbyapper

Potentially, but ITV are doing a lot of scouting for HM's so they could just make a point of attempting to scout an older group of people. I hate scouting but it can be useful at times

I just had a look at last year's casting. There were four housemates over the age of 30 - Marcello at 34, Dean 35, Ali 38 and Emma 53. And three of them made the top three.

This year, again, there have been five housemates over the age of 30, but more spread out in terms of age - Feyisola 33, Gani 39, Farida 52, Caroline 56 and Richard 60. Only Richard remains.

In both years, we haven't had a single housemate in their 40s.

I think what makes this year stand out is so many housemates are in their late teens to mid 20s. In age order, we've had 18, 20, 21, 22, 22, 22, 23, 25, 25, 25, 27, 27.

Last year, those in their late teens and 20s were 20, 20, 23, 24, 24, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29.

Take Khaled for example. Last year he was the third youngest Housemate. This series, being a year older, he would have found himself the seventh youngest.

Even though last year's house was still quite young, the spread was better in terms of age.