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BIG BROTHER bosses have finally decided to get tough with idiotic housemates who break the rules – by sending them to JAIL.

TV Biz has had a sneak peek inside the BB9 house that opens for business tomorrow and the garden includes a very, very cramped clink.

Last night producer Phil Edgar-Jones said the nick had been put in to create HARMONY. He told us: “This year’s show is about respect and discipline. If housemates break the show’s rules they’re going to end up in our jail.

Luxury ... plush bedroom

Luxury ... plush bedroom

“We pinched the idea from Belgian BB and hope that it will make the housemates behave.”

After inspecting the slammer, we can tell you it will be no fun holed up there — you can barely swing a dormouse.

Roly-poly Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles and BB host Davina McCall certainly looked desperate to break out as they sampled life behind bars during his tour of the set. We can only imagine Davina’s pain.

One day to go ... Big Brother 9

One day to go ... Big Brother 9

Housemates will EARN privileges such as hot water by winning tokens during tasks. Vanity aids including hairdryers and hair straighteners will also cost tokens and smokers will be shamed by having to sit in a giant ashtray in the garden to indulge their filthy habit.

The twists are designed to inject life into a show which was panned last year for being boring.

But Phil claims the zero-tolerance regime could also teach PM Gordon Brown how to run the country.

He said: “It’s back to basics in terms of how to enforce rules, discipline people and have respect for others. On Big Brother the baddie never wins. Gordon Brown could do worse than watch this year’s series for some policy tips.”
Strip

Davina added: “We want it to be difficult. We don’t want housemates to walk into the diary room, ask for gas for their hair tongs and just get it.

“We want them to have to do humiliating, embarrassing and funny tasks to get it. This isn’t a holiday camp, it’s an entertainment programme and we need them to entertain us — a lot.”

Too right. Lights, camera, action.

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The house will be BB’s biggest ever, to accommodate the largest ever family of wannabes — a sweet, or maybe not so sweet, 16.

It features two contrasting bedrooms contestants will have to bag first. One will be a barracks-style affair with eight single, shorter-than-average beds and rock-hard mattresses.

The other will be the height of luxury, with eight sumptuous double beds BB bosses secretly hope will inspire plenty of lusty goings-on. It also gets kitsch treats such as gold poufs, red velvet drapes and faux-fur throws — plus a walk-in wardrobe.

The bathroom is separated from the lounge only by GLASS so horny housemates can ogle bathers as they strip.

But, of course, BB don’t want people getting on too well — where’s the fun it that? Said Phil: “The Big Brother house has never been a friendly place.”

Let the games begin!

The Sun