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Dave, Ben and Steve were all invited to audition. Keeva was invited after she was spotted walking down a Dublin street by someone involved in the audition process. Shabby found out about the auditions after a flyer was sent to a drama group she attended. John James had been offered a place on Australia BB but had to pull out when his father died, I think the fact that he was "known" by Endemol helped him get into the UK house. Then you have Corin and Mario who'd auditioned several times before and had taken part in a dry run (this wasn't unusual as lots of ex housemates had done this: Bex, Imogen,Maxwell etc).

I always think that Endemol had an idea about what kind of "cast" they wanted for each series and set out to find people who fitted into the specific roles. I actually thought BB11 was one of the best cast wise. They had a really good group of people from different backgrounds. But it went off the boil when they allowed to Shabby and Keeva to walk and the rot set in from there. Also Sunshine and Rachael going to early was a massive disaster.