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FORMER Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson will start as favourite to win this year's Celebrity Big Brother after the housemates for the forthcoming season were announced on Friday.

Anderson is no stranger to letting the public into her private world having recently featured in a warts and all documentary with Joe Swash and she is 4-1 to see off the likes of Dane Bowers, MC Hammer and Lady Sovereign.

Bowers will battle it out with fellow Jordan-ex Alex Reid and Vinne Jones for the house hard hard vote and is 9-2 second favorite, while Hammer and Sovereign will, presumably, swap musical anecdotes.

Hammer is 5-1, Sovereign 7-1.

The line-up is completed by reality show stalwart Paul Danan, Ronnie Wood squeeze, Ekaterina Ivanova, former Eastender Brooke Kinsella, glamour girl Nicola Tappenden and former Dynasty star, Stephanie Beacham.