Big Brother's Celebrity Hijack

[Imaginary Gary]

From Orange:

New Big Brother spin-off announced
There’s some good news for those of us still weeping into our Coco Pops about the temporary axing of Celebrity Big Brother. The normal show’s going to be given a special celeb spin-off, called Big Brother's Celebrity Hijack.

Cool title, eh? But how does it work? Like this: basically, we’ll get the usual array of nutcase housemates (producers are apparently keeping an eye out for “extremely talented, but ordinary” people – yeah, whatever), but the new programme will feature celebrities doing the voice of Big Brother and controlling the show, a bit like Jonty did during the last week of BB8. Ah, Jonty – don’t you miss him already?

Ahem. Anyway. “Stars will help set tasks, make their own rules, and help cause havoc,” said a spokesman. “We're hoping some big names will commit to it."

According to Channel 4, the new format will be a great chance to involve celebrities who wouldn’t normally be able to commit to several weeks on Celebrity Big Brother due to busy work timetables or laziness. Or the possibility of international ignominy, we might add.

Is it just me or does this sound shit? Not having faith in the characters they pick to be interesting and relying on even more gimmicks isn't what this show needs. They need to come up with some new and original ideas, not just re-hashed stuff from BB5 which they have played on every series since!

[pauliepoos]

imaginarygary said:

Is it just me or does this sound shit?

It's not just you. One to miss.

[jamiek]

It only adds to the sheer crapness that it's going to be on E4 - who in their right mind would want to do this? I'm really excited about the 'big names' they think they will get: I'm sensing Michelle Heaton and Vanessa Feltz at some point.

I think it's a sad day when even the bunch of oddballs that audition for BB will think

'I'll wait for the main show, I'm not that depserate'

[Bridgey]

Lame lame lame.

Bridgey xxx

[Imaginary Gary]

Hmmm, I saw the pics of the new house earlier and I know I shouldn't but I got a bit excited. I'm just setting myself up for a fall, I know. I blame my being deprived of BB all summer for this excitement, but the celeb guests or whatever they're being called confirmed so far are Joan Rivers and Matt Lucas, which sounds like it could be fun. Also, I'm hoping this will be a big blow-out of rule bending and pissing around with the rules so that in the summer BB can get back to being authorititive and proper, but again, I know that's unlikely to happen.

[Ceeb]

From heatworld - some of the celebs

Matt Lucas
Jimmy Carr
Jake and Dinos Chapman (they're artists doncha know)
Keith Lemon (Avid Merrion's of Bo Selecta fame's alter ego)
Malcolm McLaren
Joan Rivers
Brian Sewell (art historian... It's all very fancy-pants this year)
Ian Wright

heat's words in brackets, not mine

[Nurse Dunkley]

ceeb said:

Keith Lemon (Avid Merrion's of Bo Selecta fame's alter ego)

FUCK OFF, FUCK OFF AND DIE.

Lee Francis just isn't funny when he's not being Mel B, and what I've seen of Keith Lemon has me laughing about as much as the holocaust does.

Joan Rivers! Great! But the celeb list really isn't good enough to make this compensate for the lack of proper Celeb BB.

[LoveMusic]

The idea of it sounds awful.

[Joel]

Ian fucking Wright? He really has turned into a cashwhore of late, hasn't he?

[mcqueen]

I really dont understand this show at all. What is meant to be entertaining about it?

[Adrian]

ceeb said:

Brian Sewell

He has potential - he's such a prissy queen, always sucking a lemon and calling it limon

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

So the famous people aren't in the house, but are telling folks what to do? Actually that's a shame they're not inside because it's a rather interesting bunch getting involved. I know Ian Write is shit, but looking at the list, it's largely people who's careers are doing rather well.

[Muinimula]

What's all this? Apparently now, after they realised the trial week wasn't going well and was looking rather dull, the celebrities will have to take part in tasks, and could still face eviction from the house. This is all getting very confusing.

[LoveMusic]

I don't know how they can change it, surely the celebrities didn't want to go in.

[Rad]

Wow, they normally wait till a couple of days in to balls it all up. A few days BEFORE is surely a record?

[mackenzie]

This has been promo-d to the heavens, but I still have no idea what it's about.

[mcqueen]

This looks like being a car crash! must tune in tomorrow (and be reading a good mag at the same time obviously)

[Muinimula]

If the information on digitalspy and fmforums is to be believed, one of the new housemates is the younger brother of an old schoolfriend of mine. He's pulling a smug face in the picture. How bizarre.

[FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree]

Liam looks quite nice. I still won't be watching, though.

[David]

Oh dear.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7169309.stm

If the host is distancing himself before it has even launched, this is going to be horrific.

[Adrian]

At the risk of outing myself as a muscle queen, Anthony looks quite fit.

I'm not sure about this whole celebrities in charge of rules schtick. Big Brother has never really or wholly been about the actual Big Brother character, but more about how people interact. The BB character has been seen to become increasingly desperate in recent series, so making Big Brother into A Celebrity seems to be the height of desperation to me.

[David]

I wouldn't like to have been the one to tell Joan Rivers she had to participate in tasks in the house. However, as she still appears to be sunning herself with her grapefruit products "in the islands" (www.joanriversblog.com/blog/), then perhaps they kept it quiet.

[[james]]

Liam looks like Lee Hunter off Hollyoaks (and whoever he now plays in Emmerdale) but still would.

Why is John wearing a medieval chastity belt? I don't imagine too much sex is a problem for him.

[Becky]

I see they went for a wide age range this time. I bet this is going to be utter shite but I'll give it a try. I think I watched about 2 episodes of last summers BB.

[Joel]

I don't understand it. Why can't Channel 4 learn that the way to get the 'magic' back in the show is to return to the basic concept of people in a house arguing. Every twist and turn to lure back viewers makes the show less interesting and them look more desperate.

I saw the 'After They Were Housemates' thing the other day and remembered how gripped I was, just by Nasty Nick being a bit of a cunt. It's all it needs.