Dermot's Gone!

[LoveMusic]

Factor presenter Dermot O'Leary has announced that he is to quit as the host of Big Brother's Little Brother.
The 34-year-old, who has presented the reality programme strand for seven years, said it was "impractical" to work on both shows next summer.

O'Leary said BBLB had been "a live show I love with all my heart".

He will present Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack in January on E4, a show which puts some well-known faces in control of a group of housemates.

'Dermot's baby'

The new intake, who will compete for a prize of £50,000, are said by Channel 4 to be some of the most gifted young people from around the country.

O'Leary, who was confirmed as the presenter of the current and next series of ITV's The X Factor in March, said it was with "great regret" that his time on Big Brother would end after January's programme.

He said: "For the last seven years I've had the time of my life working on Big Brother's Little Brother, from our broom cupboard days to the all-singing and literally all-dancing show we make now."

Angela Jain, Big Brother commissioning editor, said BBLB - a daily magazine show discussing the latest dramas in the Big Brother house - was "Dermot's little baby from the start".

"He was our first choice and the best choice. We will miss him and all the laughter and professionalism he has brought with him," she added.

Davina McCall, the original presenter of the main Big Brother shows, is due to return for next summer's series.

Last April, comedian Russell Brand quit the Big Brother's Big Mouth spin-off show after three years to concentrate on other projects.

[Steven]

We will miss him and all the laughter and professionalism he has brought with him.

I was under the impression he would be leaving it with them. I haven't noticed it accompanying him to The X Factor.

[pauliepoos]

pandarama said:

We will miss him and all the laughter and professionalism he has brought with him.

I was under the impression he would be leaving it with them. I haven't noticed it accompanying him to The X Factor.

Quite right. He'd be better suited to Xtra Factor, or whatver the ITV2 show is called, where he do kerayzee things, like go pole dancing with The Skanks or dress up as a schoolboy and given sums to do by Mrs Trottman.

[Rad]

pauliepoos said:

pandarama said:

I was under the impression he would be leaving it with them. I haven't noticed it accompanying him to The X Factor.

Quite right. He'd be better suited to Xtra Factor, or whatver the ITV2 show is called, where he do kerayzee things, like go pole dancing with The Skanks or dress up as a schoolboy and given sums to do by Mrs Trottman.

True, but then we might get Fearne on the main show.

Although then I would definitely never need to bother again.

[georgie]

Downgrade

[Steven]

rad6380 said:

True, but then we might get Fearne on the main show.

Although then I would definitely never need to bother again.

I'm probably going to get smoten endlessly for this, but I like Fearne. I think she's a good presenter, and I think she would have been better at the main show than Dermot.

Okay, fine, get it out of your system! OW! NOTHING THAT PLUGS IN, YOU GUYS! NOTHING THAT CAN REALLY HURT ME!

[mcflooze]

I waver between loving her and hating her - never anything in between. I think it's because I secretly want to look like/be her but am scared to admit it to myself.

Although now I've said it I feel much better.

I assume I now join Steven in Ostracise City?

[LoveMusic]

Nah, i've come around a bit aswell.

[Rad]

I still haven't.

But her hair is quite nice.

[Joel]

I don't hate Fearne Cotton, but she really does need to shut the fuck up about how 'ROCK!' she is. I don't care if you're fucking that boke out of that band, you're still presenting Xtra Factor. She seems quite nice though, and was better at comforting the contestants, given that she was actually there, DERMOT.

[LoveMusic]

I am also annoyed by this because my brother wants to go on BB in two years time - idiotic- and i wanted to go on every week as his 'friends and family' and see Dermot.

Selfish.