Well, Celebrity Big Brother starts in a bit. Why not join us to find out who is in it?
- Stephen Baldwin, contestant on every reality show ever plus is an actor. Wow, they’re going town on these biographies. Ha! Comes in to Marylin Manson’s cover of Personal Jesus (we think?). Oh, Davina’s chatting to everyone before they go in. He’s going to be the “light of truth”. Oh wow, they’ve really gone to town with the look of this with a door INTO HELL.
- Nicola Tappenden aka Nicola T Page 3 model and one time WAG. Doesn’t want to find “housemate skidmarks”.
Nicola and Stephen discuss the kitchen. She thinks it looks like a restaurant kitchen, he’s noticed that it’s “a bit creepy” – it’s stylised like a hospital operating theatre.
Ad break. Ooh, new Compare the Meerkat advert.
- Alex Reid – crossdressing cage fighter and ex of Jordan. Oh, did he used to be in Hollyoaks? Blimey. Oh he seems quite game for this – wants to turn all the boos into cheers.
- Stephanie Beecham off of Dynasty. Hang on! She’s like a proper celeb! Big cheers from the crowd. (Note: it’s quite difficult to tell with the intro strings whether the crowd are booing them before the reveal!) She has no idea how she’s going to survive the house.
- Lady Soveriegn – “Grime MC”. They appear to have pixellated her sticking her fingers up on a poster. Doesn’t want to be stuck with anyone old-fashioned, or a chav.
Apparently after the break someone’s going to be making an entrance with a song and dance, and we will get our knickers in a twist. COME ON LIONEL BLAIR!!!
- Sisqo – of Thong Song fame. Oh God, he’s singing The Thong Song in his entrance, presumably so that people know who he is.
- Dane Bowers – BUGGIN’! Singer. Ex- of Jordan (what odds Peter Andre for the set, here?). He looks a bit resigned about the whole thing. No fight between him and Reid promised.
- Heidi Fleiss – “Entrepreneur” and Madam. Will she reveal who she got girls for?
Right down, four more to go I think. Although if it’s going to be Hell, surely it should be 13 total? Or perhaps 666? Actually what a great show that would be, several hundred celebrities are built up and then walk through a door once a year for several hours. And that’s it – the entire show is predicated on the excitement of who is going to come through a door. Noel’s House Party had it nearly right.
- Jonas Altberg aka Basshunter, the Swedish DJ who likes to have sex. He had Tourettes, but has cured himself apparently. Watch out ladies, he’s single. This evening Matthew he’s going to be James Bond. “I’m going to touch base [Bass], and then I’m going to do some hunting!” WINNER.
- Katia Ivanova – Ronnie Wood’s ex. Basically. Appears to be going out with Different Class-era Jarvis Cocker, if that newspaper photo is anything to go by.
- Vinnie Jones – hardman footballer and “actor”. Oh this might be quite interesting. He could well win this. He’s not appreciating the old weather.
Oh that appears to be all eleven, Big Brother promising first “thing” after the break. Meanwhile, the awesome Broken TV is liveblogging this with numbers, although he doesn’t seem to have heard of anyone.
First task – fit as many of you in a mini (dressed as a devil) as you can in five minutes, if you’re not in in five minutes there will be a punishment. This could be quite interesting… it’s like 1960s It’s a Knockout! They succeed! Ha ha, I bet the producers weren’t expecting THAT to happen!
Anyway, that appears to be launch night – successful enough that I’ll tune into it tomorrow.
I guffawed when I spotted the ‘gentleman’s ballscratcher’ in the bathroom.
I’m loving the feel of this series so far, the new reveal of the house guests, and great graphics (see the side of the house!) and music, which i wasn’t expecting.
If only I could persuade a court that they took the fiery theme from Accumulate. Oh well!
Finally, they realised the business with the limos takes far too long! Shame it’s taken this long for Endemol to tweak the presentation like this, it’s been excellent so far.
I’m loving it so far also. But the thing to remember is – everyone will be over what the house looks like in about two days. Can they make an entertaining show that lasts for three weeks?
That’s an epic Compare The Meerkat advert, if other people had the same one!
“WE’RE DOOMED!”
“Are we doomed?”
“Yes, we’re doomed.”
Also Jordan’s ex: DO NOT WANT
Believe it or not it aired on Clubland TV at 8:30pm – this despite being extensively plugged as premiering at 9:15pm on ITV…
I can’t know for sure, but there was a Meerkattish advert in the middle of the Simpsons movie immediately on 4 before the CBB premiere and I think it must be the one you’re talking about.
David Mitchell name-checked the ad series in his column in the Observer today, as it happens…
Ineffective middle finger pixellation, there.
It’s as if they’ve read my mind with regards to the door stings – ever since CBB1 evictions when the theme would play on the front door opening I’ve thought they should have kept it. Now it does!
You’ll be telling us you invented Windows 7 next!
Like those smug idiots on the adverts? No chance, I’m already writing Windows 8 in assembly on my 128bit mainframe.
Also, I’m clearly incapable of writing a coherent sentence today, as my comments on the poll of ’09 will show.
Wow – they’re in danger of getting some actual celebrities this year.
OH MY GOD, it’s only Dane Bowers off Heads or Tails!!
Liking the first task – nothing like a below zero celsuis temperature to aid the process along.
Somehow I don’t think sitting in the boot is going to cut it…
The new Compare the Meerkat advert has been show many times today. I first spotted it around lunchtime and was shown again earlier on Sky Sports.
Halifax have also got a new advert out but they’ve gone back to cheese.
I thought it was meant to be 12 people entering the house tonight?
I got married in the room where they filmed the Compare the Meerkat advert – FACT!
I’ve got a tenner on Lady Sov. as she was at a brilliant price. So watch out for the OFFICIAL Bother’s Bar Sov for Sovs campaign starting soon.
Cheers for the mention, Brig. Of course, I really prefer it when I haven’t heard of anyone. I’d be crestfallen if it turned out Shaun Micallef or one of t.A.T.u went into the house.
Pop Fact! At first glance on seeing Heidi Fleiss’s name flash up, I’d thought “blimey, she’s really let herself go”. I was, of course, getting mixed up with Heidi Klum.
I’d be putting money on a certain Katie Price entering the house some time in the next 4 weeks.
Typical that they wait until the last one to get the launch show tonight. Production wise tonight it was of a much higher standard than previous versions, and having watched every episode before finally giving up a week into BB10, it’s great to see the show seems like it might be back to what it should be.
Then again, wouldn’t surprise me at all if they put all the effort into the launch then do nothing of note for the next 26 days!
They have just anounced on Galaxy radio that The Crystal Maze is to return.
Before you start to cheer Amanda Holden is being tipped to be the new maze master
That story from The Sun: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2792424/Britains-Got-Talent-judge-Amanda-Holden-nets-new-game-show.html
Sounds like they’re talking up what is really just a vague notion of something that could conceivably happen, but probably won’t.