Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack To Launch January 3rd
You’ll have probably heard by now that there is no Celebrity Big Brother this year, mainly down to the racism that occurred during last year’s show, when Shilpa Shetty became the subject of abuse from Jade Goody and her cohorts.
But fret not, because ready to take its place is a new spin off called Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack.
The show will begin at 8pm on January 3rd 2008, being simulcast on both E4 and Channel 4. The live launch show will be 90 minutes long, and hosted by Dermot O’Leary, in his last Big Brother assignment.
So how does it differ from the normal Big Brother? Well, as the name implies, instead of having the anonymous Big Brother producers as the voices of Big Brother, that role will be taken by various celebrities, who will basically run the house in turn for a certain amount of time.
Unlike normal, they won’t be just a presence there to help the house mates, instead being able to set random tasks, set their own rules, and punish the contestants they choose to.
As for the house mates themselves, unlike the usual summer Big Brother, we won’t have a random mixture of ages, and people thrown together to cause arguments.
Instead Channel 4 have hand picked a group of 18-21 year olds, all of whom have a special skill, or talent, which puts them head and shoulders above the rest of the population (and on a different evolutionary level than your average Big Brother contestant!)
None of the celebrities have been announced yet, although Joan Rivers and Aaron Carter are two of the rumoured stars thought to be participating.
The house has remained virtually unchanged since last summer’s main series, which Brian Belo deservedly won. Although the fridge has reportedly been moved inside, and the swimming pool done away with completely due to it being freezing in January in the UK.
After the launch, the show will be on E4 every night at 9pm. Big Mouth will also return, but now with permanent hosts James Corden and Mathew Horne, who did a brilliant job as guest hosts in the summer.
It sounds promising, although I’d have preferred another series of Celebrity Big Brother myself. What’s to say that these young men and women won’t also exhibit racism? Strange decision, but I’ll be watching nonetheless.
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