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07 January 2007
Big Brother Betting
With Celebrity Come
Dancing and the X Factor still the talk of the town, the
celebrity bandwagon rolls on in the New Year, as the fifth
series of Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother started on
January 3rd.
As always presenters
Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary and Russell Brand are hosting
the shows, where a selection of old and new celebrities bid
to give their flagging careers a short term
kick-start.
This year's crop have five
weeks to survive, the longest in this show, but nowhere near
the three months the normal Big Brother contestants have to
endure on the main show.
Channel Four will pay the
celebs for doing the show, but the channel will donate the
winner's prize to their chosen charity in order to help
publicity.
If past series' are to go
by then the betting will be a frenzied affair, with
bookmakers offering a variety of markets on the five weeks
of cramped living. With potential walkouts and normal Big
Brother surprise expect some topsy-turvy odds, but note that
three of the four current winners have all been
male.
Past winners include
comedian Jack Dee, who landed the first series, Take That
singer Mark Owen the following year, then Bez, from Happy
Mondays, and then finally last year Chantelle Houghton, who
scooped the prize after going in to the house as a
non-celebrity in one of the shows twists.
Celebrity Big Brother
Housemates
Carole Malone (47) - A
well-known Geordie journalist, who is married to a Bosnian
man 14 years her younger.
Dirk Benedict (61) - Best
known as the good looking 'Face' from the A-Team.
Ken Russell (79) - The
oldest person in the house, he is a controversial film
director.
Shilpa Shetty (31) -
Probably unknown to most British people, but she is a huge
Bollywood star and is a black belt in karate.
Ian 'H' Watkins (29) -
Former singer in the pop band Steps, and now an actor. He
has recently come out as gay just before the show
started.
Donny Tourette (25) - A
relative unknown, he's a wild rocker who has claimed to have
bedded over 500 women and has had on-off relationships with
Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches. He's now out after walking
out of the show.
Danielle Lloyd (23) - The
eye candy for the men in the house, she is a model and was
crowned Miss GB until it was discovered that her boyfriend
at the time, Teddy Sheringham, was one of the
judges.
Leo Sayer (58) - Lives in
Australia, he will be better known by the older views as a
curly-haired cheesy singer from years gone by.
Jermaine Jackson (52) -
After recently changing his name he is now known as Muhammad
Abdul Aziz when he converted to Islam. Best known as Michael
Jackson's brother and was a member of their family band the
Jackson 5 when he was a boy.
Jo O'Meara (27) - Former
singer in the pop band S Club 7, she now breeds dogs after
her solo career didn't take off.
Cleo Rocos (44) - Another
who most viewers might not know, but she shot to fame back
in the 80's as funnyman Kenny Everett's sidekick.
Past Celebrity Big
Brother Winners
Series 1 - Jack Dee
(Comedian)
Series 2 - Mark Owen (Take
That Singer)
Series 3 - Bez (Happy
Mondays Singer/Dancer) - Who on Earth voted for this
personality/intelligence-lacking idiot to win? Hang your
head in shame if you're one of the many who did.
Series 4 - Chantelle
Houghton (Non-Celebrity Paris Hilton look-a-like)
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