Big Brother 8
Rumours

From Wednesday May 30, everything kicks off again in Big Brother 8, the latest house-bound adventures in reality TV weirdness. No-one outside of the programme’s secretive inner circle ever really knows who the housemates will be before the cars pull up on launch night and traditionally the tabloid rumour factories are working overtime to meet the demand for spurious titbits in the lead-up to the big reveal.

As happens in the weeks preceding each and every new series, this year has seen it’s pick of crazy and curious rumours and leaks from the famous telly compound; here are some of the most popular whispers doing the rounds.
Some are already confirmed as true, others are obviously false and some should be taken with a seriously large bucket of salt!

• Series 8 will last for 94 days being its longest-ever run.
  
• The series ends on August 31 – the same day the show’s planning permission to stay at Elstree TV Studios runs out.
  
• Big Brother’s first gay couple will be entering the house and reality television’s first same-sex wedding will take place.
  
• The house could be blown up or somehow destroyed on the last night in a big finale.
  
• A secret doorway in the garden will reveal a tunnel leading to hidden areas of the house.
  
• In a first for the reality show, half the pool will be inside the house with the other half in the garden allowing the housemates to swim between areas.
  
• A spiral staircase leads to another secret room, which producers will use to spring surprise evictions.
  
• The housemateswill each be given their own webcams which they can use to record private messages to the outside world.
  
• A Romany caravan is to be used as an outside "jail" for housemates who fail tasks.
  
• BB8 is to be renamed 'Big Brother: The Battle' and will to have a 'Heaven and Hell' theme - Heaven being the luxury house and Hell the caravan.
  
• Another version of the traditional hidden room theory is a secret garden. A camouflaged door leading to the concealed annexe is built into the garden wall. The first housemate to find a hidden button and press it will be spun 180 degrees into the secret area.
  
• The house will have oppressive decor to add to the tension.
  
• A busty glamour model is on the shortlist for this year’s Big Brother.
  
• A sex addicted secretary will be amongst this years hopefuls.
  
• Other housemate rumours include a Greek art student, an Asian teacher, a disabled woman and a gobby chav.
  
• Once the contestants have entered the BB house, six others dressed in white will enter a room furnished and decorated entirely in white.
  
• Bikinis will be banned by BB bosses in the hope that inmates will go topless!!
  
• The cash prize will be scrapped.
  
• Viewers will do tasks to win the shopping budget instead of housemates.
  
• Housemates would be spied on and filmed before they enter the house.
  
• Voting will be free.
  
• At least 14 housemates will enter the house on launch night.
  
• As many as 24 housemates will reside in the house during the series.
  
• The Diary Room chair is bright pink.
  
• This years Big Brother house will be a non-smoking zone after health chiefs classed it as a work place.
  
• All the housemates will swap places with the housemates of Australian Big Brother for one week which will see a public vote to decide which overseas housemate should remain abroad for the rest of the series before all remaining housemates fly back to their native shows.
  
• This will be Davina McCall’s final series presenting Big Brother after she took the decision to quit at the end of series 8.
  
• Half the housemates will live in luxury with all mod cons, the other half will live in the 50's.
  
• Big Brothers Big Mouth will be presented by Russell Howard.
  
• Big Brothers Big Mouth will have guest presenter’s like Have I Got News For You.
  
• A female guinea pig housemate involved in a test-run of the Big Brother house suffered a panic attack within hours of her entrance and walked out.
  
• Heather Mills McCartney is said to have been offered £250,000, plus special privileges to enter the Big Brother house this summer.
  
• A WAG, perhaps even a WAG from WAGs boutique will allegedly enter the house mid-series.
  
• Producers have selected an 18-year-old teenager with an ASBO who will enter the house with a secret mission to stir things up and sabotage tasks.
  
• More potential housemate rumours: a failed gay stand-up comedian, a sexy lads’ mag model, a former extra from The Bill and a boxer.
  
• Housemates will, as usual, be woken in the morning with an alarm, but in addition to the now traditional rude-awakenings - sprinklers will also be installed above the beds to set tempers flaring in the morning.
  
• Big Brother 8 will take place in a new house in Hammersmith.
  
• Sneaky aerial shots of the house in construction which seem to show a ramp have sparked rumours that this year will see the first wheelchair using housemate.
  
• This series will run by the theme of the 7 deadly sins with an 8th sin added by Big Brother to celebrate the 8th series of the show.
  
• 60 potential housemates have gone into hiding before the show to keep journalists guessing.
  
• A fake housemate will enter the house this year.
  
• There will be two front doors.
  
• There will be two houses.
  
• This year’s theme will be ‘Saints and Sinners’.
  
• Big Brother 8 contestants will have personal bank accounts and compete against each other to earn cash during their stay in the house.
  
• A spa has been added to the bedroom to encourage lust.
  
• Big Brother bosses have apparently applied for a wedding license for the house in preparation for nuptials planned to occur at some point during the series.
  

 

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