Big
Brother: Celebrity Hijack
Starts Thursday January 3, 9pm on E4
It’s one of the most coveted jobs in television, and now a bunch
of celebrities are about to hijack it. Making rules, creating mayhem,
setting both sublime and ridiculous tasks, taking away food as punishment
– who wouldn’t want to be Big Brother?
In January’s
E4 series Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, Big Brother has kindly
agreed to let some showbiz guests have a go in the hot seat. The identity
of the celebs taking part remains tightly under wraps, but their aim
will be simple: putting their stamp on the activities in the Big
Brother house and generally causing mischief.
Dermot
O’Leary will preside over the live eviction shows and his
popular Big Brother’s Little Brother, while James
Corden and Mathew Horne take
the reigns on Big Brother’s Big Mouth where all the antics
of the Celebrity Hijackers and the housemates will be dissected.
And these are no ordinary housemates - Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack
will feature a group of exceptional, young housemates. Big Brother has
combed the UK for the hottest young artists, athletes, musicians, entrepreneurs
and dons of every other field, to assemble a cast of pure prodigies,
who will play for a £50,000 prize fund.
So how
will these gifted housemates, who have excelled in the real world, cope
living under the guidance of Big Brother and the Celebrity Hijackers?
And how will the hijackers perform, knowing that they are being given
the chance of a lifetime to control what happens in the most famous
house in Britain?
Big Brother, who will work side-by-side with the Celebrity Hijackers
when they make their appearances, had these words of warning for those
gearing up to take on the BB mantle: “Big Brother would like to
remind all potential Celebrity Hijackers that with power comes responsibility.
You are responsible not only for setting tasks, maintaining control
in the house, handing out punishments and being a good listener in the
Diary Room. You are responsible for making this a series to remember.
Big Brother will be watching you.”
When the new housemates enter the house in January they’ll find
it revamped from the summer series. The E4 purple will feature heavily
in the colour scheme and gone are the pillow-fight-friendly beds that
sleep 4 or 5, to be replaced by single beds. The surreal, split kitchen
will be put back together again, and the pool will be replaced with
a more intimate hot tub.
More surprises will be in store, but viewers will have to wait for launch
night to find out what other tricks are up Big Brother’s sleeve.
With a host of cheeky Celebrity Hijackers waiting in the wings, ready
and willing to make the rules, bend the rules and even break the rules,
E4 is set to be the home of mischief-making and mayhem this January.
