Posted by Simon at May 28, 2004 05:11 PM

The countdown is over, and the fifth series of Big Brother returns to TV screens across the country later on today - there's only a couple of hours now until the housemates set foot inside the new evil house, and get to find what's in store for them during the next 10 weeks.

And low and behold it looks as though there's yet more rumours of the "final line-up" of housemates, with the Sun, the Star and the Mirror claiming to have "exclusives" from their "Big Brother insider" - however this time the rumourmill appears to have created the same details... could they be the real housemates leaked, or has someone managed to pull the wool over the eyes of three of the redtops?

According to the papers, we'll be watching the following housemates for the next 10 weeks (unless they walk, or get evicted of couse)

* A page 3 hopeful who claims to be more than happy to bare all for an arty live modelling class

* A sex-mad gay guy who will only have sex with straight men

* A contestant who has promised to lie and cheat to win

* A psychology student who claims to be able to suss people out within minutes

* An ex-Samaritan who says they can offer a shoulder to cry on

* A South African beauty who's not afraid to speak her mind

* And someone that has hand-reared a flock of sheep

Obviously that's not all of them as there's ment to be 12, so the other six are a complete mystery even if those are true... although at the rate the papers are going they'll have covered nearly every combination of person that is ever likely to step foot in the house!

So knowing full well that you all want to watch it - even if you've claimed you never watch it, are already bored of it, or that it's crap - you'll want to know when to watch? Firstly there's an hours pre-launch show from 8pm on Channel 4, where Dermot is going to interview Davina, and give away the odd BB5 secret, and generally set the scene. Then at 10pm (after the last ever Friends) Davina's "live" for the launch show, where she'll take a whistlestop tour through the house, confirm the rule changes, and let the unsuspecting housemates in to their new home. The Eye will have full updates of anything worth updating with throughout the 71 days... please don't let this series be shit Channel 4!