There's less than a week to go now until the sixth year of Big Brother hits our screens, and today the tabloid papers have revealed more details about the house.

On Friday night Channel 4 launched a new Big Brother advert giving very brief glimpses of the house through the Big Brother eye - all broken in to shards and moving about - but today photos have appeared which give a much better view of some aspects of the Elstree based madhouse.

House of Horrors
It's believed the house is nicknamed the "house of horrors" by producers, and will be small and crampt like last year, will have the hot water shut off as and when Big Brother wishes (but hasn't this always been the way?), an outdoor 3-head shower, and even the possibility of walls which creep in on the housemates.

Booze is also said to be available 'on tap' according to The People newspaper:

LAGER and wine will be on tap round the clock in the new Big Brother house, The People can reveal.

The move is likely to cause explosive viewing with contestants able to get plastered whenever they feel like it - as long as Big Brother keeps the taps flowing.

The paper goes on to say that there's "a massage parlour and a ball pool with hidden clues buried inside which contestants must find to boost their shopping budget".

Numerous hidden rooms are also rumoured to be a feature of the new house, with "hidden stunts" also mentioned by one of those unprovable "insiders".

Nowhere to hide!
Interestingly it's a report in a broadsheet where you'd not usually expect to find pre-Big Brother gossip, that confirms something which seemed possible from last weeks BB advert - the fact that the bedroom and living area are right next to each other...

...and only separated by a sheet of glass!

The article in The Independent says "have upped the use of glass in the building, which means that contestants will be visible to other contenders at virtually all times" and that the bedroom will be shared by all of the housemates - a move which was made popular with the last series and helps avoid the ridiculous group split of two main bedrooms which previous years had seen.