There's just one day to go until the big doors open on the Elstree-based Big Brother house, and 13 new housemates find out what they've let themselves in for... but earlier this week a select few members of the press got to experience it for themselves first hand.

Winners and losers
Brian from Scotland's Daily Record considers himself a winner in an article which describes his time in the house, whilst The Mirror's Nicola and Polly were "freaked out" by the fact they were being watched by Big Brother.

It's quite a clever move as Big Brother appear to have won over the "hearts and minds" of the redtop press before the series has even started - they've given them the fear and shown them that it's maybe not quite as easy as it appears on screen, and might see some quite complimentary comments from the press during BB6 instead of a constant barrage of slagging off like some might have tried during previous years.

During the short experience on Tuesday mock-housemates were made to enter the house, speak with Big Brother in the diary room, take part in a mini rapping challenge, nominate for eviction, and be evicted - sounds like nothing really, but the overwhelming thought that you get left with from both of those articles is that it causes the heart to beat faster, for embaressment to set in, and for everyone to become totally paranoid... It looks like the BB6 house design really could cause for some explosive moments which could make last years "fight night" seem like nothing.

There's a 'moyle' in the BB House
No, they've not planted an actor in the house (although admittedly some of the real housemates will no doubt be there with the intention of gaining such fame and recognition), but instead Radio 1's Chris Moyles entered the house earlier in the week along with members of his team - check out the slideshow of photos on the BBC site.

Eagle-eyed readers may well have noticed a photo of the Love Shack steps in the Radio 1 slideshow - interestingly when Chris and team visited earlier this week the Loft was a green and white colour, whilst a few snaps which first revealed the high-rise pad on Wednesday showed it as being a garish array of pinks.

So who's the best housemate EVER?
Big Brother fans will no doubt be glued to their TV sets tonight when the top 10 housemates is counted down on E4 at 10pm, concluding the top 20 which started last night and had Orkney fish trader and winner of BB4 Cameron at 19, loud camp lipgloss bitch Marco from BB5 at 18, Nasty Nick from the first Big Brother at 12 and Essex Boy Alex from BB3 giving himself a headache on the bog at number 11 (ironically a number 2 in roman numerals...!)

Interestingly there's not been a single BB2 housemate in the top 20 so far, although there's three (Brian, Helen and Paul) set to appear somewhere in the top 10, alongside the likes of mingin' Jade, Nadia (go nads!) and 'Slickman part-time-hit-man' Victor. Last year Jade was considered the best ever housemate but will things have changed with the charismatic line-up from the previous series? Tune in at 10pm to find out!