Housemates were woken this morning by having Kylie Minogues 'I should be so Lucky' played through the speakers - no doubt as part of the 'unlucky' theme which this years house revolves around.

Despite it only being a Kylie song, It's times like this that add the "fun" atmosphere to Big Brother, and although last night's drivel made The Eye think this series had become some of the worst TV ever, it's a clear reminder that besides the backstabbing and bitching which has gripped the experience so far, it has actually (hopefully) got that potential to be a funny memorable experience which could beat BB5.

Maybe the show producers can pump some energy back in to the household like Kylie's singing appears to have done for some of the housemates... Roberto particularly seemed to enjoy it by dancing in the garden [video]

Of course they didn't all want to get out of bed at the sound of the Aussie singers voice, and by just gone 10am the track had been played for it's third time, with no obvious let-up in sight (infact at 10:20am it was still playing).

It'll be interesting to see if housemates pick up on the "lucky" aspect and the fact that Makosi has so far appeared "unlucky" as part of her (somewhat tedious) personal task...

First round of nominations
Housemates have made their first nominations today, in what was appearing to be a tense and very nervous time for the 13. Makosi particularly had a lot to consider seeing as she's hoping to receive the most nominations to avoid being automatically up for eviction due to her personal challenge.

However there's quite a few housemates that could also be nominated for various reasons, so it'll be interesting to see how things pan out - nominations are expected to be announced tomorrow (Wednesday) night.

Tonight's highlight show has revealed that it was Kemal's suggestion that Makosi should say she "had to do something else to win the task", and would get cherry tango instead of wine for washing the aprons... something which the housmates might have wanted to know about ahead today's nominations, although hopefully Kemal is up for eviction as he's seriously annoying The Eye... along with far too many others.

Roberto argues... with Mary
An unlikely combination of housemates wishing to argue, but Mary and Roberto got in to a right old argument this evening as she had a go at him about the state of the toilets, and how they need to be kept clean.

As with everything so far in the house it's not totally clear what sparked things off, although earlier today someone had left behind some "brown bits" in one of the toilets and wern't owning up to it - Makosi instantly accused Roberto, and it seems that maybe things have gone on from there with Mary deciding Roberto was to get the flack no matter what, with the fact that he was grumbling too much being enough to get Mary to blow her top.

See a very Scary-Mary photo and find out more about the outbreak on the Channel 4 website.

And again housemates are bitching!
Housemates have just eaten, at about 11pm, and there was plenty of bitchy snipes being made. Kemal keeps winding things up and it's almost as if he's playing the game in collusion with Makosi. (are they all moles?!)

Next thing the E4 live feed shows is Saskia getting moody with Roberto and asking Mary to step in to the lounge area so she can speak with her in private, and then Mary says that Kemal can come in which Saskia shouts at Mary to stop doing that, but Kemal still joins.

Tension in the house remains as high as it's ever been, but it seems to be moving around different groups of people each time. Most bizarre! It'd better not be another night of petty bitching, as The Eye really will get bored this time. It's simply not entertaining.

...Apparently the story which would be fitting for a poor-quality soap opera, goes that Mary said something to Lesley, which Lesley misunderstood and went off to Saskia with the wrong end of the stick and bitched about Mary to Saskia, and then Saskia challenged Mary, Mary said that Kemal could join the living room because why not - he's a fellow housemate, Saskia was wound up by what Lesley had said about what Mary had (or hadn't) said. Now Saskia's bitching to Sam and Max and Anthony in the kitchen, whilst Mary, Kemal and Makosi are rowing and bitching about the other housemates in the lounge. Makosi's continuing her routine of making the housemates "her puppets" and spinning the tale yet further, and Kemal's overly-camped-up annoying ways are just adding more fuel to the fire - it's like a load of little kids. GROW UP! SHUT UP. STOP IT!

As Alex said in BB3 as Adelle and Jade rowed in the bedroom "DO SOMETHING FOR ME!!!"

With just a few minutes left of Day 5 in the house, it looks like the bitching is going to continue long in to the night... what will Day 6 bring?

Mary's party turned flat quite quickly, and the endless predictable discussions caused splits in the house, with Craig, Vanessa and later Lesley heading off to the Loft for a good old gossip and bitch about their fellow housemates.

Craig said he was bored of the constant sex discussions - of which the same old names seem to keep coming out with exagerrated claims. Craig also keeps whispering as if he doesn't want either the public or Big Brother to hear what he's saying, but it's been pretty clear that he's trying to influence Lesley and Vanessa's nominations.

Interestingly Makosi left the lounge around 30 minutes later after having a conversation with Kemal and the other housemates where Kemal kept having the last say and trying to make his view the one that mattered - always going that one step further.

When she joined Craig, Vanessa and Lesley in the Loft she told them "I know Big Brother is listening, but... those others aren't going to win"... a hint towards who to nominate? A matter of minutes later Kemal joined in with the conversation in the loft, and then both Kemal and Makosi left the loft.

It's another one of those weird nights in the Big Brother house where very little makes sense - not helped by the fact that the sound keeps dipping when ever anything worth hearing is said...!

Makosi rumbled on her personal task?
A few housemates appear to have realised that Makosi might have been set orders "from the big man", and feel that she was told to be like she is on the first night - they would of course be right.

She obviously denied it, but wasn't one of the rules of her personal task that housemates wern't to realise what was happening? Surely she's failed and will therefore be up for nomination this week...?

They questioned her constant story-changing and lieing, including the fact that she said she was a virgin, then earlier tonight said she wasn't, and a bit later saying that she was but that she said she wasn't to see the reaction. Her fellow housemates don't however quite believe her, and are asking if even her name is Makosi or not.

Lesley then came out with a corker of a comment that she'd already made in the loft to Craig and Vanessa just some 30 minutes or so earlier - that she's "got the tightest pussy in this house", and did a very bitchy-looking finger pointing as she made the claim to Makosi with a smug face and a grin that looked the sort of thing you'd see on Jerry Springer...

...just to be told by Makosi that she is indeed a virgin, and Lesley replied with a gobsmacked "yer not...!????" as she realised maybe the comment had backfired spectacularly. Next thing the E4 feed showed Lesley had gone to join her other housemates in the pool to have a bitch about her. Foot in mouth yet again!

She seems to have some real issues with the other girls in the house - firstly Lesley lashed out at Sam the other night, and she's clearly feeling threatened by Saskia, and is now trying to make herself sound better than Makosi... It's dire television and makes Lesley look a right old bitchy vaine cow.

Quite why she has this constant need to try and come across as being "better" than the other girls isn't too clear, but it'd seem shallow and naive would be high up any list of reasons. It can't be making her popular with the voting public though - a view backed up by comments from BB fans on forums.

Boring.
At just gone 4am almost all housemates are still awake (apart from Derek who went to bed early but still seems awake), and it's been some of the most boring Big Brother viewing there's ever been - quite a bit going on but it's like someone's given a really bad script out to 12 actors that are performing the world's worst most contrived storyline ever.

The Eye thinks Big Brother will need to take a turn for the better over the next few days before it turns in to a disaster, because the small-talk and bitchyness isn't proving entertaining, and nothing that Makosi says can be believed whilst she's on this personal task... but then, can anything any housemate says be believed? They're all coming across as a bunch of fakers.

(I didn't think I'd say it after last year, but I'm actually getting tired of this series. The sooner some of the dead-weight housemates get voted out, the better. There's clear potential to this year being the best series ever, but there's some aspects that are seriously dragging it down)

Day 5 continues: Housemates woken by Kylie song...

Mary has been given a 31st birthday party by Big Brother, which has seen the kitchen area decked out in witch-related items including cobwebs and spiders, and a birthday cake which has a witch on top of it that apparently contains toothpicks!?

Since receiving their witches costumes and other outfits the mood in the house seems to have lifted, and Mary is clearly in her element having what she's described as "a fucking amazing time!!!".

She also took to the garden with Kemal to "dance with snakes in our mouths" at around 11pm, in a bizarre scene which looks set to be continued long in to the night as the housemates get steadily more drunk... [video]

Various games have started up although haven't got very far because none of them can really take to any of the games being suggested, which have included Murder in the Dark and Blind Man's Buff, although neither of those suggestions were taken up.

Call that singing...?
However awful singing which would give even witches the frightners has taken over the slightly sloshed housemates with Craig attempting to woo the audience that had assembled in the Lounge area, before Makosi sung in to a bottle and then "me me me" Lesley decided it was her turn giving a real cat-strangling attempt at a song before saying that she can sing others and that wasn't the best... thankfully E4 went to a break just as she burst out with the next fingers-in-ears noise that is being passed off as "singing".

...she'll probably leave the house with a career in the music industry...

Mary still seems in very high spirits though, and housemates appear to be having a highly enjoyable time... although Science's rap turned more in to a rant as he went on and on and on, and then ranted at his housemates with plenty of "fuckin's" about them interrupting him. Nothing like spoiling a party eh? Could a fight be boiling up in the cauldron that is the Big Brother house?

Roberto followed him and totally parodied him taking the piss out of him swearing at the housemates and complaining about the interruptions, making Science look very small - didn't stop him ranting though and trying to get the last word. Saskia however proved suprisingly impressive with her singing (of which she claimed afterwards she can't sing), which will no doubt rub Lesley's face in it yet further as Saskia yet again manages to woo the housemates better than the Huddersfield lass had managed.

It's all very reminiscent of Michelle from BB5 singing, and every song sounding exactly the same, despite the original not sounding anything like that. Why doesn't Big Brother ban housemates from singing? The Eye's ears hurt.

By 1am housemates had clearly become bored of the singing - mainly because Lesley had taken to the mic again and was providing an endless rendition of songs that lasted about 15 seconds before she suddenly realised she didn't know the next line or just decided she didn't want to sing that song...

Makosi suggests a game of Spin the Bottle
However the idea fell a bit flat with several housemates having made their way to the kitchen during the past 10 minutes to avoid the earache that was bound to happen if they stayed much longer, so instead Sam suggests a game of Truth or Dare that the housemates seem to prefer the idea of.

Although with Sam going first and saying she'd prefer to do a Dare than tell the Truth, she quickly declined the first half-dozen dares that her fellow housemates suggested...!

Having realised that Truth or Dare wasn't going to work after Lesley refused her dares saying she's "not snoging no one", Derek boldly suggested "let's play spin the bottle...!" claiming that it'd work better - he'd just minutes before said he'd never played it before.

Within a matter of minutes though Derek had left the lounge, after receiving a couple of probing questions when he opted for a "truth" on his turn, and clearly realising the game wasn't quite what he was expecting...

Mary's party seems to have turned flat rather quickly, and the gossiping and bitching continues into the early hours of Day 5.

It's Mary's 31st birthday today, and the housemates expect there to be a party thrown later in the day - to pre-empt things they started on some of the booze at around midnight to get the day off to a start which they hope will set the tone for the rest of the 24 hours.

Although the discovery of rats might not have been part of their anticipated day...

So much for 'lights out'
Infact it was quite a late night again for the housemates, as they were all still awake at midnight with the bedroom light still on - totally against what had been suggested in the meeting yesterday.

By 2am almost all housemates were awake, although Derek had seemingly gone to bed. Maxwell, Roberto, Anthony and Sam were in the pool. Mary, Science, Vanessa, Makosi, Lesley and Saskia decided the pool wasn't for them and instead sat in the loft discussing UFO's, ghosts and general points about their Big Brother experience such as rumours they'd read about a "sun and owl house" and various other themes that had been speculated upon.

Not long later most of the housemates decided to call it a night and get some sleep - something which has been lacking during their time in the house so far - although Max, Roberto, Craig, Anthony and Vanessa stopped up and instead chatted about random subjects in the living room.

Rat!!!
At just before 4am Anthony spotted what he thought was a rat in the garden. He along with Max, Roberto, Craig and Vanessa walked to near where the binbag had been left out to investigate, and thought he'd probably seen a gnome instead of anything else.

However a few minutes after they'd been poking around near the bin bag the E4 feed indeed picked up on a rat scurrying off with something from the bin bag. Anthony's described it as being the size of a cat, and Max said "it was fucking huge" although the rat seen by the camera didn't seem that big. Maybe there's a few of them. Not nice.

Craig's comment was "that one had a set of tee'f on it!" as he and Vanessa went in to the Diary Room to alert Big Brother to the problem. A couple of minutes later the housemates decided it was time they made their way to bed... although Vanessa was slightly concerned that the rat was going in to a hole under the bedroom.

The long sleep
Not a single housemate had risen from their slumber at 9am this morning, and it was around 9:30 that Derek sat up and looked around before saying "morning hansome" and getting a witty reply from Anthony who was also clearly awake but not wanting to get up.

This will be the longest that the housemates have slept since entering the house, with the first few nights being no more than a couple of hours sleep for the vast majority of them, and some claiming to have had less than an hour during the first two nights.

However the bout of deep-sleep was soon broken when at around 9:50am the lights burst on and Big Brother played the sound of what appears to be a vacum cleaner - surely one of the most annoying noises ever when you're sleepy and don't want to get up. Makosi however seems to be keeping under the duvet again as she has done previously...

And it's kicked started another argument because Makosi has forgotten to clean the aprons from yesterday's task, which Big Brother had requested her to do with the reward being 12 bottles of wine to celebrate Mary's birthday - obviously Big Brother is going to give them the wine though as it's all part of the "unlucky" theme and how Makosi will be praised for winning the prize.

Whilst Makosi is away speaking with Big Brother a good number of housemates are bitching about her in the bedroom, some think that she's done it on purpose and is being selfish and didn't win the wine simply because she wanted to be nasty to them. Science keeps going on about how there's "two sidez to da argument innit?".

Interestingly Makosi went in to the diary room to speak to Big Brother about the fact she'd not washed the aprons by 9am this morning, and Kemal went in with her and has since been asked to leave by Big Brother but has revealed the news that she'll be given another chance to win the bottles of wine - making it very clear that Big Brother wants to make sure Makosi's personal challenge is made tougher by getting people to be happy with her winning them booze for tonight's party.

Makosi chosen Cherry Tango???
It'd sound as though Big Brother gave Makosi a choice of 12 bottles of wine, or 12 bottles of Cherry Tango... and it'd appear that she's chosen Cherryade because it wasn't on the shopping list and she claims to love drinking it.

Could it be that Makosi is doing this to wind up the housemates ahead of the nominations today and before the drink arrives tonight... One thing though, she daren't face the other housemates such as Maxwell, Roberto, Saskia and Sam, but is chatting with both Kemal and Derek in the garden.

Kemal keeps saying "this is going to kick off", and sure enough it looks fairly likely that another argument will go guns-a-blazing once the news finds it's way to the other housemates that were bitching about the fact that they feel she failed to wash the aprons on purpose so as they didn't get booze tonight.

But instead it'd seem it's caused them all to burst in to hilarity, and Mary who was the last to rise from her bed at gone 11am seems a bit confused by it all, and says that she's going to go in to the diary room due to the "issue" which has arisen... it's not too sure if she's upset about the fact there'll be no booze for her birthday or if something else has got her angered. The house seems a very confusing place at the moment, with Derek constantly laughing at things and Max even being very cheery commenting how he's had "quieter starts to a Monday morning".

Just chillin'
The weather in the Elstree-based garden has been mixed today, with rain noted by some of the housemates earlier when Mary was showering. Things seem to have improved by 1pm though and all of the housemates (bar Mary who is re-arranging her clothes in the bedroom) ventured outside to get some rays from the midday sun.

However Lesley appeared as if she was all a bit rejected and alone - a distinct air of negativity seemed to hang over her, as it has done since for much of her time in the house, and she stood there arms crossed in a bitterly cold pose whilst everyone else was sitting and laying down by the pool.

Second task wins them a party
Big Brother threw out another task to the housemates this afternoon, getting them to create a rap about another housemate, and then perform it - exactly the same as journalists had to do during their trial of the BB6 house the week before the new series started.

And it proved to be another easy task to pass meaning they won the party which was being offered by Big Brother, giving housemates a real chance to celebrate Mary's 31st Birthday later tonight.

However things might not go 100% well tonight when Maxwell finds that he's had his bed soaked in water by a vicious Lesley who drenched it earlier this evening as a way of getting her own back on Max after he made her cry during the rapping task by as Channel 4's website put it: 'complimenting Sam's beauty and calling Lesley's chest "frightening"'. B-i-t-c-h-y!

Day 4 continues with Mary's wicked witch party...

Twelve of the housemates got a noisy awakening this morning when Big Brother played a digital alarm clock siren in to the bedroom - Makosi however stayed under her duvet for several minutes, no doubt with the hope that it'd drum up yet more nominations for her.

Derek however was awake long before the 10am alarm call, and had been in the kitchen washing up since before 8:30am - at one point he used the time alone to speak his mind... to a wall, and any E4 viewers that happened to be awake early enough to see it. The Eye was there and caught it on video an hour later on E4+1.

Shopping arrives, and then it's THE meeting
Shopping arrived just before midday, including a mamoth 76 toilet rolls, which is apparently half the amount they were originally going to order. Once this had been dealt with the household meeting finally kicked in to action in the garden, with Derek chairing it despite claiming that he wasn't.

Lesley however didn't look particularly interested in the whole affair and turned up her nose whilst Derek was speaking, clearly giving him about as much attention as a bit of dog mess on her shoe. Infact she seemed to find the whole thing like it was a bit of a big laugh - although in all fairness it was a bit.

It seems fairly likely that what was discussed during the meeting will go in one ear and straight out of the other when it comes to the housemate's bedtime tonight, and several commented afterwards that it was going to kick off anyway.

So on to their first task
Big Brother has at long last given the housemates their first task - one which has been done several times before on Big Brother, with each housemate having their portrait painted by a fellow housemate.

Lesley instantly paired up with Craig, who she seems to have forged an alliance with during the past couple of days (or maybe she's just attaching herself to him after realising none of the girls seem very friendly with her and all the other blokes seem interested in Sam and Saskia!?).

White witch Mary quickly chose to partner up with Kemal - the pair of which also seem to be getting on well and have been paying each other numerous compliments and taking great interest in each other. Saskia's portrait by Anthony however didn't paint her in a particularly flattering light, with strange green blotches all over her face.

Lesley says that Craig's picture of her makes her "look like a bulldog" - Craig must be a good painter! Her painting of him was done within a matter of minutes (instead of using the 30 minutes allowed) and had red radiating from around his head, and big red cheeks and mouth, which she claims was picked because he's hot and firey....... Surely he's more wet and woofy.

Sam however is having trouble making a brown colour from the paints (isn't that the easiest one to make? I'm sure at school all the colours made a brown gungy mess when mixed) for Vanessa's face.

It's approaching 4am, and no one is asleep in the Big Brother house after an argument turned nasty and someone then decided to turn the lights on, which caused Arsenal fan Maxwell to go off on one.

After lots of screaming from various members of the group, there was some movement with some housemates including Max, Anthony and Roberto sitting out in the Kitchen.

Mary seemed to think she'd seen a ghost in the bedroom, which caused yet more hillarity and screams, and it'd seem that someone chucked water over some of the housemates beds - possibly over Lesley and Makosi.

Then Derek decided he'd had enough and left for the sofa, joined by Saskia who was wanting some sleep. Not long later Max joined them, followed by Sam and Roberto. There's more people wanting to sleep, than not, but they've all been forced to find their own place to sleep as all of those in the bedroom are wide awake and very argumentitive.

Lesley was bitching with Sam, who she appears to be very jealous of - it'd seem that Lesley feels Sam is "tarting" with all of the boys and getting their attention much more. Maybe it's because Lesley's just a cheap northern tart...!

They've since been joined by Science, who wasn't being one of the quieter housemates and certainly wasn't helping to keep things calm whilst those that wanted to sleep tried to doze off. A tired Derek left the bedroom about 30 minutes ago, and now there's more discussion and awake people than before - sleep certainly doesn't look like it'll be in plentiful supply tonight.

Funny thing is, most of the initial argument started with Makosi trying to drum up some more negative feelings towards her to help boost her chances of getting the most nominations this week, but things soon got out of hand and spiralled far beyond herself with other pent-up anger bursting free from several housemates.

Now Derek, Roberto, Saskia, Sam and Max are suggesting that some rules need to be set in the morning, and Derek says that there's no more playing nice from him.

Day 3 has only just started... what else will it bring? Stick with The Eye to find out!

Less than 24 hours in to their unknown stay in the house, and the housemates have been bitching at each other, over numerous things.

Wakey wakey!
All but two housemates (Maxwell and Anthony) had gone to sleep by 5am last night, with the pair following not long after.

Derek had been awake for over an hour, tidying the kitchen and rearranging everything to bed perfect, when at 9.45am Big Brother switched the bedroom lights on, which has resulted in an argument - although it'd seem to be a fake one being staged by Makosi, who had been re-called to the diary room last night to have her personal challenge re-explained after having totally misunderstood the instructions.

She's saying that she's scared of the dark, and that it should be her right to have the light on in the morning, and that she only went along with the light being off last night because everyone else wanted it off. There's clearly quite a bit of quick thinking going on from the frizzy-haired girl, although it's causing some of her fellow housemates to wonder what the hell has hit them, and has caused Arsenal fan Maxwell to go off on one in typical Norf Landanah stylee.

More arguments
But that wasn't the only argument. The next one kicked off during a heated stand-off over the shopping list, where a few housemates decided to take control and put themselves in a position much higher up the pecking order than others, and basically running the show.

Wasn't long before a few of the housemates bailed out and retreated to the Loft to rant about the shopping list and how it was "too much stress". It'd seem those that were "in control" of the shopping list were not too keen on getting fruit, and were more interested in getting the range of typical fancy seasonings and ingredients than practical stuff that could easily last a week - after all, how many meals can you do with red peppers, and some cooking sauce?

Even more arguments
And it was the shopping list that caused yet more rows when a few hours later Big Brother called a housemate to the diary room and Makosi rushed off there (hasn't she learnt after last night!?) and came back out with the shopping list and the bad news that they'd overspent by more than £35 - what a cockup.

Before long everyone was barking orders out, which caused yet more anger and frustration and caused everyone to get pissed off with each other... and it continued until the 5 minutes were up and even as Makosi walked back in to the dairy room she was still getting told stuff to add to the list... chaos!

Divisions in the group
There's clearly already a few divisions forming - people not "clicking" with each other quite so well, and only talking to some whilst not being quite so friendly with others. No doubt within a few days it'll start to become blatently clear wheter it's first day nerves or more a case of stereotypes and first impressions which have caused the tensions and dislike between certain housemates.

Unlucky for some
Housemates received their suitcases of clothing earlier this afternoon, and promptly went about unlocking the padlocks... all apart from Makosi who of course is the unlucky 13th housemate, and was given a dud key which wouldn't unlock.

Clearly this got her quite a bit of sympathy from her fellow housemates, which won't do her mission of getting people to hate her and nominate her, and eventually she went to speak to Big Brother about her key not working, to be told that it must be - after all, Big Brother's in on the joke so wouldn't admit it wasn't...

...but after a while she gave up and went to speak to Big Brother again, who said they'd get back to her - and a couple of hours later Makosi was called to the diary room again, where she received a bundle of 100 keys, and was told that one of them would unlock her case.

Having struck lucky before too long, Makosi found the right key and got reunited with her clothing... and also got yet more sympathy from her housemates, plunging her "get the most nominations" mission in even more doubt.

Few drinks... and another row
Housemates had a few drinks this evening, before taking to the sofas and chatting random rubbish... until all of a sudden things kicked off between Kemal and Science. Not too clear what was the explosive comment that made things go up in fireworks but it's resulted in very raised voices and everyone else leaving them alone to thrash things out with Science claiming he's "from the hood - the hood is in England" (that'd confuse Jade wouldn't it?) and saying that Kemal shouldn't descriminate about where he's from.

Kemal said Science shouldn't say things about Kemal's hair and clothing - neither of them seem to agree. Science keeps shouting "do not dis my music, yeh!" and "I am ghetto!" to Kemal, whilst he stands up in a threatening pose over Kemal who is sitting down on the orange sofa.

Housemates have tried to find a quiet spot, with Saskia and Sam sitting in the loft saying how it's full of freaks - a few others went to join them, and then left again with Saskia saying that it wasn't because of the argument that she was up there... it clearly was though. The mics also picked up Kemal's voice of "it isn't because Science and me were debating was it?"... Everyone said no. Clearly it was.

More day 2 updates as they happen...

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Last night 13 new faces arrived in to the Big Brother house, for the start of series six of the spy-on-the-wall experience...

Derek 40 from London, posh/camp black man
- first word on entering the house "woo, home at last!"

Lesley 19 from Huddersfield, and wearing a PVC nurses outfit...
- first word "oh my fucking god!"

Sam 23 from Surrey, had a boob job at 18 and addicted to sex
- first word "hi... oh my god!"

Maxwell 24 from North London, Arsenal fan
- first word "hello... hi ya"

Vanessa 19 from Croydon, South London, loud and mouthy black girl
- first word "omigod hello... hello... hello!"

Anthony 23 from Concert, County Durham, a 70's dancer but dressed in a suit like he's going to an interview. Took an age to do his walk, got booed by the crowds who chanted "in in in in!"
- first word "oh my gawd let's get it on... dudes!" *wanker alert!*

Roberto 32 from Italy, lives in Liverpool.
- first word "Let me in, let me in... yeeeaay... jesus christ!"

Makosi 24 from Zimbabwee, a nurse which might prove interesting with Lesley's outfit... Wearing a big frizzy hairdo and a short orange dress thing.
- first word "hey!"

Craig 20 from Norfolk, a hair stylist that seems to "fuck" and "twat" every 3rd word. Wanker alert number 2...
- first word ".........." nothing, until "pleased to meet you... wot's yer name?"

Mary 30, psychic/writer... white witch, lives with a ghost, arrived on her broomstick... and odd. Booed by the crowd. Removed her cape and dumped her broom to reveal a Lara Croft reject-a-like.
- first word "hii...." (after having waited at the entrance door for over a minute and being told the door was open by Big Brother)

Science 22, ghetto gangster wannabe. Wanker number 3?
- first word "Good day to one and all!!"

Saskia 23, promotions girl claims to be 100% natural. Loves her football and booze. Doesn't seem to live immigrants... Wobbled quite litterally out of the car, to a big "woop" from the crowd. This year's Michelle?
- first word "Jesus... hello... hello"

Kemal 19 from Turkey, camp male belly dancer... "contemporary muslim", arriving in a female sort of belly dance/turkish weird outfit. Wanker number 4?
- first word "fabulous... this is the door of opportunity.... Hi Darlin's!"

Find out more about the housemates, in The Eye's Meet the Housemates

What do YOU think of them?
Give your three word descriptions of each housemate in the HoC Big Brother 6 forum topic

At the start of last night's live launch show on Channel 4, Davina took viewers for a whistlestop tour around the Big Brother 6 house.

All 13 housemates have entered the Big Brother 6 house, and what a crazy bunch they are!

Tory Derek has penned speeches for the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Michael Heseltine while working in the House of Commons. He knows the skeletons lurking in many politicians' closets and is mentioned in John Major's autobiography. Derek has Jamaican roots and is the only black master of foxhounds.

Personal Data
Age: 40
Home: London
Job: Speechwriter
Star Sign:
Favourites
Film: The Big Escape
TV Show: X-Factor
Book: Long Walk To Freedom
Food: Roast Beef
He Says
Quote: "I have too much confidence which could irritate others and my outspokenness gets me in trouble.”

Adventurous Lesley describes herself as "sexy, bitchy and loud" with her "big brown Bambi eyes" and her "very busty and curvaceous" figure as her key assets. Asked why other housemates would nominate her, she claimed it would be "for being a bitch, for stirring things up."

Personal Details
Age: 19
Home: Huddersfield
Job: Sales
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: Ghost
TV: Coronation St
Book: A Child Called It
Food: Chicken Korma
She Says
Quote: "I flirt with guys all the time, even the minging ones, just for a laugh."

Sam has a guilty secret - she's had a boob job but never told her family. She also once stripped naked on a podium on holiday in Tenerife in exchange for tickets to an event. Although she has a thing for both men and women, she relieves herself of boredom by thinking and talking about men. She describes herself as "original, funny and fun" and hates male chauvinists.

Personal Data
Age: 23
Home: Surrey
Job: Marketing Student
Star Sign:
Favourites
Film: Dirty Dancing
TV Show: You Are What You Eat
Book: Sleepers
Food: Mashed Potato
She Says
Quote: “I'll get nominated because I’m serious competition, they might find me annoyingly dappy and because I’m pretty.”

Maxwell predicts he will be the alpha male of the House and describes himself as "a bit of a geezer". Before becoming an engineer, he mixed work and pleasure in Faliraki for two years, "getting paid to get drunk". Maxwell has no time for any political opinions or vegetarians.

Personal Details
Age: 24
Home: London
Job: Engineer
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: Goodfellas
TV: The Office
Book: Cass
Food: Pizza
He Says
Quote: Why will his fellow housemates nominate him? "Because I’m annoying...and I will have used their towels.”

Vanessa describes herself as "spontaneous, spoilt and selfish." Other housemates would nominate her "for being too loud... for acting childish and spoilt when I don't get my own way." She also has a very sweet tooth, so sweet she claims she cannot go a day without chocolate.

Personal Details
Age: 19
Home: London
Job: Student
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: Finding Nemo
TV: The Simple Life
Book: Charlie & Choc
Food: Chicken
She Says
Quote: “I want to find out what people think of me.”

Anthony says he is a stranger to housework. His family wash, cook and clean for him, while his grandmother irons his "pulling outfit" which she sprays with holy water. On Saturday nights, Anthony can be found strutting his stuff in 70s gear for ladies night. He is a fan of "false boobs".

Personal Data
Age : 23
Home: Nr Newcastle
Job: 70s dancer
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: Saturday Night Fever
TV Show: Match Of The Day
Book: Roy Kean's Biog
Food: Chicken Fried Rice
He Says
Quote: "I love myself and I dance all the time and I talk lots"

Roberto was born and raised in Italy, but has lived in Liverpool for nine years. In 1996 he reached the final of the "Most Handsome Man in Italy" competition. He grudgingly admits to being "an excellent package with few faults". Roberto fears the others will him over-confident.

Personal Details
Age: 32
Home: Liverpool
Job: Teacher
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: Cinema Paradiso
TV Show: Jonathan Ross
Book: Il Barone Rampante
Food: Italian
He Says
Quote: "I'll get nominated because I might say something that people won’t want to hear."

Zimbabwe-born Makosi hates swearing and doesn't believe in plastic surgery because she wonders "whatever happened to graceful ageing?" A regular visitor to Africa, she believes she must have been an elephant in a previous life because they are beautiful animals with amazing presence.

Personal Data
Age: 24
Home: High Wycombe
Job: Cardiac Nurse
Star Sign:
Favourites
Film: Pretty Woman
TV Show: Big Brother
Book: Kama Sutra
Food: Chicken livers
She Says
Quote: “I'll get nominated because some may find me arrogant and self-obsessed, because I’m not economic with criticising if it’s called for and some will find me a threat because I look like a winner.”

Craig says he is the best hairdresser in the world. He set up his own salon when he was 19 and thinks hair is an extension of people's personalities. Craig praises himself as being the best liar in the world and excels at spreading rumours. He believes in Egyptian Gods.

Personal Details
Age : 20
Home: Norfolk
Job: Hairdresser
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: Underworld
TV: Desperate Housewives
Book: Doesn't read!
Food: Chinese
He Says
Quote: What does Craig think of himself? "I have to be the best and I’m lazy at cleaning.”

White witch Mary has been psychic all her life and claims to have been abducted by aliens seven times - the last being just over a year ago. She admits to being totally ruthless, extremely intelligent and hates TV programmes produced for the masses.

Personal Details
Age: 30
Home: London
Job: Psychic
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: Dracula
TV: Addams Family
Book: Mists Of Avalon
Food: Seafood
Quote
She Says: "I’m too spooky and witchy, I like to talk too deeply and have too many conspiracy theories and I’m too analytical."

Science believes he is a massively talented musician destined for success. He described himself as "a bit like James Dean but without the motorcycle and tight jeans." Science has a phobia of anything that buzzes as he was once stung in the mouth.

Personal Details
Age: 22
Home: Leeds
Job: Entrepreneur
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: How High
TV: The Simpsons
Book: Secrets Of Masons
Food: Chicken, rice and peas
He Says
Quote: "I’m too much to handle, they can see my rare talents could give me an advantage and because I am a competitor who wants to win.”

Saskia believes her unique selling point is her body – not surprising as she goes to the gym five times a week, gets her nails done every month and admits her best childhood experience was winning a beauty contest. However, she admits to being a bit of a ladette.

Personal Details
Age: 23
Home: London
Job: Promotions Girl
Starsign: Coming soon
Favourites
Film: Pretty Woman
TV Show: Eastenders
Book: Watermelon
Food: Roast Potatoes
She Says
Quote: "I'll be nominated because of jealousy, jealousy, jealousy"

Award winning belly dancer Kemal describes himself as the ultimate Diva with a passion for sex, chocolate and the Eurovision Song Contest. Kemal fears cockroaches, spiders, loneliness, claustrophobia, death and never being in love. He is also enthralled by Elvis Presley who he describes as his God.

Personal Data
Age: 19
Home: London
Job: Student/Belly Dancer
Star Sign:
Favourites
Film: Sister Act
TV Show: Sex and the City
Book: All Quiet on the Western Front
Food: Indian
It Says
Quote: "I'll get nominated for being too loud, confrontational and for bitching.”

Weird weird weird bunch. If you thought last year's lot were odd, then you ain't see nuffin' yet!

Photo Gallery: How the housemates arrived and what they wore... (or didn't)

The sixth series of Big Brother has launched, with Davina's opening line being 'you didn't ever think Big Brother was going to be nice... did you?'

There's not two houses. There's not 24 housemates. There's not a load of evictions tonight.

13 Housemates will enter the house
£100,000 prize
13 is unlucky, and the 13th housemate will be made to suffer.
There's a giant dark blue Diary Room chair, similar to the BB eye.

The orange sofa arrived this morning and is located in the lounge area which is ringed with glass walls, and also features a toilet - the other one being in the bedroom next to one of the beds.

As rumoured, a hidden camera is inside one of the garden gnomes and will be used by BBLB to get a sneaky extra view on the house, much in the style of the fridge cam in Celebrity Big Brother, whilst a pink "naughty step" is located on the entrance to the "love loft".

The housemates
The 13 housemates have started to enter the house, and amazingly enough they're the same names as were leaked (and instantly rubbished) on some BB fan forums earlier tonight. Interestingly there's no frisking going on before they enter the house.

Derek 40 from London, posh/camp black man
- first word on entering the house "woo, home at last!"

Lesley 19 from Huddersfield, and wearing a PVC nurses outfit...
- first word "oh my fucking god!"

Sam 23 from Surrey, had a boob job at 18 and addicted to sex
- first word "hi... oh my god!"

Maxwell 24 from North London, Arsenal fan
- first word "hello... hi ya"

Vanessa 19 from Croydon, South London, loud and mouthy black girl
- first word "omigod hello... hello... hello!"

Anthony 23 from Concert, County Durham, a 70's dancer but dressed in a suit like he's going to an interview. Took an age to do his walk, got booed by the crowds who chanted "in in in in!"
- first word "oh my gawd let's get it on... dudes!" *wanker alert!*

Roberto 32 from Italy, lives in Liverpool.
- first word "Let me in, let me in... yeeeaay... jesus christ!"

Makosi 24 from Zimbabwee, a nurse which might prove interesting with Lesley's outfit... Wearing a big frizzy hairdo and a short orange dress thing.
- first word "hey!"

Craig 20 from Norfolk, a hair stylist that seems to "fuck" and "twat" every 3rd word. Wanker alert number 2...
- first word ".........." nothing, until "pleased to meet you... wot's yer name?"

Mary 30, psychic/writer... white witch, lives with a ghost, arrived on her broomstick... and odd. Booed by the crowd. Removed her cape and dumped her broom to reveal a Lara Croft reject-a-like.
- first word "hii...." (after having waited at the entrance door for over a minute and being told the door was open by Big Brother)

Science 22, ghetto gangster wannabe. Wanker number 3?
- first word "Good day to one and all!!"

Saskia 23, promotions girl claims to be 100% natural. Loves her football and booze. Doesn't seem to live immigrants... Wobbled quite litterally out of the car, to a big "woop" from the crowd. This year's Michelle?
- first word "Jesus... hello... hello"

Kemal 19 from Turkey, camp male belly dancer... "contemporary muslim", arriving in a female sort of belly dance/turkish weird outfit. Wanker number 4?
- first word "fabulous... this is the door of opportunity.... Hi Darlin's!"

Big Brother have really outdone themselves with this year's bunch of freaks...

They enter the bedroom, with Lesley saying "is this the house?" (no shit!?) and Kemal who hasn't stopped talking, going "is this the bedroom"? Where the fuck do they get these clowns!!!

Meet the housemates... full details of all 13, with photos!

And now time for the Unlucky 13th twist...
Big Brother called a housemate to the diary room... Makosi rushed there, to be told in very frank and unfriendly way that by coming to the diary room was her first mistake, and revealing that she was the unlucky one and will face the public vote next week...

...however a secret was also shared with Makosi: "The housemates that receive the most nominations this week, will be immune from next Friday's eviction." Her mission is to get the most nominations from her housemates.

One leaving the diary room Big Brother announced (in a voice that you don't seem to be able to hear, and something they'll have to fix before long) that Makosi had just won them a party - which of course has made all the housemates absoloutely love her!

And that, was the live launch show. The Eye will be back with more, later tonight!

There's just an hour to go until the sixth series of Big Brother starts, and the papers have been full of yet more fact and fiction on the final pre-launch day.

27 Gnomes
Apparently there's 27 garden gnomes in the BB house, one of which is said to be fitted with a spy camera which will keep tabs on housemates when they think they're out of the cameras view!

It's also been said that any housemate "damaging" a gnome will be punished. Which brings us nicely on to rumours of a "naughty stone" which troublemakers will have to stand on when they've misbehaved. Apparently there's a red slab in the garden where those breaking the rules will be sent to - no matter what the weather - and told to stand there until they've learnt their lesson.

Sofa swap...
The green sofa which had been seen in publicity photos has apparently been replaced, after it was said to be causing people to get a rash from being scratchy. Formerly arranged in two rectangles of three multi-height pieces, it's now a bright orange design and positioned in a more normal (for Big Brother) square.

Hopefully the new arrangement will mean many late-night drinking games, as housemates will all be much nearer to each other now, instead of being spread out and distant which the green sofa would have been previously.

It'd also appear that there's one seat on it's own - almost like a "head of table" arrangment, leading to the possibility that a "head of house" or "team leader" may well be appointed tonight... whether housemates realise it or not.

Housemates revealed? - maybe
The Mirror claims an exclusive on details about the new housemates, although other papers also carried the very same "exclusive" story, and it's not as if it really tells us anything if you were to take a stab-in-the-dark as to the mix of housemates that we might see from 9pm tonight.

"11 are single, two are gay and two are bisexual" whilst one is "a soldier in the elite Parachute Regiment" and another used to be a "professional windsurfer and basketball player".

Three housemates are said to be from another country (much like Nadia from Portugal, and Vanessa from South Africa), and one has had cosmetic surgery on her breasts and another has such a high-profile job which papers claim may mean "viewers recognise them".

Find out at 9pm!
One way to find out for sure is to watch the Live launch show on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm, where Davina will reveal the house in full (apart from any secrets of course!) before letting loose the new housemates who will "enjoy" the next 11 weeks (said to be 78 days, 77 somewhere else, 71 if you read somewhere else, and 100 days in some of the tabloids - no one's too sure yet) of televisual viewing pleasure.

There's also the launch of E4 on Freeview which is claimed to open up the live streaming to around 11m more viewers this year - just it all depends on if you can get the channel to tune in or not. E4+1 is said to be working fine on some viewers boxes, whilst E4 is still a blank black screen (mine included) and there's also talk of channel 705 giving a message about interactive viewing, just not everyone has managed to even get that channel showing up!

The Eye will have full coverage of the launch show, from 9pm - don't miss it!

E4 are counting down the top 20 housemates, with 20-11 last night and 10-1 tonight, revealing that Big Brother 2 winner Brian Dowling is considered as the best housemate ever from the first five series - beating last years series winner Nadia who filled the number 2 slot.

20 Alison
19 Cameron
18 Marco
17 Spencer
16 Anna
15 Craig
14 Jon
13 Emma
12 Nick
11 Alex
10 Paul
9 Victor
8 Kate
7 Stuart
6 Ray
5 Michelle
4 Helen
3 Jade
2 Nadia
1 Brian

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!

The Eye has created a Big Brother 6 house plan, two days before Channel 4 reveal their official plan on the Big Brother website.

It's all guesswork, but based on a combination of photos released over the past few days and the map of last years house it's been possible to piece together the individual clues to come up with what is highly likely to be the location of the various rooms and features of the Big Brother 6 house.

Update: On Friday 27th after the Big Brother 6 series had started, Channel 4 posted the following official houseplan on their website:

Stick with The Eye for full coverage of Big Brother 6!

There's only two days to go until the sixth series of Big Brother swings in to action, and the latest news seems to confirm that there will indeed be 13 housemates entering the house this time around.

Manchester Online first had news of the Unlucky 13 in their article late on Thursday night, backing up BB Fan Forums where it'd been spotted that there were 13 mic holders next to the pool.

The article went on to confirm details of the bedroom which has a glass screen (possibly mirror glass which when the blinds are pulled down causes the kitchen area to be reflected back) and that there are 9 single beds and two doubles, that there's a loft to give housemates a small amount of privacy, and a "glass box" living area.

Scotland's Daily Record confirmed things yet further by giving almost exactly the same details, although the loft is described as having "a flight of stairs in the garden" leading up to it, where as Manchester Online claims it's a ladder.

Turn of the tabloids
But it was a few hours later, in the early hours of this morning, that details started to appear on the national Tabloid websites, including The Mirror, who have affectionally dubbed it a "Big Bro peep show", going on about the fact that there will be heat seeking cameras which can catch antics under the covers - meaning there really is no escape from the viewing public.

The unlucky 13th housemate is said to be facing a week of "torture" according to The Mirror, whilst The Sun claims they'll "have their life made hell for the rest of the series".

So then the bedroom pics...
BBC News appear to be the first to get snaps of the BB6 bedroom (other than the quick view through shards of the BB eye in the Channel 4 advert recently) and confirm the fact that the bedroom is indeed the other side of the mirror which was visible in the publicity snaps released yesterday.

The article calls it a "transparent house", and that producers will be able to control the heat of the outside pool - other articles have claimed that they'll have the same control over the pool, being able to make that hot or cold as they wish, and obviously causing great annoyance for the housemates.

More from the house just as soon as The Eye sees it!

Channel 4 have officially released photos of the Big Brother 6 house today, as the anticipation for the new series builds ever stronger.

Earlier in the day Heat magazine had run an article on the house giving some of the first full views inside the house, and this afternoon the same photos have been amongst a bumper set of publicity snaps, some of which can be seen below:

Views of the bedroom area are oddly lacking, leading to speculation that there's a big secret to be revealed there on Friday night when the show kicks off - rumours would have people believe that there's going to be four beds, each sleeping 3 housemates.

The Eye will get back to you with more photos later!

Earlier today several papers carried news of what to expect in the new Big Brother house when the housemates enter it on Friday, and The Star had a couple of shots revealing specific aspects...

The three headed outdoor shower is bound to cause interest for both viewers and housemates - never before has the shower been outside (other than BB3 where the "poor side" of the divide was forced to use a basic outdoor shower) and certainly makes last years "glass walled" which the housemates had their doubts about seem more "normal" than ever.

What would Big Brother be without a pool? Well last year there wasn't one as such and it was a jacquzzi instead, but it's made a return this year and apparently there's more than one although this hasn't been backed up by any real fact as yet.

The split-level green sofa will also be an interesting move for the housemates, as it's said to be designed to "exclude" as they won't all be able to face each other and because some people are higher than others they'll feel like they're talking down (or being talked down to) which could cause arguments!

Read more about the house in this morning's The Eye post and talk about the photos on the forum!

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.

Big Brother this year could have a Big Con aspect to it, with a set of housemates entering the house and simply not being the real housemates, resulting in all bar one of them being voted out by the public after just a few hours.

The Sunday Mirror newspaper has reported that 11 "dummies" will enter the house, but that it'll be a separate part of the house, away from the real housemates. A few hours later the public will have voted 10 of them out, keeping just one who will go in to the main Big Brother house to join the real housemates.

However that's not the end of the house-splitting, as the rumour of a Sun house and an Owl house appear to be gaining ground, with six members in each house - those in the Sun house can only go outside during the day and have to be awake all day, whilst those in the Owl house will have to be awake all night and are only let out in to the shared garden during the night time hours.

It seems a sure-fire way to ensure that there's always some action from the house, although it'll be interesting to see what divisions it causes so early on in the series. After a couple of weeks the two parts of the house are said to merge, at which point it'll be a more "normal" Big Brother experience...

...which is said to run for an stunningly long 100 days! The longest it's ever been in the UK, taking the show right through until September.

Prize fund changes
It also looks like a change in how the prize fund is calculated might be on the cards - each housemate will be given £5000, and when they're evicted they have to give half of their overall winnings to another housemate.

The longer housemates are in the house the bigger their individual prize fund will be as they'll have racked up more cash by being given money by evictees, meaning there should be some real rivalry - if the housemates decide they're bothered about the money of course, which previous years has shown that they're usually not too fussed, and are more interested in the potential fame.

A stab in the dark has also been made by the paper about the potential housemates, although these early predictions never usually come true and only last year did one of the papers get it near enough spot on just a few days before the series started.

The twins are outed... or should that be inned?
Logan was rumbled by one of the housemates in the Aussie Big Brother earlier, when he realised that things wern't quite right. After telling a few other housemates, they tackled the question head on, and Logan tried to convince them otherwise, but simply didn't manage to pull it off.

Big Brother then called the housemate that rumbled Logan in to the diary room, and then asked him why he thought what he did, before introducing both of the Twins to the diary room at the same time.

After a few minutes they entered the main house to compete against the other housemates, upon which there was a barrage of questions about who was who during their previous days in the house, and which housemate had experienced specific parts of the house-action.

Channel 4 have announced the launch night schedule for the sixth series of Big Brother today, on a day which has also seen a new advert for the show filmed in East London.

A 1hr 15min launch show will be presented by Davina on Friday 27th of May at 9pm, followed an hour and ten minutes later by BBLB at 11:25pm, giving a more in-depth look at the house and new housemates as they experience their first few hours inside the all-new house.

Live streaming direct from the house will run from 1am until 4am on Channel 4 (of which no doubt some of it will be sleeping - even on the first night, as they always seem to want to get an early night after their hectic day), and there's constant live streaming on E4 which will presumably start as soon as they set foot inside the house.

Eye eye what's going on here then? An advert!
Big Brother fans were asked to text their details to a special mobile number recently, and 1000 people were picked at random to go to the filming of a Big Brother advert in Brick Lane - the heart of London's East End.

Lucky participants were told to chose a box and stand on it, whilst being filmed from high above in the sky by a TV camera which was towering over the carpark on a crane-style platform.

However that wasn't all of it - inside some of the boxes were prizes, ranging from a Golden Ticket which gave VIP access to every Live show during the series including the final night, to t-shirts and masses of TV/DVD combo systems for fans to watch the series on!

The advert is expected to air on Friday 13th on Channel 4.

See photos from the event and people walking away with £1000's of electrical equipment at http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds7594.html

A fourteenth housemate has joined the Big Brother Australian house on the launch night, and as rumoured it's a twin...

Infact, that probably makes it two housemates having joined the house as obviously being twins there's the two of them - just only one will be in the house at any one time.

Logan - age: 22

Star Sign: Aquarius
Personal motto: Party hard - if it's free.
Myself in three words: Fun, friendly, sexy.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why?: R2D2

They're not both called "Logan" though. Infact neither of them are. One is called David and is from the country, where as his brother is called Greg and lives in the City.

David:

Greg:

84 days... and a live web stream!
The Australian series is going to run for an impressively long 84 days - possibly taking the end date up to around the same time as the British one which launches later this month - and it's already just moved in to Day 2 due to the show starting late in the evening like our one does and the timezones being so far ahead of us.

However just like with our version of Big Brother the first thing to be seen on the live stream was the housemates sleeping. Typical! It's about 7:30am there currently (22:37 UK time), so the bright young things should be waking up shortly for their first full day in the house.

House plan revealed
The official Big Brother website has revealed the houseplan which the 14 housemates will become used to for the next 84 days, and it looks largely similar to last year with a "disco" area (marked "games" on the plan) with bright colour cube lights on the wall and a tiled floor with a Pole - almost identical to last year.

As before there's a garden separating the main house from the Gym and outdoor activities although it's not as much of a split in the house as we've had with the UK Big Brother where the living area was totally separate to the bedrooms and bathroom. There's a decent sized pool and also a Spa along with a man-made beach of sorts which is clearly there to get them in the mood for a bit of sun-bathing under the bright Aussie sunshine.

It'd appear that the identical twin will be holed-up in the Isolation House where they'll be able to live their life without being discovered. A gairish green and brown decor gives it a very much old-fashioned pokey feel similar to the bedsit which Michelle and Emma used during BB5, with minimal features - there is however a TV, which points to the housemate keeping tabs on action from the rest of the house.

A single bedroom for all the housemates is clearly something that Big Brother shows are favouring (as the split between Male and Female never seems to work too well in Big Brother with two distinct groups forming when they're best to be kept as one group of "housemates") although unlike last year their bathroom and shower area has been moved away from the bedroom on the other side of the house. The bathroom itself features a giant 4-person shower with glass window meaning no-one gets any privacy, and there's also a sauna, although oddly there appears to be no toilet shown in either the plans or 360-degree interactive photos.

But for the first time that The Eye is aware of, all of the beds are doubles - seven double beds in a symetrical pattern which has been made to look like it's floating in clouds with cloud design walls and big fluffy rugs on the floor. Even the plasma screens on the wall have clouds on them!

And of course the Diary Room - it's orange, and tacky like the rest of the house, and features a somewhat plain looking retro style chair. Not quite as stylish as some that we've seen over here in the British Big Brother diary rooms!

The Eye will get back to you with more soon... fair dinkum mate!

The new series of Big Brother has started in Australia, with 13 housemates entering the house which is at the Dreamworld park - a version of our Alton Towers.

All 13 housemates are fairly young in comparison with some other Big Brother shows - they're all between 19 and 29, and there's 7 girls and 6 blokes.

Angela - age: 29

Star Sign : Leo
Personal Motto: When doing something, do it in style and do it with a laugh!
Myself in three words: Fabulous, strong, passionate.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: I've never seen Star Wars.

Christie - age: 19

Star Sign : Capricorn
Personal motto: You only live once.
Myself in three words: Spontaneous, fun and daring.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Luke Skywalker, because I'll go to any length to get what I want.

Constance - age: 21

Star Sign : Leo
Personal motto: F**k it! Will you really give a s**t about this in six months?
Myself in three words: Lovable, wild, inappropriate.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: My friend says Chewy, 'cause I'm cute.

Dean - age: 24

Star Sign : Virgo
Personal motto: Kick back and let the good times roll.
Myself in three words: Honest, spontaneous, fair.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Han Solo.

Geneva - age: 19

Star Sign: Leo
Personal motto: Don't hold back, don't look back.
Myself in three words: Fun, overwhelming, energetic.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Don't know anything about it.

Gianna - age: 24

Star Sign: Leo
Personal motto: Treat others the way you wish to be treated.
Myself in three words: Cheeky, affectionate, competitive.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Queen Amidala - she can look like a woman but she's not afraid to fight.

Glenn - age: 21

Star Sign: Virgo
Personal motto: Don't die wondering.
Myself in three words: Good Aussie bloke.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Chewbacca, because he is big, loud and out of control.

Hotdogs - age: 26

Star Sign: Taurus
Myself in three words: Charismatic, electric, loyal.
Personal motto: Live for today 'cause tomorrow never comes.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Hans Solo - charismatic hero who gets the girl.

Kate - age: 21

Star Sign: Taurus
Personal motto: Do unto others as you would want done to you.
Myself in three words: Fun, funny, stubborn.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Never seen one episode.

Michael - age: 27

Star Sign : Scorpio
Personal motto: G.I.T. - Get It Together. K.I.T. - Keep It Together.
Myself in three words: Frontal lobe lobotomy.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Chewbacca - back hair.

Michelle - age: 24

Star Sign: Taurus
Personal motto: Be happy and live life to the fullest.
Myself in three words: Wacky, happy, flirty.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Princess Leia because she's beautiful, courageous and brave.

Nelson - age: 23

Star Sign: Sagittarius
Personal motto: Relax
Myself in three words: Sick of questionnaires.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Hans Solo, he's so debonair.

Tim - age: 27

Star Sign: Taurus
Personal motto: Whatever you do, never reduce your complex belief systems into simple motto
Myself in three words: Happpy-go-lukky, genarus, illitrate.
Which Star Wars character are you most like and why: Lando Calrissian.

They're playing for a cool $1,000,000 Australian dollars, and currently it doesn't look like there is web streaming available although Three mobile users in Australia are able to watch it on their phones.

Update: Twins have entered the Big Brother house!