Legendary Big Brother stars have spilled secrets of the ITV show (Picture: James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock)
Legendary Big Brother stars have reflected on their time on the original programme, which has returned for a second season after being revived last year.
The ITV show is back with a bang, with one housemate having already faced eviction.
Big Brother, which gave us the likes of Alison Hammond and Adele Roberts, and the spin-off that hosted names including Rylan Clark and Gemma Collins, initially ran from 2000 to 2010 on Channel 4.
It was presented by Davina McCall and Rylan before its move to Channel 5 until 2018 where it was hosted by series two champion Brian Dowling and later Emma Willis.
Now, AJ Odudu and Will Best have taken over, as the drama continues.
The original seasons of Big Brother gave us moments that have carved their way into cultural history, from ‘David’s Dead’ to Vanessa Feltz’s 2001 meltdown.
But what was it like to be on a part of it all? We spoke to four contestants who took part over the years: Harjender ‘Gos’ Gosal from season 4, series 5 winner Anthony Hutton, model Deana Uppal from series 13, and 2018 champion Cameron Cole.
‘Big Brother never broke character but producers would step in when it got really bad’
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‘(If they did) Big Brother would shout at you, it’d say, “Housemates are reminded…”. There were silly ones like housemates are reminded not to fall asleep during the day.
‘They’d say something quite funny sometimes, like don’t put your heads on the windows, and then everyone would just be p**sing themselves laughing. It was just ridiculous.’
‘We were never told what would be filmed’
Aside from being told what they shouldn’t be doing in the house after they’d done it, like falling asleep or banging on windows, producers never told housemates what would be filmed.
‘The producers never asked us to do anything, and we never had conversations with the producers,’ Cameron said.
He added: ‘We never got told not to do anything. We never got told this will be filmed, and this won’t be, we had no idea – you have no idea at the time.’
Deana, who brought us plenty of drama in Big Brother season 13, admitted that not knowing what made it to the final edit left her ‘annoyed’ because of how much was left out.
Talking about her time on the show, she said:‘It was an emotional rollercoaster, I was quite naïve when I went on the show, I thought I’d go in there and have fun but didn’t think more into it.
‘But the year I was in there was one of the b***hiest seasons ever, constant fights and arguments and I was up for evictions eight times …read more
Source:: Metro
