Well, producers of the latest outing of Celebrity Big Brother managed to keep some surprises for the launch show of this year's series, despite much rumour and speculation regarding who would be taking part. In the end the final line up of eleven participants were, on the music side, Jermaine Jackson, Leo Sayer, former S-Clubber Jo O'Meara, former Stepper Ian 'H' Watkins and Tower Of London's loose cannon Donny Tourette, plus Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, glamour model and WAG Danielle Lloyd, film director Ken Russell, newspaper columnist Carole Malone, former Kenny Everett Show co-star Cleo Rocos and former A-Team star Dirk Benedict. Quite an impressive line up if you ask me. They are expected to be joined by former Big Brother contestant Jade Goody and various members of her family on Friday.
The Towers Of London frontman got off to a great start by jumping in the Big Brother hot tub fully clothed, an exploit which got him the first of what is sure to be many telling offs by the show's producers. The other housemates were seemignly a bit bemused by the clearly out of it Donny, though they later concluded he's probably not as confrontational as he first seems, with former S-Clubber Jo observing (according to Digital Spy's always authoritative Big Brother news service): "When he first came in I just thought 'oh God'. [But] you know what, I reckon underneath it, Donny is very, very shy", to which Leo Sayer, who's met Towers Of London before, added: "Sometimes you have to hide behind masks". Yet more words of wisdom courtesy of celeb TV.