It's that time of year again... CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER TIME! Woooooo! That's right, we're excited to watch a bunch of fairly well known (and some not so) celeb types hanging around in a house. And this year's group of celebrities is a bloomin's CORKER. Here are this year's CBB contestants complete with excellent facts...
Celebrity Big Brother 2014: Lauren Goodger joins Stephanie Pratt, Ricci from Geordie Shore and David McIntosh in the CBB house!
Lauren Goodger
Lauren starred in TOWIE from the first series in 2010 before leaving in typically dramatic fashion in 2012. For the majority of her stint on TOWIE we were hooked on Lauren on-off-on again stormy relationship with then ex-fiance Mark Wright who is now engaged to Michelle Keegan.
Angelique ‘Frenchy’ Morgan
Angelique ‘Frenchy’ Morgan looks a lot like a bit of an older Courtney Stodden and was raised in Paris. She is known for being a party animal with wild behaviour BUT she doesn’t like booze or smoking!
Claire King
Claire is best known as the villain in ye olde Emmerdale and a tough governer in Bad Girls. Claire’s fave singer is Elvis, hence why she changed her name from ‘Seed’ to ‘King.’
James Jordan
James Jordan is best known as one of the snake-hipped dancers on Strictly Come Dancing. James met his dancing partner and wife, Ola, at a dancing competition and was mesmerised by the way she danced. Aww! If only someone would say that about the way we do the running man… James is known for having the odd tantrum and likes to throw a strop. Excellent.
Edele Lynch
She’s not wearing denim! Edele Lynch, aka Shane Lynch’s little sister and Bewitched singer, has 3 children with hubby Michael Barrett. Bewitched enjoyed a reunion on, erm, The Big Reunion after falling out for a whopping 10 years.
George Gilbey
George Gilbey. Go on, you know you recognise him… He’s usually seen sitting on a sofa WATCHING telly on Gogglebox! How the tables have turned. Elecrician George has such a high-pitched voice his school mates nicknamed him “Squeaky.”
Kelly Brook's fiance David McIntosh
David McIntosh, or Mr Kelly Brook as we like to call him, owns the hardest body in the CBB house. Soz, Ricci, but you know it’s true. David is an ex-Gladiator and Royal Marines Commando. So he’s, like, WELL HARD.Remember when he fell asleep at the wheel of a van carrying a load of dead badgers last year? Yep, that happened.
Gary Busey
Fans of Point Break will recognise Gary Busey from the hit Keanu Reeves flick. Gary has black belts in no less than 4 martial arts! Ricci better stay clear when he’s had a skin full…
Kellie Maloney
Kellie Maloney is formerly known as boxing promotor Frank Maloney who was famous for managing the likes of Lennox Lewis. In October 2013, Kellie, then known as Frank, made the decision to retire from boxing explaining that he had ‘fallen out of love’ with the sport.However, Kellie now cites her transition as the real reason. Kellie explained how she has felt trapped in the wrong body since she was a child. She is now a year into the transition period and is learning to live life as a woman - a life she kept a secret due to the macho world she lived in as a boxing promoter.
Audley Harrison
Boxer Audley Harrison will no doubt have lots to talk about with martial arts expert Gary Busey. At 6ft 6” Auds will tower over the rest of his famous housemates
White Dee
Benefits Street's White Dee will either rub people up the wrong way or become the mother hen of the house. We're hoping for a bit of both.
Stephanie Pratt
Stephanie Pratt, born and raised in LA, first starred on reality TV show The Hills as a pampered LA princess.Naughty Steph was arrested in 2006 for shoplifting! The blonde stole $1,300 worth of merchandise from a shop in Honolulu. Tut tut.Pratt won’t be adverse to getting her bod out. The star posed naked for PETA in 2010. All for a good cause, eh?Steph recently dated MIC love rat Spencer Matthews after appearing on the show. The dastardly chap reportedly cheated on Pratt and so she dumped his ass.
Ricci Guarnaccio
Ricci Guarnaccio (can we call him Ricci G, please?) starred on shockfest Geordie Shore with his ex-fiance Vicky Pattinson. Give our lad a pint or 10 and he might kick off. The ex-hairdresser got banned from the Geordie Shore house on multiple occasions after he got a bit fighty when drunk. Ricci is a modest fellow. NOT. He describes himself as a ladies man and ridiculously good looking, appaz. Or just ridiculous. We wonder which of the girls he’ll cast his beady eye on…
Leslie Jordan
Leslie starred in Will & Grace and American Horror Story: The Coven. The Tennessee-born comic grew up in a mega religious community and once wanted to be a jockey!