‘Big Brother’ 2014 Housemates: This Year’s Contestants Enter The ‘BB’ House …

Both ‘Big Brother’ launch shows have now taken place and the housemates have all been (attempting to) get comfy in the place they’ll call home for at least the next month.

At the moment, everyone’s being overly nice and making special efforts to get along, but we don’t think it will stay like that for long.

Among them is Helen Wood, who hit headlines in 2011 when it was revealed she’d had a threesome with footballer Wayne Rooney, while working as a prostitute.

Helen is joined by a number of other interesting characters, including a Playboy model, self-confessed diva Mark Byron and the feisty Pauline Bennett, who will celebrate her 50th birthday in the house.

In the second launch show, the final six housemates entered the house, including model Ash Harrison and self-confessed big mouth Jale Karatup.

This year’s ‘Big Brother’ has a ‘Power Trip’ theme and producers have promised that there will be plenty of shock twists, the first of which has already taken place.

Meet all of this year’s housemates below….

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• Pauline Bennett

  Age: 49
  From: Wolverhampton

  Pauline, who will celebrate her 50th birthday in the house, once worked in music and helped Kylie Minogue make it into the Top 10 in the ’90s.

• Winston Showan

  Age: 27

  From: Essex

  Winston’s hoping to find a girlfriend in the ‘Big Brother’ house and is certain he’ll be “the best housemate ever”.

• Mark Byron

  Age: 24
  From: Liverpool

  Mark prides himself on his appearance and gets his hair professionally styled four times a week – how on earth will he cope in the BB house?

• Matthew Davies

  Age: 23
  From: Hertfordshire

  Media graduate Matthew has said he’s looking forward to tasks where he can “prove I am more intelligent than everyone else”.

• Steven Goode

  Age: 23
  From: Hertfordshire

  Steven claims his worst trait is that he can be controlling, so it will be interesting to see how he reacts to the ‘Power Trip’ theme.

• Helen Wood

  Age: 27
  From: Bolton

  Helen hit headlines three years ago when she it was revealed she’d had a threesome with Wayne Rooney – who was married at the time – while working as a prostitute.

• Tamara Stewart-Wood

  Age: 24
  From: London

  Tamara reckons she’s never been kind to anyone, stating: “I’m known as Cruella… or a heartless b**ch”.

• Kimberly Kisselovich

  Age: 23
  From: Calfornia

  Kimberly is a Playboy model with a law degree, who doesn’t think she’ll get on with people from Essex.

• Danielle McMahon

  Age: 25
  From: Glasgow

  Danielle is a Catholic lingerie model who states that her idols are God and her mum. She believes in ‘traditional’ gender roles and thinks ’50s housewives are “good role models”.

• Ashleigh Coyle

  Age: 18
  From: Derry

  Ashleigh is the youngest of this year’s housemates. She has a dog called Gucci and reckons she’d donate some the winnings to charity if she triumphs in the competition.

• Ash Harrison

  Age: 26
  From: Manchester

  Ash’s ‘ultimate idol’ is David Beckham and he claims he is a “younger better looking version of him”.

• Jale Karatup

  Age: 33
  From: Surrey

  Jale loves to rant and has said she won’t be able to keep her mouth shut on the show.

• Toya Washington

  Age: 29
  From: London

  Housemates won’t want to get on the wrong side of Toya, who once sold a boyfriend’s belongings online when he treated her badly.

• Chris Wright

  Age: 33
  From: Hampshire

  Actor Chris has said he isn’t going on the show to further his career and insists he isn’t looking for love on the show.

• Marlon Wallen

  Age: 22
  From: Croydon

  Self-confessed “wild boy” Marlon is hoping to meet (at least one) special lady in the house and is confident he could rub belly buttons with someone without all the other housemates finding out.

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Big Brother 15 launches to an underwhelming 2m on Channel 5

Thursday night saw Channel 5 unveil its latest grand pageant of moral decay as the granddaddy of all gutter-scrapping reality shows, Big Brother (9pm), got underway.

Much like many of the preceding years, the 15^th series of the unstoppable and worryingly exploitive show pretended to have an underlying theme – this year a ‘power trip’ – as if the broadcaster wasn’t serving up the same stale, but financially friendly, schedule clogger.

As usual, this year’s line-up of unlikable lost souls had their highly prepped self-descriptive sound bites at the ready.

2014′s line up of the cocky and deluded housemates included a highly conservative catholic lingerie model, a gobby manufactured Essex clone, and plenty of young simple minded women in their twenties who have expressed an interest in ‘exploring their sexuality’ while coincidentally being broadcast live on national TV.

This is the fourth series of the bog-standard pleb version since Channel 5 acquired the voyeuristic show in 2011, yet somehow the Viacom-owned channel has managed a whopping seven series of the unhinged celebrity version in the same time frame.

Channel 5′s very first Big Brother launched with the 12^th series in September 2011 and brought in 2.6 million viewers, however this figure had fallen to 2 million viewers for the opening episode in June of last year.

Last night’s hour and half introduction to the new faces of this summer’s tabloids saw excitable host Emma Willis usher hopefuls into the compound of desperation and was watched by 2 million viewers and a 10% share.

Naturally, the return of the show got the fans voicing their reasoned and articulated opinions on Twitter, generating an impressive 76 tweets for every 1,000 viewers.

While 2014′s big launch didn’t break any records, it did create enough buzz to beat Channel 4, which is really as high as the show can aim.

The former home of the reality show, Channel 4 decided to counteract all the screaming with an overwhelming line-up of all those stand-up comedians you can see on TV every night anyway, scattered across electronic channel guides in all those unavoidable panel shows.

In fairness, Channel 4′s Comedy Gala (9pm) was masquerading under the ‘sick tots charity’ banner but that probably didn’t make the sight of James Corden doing his routine any easier to digest. An audience of 1.6 million viewers tuned in to see every comedian to appear on The One Show, ever, all under one roof.

While this didn’t provide Channel 4 with the power to beat its prodigal offspring, it did garner a 10% share and the channel’s biggest hit of the day.

Meanwhile, BBC One was airing some old fashioned scripted drama as the third and final part of From Here to There (9pm) recovered slightly from last week’s football-affected disaster. After seeing a shocking week on week fall of -47% (it couldn’t compete with a murder attempt on a late edition of Coronation Street) the final episode saw the audience grow to a healthier level.

The tale of a man who begins leading a double life after a near death experience in Manchester debuted with 4.5 million viewers but plummeted to 2.4 million by the second week. Last night the drama, starring Philip Glenister, brought in 3.2 million viewers as old family secrets were revealed and the antagonist’s betrayal was exposed, netting a 15% share and the biggest 9pm audience.

On ITV, it was time to celebrate the life of Ryan Giggs as a one-off documentary gained access to his short lived tenure as Manchester United’s new manager. 1.7 million viewers tuned in to see an hour of a finely focused PR exercise and liberal backslapping on Life of Ryan: Caretaker Manager, resulting in an 8% share.

In the 8pm slot, Food Inspectors bagged 2.3 million viewers for BBC One, while BBC Two’s Springwatch 2014 took in 2.1 million viewers. Over on Channel 4, a new series of George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (8pm) saw a couple build a hobbit hole in their back garden, without actually using the term hobbit at all, due to obvious copyright issues, bagging 1.3 million viewers.

Emmerdale (ITV) kicked off a double bill at 7pm with 5.4 million viewers, while the second episode at 8pm secured 5.7 million. Thursday’s visit to EastEnders at 7:30pm brought in BBC One’s biggest audience of the day, with 6 million viewers tuning in.

As usual, Coronation Street piped past its rivals to win the day’s top spot. A lower than usual audience of 6.8 million viewers watched as Peter Barlow’s day went from bad to worse as the stress of murder plots and suspicions took its toll on Carla, resulting in an audience share of 32%.

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