Celebrity Big Brother (UK)

Genre: Celebrities, Comedy, Drama, Family
Year: 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 42 min
Producer: Simon Hepworth

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279550/

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Originally based on the Danish series, Big Brother headed to the UK on Channel 4 in 2000. Proving a massive success a spin-off featuring celebrity housemates was launched in March 2001 in aid of Comic Relief. The first series lasted a full week and raised over ?500,000 for the charity. Any money made from the show's phone lines since goes directly to charity.

The format of the show see's the celebrity housemates living in a confined space together competing in tasks. Nominations take place for the housemates and people are evicted until eventually we are left with a winner. Winners of past series are Jack Dee in 2001, Mark Owen in 2002, Bez in 2005, Chantelle Houghton in 2006, Shilpa Shetty in 2007, Ulrika Jonnson in 2009, Alex Reid in 2010, Paddy Doherty in 2011 and Denise Welch in the first series of 2012.

Davina McCall hosted the show whilst it originally aired on Channel 4 and Marcus Bentley narrated. However in 2011, the series moved networks to Channel 5 and Brian Dowling took over as presenter. Marcus has remained with the show. In 2012 for the first time two series of the show were aired in the same year.