List of Celebrity Big Brother (British TV series) housemates

For instance, viewer and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) complaints prompted Hertfordshire Police to remove a coat from the 2006 edition after Pete Burns claimed that it was made from gorilla fur and therefore against the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species agreement of 1975.

[10] Germaine Greer voluntarily left the 2005 series after accusing the producers of using "superior bullying" tactics against contestants; commentators such as Graham Norton have argued that the housemates are not "actual celebrities".

[14] During the 2007 series, comments directed to and made about Shilpa Shetty from Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd, Jo O'Meara and Jack Tweed caused an international racism controversy.

[15] The British and Indian governments commented on the issue, while Ofcom decreed that Channel 4 had been guilty of "serious editorial misjudgements" after 54,000 viewers claimed that Shetty had been the victim of racial discrimination.

[16] The broadcaster was made to air a series of on-air apologies, and the programme was not included in Channel 4's 2008 schedule; it was replaced by Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack.

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Jack Dee won the first edition of the programme. [ 5 ]
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Jade Goody 's involvement in a racism controversy sparked an international debate in the 2007 edition . [ 19 ]
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Alex Reid was the winner of the seventh and final Celebrity Big Brother to air on Channel 4 . [ 20 ]
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Atomic Kitten singer and reality television star Kerry Katona was the runner-up of the eighth series which was the first to air on Channel 5 .
Rylan Clark , who won the eleventh series , later presented the Channel 5 after show Big Brother's Bit on the Side , and has gone on to have a successful television and radio career.
Jeremy Jackson was one of two contestants to be removed from the programme after breaching the rules in the fifteenth series . This was the first edition of Celebrity Big Brother to feature a housemate leaving the show in this manner.
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Media personality Gemma Collins was a housemate on the seventeenth series and became known for her diva outbursts, which later went viral and became the subject of numerous internet memes . [ 21 ]
Former Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas was the last ever Channel 5 winner after winning the twenty-second series on 10 September 2018. Celebrity Big Brother returned on ITV1 in 2024.