I have been told some big brotehr news today from a friedn who was a runner at the auditions. I dont know how much of this is going to happen, but he overheard producers talkign about it as he use to travel with them from location to location

The house will have 1 main bedroom with 12 beds and a seperate bedroom with a double in!!!!!

Housmates wont enter the house and have to walk down stairs like last year. Instead they enter from the basement. The house has been given a more chlosterphobic (dont know how to spell that) feel.

The garden is much smaller than last year

Apparently also there will be an eviction the first night. Someone will leave straight after they have entered

I dont know whats true and whats not. He isnt lying what he heard but who knows what could have changed. If its true remember where you heard it first!!!!!!

And all of it's been said in the papers and on this forum about 20 times over. Apart from the bit about the basement.

claustrophobic

Its all consistent with what we have heard and know. They have to try and get the HM to interact as they didn't in BB4 - sticking them on top of each other might bring the tensions that they built into BB4 to the fore successfully for BB5. If BB4 was a joke intended to teach the C4 bosses what they would get if they really wanted to avoid the "excesses" of BB3, the question for BB5 is whether it comes in nearer to BB4 or BB3. Will they take characters like those in BB4 and increase the pressure on them or go for larger characters like BB3? The descriptions of BB5 HM suggest they are more extreme, but I wouldn't be surprised if BB5 is more like BB4. I don't think C4 have got over the shock of Jade yet and won't want to replace her with lesbian, asylum seeking, prostitutes. They are probably also limited in how much pressure they can add - as for evil and torture, I suspect someone is reworking that idea rather rapidly as it becomes daily more unacceptable with the latest bactch of Iraqi prison snapshots.

Good points, networkbabe. It's all in the casting. If they put 12 of the most boring HMs of the past into that environment, it would just be AS boring, but in a lurid environment. But they also need a balance of big characters and people who are quiet "growers not showers", if you know what I mean. Otherwise, if you have 12 Jades in one room, it'll just be hellish to listen to and eventually AS boring (but in a different way) as having 12 Camerons.

I like a row. The other day, I was listening to an MP3 of the classic drunk Jade/Kate/Jonny/Alex row from BB3 (someone posted it on a newsgroup) and it was HILARIOUS. But, if that had gone on for 10 weeks, the hilarity would have stopped.