The title says it all really.

I know we hear speculation, etc before the show starts, but do they actually know who else is going in?

Rylan had obviously looked at Lacey Banghard's twitter account as he knew she'd 33k followers.

Good point. Seems odd he would know the amount of followers of a random page 3 model.

This is exactly what I thought. Seemed a bit odd to me, too!

He had probably seen the same speculation as us so had decided to do a bit of research on his possible fellow HMs.

After all how many of us had to use Google or Wikpedia to find who Lacey was??

Yeah. Lacey said she only knew that Sam was going in with her 3 days before on BBBots

A few of the HMs, not just Rylan, have mentioned about previously knowing certain people were going in. If we can see rumours and speculation (which this year turned out to be fairly on the money) on here, I'm sure they can find out a few rumoured names themselves.

Just out of curiosity was there any speculation about Speidi going in?

And just to clarify I'm on the fence with them. Neither love or hate them.

There was a rumoured list posted months before the show started, and the list was pretty much confirmed by papers, and CBB HM's don't get put into hiding until a week before or whatever.

So, in CBB they read rumours about who's going in but in Normal BB they don't have a clue who's who.

It was rumoured here for a couple of weeks before they went in, and probably other places too.

The rumoured list was 100% accurate this year, apart from Razor/Jim for obvious reasons.

Although even that was correct on the day of the launch

On BBBOTS during Jamie Easts questioning he asked who do you think you will get on with/fall out with in the house so they must know before going in.

I didn't see that. I'm clearly not as hardcore a fan as some of you DS posters!

If we know who's going in....I think there may be a tiny chance that they know

TBH I didn't know who was going in until I watched the first show. As I said above I'm not as hardcore a fan as some of you experienced DS posters. I thought the rumours were nothing but rumours, so I've certainly learnt to do my research in future!

they know as much as us! they see the speculation, I think the daily mail was right apart from JD not going in but they couldnt have predicted that

also some of the people may know each other before from events etc

Yes, Lacey mentioned knowing who one of the HMs was beforehand on BOTS.