Christopher Hall ‏@chrishall9011 3m3 minutes ago

I'd be pretty pissed off as a new BB housemate if all the old ones came parading back in. We've had our time. Time for fresh meat 😎 @BBUK

That's pretty much how I felt last year, watching the last highlights show on the day before the final. I still haven't watched the second half yet.

NONE of them!!

Surely they can come up with something better than this

Steven Goode @stevenjbgoode · Apr 30
If it's true and @bbuk will be entering previous housemates, I have my bags packed and ready.
I will switch off if he goes in !!

The problem with this forum is it remains the very few that have stuck with it since the glory days. Yet the problem is the glory days had many millions more w3atching.

So many here want to concentrate on new HMs, but probably double that would want the old ones.

BTW, I actually agree with the ones in here that really believe in the old days, and would like a no-gimmicks back to the first couple of series. Yet I'd rather have old HMs than just a horrible bunch of models, caricatures and ex-pop-idol contestants, that no-one outside of the BB bubble could give a monkeys about, because this is there next gig,after all they got rejected from TOWIE/GS etc..

In a way,ex HM's that were any good (and would consider going back into the BB House) went on become exactly the people you don't want to see.

Which is my point really, I don't hold any of the old HMs in any great esteem, some I like, some I don't, but they have more name recognition than anyone from the CH5 series.

I've always said it's nonsense not to call the old series people "wannabes", social experiment my arse, most of them stripped off on the first weekend. Yet there was a naivete about it, rather than just copying formulas which seems to be the way of the HMs and the show nowadays. what they became is now what everyone in there is copying.

I don't blame the new HMs BTW, I just think it's inevetible that their minds know what has been popular and how others have been perceived in the past. BB is a huge victim of his own success..

bbSpy have reported this topic: http://www.bbspy.co.uk/bb16/news/050...timebomb-theme

Could you imagine? :O

I will be gutted if that guy goes in

Oh!!! Just thought of Jackie Travers ....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

If Dexter returns, I will be so happy!

It might not be old housemates but more of a flashback to old themes and tasks. Some of which I would not mind. Or just messing with the timeline of events this series, which sounds to me like a good new excuse for manipulation and good old "changing the rules at any time". Depends what the outcome would be for me to pass judgement.

Honestly, thinking about it. I don't want to see any old faces, most of them annoyed me the first time round. haha!

There have been many Hms I have loved in the house but I do feel when your leave the house there is no going back .

Yes, most likely.

I can imagine some ex-HMs just doing it for fun, though.

Nikki Grahame rumoured to enter... Bloody hell. http://www.twitcelebgossip.com/13911...imebomb-house/

If true, it will be her 5th time back

The infamous BB7 return
Paparazzi task in CBB
Silent disco in BB10
Ultimate Big Brother

Speaking of Ultimate BB, didn't that show that viewers were not enthusiastic about most ex-HMs? Nikki came 2nd, but Makosi, Nadia, and some of the others seemed to have lost their popularity, and subsequently viewers quickly tired of the winner, Brian.

Makosi was one of the most unpopular housemates of all time in her first series, her boos when she was evicted from BB6 were atrocious and had the viewers been given the opportunity she would have been out far earlier (they actually did vote her out, but the housemates decided to evict Vanessa).

With Nadia, of course some housemates will lose popularity during their return. Others gain in popularity (Nick!) - that's Big Brother im afraid. In any case, if you put 14 ex housemates in with an average positioning of about 5th in their first series they're not all going to place as highly as they once did.

For me Makosi was a brilliant Hm up until "Poolgate" and I thought the crowds treatment of her on her eviction was a disgrace .
As for Nadia she annoyed the heck out of me, as for her "secret" ...that was known to the Hms because Chicken Stu told us in an interview that people were shouting about her over the garden wall lol

In my opinion, UBB was good for most of the returnees bar Nadia and maybe Ulrika. Everyone else either stayed on the same level (Makosi, Brian and Chantelle) or got a much more enthusiastic response (Victor, Nick) in the end.

But I agree that i hope the ex HMs are just for tasks.

Most of them placed lower or stayed vaguely the same but still without the viewers being enthusiastic. It was not neatly divided with as many going up as went down. Nick may even be the only one who gained in popularity, and even then I think most of the gain had already happened over the years since bb1.

Makosi was not one of the most unpopular HMs of all time. She even managed to come third in the bb6 final, ahead of both Craig and Kinga. For much of the series, she was popular; and she also seemed reasonably popular by the time UBB came around.


Yes, I think that's how many saw it: brilliant until "Poolgate" (and the strange pregnancy claim); crowd a disgrace. The crowd seemed especially bad that year. Sam had water thrown on her, and Vanessa was hit with (I think) an orange.


I'm not sure what you mean by "good for"; but my point was the viewers weren't enthusiastic about most of them: either already unenthusiastic at the start, or becoming so (or worse) as the series went on.

There was enthusiasm for Nick and Vic here; I'm not sure how general it was.

pete bennett wont be going back in he is doing a live comedy show this month

Helen Wood has said she’d love to return to the Big Brother house amid rumours this year’s series could be seeing old housemates make comebacks.



It’s been reported that the new ‘Timebomb’ theme could see this summer’s show jump back to past series, including seeing past housemates and tasks brought back.

Current BBUK champ Helen – who has admitted to having splashed most of her £100,000 prize over the past year – could be one of the former housemates back on our telly screens this summer.

Speaking at a press event for the new series in Elstree this evening, Helen revealed she’d be up for returning to the house if asked and it sounds like she’d be just as brash as she was last year.

Helen told us that despite finding watching herself back was “cringe” she had few regrets.

After all, like it or not, she did win!



Meanwhile, Helen explained how she no longer considers any of last year’s lot friends except for newlyweds Steven Goode and Kimberly Kisselovich.

Asked for her advice for this year’s housemates, Helen told them to “be yourselves”.

Also at this evening’s Big Brother event was Dexter Koh who followed Helen and said he too would love to return to the house.

But if he didn’t get the chance, Dexter suggested that producers should bring back Kinga from Big Brother 6.

Big Brother 2015 begins Tuesday night on Channel 5 at 9PM.


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