I noticed a lot of people in the CBB house this year already have connections or friendships prior to this.

John & Daniella - Both worked on EE together

John & Stephanie- John (I think) was a judge on the ALW reality show and Steph was a finalist.

Megan & Scotty T- Both been on this years Ex on the Beach

Christopher & Daniella- Whatever the hell went on there!

Could this be a good or bad thing?

Kristina & Nancy (presumably).

Gemma and Megan- From the early days of TOWIE Megan was in that girl band that Jess Wright was part of

Was Daniella on EE when John was?

Stephanie Davis and Darren Day were both in Hollyoaks. Not sure whether or not their paths crossed.

So was Daniella.

David Gest & Matt Willis
Chris Maloney & Rylan Clark

Oh yeah, Daniella and Steph possibly then as well

I noticed on twitter last night that Harry Derbridge from TOWIE is doing Danielle's twitter feed while she's in the house.

David & Stephanie (random pair) - Evidently, they used to "party" together. David addressed her as "little sis" and she referred to him as "grand dad". Odd family, that.

He was also speaking to Genna about a great night out that they'd had and how she seemed a bit lacking in confidence. He referred to a TV show that they'd done together - maybe something like Celebrity Juice.

The world of reality/celebrity does seem rather small and somewhat incestuous.

Darren and Stephanie appeared on Hollyoaks at the same time. Later, Stephanie and Daniella were on the show together, which was after Darren had left.

Daniella briefly returned to Eastenders a few years back, same time John was on the show.

Kristina was a professional dancer on Strictly the year Nancy appeared as a contestant.

Daniella and Christopher were friends.

Megan and Scotty were on Ex on the Beach together. Megan was briefly part of TOWIE alongside Gemma.

David appears to know Gemma and Stephanie from somewhere.

There could be more that I've missed. So yeah, very inter-connected group this year.

Stephanie Davis knows David Gest from the fundraising events he organises in the North West. He hosted a charity ball in Manchester recently where Hollyoaks and Coronation Street stars attended.

At the rate they're going, they might as well just have a TOWIE vs Geordie Shore CBB series and just be done with it.