These are the only celebrities I really knew of before they went in (maybe Katie and samira a little bit).

We need to see more of them. They have interesting experiences to talk about. The rest should be on normal big brother. At the moment it is like watching gerordie shore or TOWIE. They know how to play up to the cameras. It is boring and all been done before.

I'm sick to death of all these TOWIE and Geordie Whatever Z listers, maybe C5 should just stop doing Celeb BB and just go the whole hog and do a GS/TOWIE/ex on the beach/love island/made in Chelsea etc etc version and be done with it.

... and who chooses those Americans? Why so many Americans? I don't get it.

Probably more a case of any halfway decent well known person won't go near CBB. The agents of the America contestants can command high appearance figures for their clients so they really push to get them on, I expect they tell their clients that Big Brother UK is the same as BBUSA?

I've just noticed they are the 3 favorites to win! Maybe for the reason they are the most well known.
They seem to have a game plan of avoiding all conflict and doing nothing. I recall Biggins did **** all in the jungle as he was exempt 80% of tasks on health grounds and let's face it that show is only about the tasks now!

I agree. On LF last night, Ricky, James and someone off camera were having a really interesting conversation about animal cruelty and conservation, which got a couple of seconds airtime. Sam and Saira looked like they were having a really animated talk by the pool, we heard none of it. But we were treated to Bear, Chloe, Lewis and Marnie snogging and groping in the pool, whilst Bear described in detail his w**k in the shower. There really should be a GS meets TOWIE, On the Beach, by the Jungle, with the Ex, to see who can be the drunkest, crudest most tanned and obnoxious show. If they can't get proper, interesting celebrities they should just cancel CBB. The first one was done for charity and attracted worthy people.

Probably because the owner of C5 is an US company although it was also a feature of CBB before Viacom's ownership. Perhaps our US posters could confirm whether or not the reality shows the US HMs feature in run on Viacom owned channels where a number of the UK HMs feature (GS, EOTB etc). There does seem to be a significant amount of recycling of the reality "talent".

Tbh, there's 3. If you take out CBB16 which was half Americans and half UK, there's always 2+, it's no different.

CBB3- 2
CBB4- 2
CBB5- 2
CBB6- 3
CBB7- 4
CBB9- 2
CBB10- 2
CBB11- 2 (but 1 HM)
CBB12- 2
CBB13- 2
CBB14- 3 (4 if you consider Frenchy being French/American)
CBB15- 5 (6 if you count Callum Best)
CBB16- Half obviously
CBB17- 3

1, 2 and 8 are the only series not to have Americans.

I can see why Americans want in, they don't have an American CBB, so they come here.

At least a couple of years ago they had Americans that were interesting and known e.g jacksons etc
This year the Americans are nobodies

I think the third person in the convo was Grant

I so agree with you. Who wants to watch these imbeciles and their shallow conversation and stupid playground snogging exploits when there are clearly much more interesting conversations going on. It's so frustrating that channel 5 choose to push all the brainless stuff and leave out anything of any interest