It feels like we’ve known the eccentric housemates of this ITV revival for an eternity – but it’s only been one night. Oh dear
ig Brother can claim to be the parent of modern reality shows. It started in 2000, suitably dystopian as we looked into the black mirror of an intimidating new millennium – and dozens of other brutish, tacky and vaguely exploitative contrivances followed in its wake. Two decades later, though, it’s a heritage format.was canned by Channel 4 in 2010, then cancelled again by Channel 5 in 2018, supposedly due to low ratings.
So what sort of person applies for bog-standard Big Brother in 2023? Narrating a montage of the British every day that sets the scene, the unseen controller of the game, Big Brother himself, says it is people from “all walks of life”. On Big Brother’s new exterior set – a silver phallus that seems to shoot spurts of neon into the permanently ecstatic audience – are presenters AJ Odudu and Will Best, both shiny and smooth as they usher a cavalcade of exhausting strangers into the house.
Any awkwardness caused by Farina speculating that the audibly very Welsh Jenkin is either Scottish or Irish is soon dissipated by the quick arrival of 21-year-old Somerset butcher Tom , 18-year-old London youth worker Hallie , and 33-year-old Luton mum Trish .
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