Daniel Welsh is a London-based entertainment journalist at HuffPost UK. His areas of expertise are film, TV and music. He particularly enjoys reality TV, Madonna and getting compliments about his hair
Fans of reality TV don’t exactly have to look far to get their fix in the current schedules. While famous contestants continue to be put through their paces on shows like, the mammoth success of Love Island has also ushered in a wave of new shows that put everyday people back into the spotlight, including dating formats like
“We’re living in very different times. Discourse has changed, people’s opinions have changed, the way people interact with each other has changed, and we’ve all had a year of our own Big Brother experience when we were all locked down ourselves anyway.”While the news of Big Brother’s return was mostly met with excitement – or, at least, intrigue – some fans had their concerns.
“I think it’s going to be really interesting to see who the housemates are, how they interact with each other, and how the rest of the country takes to them. I can’t wait.” AJ and Will are the first duo to host Big Brother, following in the footsteps of Davina McCall, Brian Dowling and Emma Willis“There is no broadcaster in the UK better placed to maximise the potential of Big Brother than ITV,” he adds. “I just don’t think it could be in any safer hands.”
“I have this weird thing with AJ where I can’t remember the actual first time I met her,” he explains. “When I met her for the first time, I felt like we were mates already. “There was some cryptic stuff, and then the final stage was a chemistry test,” he recalls. “We basically ran through in a studio what a launch show might look like, and then what a spin-off show might look like. We had producers pretending to be housemates, and a little live audience.“They did it really well, it was quite an intense day. And that was what they made their decision based on. So, ITV saw us together, and I think they thought, ‘OK, this could work’.
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