See behind the curtain of the new 'hellish' house.

Kieran Stark

30 December 2009

By Jody Thompson, Mirror.co.uk thirty / 12 / 2009.

Celebrity Big Brother returns to our screens on Channel four this Sun. , when the doors of the house are opened for a number of famous inhabitants for the last time. Donald Trump's ex Ivana, English hiphop star Lady Sovereign, Ronnie Wood's ex Ekaterina Ivanova, glamour model Nicola T, previous EastEnders star Brooke Kinsella and previous Hollyoaks star and Celebrity Love Island competitor Paul Danan have all been discussed as probables for the show. Celebrities also certainly not going in now are Television astrologer Russell Grant, who said his allergies forestalled him going in, Kerry Katona, who allegedly failed the mental test to go on the show and Boy George, who lost an appeal against a probation order which proscribed him from going on CBB. This year, the show has the strap line Hell Lies In Others and it's brand is a flaming eye. She claimed : "The famous line from Dantes Fire is 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here', that has galvanized most of what we have done to the house, especially the entrance which is dark and cave-like with flaming walls. While the flames and dark colors might look a bit horrible to some, occasionally your real hell is the people you are with so we have removed some of the doors to make everything more open plan, there are few areas to go to if somebody wishes to snatch 5 mins of peace and quiet.". Off the main living space is the kitchen which is brim-full of outsized appliances. Provoked by a surgery morgue the kitchen is clinical and painted postmortem green. Jones adds "It looks a little like the faded opulence of a British country pile". The shower is still giant enough for multiple occupants but not like the summer series you can't see in to it permitting the celebrity housemates one or two seconds of privacy away from the cameras, though concealed microphones mean that all of the gossip is still caught for the spectators. Leather settees, blankets and a fire give the room a chilled and cosy atmosphere but with only space for a few housemates at a time it is sure to be the room of choice for a personal tte a tte or a good gossip, as long as the celebs find the room at all naturally. What's also a puzzle is where precisely the stars are going to sleep.