Trio of female housemates to join Big Brother

by Nikki Sandison, Brand Republic 04-Jul-08, 09:25

LONDON - Channel 4 has revealed that three new female housemates will enter the 'Big Brother' house tonight, including a "sexy" executive personal assistant, a theatre director in her 40s and a model who appeared in a Lynx deodorant ad.

The trio will enter the house shortly after the eviction of either Rex or Jennifer in an extended programme at 10.35pm on Channel 4.

The housemates have been speculating about whether new people will join them following the producers' decision to remove dance teacher Dennis from the house for spitting in the face of fellow contestant Mohamed.

He was the second housemate to be removed from the house, after Alexandra was booted out for threatening housemates and their families with punishment from her "gangster friends".

So far two female housemates, Stephanie and Sylvia, have been evicted from the house by the public vote and Channel 4 is worried about the continued female exodus.

There are rumours that one of the new housemates is "the double" of actress Angelina Jolie while another has an "Aussie" accent.

Channel 4 said in a statement that the new housemates were "bound to stir things up a bit in the house".

'Big Brother' is continuing to pull in the viewers for Channel 4 with 3.5m tuning in on Tuesday night to see the housemates nominate. It dipped to a low of 2.5m viewers earlier in the week but the series average is 3.3m viewers.