Celebrity Big Brother has returned to screens with hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best welcoming 13 celebrities into the house.
The ITV1 reality series aired on Monday night, following on from the success of the 2023 series of Big Brother. It returned five years after being axed by Channel 5 amid a ratings slump in 2018.
Former X Factor panellists Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh were the first to enter and they watched the other celebrities join from behind a screen as part of a “secret mission” of selecting three housemates to face the eviction.
Reality star Ekin-Su Culculoglu, who won Love Island in 2022 alongside Davide Sanclimenti, entered the house saying she was looking to “grow” on the show.
After winning the Love Island Ekin-Su and ex Davide landed in their own spin-off show, before she went on to appear in Dancing On Ice, Celebrity Antiques Road Trip and US The Traitors.
The 29-year-old added: “I want to bring my confidence back, these experiences bring my confidence out.
“In Love Island I had that. I was very confident. But over the last 18 months it has drifted away. I’ve had a difficult time.”
Her recent journey was also noticed by Walsh who said ‘Ekin-Su is her name, she’s been on every show, she’s done a lot of TV’ while watching the stars entre the house.
Also joining them were Strictly’s Nikita Kuzman, former This Morning star Fern Britton, Kate Middleton’s uncle Gary Goldsmith, Coronation Street’s Colson Smith, Heartstopper’s Bradley Riches, Real Housewives star Lauren Simon, YouTuber Zeze Millz, entrepreneur Levi Roots, reality star David Potts, and Broadway legend Marisha Wallace.
They later Osbourne and Walsh put David at risk of the first eviction when they selected him alongside Gary and Zeze Millz to be in “the danger zone”.