Big Brother Celebrity Hijack - The house gets a makeover

3 January 2007 - There's a new bunch of housemates on their way, and a host of showbiz names gearing up to hijack Big Brother's role, so what better time to give the Big Brother house an E4-style spruce up?

In readiness for the start of Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, the living area has been on the receiving end of a big splat of E4 purple paint and the sofas have also been updated with the E4 purple colour scheme.

In an arty nod to stencil-style graffiti, various pictures adorn the walls throughout the house, including a cheeky monkey in the bedroom and a very chilled out cameraman in the garden. Is that really what goes on behind those mirrors?

In the bedroom, housemates can forget they are surrounded 24 hours a day by cameras as they gaze up at the urban cityscape on the walls around them. Will viewers be able to guess which British city the picture was taken in? And gone is the 4-in-a-bed set-up of summer, as there are now 12 single beds.

Also new to the house is a gym, so the group of exceptional, young housemates have somewhere they can keep fit... or sweat out any house tensions. And they can be distracted by the alpine-themed decorative walls while having a workout on the running machine or cross-trainer.

Happily for any culinary-inclined housemates, the kitchen has now been put back together since the summer when the fridge was in the garden and the oven in the bedroom. Also back in its right place is the bath, which is returned to the house bathroom.

And it wouldn't be the Big Brother house without some outdoor water-based shenanigans, so this series housemates will get to take the edge off the brisk winter nights with a dip in the garden's hot tub.

E4's hijacking of Big Brother wouldn't be complete without one further adjustment to the house. The colour of the Diary Room chair? Purple, naturally.

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