The new series of Celebrity Big Brother starts on Channel 4 on January 5 and lasts 16 days.

I'm partcularly interested because there are 3 scousers involved this time!

*Lisa Tarbuck
*Jimmy Tarbuck
*Derek Achorah, who left Most Haunted recently amid much controversy :shock:

The Star says Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin is to take part in the next edition of Celebrity Big Brother!

Where was Derek? Only scouser Pete Burnes :$ik: Michael Barrymoore and George Galloway, wtf?

The rest are instantly forgettable apart from the non-celebrity Chantelle who has the task of trying to convince the others that she too, is a celeb. Not very hard concidering knowone knows each other for there talents on screen. Chantelle will be the true winner from all this crap.

Vote for Pete's sake
by: Leslie Bunder

Dead or Alive Jewish frontman Pete Burns has emerged as one of the contestants in this year's Celebrity Big Brother.

http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/images/1702_peteburns.jpg
Pete Burns

Pete, now in his late 40s will be competing against ten other people including: Michael Barrymore, Rula Lenska, Jodi Marsh and George Galloway.

Since 1977, he has been making music with You Spin Me Round being his most famous hit and has been married for over 25 years to his wife Lynne.

His looks are a result of having reconstructed surgery to repair a botched plastic job done on him.

"I've got no problem with other people, it's usually them who have a problem with me. I'm not a team player, I play for myself," he told TV viewers.

Pete, owes his uniqueness to his mother who had to flee Nazi Germany.

"She was a holocaust survivor from Berlin, a German Jew and an aristocrat - she lost absolutely everything. She came from this incredible fantasy life where she wore glass shoes that you couldn’t even walk in... it sounds camp, but it was her life. She encouraged me to be expressive and not to think about other people’s opinions.

He adds to his memory of his mother:

"My mother had a very uniquely German sense of humour and they called it a 'gallow's humour'. She could always find humour in things that had happened apart from the fact of what Hitler's occupation had done to her life."

Source: Something Jewish (http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1702_vote_for_pete_s_sake.htm)

I was made up Pete Burns went in there, I like him. Those pictures of his infected lips were gross. Jodie Marsh was staring at him with sheer terror on her face!


I can't wait to see the *****fights :evil:

My god... the channel 4 BB forum!!
There are currently 300 member(s) and 1172 guest(s) in this forum.

http://community.channel4.com/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=162603557&f=8216069011

I'm gonna sign up :p

:tear: I want to hug Michael Barrymoore right now

I'm gonna sign up :p

Ha! Spread the Scouse love ;)

My account has just been approved :p. I think with the Barrymoore 'thing' is he's very much part of my growing up, appeared on many-a-tv programme when I was a kid. I did feel quite confused but sad also when he went in last night, despite the issues/ controversy.

Pete rules... we need to start a campaign to keep him in...

This house looks like an LSD induced trip to IKEA

:badgrin:

And I am not ashamed to admit, I loved his :finger: to the crowd when he went in... you can imagine what was said for that response!

Pete rules... we need to start a campaign to keep him in...



:badgrin:

And I am not ashamed to admit, I loved his :finger: to the crowd when he went in... you can imagine what was said for that response!

I saw that too - he wont take no crap in there.

Note for victorialush....I've looked at the google ads above - I didn'nt know u did car insurance!

They're not a Liverpool company are they? Aren't they based in Bournemouth or somewhere? What's their history? :confused:

Note for victorialush....I've looked at the google ads above - I didn'nt know u did car insurance!

Ha!

Yeh, I am low cost with great benefits.... or something like that :)

Can u do me a good deal of my Car insurance? Sheila's Wheels wont let me in.

I was able to to have a signature on C4 forums, then they deleted the link to the forum! :rolleyes: Gutted, I'll keep away for now :p

Can u do me a good deal of my Car insurance? Sheila's Wheels wont let me in.

Sheilas Wheels, didn't they sing Stuck in The Middle with You! :)

I was able to to have a signature on C4 forums, then they deleted the link to the forum! :rolleyes: Gutted, I'll keep away for now :p

Try just putting yoliverpool in the sig without the www or .com, that way it won't get picked up and if people are intrigued you can tell them or they will just google it anyway ;)

ta :p

I was able to to have a signature on C4 forums, then they deleted the link to the forum! :rolleyes: Gutted, I'll keep away for now :p

Oh aye, C4 forums don't allow links to other forums !!!!?

Ah!, but as Vikkie says, there ways around it :unibrow:

Oh aye, C4 forums don't allow links to other forums !!!!?

Ah!, but as Vikkie says, there ways around it :unibrow:

Tis true, I marketed a site from scratch for an old mate and this has 3500+ members now ;) Took about 4 years though!


Anyway..... BB..... when can we start voting?
I may start giving my 'new' number out to people....
I may also put a bet on Pete to win :unibrow:

I thought Barrymores been banned from talinking about the body in the pool? He has been chatting to housemates about it apparently.

Barrymore says he's been 'vilified'

Michael Barrymore has hit out at the way he was "vilified" after a man was found dead in his swimming pool.

The troubled entertainer has told fellow Celebrity Big Brother contestants he was guilty of nothing except stupidity over the demise of father-of-two Stuart Lubbock.

In an emotional discussion with 80s pop star Pete Burns, Barrymore said he was "sick" of being kicked around by the press.

He talked about being branded a killer, and expressed the view that the press will not be happy until he commits suicide.

He also admitted fleeing the scene of the incident in 2001 was a mistake, blaming being terrified, drunk and under the influence of cannabis, according to a Channel 4 spokeswoman.

The footage, which was filmed on Friday, was to be screened on the hit show's highlights package.

Barrymore's career collapsed after 31-year-old Mr Lubbock's body was discovered in the swimming pool at his £1.5m Essex mansion.

Medical examinations revealed that Mr Lubbock had suffered serious internal injuries, suggesting he may have been the victim of a serious sexual assault before his death.

London-born Barrymore, 53, was interviewed by police, but never charged and an inquest in September 2002 recorded an open verdict. Barrymore moved to New Zealand, where he lives with his long-term partner Shaun Davis.

Barrymore, who announced he was bankrupt in 2004, is said to be picking up £150,000 for his Celebrity Big Brother appearance - which has been criticised by Mr Lubbock's family.

© Copyright Press Association Ltd 2006, All Rights Reserved.

Source: Scotsman.com (http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=31192006)

Inside the bizarre world of Pete Burns:

ONCE seen never forgotten, Pete Burns used to walk around Liverpool wearing outrageous black PVC outfits, black contact lenses - and human bones in his hair.

"Nobody was as wild as me. Some people used to laugh, but I knew one day I would show them all."

This was the Dead or Alive frontman, now 46, talking to the ECHO long after he'd shown them all by storming to the top of the charts with You Spin Me Round (Like A Record).

And now the man of his word is showing them all over again, this time in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

Move over Michael Barrymore, the real drama queen's in town.

"He caused a sensation in Liverpool because he was the ultimate head-turner," recalls Geoff Davies, who employed him behind the counter at Probe Records in Button Street - where Pete staged a party to celebrate getting to No. 1 in spring 1985.

Geoff adds: "The nearest I ever got to being involved in a fight was when I stopped some fella beating him up in the shop because he took exception to his appearance."

It has previously been suggested that Geoff employed him because he knew he would be bound to attract more customers, but he says: "I never looked at it like that. I just thought things were always lively and fun when Pete was around. He was great company; so funny and so *****y.

"He must have worked for Probe for about two years - and I also rented out part of the shop to Pete and his girlfriend, Lynne, whom he later married (they wed in 1980 but recently divorced), where they sold weird clothes, including a lot of PVC."

Just a few yards away from Probe was Eric's in Mathew Street. A Cavern for the 1970s, it was the focal point of the Liverpool punk and new wave scene between 1976 and 1980.

It was a place where Pete and Lynne held court - and the place where Roger Eagle, who ran the venue with Pete Fulwell and Ken Testi, told Pete he would no longer be allowed entry unless he formed a band.

Pete Wylie, who, together with Julian Cope, played in that first Pete Burns band - the Mystery Girls - is another fan of the man. He says: "I remember seeing the Sex Pistols at Eric's. Nobody had ever seen anything like the Pistols and I'd never seen anybody like Pete - I had a camera with me that night and took one photograph of the Sex Pistols and three of Pete Burns.

"He wore black PVC and his head looked like someone had melted a load of black vinyl down into a kind of space quiff. Pete Fulwell said that when The Clash played Eric's the whole audience moved forward, but when the Mystery Girls played Eric's with Pete singing the whole audience moved back."

But Pete, he adds, didn't just have the look, he had the mouth - and the guts.

"He was the funniest ***** you could ever meet. And although walking around Liverpool looking like he did took a lot of bottle, he didn't take any s**t off anyone - he would never back down. His mouth could get him into trouble but it could also get him out of it.

"And he's also quite a big guy, so it was a brave person who took him on.

Johnny Rotten made I'm A Celebrity watchable when he was on that show - I think Pete Burns will do the same with Celebrity Big Brother. It certainly won't be boring."

Liverpool-born music writer Paul Du Noyer famously said of Pete: "You could have thrown a hand-grenade into the middle of Church Street and caused less reaction. He's a born entertainer."

Pete, himself, told the ECHO: "I think I must have been a bit crazy in those days. I mean I did look pretty odd, but the thing I loved was when I used to get the train from Port Sunlight into Liverpool and nobody said anything, even though I must have looked like something that stepped out of the taxidermist."

But his sense of adventure was in evidence years earlier - at the tender age of seven he insisted on wearing a Red Indian head-dress at school.

He said: "I think my parents knew they were in trouble when I wouldn't go to school without my head-dress and my mother used to have to come to the yard and set up a wigwam so I could go in there at break time.

"I suppose I've always felt I've been in some kind of spotlight because of my appearance. But I came out of the punk era and I don't understand people who make a spectacle of themselves and are apologetic about it. I just do not apologise for being a freaky-looking person.

"I think being flamboyant is very like a drug, though. I can take a dose of flamboyancy that would kill most beginners and that shocks a lot of people. But I've never done it to try and be provocative, I've done it because I know no other way to be."

After hitting the top, Pete stressed: "I didn't abandon Liverpool. I stayed as long as I could, but in this business you have to come to London because you have to be on call for things like studios or just management decisions and I make sure I'm here so I can keep control."

Though it's true he didn't enjoy some of the reaction he provoked here: "It definitely wasn't safe for me to live there because the city, at that time, about 1982, became potentially very violent towards unusual looking people.

"But I do accept that at that time, anywhere I went in the world, it was likely to be that way.

"If you make yourself stand out and you're very conspicuous, human nature's first instinct is probably to attack, criticise or abuse you.

"Liverpool was great and everything was exciting but gradually the attitude towards freaky people became very nasty.

"The initial impact of having an outstanding appearance is that people are too shocked to say anything, but when they see you on a regular basis the shock wears off and turns to confusion, then the next step is aggression. Eventually they just thought 'He's a w****r, let's throw a bottle at him'."

Of his cosmetic surgery career, he told us two years ago, when he was promoting the Here And Now Tour, which also included Kool & The Gang and T'Pau: "I don't think I'm going to end up like Michael Jackson, I haven't had anywhere near as many things done as people think.

"If you buy your own house and live there for a couple of years, eventually you're going to knock down a wall or paint it a different colour. I'm just re-decorating."

* For more information on all things Pete, go to www.deadoralive.net

A total superstar

PETE Burns is a man with a plan - a game plan to win Celebrity Big Brother.

"He's got a genius plot - it's a big plan," a close friend told the ECHO.

Adding to the mystery, he added: "You would not believe what he's been through in the past two years. He's been through a couple of years of s**t and he will talk about this in the house.

"I'm so proud of him; he's the bravest soul in the world."

The plot thickens. On the programme's launch night, Pete revealed that, four years ago, he began to suffer major problems after his lips were injected with a particular solution.

"I just wanted to die," he said.

He went on to explain that the reconstructive surgery he subsequently paid for cost him his house and his 30-year back catalogue of songs.

Davina McCall later said Pete had spent the last 18 months undergoingreconstructive surgery - but is there something else Pete is waiting to tell us?

I think we'd better stay tuned.

His close friend also told the ECHO: "Pete's one of the most intelligent, well-read people I have ever known. He is also the most genuine, talented person; an absolute pioneering visionary.

"He's the sort of person who someone like Johnny Rotten would come up and say 'Hi' to while ignoring everyone else in the room. He's exclusive, elusive and aloof - a total superstar.

"I think he'll win the show. He'll certainly do Liverpool proud."

And the friend describes Pete and Lynne Burns, despite their divorce, as being like "peas in a pod" adding: "They are soulmates - and two fantastic people."

Urgh, Pete is up for nomination :doubt:


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what a load of poo this show is, who let this lot in.

George- please tell me how he is a politician????

Rula- Halloween gone wrong

Maggot- who is he

Tina- stop giggling please

Dennis-beast at best

fire alarm-at least she shuts up a lot

Preston- far too nice as pie( and his girlfriend will kill him)

barrymore-enough said,get him out:angry:

and pete- he makes me cringe. im not joining in ,im hiding my fags, me me me me me..and that face omg get it fixed fraggle rock. by the way he was born in port sunlight so not a scouser.:$ik:

that leaves the new girl the un celeb. who looks more entertaining than this lot put together and thats when she is asleep.

get someone interesting in . and not saville

What was the score with Faria Alam's racial rant? Silly moo :ninja:

What is it with Pete to have botox? :lol:

Glad his coat ain't Gorrila fur though. :mad:

What is it with Pete to have botox? :lol:

Glad his coat ain't Gorrila fur though. :mad:

So its not then? The police took it away didnt they? Anywat did u see the kick off last night with the American girl? He went off at her big time, way OTT if u axe me. Oh, he was a nasty pasty :ninja:

Nah I don't watch it just going off what I've read.

They should of stood upto him.:rolleyes:

Nasty Pasty:p aint heard that for ages. good one Kev

I think Pete and George are bad bullies. i notice they pick on the girls .

C`mon lads fight them back.

Notice Barrymore is keeping out of everything..The weed

Pardon my French but Pete Burns is a *****, sorry if I offended any Pete Lovers but I'm ashamed he originates from these parts too :rolleyes:

George Galloway is a muppet, not a nice fella :rolleyes:

I have missed this for days, just caught a bit last night where Galloway was being ripped into by Barrymoore....

I need to go and read up what's been happening :confused:

George Galloway had been ripping into Chantelle and Preston, in defense to an argument that was happening with Dennis R and Chantelle, which was uncalled for, so Galloway stepped in to defend Rodman, next minute everything went mad with George G going off at Preston and Chantelle and then Michael Barrymore, it wasnt very nice to watch and all created by the wonder we call Big Brother :rolleyes:

Barrymore was very calm in comparison to everyone else. That Pete Burns is evil and had planted the seeds for last nights argument for days after ****ging Preston and Chantelle off, its gone mad :ninja:

its gone mad :ninja:

I think this is the whole intention.
From what I saw last night I was cringing at Barrymoore, but I caught the whole thing too late by the sounds of it.
As Pete would say, pure carcrash TV!

So - a non-celeb wins Celeb BB? Doesnt this mean that the Celeb BB thing is dead and redundant?

So - a non-celeb wins Celeb BB? Doesnt this mean that the Celeb BB thing is dead and redundant?

I think that Chantel is really cute, her contstant laughing makes me laugh. I am glad she won it.... really speaking, she is as much as a celeb as the celebs that went in... they must be what, 'C' listers anyway?

I liked her.

I still voted Pete to win though :rolleyes:

Chantelle is very cute :unibrow: The camera person must have had a field-day as she walked along outside to talk to Davina.