Superstar Massive Brother is making a comeback.
The unique actuality TV collection will return to ITV on Monday.
Final yr’s season was notably explosive, thanks partially to former X Issue judges Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne making remarks about different celebrities.
As for 2025, who’s rumoured to be coming into the Massive Brother home?
Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke, EastEnders star Patsy Palmer and former Tory MP Sir Michael Fabricant are among the many contestants set to compete.
Oscar-nominee and former boxer Rourke – identified for The Wrestler, 9 1/2 Weeks and Sin Metropolis – is strongly suspected to hitch the 2025 line-up.
Lately, the 72-year-old has been on the US model of The Masked Singer, the Roman Polanski-directed comedy The Palace and parody film Not One other Church Film.
In the meantime, final yr, Palmer, 52, returned to play loudmouth Bianca Jackson on EastEnders, after changing into a DJ greater than a decade in the past.
She thanked the BBC cleaning soap’s crew final month for a “few months of affection and historical past making”, forward of her stint coming to an finish on display.
Palmer has beforehand competed in BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2005 with skilled dancer Anton Du Beke, and in 2023 featured on ITV1’s Dancing On Ice the place she was partnered with skater Matt Evers.
On the 2024 common election, Sir Michael misplaced his seat in Lichfield to Labour’s Dave Robertson.
Sir Michael – recognisable by his distinctive blond hair – had been a serving MP since 1992, and was on a star version of Channel 4’s First Dates for Stand Up To Most cancers.
It has additionally been claimed that the brand new version of the spin-off Massive Brother with well-known faces will embrace retired Olympic athlete Daley Thompson, The Solely Method Is Essex star Ella Rae Clever, TV presenter Angellica Bell, and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK collection 4 winner Danny Beard.
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Two-time Olympic decathlon champion Thompson, 66, set a then-world report on the 1984 Los Angeles video games and received the BBC Sports activities Persona prize that very same yr.
Bell, 49, a Superstar MasterChef winner who rose to fame on CBBC, has offered radio programmes, The Martin Lewis Cash Present, and The One Present.
Additionally reported to be showing is singer Chesney Hawkes, US chat present host Trisha Goddard, comic Donna Preston, American pop star JoJo Siwa, Love Island star Chris Hughes and Coronation Road actor Jack P Shepherd.
The “One And Solely” hit-maker Hawkes, 53, was requested if the rumours had been true throughout an look on BBC Breakfast on Friday, and replied that he has “no concept what you’re speaking about”.
Shepherd, 37, is thought for enjoying hairdresser David Platt on Coronation Road for the final 25 years, and just lately has been concerned in a failed hit-and-run rip-off in Weatherfield.
YouTube character Siwa is not any stranger to actuality reveals, having been on Dancing With The Stars, the US model of Strictly Come Dancing, The Masked Singer, and Dance Mothers, in addition to being a choose on So You Assume You Can Dance.
Hughes, 32, who rose to fame on ITV2 actuality courting programme Love Island, briefly started a singing profession with fellow Love Islander Kem Cetinay earlier than shifting to grow to be a sports activities broadcaster.
Preston, 38, has appeared in Netflix supernatural collection The Sandman, and ITV comedy panel present Hey Tracey!, whereas 67-year-old Goddard has offered her personal eponymous discuss present and appeared on ITV celeb competitors collection Dancing On Ice in 2020.
Final yr, Goddard advised Hi there! journal that she had been identified with secondary breast most cancers, also called stage 4 most cancers, for which there’s therapy however no remedy.
The London-born presenter beforehand recovered from breast most cancers some years earlier after a 2008 analysis.
After emigrating to Australia within the Nineteen Eighties, she turned the primary black information anchorwoman on Australian TV, and went on to host of TV reveals within the UK and US.
A spokesman for Superstar Massive Brother stated: “Any names prompt for Superstar Massive Brother are purely hypothesis.”
Earlier than the collection started airing on ITV, the controversial actuality present was final on Channel 5 in 2018 earlier than being cancelled by the channel.
Superstar Massive Brother returns Monday at 9pm on ITV1 and STV.
A spin-off present known as Superstar Massive Brother: Late & Stay will comply with on ITV2, which is able to see the return of final yr’s winner, actuality star David Potts.
