Big Brother household a tabloid editor’s dream

TAKE a cross-dressing former basketball star, a disgraced entertainer, a politician notorious for saluting Saddam Hussein and a fake celebrity.

This belated Christmas present for tabloid editors, courtesy of Channel 4’s Celebrity Big Brother, offers one of the most bizarre collections of individuals ever seen together on screen, even by the standards of reality television.

By comparison, other contestants such as Faria Alam, famed for her affair with England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, and glamour model Jodie Marsh seem positively mundane by comparison.