Big Brother 8

The countdown to Big Brother 8 has begun. Unbelieveably, there is less than a month to go before you're a) cancelling plans for the summer and being glued to E4 live streaming or b) banishing Channel 4 from your house until Spring. For those of you in the former group, a few BB8 secrets have been revealed in today’s tabloids including details of a ‘Heaven and Hell’ task. As the name implies, some housemates will live like royalty, while others will apparently be forced to live outside, in rain, hail or, as is quite likely, glorious sunshine. According to rumours, there will also be a ‘caravan of love’ parked in the garden to encourage intimacy between randy housemates and a not-so-secret garden hidden behind a door.

Also today, the Big Brother 8 logo has been unveiled, a tweak of the show’s basic ‘eye’ logo. How wrong can you get such a simple logo? Looks pretty cool to me but very different to the original logo. According to the designer Daniel Eatock, the brief was to “embrace all colours within the spectrum, opposites, complimentaries and all the shades in between.” The different colours are said to represent the different elements of society, which seems to me to be a very misguided bid to appease protestors of Celebrity Big Brother’s treatment of Shilpa Shetty. A multicoloured logo to portray a multicoloured Big Brother? Cool, I guess. What do you think of the logo? Are you looking forward to June 1 and the return of Big Brother? Let me know.