Celebrity Big Brother Season 5
Celebrity Big Brother 2007, also known as Celebrity Big Brother 5, was the highly controversial fifth series of the British reality television series Celebrity Big Brother. The series was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK, from 3 January 2007 and ran for 26 days with the finale on 29 January 2007. Davina McCall returned as host. It was the first Celebrity Big Brother series to be shown in the 16:9 widescreen format. The series saw the return of Jade Goody, who became a celebrity after appearing on the third regular series of Big Brother in 2002, arriving with her boyfriend and mother, it was the first series where family members could enter the house together. On 16 January 2007, this series had attracted the largest ever number of public complaints to the UK broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about a Big Brother series. The complaints received detailed concerns that housemate Shilpa Shetty had been subjected to bullying. Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara's behaviour towards Shetty sparked widespread anger and demonstrations in India, where the alleged racism was reported on the news, and led Big Brother's main sponsor Carphone Warehouse to suspend its sponsorship of the show. As of 19 January 2007, a Channel 4 spokesman agreed that participants should be made aware of the controversy, probably explaining the recent explanations and apologies tendered by the housemates and their complete lack of surprise after learning about the latest eviction.
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Celebrity Big Brother Season 5 Full Episode Guide
Davina returns to announce that Jade Goody and her family will be moving into the house. Highlights of the previous 24 hours in the house are shown and the housemates are getting on well. When Davina returns the housemates learn that that eight of them have to move next door to work as servants the three remaining celebrities. Jermaine, Ken and Shilpa decide to remain whilst the others move next door. Jade Goody and her boyfriend and mother move into the main house which the servants see on the video screen. Davina announces that all of the housemates now living in the main house will face the public vote to see who will be the first housemate evicted but they wont be told.
The housemates spend their first night in the house. A drunken Donny ends up jumping into the pool fully clothed and some of the housemates are a bit unsure about what to think about him. The housemates wonder what the future holds for them.
Davina returns to present the fifth series of Celebrity Big Brother. The first three housemates are introduced and they are Jermaine Jackson, Danielle Lloyd and Ken Russell. They are followed in the house by Jo O'Meara, Leo Sayer, Shilpa Shetty, Carol Malone and Donny Tourette. The final housemates to enter the house are Ian Watkins, Cleo Rocos and Dirk Benedict. The housemates all get to know each other.
