Your run-down of the celebs going in the Big Brother house
NEED to get a handle on who is who is the Celebrity Big Brother House this year?
Don't want to mix your Vernes with your Mutyas?
Well you're in the right place. Here's our quick Who's Who guide to the housemates.
Glamour girl Lucy Pinder was spotted by a freelance photographer sunbathing on Bournemouth beach in 2003.
And by 2007 the Page 3 fave's 32G boobs were voted best breasts in Britain.
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Singer Mutya Buena was one third of girl band Sugababes (albums included 'Angels With Dirty Faces', 'Three' and 'Taller In More Ways') until 2006 when she left the group to spend more time with her daughter.
Shortly after leaving the band she started working as a solo artist with limited success. She was dropped by her label in 2008.
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Presenter Terry Christian is best known for his 5-year stint starting in 1990 on Channel 4's controversial show The Word - named after his column in the Manchester Evening News.
Terry currently hosts series six of "It's My Life" on ITV1 every Sunday Night.
Singer Michelle Heaton was one fifth of pop band Liberty X. The group was formed by the five singers who narrowly missed winning TV show Popstars, which created Hear'Say.
Since the band split she has worked as a glamour model and in 2006 she was picked as the face - and body - of Ultimo's Michelle at George lingerie for Asda.
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Singer-songwriter La Toya Jackson was the fifth child in the Jackson family - and is sister to Michael Jackson.
She was relatively successful in the 80s and 90s as a singer - and enjoyed a couple of hits in 2004.
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Actor-stunt man Verne Troyer is 2ft 8 inches tall and is most famous for playing the character of Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films.
Verne has an X-rated history having allegedly bedded a string of beauties.
Controversial Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan has had various prominent roles within the socialist movement.
He is currently one of two co-convenors of the left-wing Scottish political party Solidarity.
Former weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson is arguably most famous for her affair with then England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson in 2002.
She has five children all by different fathers and is reportedly being paid the most out of this year's celebrities.
Click here for more sexy pics of Ulrika
Pop singer-songwriter Ben Adams won a Brit Award and had two No1 singles with pop group A1 between 1999 and 2002.
Since then he has worked as a solo artist and has written songs for other artists including Lisa Scott-Lee.
Liverpudlian actress Tina Malone is best known for her part as brash, belligerent, foul-mouthed Mimi Maguire on Shameless.
She also runs her own drama school in Liverpool.
Coolio is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper.
He rose to fame in 1995 with hit single Gangsta's Paradise.
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This article has 2 comments
they need betta ppl. and younger, nt oldies.
By jd. Posted January 7 2009 at 1:55 PM.
Well when Big Brother was first launched it was good and also the first Celebrity was ok, but now it has just lost the plot, So as a fan, am not a fan no more. It needs to be banned. I'm sure with todays technology we can have some better rubbish then Big Brother.
By Di. Posted January 2 2009 at 7:35 PM.