Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
studioAT
It's an old format run into the ground. That's basically Celeb Big Brother in a nutshell.You get a few people each year that you actually have heard of, but when you have to be told in great lengths about who the people are, and why they count as being a celeb then surely the format is dead? Poor old Emma Willis has to stand there and make the 'twists' in the format seem exciting, and try to make us care about these Z listers, but by now I think we all spot this show for what it is - car crash telly.
Dave
This is a version of Big Brother that has celebrity housemates and much shorter series. Very few of the celebrities are actually famous. Most of them either used to be famous and are trying to make a comeback - or they are talentless wannabes who have never really been famous and are trying to use a reality show to launch their careers. Most of the housemates are either boring or are arrogant / obnoxious.
Parker Lewis
The Big Brother racism controversy from 2007 deserves reflection a decade on. Sure, it was unpleasant but the mob and chattering classes really went into overdrive (with good intentions I guess) and I think much to their regret later on. I wonder to what extent the editing misrepresented Jade Goody, Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd in their interaction with Shilpa Shetty in the house. Maybe the mob and chattering classes felt guilty about the gains made by the Conservative Party (with their shameful anti-immigration election slogan "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?") in the 2005 general election.With Brexit voted on an the UK leaving the EU, I wonder how the racism controversy would play out now?
Jackson Booth-Millard
I started watching the normal Big Brother when Nadia, Victor and Marco were in the house in Big Brother 5. After this came Celebrity Big Brother which was pretty much like the regular show, still with Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary and narrated by Marcus Bentley, except with famous faces as house mates. I started from series 3, and since then they have had: John McCririck, Jackie Stallone (Sylvester Stallone's Mum), Caprice, Jeremy Edwards, Mark 'Bez' Berry (winner), Germaine Greer, Michael Barrymore, Jodie Marsh, Dennis Rodman, George Galloway, Pete Burns (who had surgery to look like a woman) and Traci Bingham. I would have loved to have seen Chris Eubank, Vanessa Feltz, Keith Duffy, Jack Dee, Melinda Messenger, Goldie, Sue Perkins, Les Dennis and Mark Owen. A very good show, just as good as the normal show if not a tiny bit better. Vanessa Feltz's suffering was number 51 on The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers, John McCririck's complaints were number 27 on The 100 Greatest Funny Moments, and it was number 15 on The 100 Greatest TV Treats 2002. Very good!