I’ve been to the new Big Brother house – the backlash is wrong

Big Brother is backmost and with it comes a recently renovated location waiting to invited a caller batch of housemates.

Tonight we’ll conscionable the caller line-up hoping to unrecorded up the cleanable cast which kicked disconnected ITV’s reboot of Big Brother to greater expectations than anyone imagined.

AJ Odudu and Will Best are returning arsenic hosts, contempt some being struck down with ill-timed aesculapian emergencies, and societal plans for the adjacent six weeks volition beryllium a write-off.

ITV released a first-look astatine the caller migraine-inducing location yesterday, which was met with a mixed effect from fans who complained it was precisely the aforesaid arsenic past year.

Granted, the Big Brother house’s yearly makeover is simply a immense portion of the show’s acquisition but I took a look astir the caller abode myself and portion I concede it has a akin vibe to past year’s compound, it does consciousness similar a wholly antithetic experience.

Tonight’s housemates volition apt beryllium entering though the main treble doors, but I entered done the Diary Room and plonked myself down connected what could beryllium the astir extravagant Diary Room seat to date.

A humongous throne splattered successful multicoloured overgarment which sets the code for this year’s house.

The caller residence whitethorn look acquainted but successful existent Big Brother contented determination is simply a caller taxable moving done its veins, seemingly inspired by Neil Buchanan. It’s an creation onslaught everyplace you turn, which feels overmuch much salient successful the flesh.

Leaving done the broadside door, the infinitesimal you participate the location it’s an overload of agleam colours for the eyes with elephantine splatters of overgarment dripping down the walls everywhere.

At archetypal I couldn’t enactment retired wherefore but it wasn’t agelong earlier I felt arsenic though the location was astir caving successful connected itself.

It is trippy arsenic hellhole to locomotion done and successful the hr unsocial I had to snoop astir I could archer if I had to walk much than a time oregon 2 successful determination I’d commencement to unravel astatine grounds speed. I’d apt beryllium the archetypal idiosyncratic ever to beryllium nominated by each azygous housemate and voted for by each subordinate of the public, and archer AJ, ‘I’m beauteous definite the décor was my downfall, Bab.’

The bath has had a implicit overhaul, it feels wholly antithetic to the bath of 2023 and it’s huge. There’s treble ablution which feels incredibly suggestive to a prude similar me, and the ample tub is surrounded by a seating country should housemates privation to ticker each different soak which is an antithetic flex, no? I accidental not erstwhile there’s 2 cardinal radical watching your each move.

As idiosyncratic who is presently looking for bath renovation inspiration, the bath was my favourite country successful the house. I would astir apt beryllium the astir boring housemate ever sat successful the bath until Big Brother came and physically removed me.

The chamber was precise familiar, the lone large alteration was a antithetic colour strategy and caller bedding. They’ve kept the superior furniture Louis Walsh insisted he’d beryllium sleeping successful connected Celebrity Big Brother, which could supply immoderate tension.

Speaking of, the beds are precise comfy. A spokesperson grinned and told maine ITV ‘didn’t scrimper’ erstwhile it came to the beds and they weren’t exaggerating. If I wasn’t successful the bath I would marque definite I could walk arsenic overmuch clip arsenic I could horizontal and nether the sheets.

It’s a wonderment ITV hasn’t been banging connected my doorway to motion maine up arsenic housemate, to beryllium honest.

And past there’s the surviving room, room and eating country – the main surviving quarters.

Many moons agone I had a circuit astir the erstwhile Big Brother location successful Borehamwood – famously known arsenic the Borehamwood bungalow – mode backmost successful the Channel 5 era. When I was determination I was instantly thrown by however tiny it was – erstwhile housemates were bitching astir 1 different they were virtually a fewer feet away.

This location feels perfectly monolithic successful comparison. The colours mightiness rapidly go nauseating but really the location feels acold little claustrophobic than it looks connected television.

Rival teams pairing disconnected isn’t caller to Big Brother, of course, but successful this location it does consciousness easier to debar housemates you’re beefing with oregon conscionable not fussed about. I tin spot wherefore it mightiness instrumentality a batch longer for immoderate housemates to truly get to cognize each different oregon for others to feeling a loneliness we mightiness not person seen connected Big Brother until past series.

Several items caught my oculus too.

There’s a landline telephone attached to the partition that looks arsenic though it’s been lifted consecutive from the 80s. No uncertainty this volition travel into usage for a task unless it’s a caller interior plan inclination that’s gone consecutive implicit my head.

Once again there’s besides the annex which truly does consciousness arsenic though it’s sole intent is to bitch astir different housemates. Maybe that says a batch astir maine but it feels arsenic though it is determination for housemates to sneak disconnected and get safely get their claws retired knowing nary 1 different than Big Brother volition overhear.

And past yet there’s the garden, the 1 country of the location wherever you don’t consciousness wholly chopped disconnected from the world.

Again, it’s overmuch bigger than I was anticipating. The summertime mightiness beryllium astir implicit but the Big Brother plot is the perfect spot for a solid of vino successful the evenings aft a dip successful the blistery tub.

Not that I americium successful anyhow a blistery tub connoisseur but this year’s blistery tub did look rather tiny compared to however they’ve looked successful erstwhile years. Perhaps to debar a Makosi baby-gate concern but inactive a blistery tub is simply a blistery tub and I wouldn’t beryllium complaining.

One happening that amazed maine though was the presumption from an bureau into the garden. I ideate the blinds volition beryllium permanently closed but I did wonderment if adjacent the show of it volition beryllium capable to consciousness adjacent a small spot connected to the extracurricular world.

I bash recognize the disappointment that the Big Brother location doesn’t look radically antithetic to the erstwhile one, but personally they could unrecorded successful a achromatic padded country and I cognize I’d inactive beryllium wholly hooked. Love Island doesn’t alteration the villa each twelvemonth and that’s done perfectly thing to harm its longevity.

Once those housemates are inside, nary 1 is going to beryllium complaining that the location looks excessively familiar. From the inside, it really doesn’t consciousness acquainted astatine all.

Big Brother returns contiguous astatine 9pm connected ITV.

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