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Celebrity Big Brother
Six celebs are nobly baring their souls under the gaze of the cameras. Here's our online guide to the star-spangled version of last year's TV hit
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1. Celebrity Big Brother , the star-packed successor to the slice-of-life international TV hit is under way on Channel 4 .
2. The new manifestation of the show aims to raise money for Comic Relief and features six British celebrities who are scrapping it out over a week to be the last survivor by this Friday's Red Nose Day .
3. Boxer Chris Eubank, Brookside actress Claire Sweeney, Boyzone star Keith Duffy, comedian Jack Dee, and TV presenters Anthea Turner and Vanessa Feltz entered the house last Friday to live under the gaze of its 24 cameras.
4. The first evictee has already been chosen with Chris Eubank being given his marching orders in the viewers' poll on Saturday night, attracting more than 750,000 votes, with each telephone call raising 15.5p for the charity.
5. Anthea Turner was nominated alongside Eubank (the contestants secretly nominate each other and the two with the most nominations face a public poll) but escaped, with some help from her husband Grant Bovey , who has admitted running up a huge phone bill to help keep her in.
6. Eubank dished the dirt on Anthea afterwards, claiming she was "fragile" and upset by her negative public image. This was increased by mocking tabloid coverage of her wedding, which featured a tie-up deal with a glossy magazine and a chocolate manufacturer.
7. Meanwhile, Jack Dee has indicated he is less than enthralled at living in the UK's least private house and on Sunday tested out the night-vision cameras. As Sweeney and Duffy relaxed in the infamous hot tub, Dee was in the garden secretly digging a hole under a fence . He then spied an open gate but was quickly captured by security guards and frog-marched back.
8. Commentators have pointed out that the celebrities have been afforded more privacy in the reality TV show than their predecessors, and are living without the intrusion of 24-hour web cam coverage; instead, there are edited video clips available to internet viewers.
9. The nation was enthralled last year as 10 strangers, who started out as unknowns, lived together in the Big Brother house for nine weeks with one being evicted every week in an attempt to win the £70,000 prize money.
10. Craig Phillips won the cash and donated it to a young friend for vital surgery, but only after a blistering confrontation with 'Nasty' Nick Bateman , who had taken a very Machiavellian approach to winning at all costs .