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Oct 2023

Last Updated: 09/10/2023

Harrogate woman among 16 housemates on Big Brother

by John Plummer

| 09 Oct, 2023

A 25-year-old Harrogate woman is among the 16 housemates on the new series of Big Brother.

The programme, which has returned after a five-year hiatus, sees strangers live together in a house for weeks on end. The last one to be voted out wins £100,000.

New hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best introduced the show, which is now on ITV, last night.

Among those entering the house was customer support agent, Yinrun, 25, who is originally from Shanghai, China but now lives in Harrogate.

She described herself as "a pretty adventurous person" whose boyfriend would describe her as "quirky but lovable".

She told ITV:

"My friends in China think I am like the crazy mother because I always take care of them. I’m very playful."

Yinrun added that since moving to the UK, she drinks a cup of Yorkshire tea with milk every day.

Asked what she would do with the prize money if she won, she said:

"I want to move to a farm. That’s my final dream, I will live on a farm and have some chickens, grow my organic vegetables and have a puppy to run around. And I’ll have eggs from the chicken, it will be so wholesome. This is my dream."

She nominated Michael McIntyre as her dream celebrity to live with.

The return of Big Brother

ITV describes Big Brother as "the ultimate social experiment".

It added:

"Big Brother will see a new cast of carefully selected housemates, from all walks of life, become the first people to take up residence in the brand-new Big Brother house.

"Given its own contemporary new look ready for this reimagining of the show, the iconic Big Brother house will play host to all the action - clever tasks, nail-biting nominations and live evictions will be back."

Big Brother first hit screens in the Netherlands in 1999. Since its debut, over 500 series of the show have aired around the world in over 64 countries and regions.

In the UK, it ran for 11 series on Channel 4 and also led to seven series of Celebrity Big Brother.

The show subsequently aired for eight series on Channel 5, with an additional 15 celebrity series, before ending in 2018.

Big Brother is now broadcast from Sunday to Friday on ITV2 and ITVX at 9pm.