Sally Bercow, the outspoken wife of the Speaker of the Commons, has joined the lineup for the new series of Celebrity Big Brother, which also includes former pop star Kerry Katona and American Pie actor Tara Reid.
Bercow entered the Big Brother house on Thursday as the reality show, axed by Channel 4 last year, returned after an 11-month break on Richard Desmond's Channel 5.
The programme makers promised the "biggest, most colourful and interesting names around". Whether that promise has been fulfilled will depend on viewers' expectations and knowledge of slightly obscure reality TVstars.
Other contestants include David Hasselhoff's ex-wife Pamela Bach, former X Factor contestants Jedward, and Amy Childs, a star of ITV2's unlikely Bafta-winning reality show The Only Way is Essex.
Bercow's inclusion is likely to generate the most headlines. The wife of John Bercow, she has already demonstrated a knack for generating publicity, posing for a magazine photograph wearing nothing but a bedsheet. She later admitted the photograph in theEvening Standard's ES magazine in February made her look a "complete idiot".
It remains to be seen what the programme's producers have in store for the housemates, although it is likely to involve a lot of dressing up.Bercow is not the first Westminster figure to appear on Celebrity Big Brother. George Galloway appeared on the series in 2006 when he was an MP, memorably pretending to be a cat licking cream from Rula Lenska's hands and robot dancing in a leotard with Pete Burns.
The buildup to the show's return has featured the usual feverish tabloid speculation – largely stoked by papers owned by Desmond such as the Daily Star – about possible housemates, including the actor Charlie Sheen. His name was not on the list circulated to the media under embargo earlier on Thursday, but there were reports of him arriving at Heathrow during the day.
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