When is Celebrity Big Brother 2025? All you need to know before star-studded launch
Scandals await.
Celebrity Big Brother 2025 is just around the corner, with the revived ITV series coming back for another year after going down a storm in 2024.
Last year, TV presenter David Potts emerged victorious from a Big Brother line-up that included former X Factor judges Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne.
Presenter AJ Odudu and Will Best also welcomed runner-up Nikita Kuzman, Colson Smith, Fern Britton, and Bradley Riches into the famous house.
After proving to be a ratings hit in 2024, ITV has brought Celebrity Big Brother back for another year, with a star-studded line-up rumoured to be entering the house on opening night.
A famously ‘unwoke’ big name, an Olympic gold medal winner, and the first transgender bride from Married At First Sight are all tipped to be competing for the crown.
With the start date for the 2025 series not far away, here’s everything you need to know about Celebrity Big Brother this year.
When does Celebrity Big Brother 2025 start? The ITV reboot is hosted by AJ Odudu and Will Best (Picture: Vianney Le Caer/Shutterstock)Celebrity Big Brother 2025 will return to ITV on Monday, April 7 2025, airing at 9pm on ITV1.
It will be available to stream on demand on ITVX, as well as being available to watch on STV and STV Player in Scotland.
Hosted by AJ and Will, the opening night is billed as a special event called Celebrity Big Brother: Live Launch, which will see a new host of celebrities enter the Big Brother house.
Viewers will be especially pleased to note that Celebrity Big Brother is still going to be broadcast on ITV1 rather than ITV2, showing the faith ITV has in the potential of the series going forward.
For viewers wanting more, each episode of Celebrity Big Brother will once again be followed every night by the sister show, Celebrity Big Brother: Late & Live.
Airing on ITV2 and ITVX, much like last year, Celebrity Big Brother: Late & Live will be the only place fans can get their hands on more exclusive Big Brother content.
Who is in the Celebrity Big Brother 2025 line-up? Who’s going to be in the Celebrity Big Brother house this year? (Picture: ITV)The line-up for Celebrity Big Brother 2025 is yet to be officially announced by ITV, but several big names have been rumoured already.
Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd, who plays David Platt on the ITV soap, has reportedly signed up, following in the footsteps of his former co-star Colson.
Olympic gold-winner Daley Thompson is also rumoured to be heading into the house, with bosses reportedly hoping that he’ll spark some controversy thanks to his ‘unwoke’ attitude.
The ‘unwoke’ Daley Thompson is under consideration from ITV bosses (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)Annie Kilner is reportedly considering a £750,000 offer to appear on the reality TV show after filing for divorce – but then making a U-turn on the decision – from footballer Kyle Walker.
Celebrity Big Brother bosses are also reportedly desperate to snap Ella Morgan up after she made TV history in 2023 by becoming the first trans bride on Married At First Sight.
Meanwhile, Chris Hughes, who is best known for appearing on Love Island in 2017 – during which he began dating Olivia Attwood – has also being tipped to join the cast.
What changes are happening on Celebrity Big Brother this year? ITV has planned some changes for Celebrity Big Brother in 2025 (Picture: ITV)One major change coming on Celebrity Big Brother this year is that the famous Big Brother house is going to be in a brand new location.
The Big Brother house for the 2024 series of Celebrity Big Brother was located at Garden Studios in west London, which itself was a newly built set.
For 2025, the house is moving to Titan Studios in west London – but not much more is known about the appearance of the newly built celebrity digs.
What is known, according to reports, is that the mezzanine level from Celebrity Big Brother 2024 has been removed.
A source told My London: ‘ITV moving to a new location means the Big Brother house is getting a full revamp – starting from the top down.
‘The house layout is returning to a single story, just like when the show was based at Elstree Studios during its time on Channel 4 and Channel 5.’
When is the civilian Big Brother series coming back? Jordan Sangha (right) won Big Brother 2024 (Picture: James Veysey/Shutterstock)ITV revived Big Brother in 2023 after it had spent five years off the air following its earlier revival by Channel 5, which ran from 2011 to 2018.
Big Brother’s first series on ITV began in October 2023 and ended in November, with Jordan Sangha being crowned the winner.
In 2024, the series began in October again and finished 41 days later in November, indicating that Big Brother will return for its 2025 series in October once more.
Who are the past Celebrity Big Brother winners? Scotty T is one of many Celebrity Big Brother winners (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)Celebrity Big Brother 2025 will be the 24th series in the competition’s history, with its origins dating back all the way to 2001 – just a year after the main Big Brother series began in the UK.
The first winner was comedian Jack Dee, who spent just eight days in the house with five other contestants before being crowned as the winner.
Celebrity Big Brother expanded over the next few years, with the days spent in the house increasing to 10, 18, 23, and then 27 by the end of the 2000s.
In that time, the competition was won by singer Mark Owen, musician Bez, TV personality Chantelle Houghton, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, and TV presenter Ulrika Johnsson.
Alex Reid won the last ever Channel 4 series, before the show was taken over by Channel 5 in 2011, being won by Paddy Doherty, Denise Welch, Julian Clary.
Channel 5 then started showing two seasons per year, during which time Celebrity Big Brother was won by Rylan Clark, Charlotte Crosby, Jim Davidson, Gary Busey, Katie Price, James Hill, Scotty T, Stephen Bear, Coleen Nolan, Sarah Harding, Courtney Act, and Ryan Thomas.
When it began on ITV last year, Celebrity Big Brother was won by David Potts.
When is the Celebrity Big Brother final 2025? When can we expect the Celebrity Big Brother final this year? (Picture: James Veysey/Shutterstock)Celebrity Big Brother 2025 is slated to last for 19 days, with the big premiere show – titled Celebrity Big Brother: Live Launch – going out on ITV1 on April 7 at 9pm.
That means the final of Celebrity Big Brother is likely to take place on April 25, 2025, almost three weeks after all those famous names enter the house.
It means the 2025 competition will be much shorter than previous iterations – in 2017 and 2018, the competition lasted for 32 days both times.
This year’s series will be the shortest since 2005, when Happy Mondays musician Bez was crowned winner in its third year.
Watch Celebrity Big Brother: Live Launch on April 7, 9pm on ITV1.
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