I had managed to miss the fact that all the Celebrity Hijack celebrities (does that make sense?) have been keeping a blog over on the Channel 4 website.

I just had a quick read over Matt Lucas’ final blog entry before he handed the reins of power over to football legend, Ian Wright, and I was touched by how attached he had become to the hijack housemates.

Matt wrote:

The weird thing is you become oddly attached to the housemates in a way that takes you by suprise which is strange, if something upsets them then you feel upset and if they’re happy you feel happy and its really weird as I expected to feel a lot more distant from the whole process but actually you do become a lot more emotionally attached than I thought you would.

Matt also admits that he has great hopes for the future of the housemates, he seems to think that this bunch of young talent could go very very far.

When you see what Amelia and Victor do, and the number of hours a day they have to dedicate to their craft, when you hear Calista sing and think that’s as good as anything I’ve heard Mika do this year then you realise that actually these are very promising people.

Actually, weirdly I think some of them will go on to be so big that you’ll forget they were ever in this show because their potential on screen is really great.

I actually think Matt is right. For the last few years of Big Brother I have watched some of the most stupid people in Britain become famous for being foul mouthed or scantily clad. It’s nice to watch people with a genuine talent for a change, though I admit that in time, after watching them day after day, they may well prove just as annoying!