E4.com is the new Channel 4 website that will be launching early next year. To mark the launch the site will be hosting Big brother auditions and will have one place in the Big Brother house to award to the online winner.

Wannabe Petes or Nikkis will be able to upload a video clip to E4.com explaining why they think they should star in Big Brother VIII. The auditions, which can be viewed and rated by other users, will be studied by producers at Endemol and Channel 4 commissioning editors with at least one online applicant guaranteed to enter the Big Brother house next year.

Danny Cohen, Head of E4, added: “We think our plans for E4.com open up an even easier route into the Big Brother auditions process and will encourage a new wave of applicants to join Britain’s most famous house. The spread of digital technologies, such as phones and cameras, means the E4 audience is completely at ease generating and distributing its own content and we’re already working on exciting plans to get them interacting with E4’s other key programmes.�

In addition to Big Brother auditions, E4.com will have programming information, news and gossip from home-grown E4 shows such as Skins, Fonejacker and High School Dance and the hottest acquired series including Desperate Housewives , Ugly Betty and The O.C.

Users will be able to create personalised web pages where they can chat to other users, upload their own content and rate clips and submissions from other users.