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. Read more & comment »

Celebrity Hijack housemate Calista is a classical musician from London. She is in her second year at Kings College London, studying for a BA with the Royal Academy of Music and began playing the violin at age three.

Calista specialised in composition at The Royal Academy of Music’s junior academy under David Knotts and was awarded full scholarships to attend Miguel Mera’s Film Music course with Stile Antico in 2007 both at Darlington Summer School. Calista has written over 100 songs ranging from full orchestral to cheesy pop. Read more & comment »