Former football star, Paul Gascoigne has reportedly been offered £100,000 to appear on Channel 4’s final Celebrity Big Brother.

Paul was rumoured to have signed up for ITV’s I’m A Celebrity, but was dropped after bosses feared he wasn’t well enough to take part.

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Former Hollyoaks actor Paul Danan has admitted that appearing on ITV’s Celebrity Love Island has “f**ked up” his acting career.

Paul played Sol Patrick on the Channel 4 soap for three years before trying to make it in America.

“I spent three years auditioning in LA and never got my big break, which is when I agreed to do Love Island,” he told Love It magazine.

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Love Island contestant Chris Brosnan, is best known as son of 007 movie star Pierce Brosnan.

Chris is currently working as a film producer, but is perhaps more famous for his troubled past, which has included being rushed to the hospital after a drug overdose, being fined £1,000 for drink-driving in America and serving seven months at London’s Wormwood Scrubs for driving three times over the limit.

Love Island contestant, Brendan Cole, is a dancer from New Zealand who specialises in Latin American dancing.

He has appeared on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, and has also judged two seasons of New Zealand’s own Dancing with the Stars.

Brendan is perhaps most famous for his alledged affair with news reader and dance partner Natasha Kaplinsky, causing both celebrities to split up with their partners at the time.

Wikipedia reports:

Lee Otway (born on January 4, 1982 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a British actor. He is most famous for playing the role of David “Bombhead” Burke in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, from 2001 until 2005. He has also appeared in Stars in Their Eyes, Abbamania 2 and was a contestant in the ITV reality singing competition Soapstar Superstar.

In Hollyoaks Lee played Bombhead. He searched high and low for his dad and finally left in 2005 after finding his clown dad and deciding to join the circus with him.

In 2006, The Sun reported that he appeared in a sex video with a model.

Singing Career

Lee Otway has said himself he sees him as a singer rather than an actor. He won as Richard Marx on Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes, and done extremely well in Soapstar Superstar due to his large fanbase. Lee has said he wouldn’t mind having a career as a professional singer, and is considering it, and he has just recently signed a recording deal with Soapstar Superstar judge Billy Sammeth.

Love Island contestant Shane Lynch shot to fame after joining irish boyband ‘Boyzone’ in the mid 1990s.

He is most famous for his drunken tirade at the MTV music awards in 1999 where he claimed rumours of Boyzone disbanding were “fucking shite”.

Shane was married to Eternal singer Esther Bennet for two years vefore they seperated in 2000.

Shane Lynch is no stranger to reality TV, having taken part in Channel 4’s ‘The Games’ in 2004.

Love Island contestant Bianca Gascoigne, is famous footballer Paul Gascoigne’s step daughter.

She has accomplished no fame in her own right, but merely through selling her story on her experience of living with the football legend crybaby Gascigne.

It would seem there is no love lost between Paul and his step-daughter, as he has repeatedly told tabloids that he no longer considers her his child, and wishes she wouls stop using his name.

On the 28th of August 2006 Bianca became the female winner of Love Island 2006. She hopes to rekindle the relationship she started on the island with Leo the Lion, and will probably deck Alicia Douvall for calling her obese!

Love Island contestant, Kéllé Bryan, first came to fame in the early 1990s as part of the English R&B girl group Eternal where she sang on hits such as “Stay” and “Just A Step From Heaven”.

She was dismissed from the group in 1999 and subsequently signed to Mercury Records and released the single “Higher Than Heaven”. However the record did not fare well and Kelle was quickly dropped by the label, fading into obscurity….until NOW!

Love Island contestant Colleen Shannon was Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in January, 2004 and also was the magazine’s 50th anniversary playmate.

More recently Colleen has toured the world as an accomplished DJ, usually playing hip hop or house music. She has also landed some acting roles in movies such as “Chasing Ghosts”, “The Gene Generation”, “Sci-Fighter” and “Miss Castaway”.

A talented all rounder then…..

Love Island contestant Alicia Douvall is a high profile British glamour model/ page 3 girl.

Alicia has mostly gained her fame to date by releasing various ‘kiss and tell’ stories, revolving around real celebrities like Simon Cowell, Dennis Rodman and last years Love Island finalist Callum Best. Oh and also by getting them out for the lads!

Love Island contestant, Lady Victoria Hervey, is a 29 year old English ‘It Girl’, recently branded ‘Twit girl’ by the British tabloids.

Wikipedia reports that she is the elder daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol and his third wife Yvonne Sutton. She is the older sister of the 8th Marquess of Bristol and of Lady Isabella Hervey, and her older half-brothers were the 7th Marquess of Bristol and Lord Nicholas Hervey, both deceased.

Victoria is no stranger to the world of reality TV, having taken part in the Channel Five show ‘The Farm’ in October 2004.

The final list of celebrities(?) to take part in this years Love Island series have finally been released.

I can see why they took the word ‘celebrity’ out of the title this year. They should have named it..

“So someone in your family is famous, come and get a tropical shag”

The list is as follows, click on the name for more details on the star.

Lady Victoria Hervey
Sophie Anderton
Alicia Douvall
Colleen Shannon
Kelle Bryan
Bianca Gascoigne

Shane Lynch
Leo Ihenacho
Lee Otway
Brendan Cole
Chris Brosnan

Big Brother contestant Michelle Bass has hinted that she will be appearing on this summers Celebrity Love Island 2006.

Speaking to the Sun Online at a party in London’s Soho last night, Michelle said: “My lips are sealed about any Love Island deal.”

But she added with a wink: “But I will say that I would really like a summer holiday romance this year. Sunbathing on the beach really gets me in the mood.”

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Tracey Temple, the woman who named and shamed John Prescott this week, and told the world about their extra marital affair, has reportedly been offered £300,000 to appear in Celebrity love Island 2006.

She is said to be seriously considering the offer, but as the show starts in just a few short weeks, she doesn’t have much time to make up her mind!

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ITV bosses are rumoured to be trying their hardest to convince Jack Osbourne to take part in Celebrity Love Island 2006.

So far they have offered him £250,000 to appear on the show, and a source revealed “They will break the bank to get Jack,�

Jack is no stranger to reality TV, having appeared in his family’s hit show “The Osbournes” one of the most popular reality shows ever.

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