August 27th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Big Brother, Big Brother 2010, channel 4, Craig Phillips

The original Big Brother winner Craig Phillips, has called for Channel 4 to make next years final series an allstars version.
Channel 4 and Endemol have confirmed that the 2010 series will be its last and Phillips thinks that a fitting final would feature all the shows previous winner and notable housemates. They could even have a cardboard cutout of Jade Goody placed, naked in the corner.
“I think the best thing for next year’s final show would be for C4 to go out with a bang in style by making 2010 a best of the best show – with all the ten winners, perhaps some surprise Celebrity BB housemates and notable BB contestants from the years entering the house.
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July 16th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Big Brother, Big Brother 2009, Brian Belo, Craig Phillips, nadia almada, Nick Bateman, Pete Bennett, Rachel Rice

Big Brother’s Little Brother will tomorrow see a welcome return of some very special guests.
Winners from the past ten series of Big Brother will be joining George Lamb on the sofa to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the show.
Tune in on Friday to see Craig Phillips (BB1), Nadia Almada(BB5), Anthony Hutton (BB6) Pete Bennett (BB7), Brian Belo (BB8), Rachel Rice (BB9) reminisce on their time in the House and give their views on the BB10 Housemates. “Nasty” Nick Bateman will also be appearing alongside celeb fan Keith Lemon and Heat Magazine’s Lucie Cave.
July 13th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Big Brother, Big Brother 2009, channel 4, Craig Phillips

Big Brother celebrates its tenth anniversary on the 18th July, so this week becomes a commemoration of some of the best tasks and moments of the show over the last ten years.
This week’s Task runs across four days, with Housemates playing to win a luxury food budget for the next week. Housemates must succeed in seven of the nine challenges in order to successfully pass the shopping task and receive a luxury budget of £5 per head per day for the next week.
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June 16th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Big Brother 2009, channel 4, Craig Phillips

Big Brother sources have revealed that previous winner Craig Phillips is to step in as the interactive team’s site editor this week.
Craig will take over the site on Wednesday and will spend the day “generally messing about”, show bosses revealed.
Phillips recently told newspapers that he thought BB should end after the current series.
June 11th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Big Brother 2009, channel 4, Craig Phillips

The original Big Brother winner Craig Phillips has said that he has seen enough of the reality TV show now and would like it to end sometime soon.
In an interview with The Sun Craig says that he thinks the show has no place left to go and that it shouldn’t bother with next years series.
He told the newspaper:
“I would like to see it end now. I know they’ve got a licence for an 11th series, but whether it should come back next year is another matter.”
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June 1st, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Big Brother, Craig Phillips, Jade Goody

Big Brother 1 winner Craig Phillips has claimed that Jade Goody was “a total nightmare”.
The pair lived together whilst appearing on the Five’s ‘Back To Reality’ in 2004 and Craig says he was often shocked by Jade’s behaviour.
“It was really sad what happened to Jade. In her last six months she did a lot of good work raising awareness of cervical cancer,” Phillips told Take 5 magazine.
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