Josie has this morning declared that she wants to marry BBLB co-host George Lamb…

Well don’t we all.

Josie has previously proposed to George during a visit to the Diary Room, but today, she revealed that when they’re married, she’d like to be addressed as “Josie Succulent Lamb.”

I wonder what George will have to say?

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Big Brother’s Little Brother presenter George Lamb has thrown his backing behind the first ever BB winner Craig Phillips, saying he should win this year’s ‘Ultimate Champion’ show.

Big Brother sources revealed yesterday that when the current series draws to a close in eleven weeks time, the winner will remain in the house and will be joined by at least twelve former BB winners and stars. The winner of that two week series will be crowned ‘Big Brother’s Ultimate Champion.’

George Lamb says that Scouser Craig should take the title, because he is so nice.

He told The Sun: “I love Craig – he is the original and best. He has got great energy and is an amazing guy.

“He proved that nice guys don’t have to come last.”

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Big Brother returns with a bang tomorrow night and Big Brother’s Little Brother presenter George Lamb promises that his spin off show will be ‘revolutionary.’

Speaking to Channel 4′s Big Brother website, George Lamb revealed some of the changes planned to BBLB saying:

It’s very different from everything you’ve seen before. I have no audience, I have a co-host now. It’s going to be revolutionary BBLB and hopefully we’ll go out with a bang!

On working with his new co-host Emma Willis George added:

Having a co-host is a lovely lovely thing. I’ve really enjoyed Emma’s company and working with her over the years. Obviously she’s a huge Big Brother fan and she’s been on the show plenty. She was doing all the interactive stuff last year and it was kind of a natural progression. I wouldn’t want to do the show just me and no audience!

Ohhhh we can’t wait until tomorrow night!

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This summer, Big Brother returns for one last, loud and lengthy hurrah, and with it, as ever, is its cheeky and irreverent younger sibling, Big Brother’s Little Brother. At the helm once again will be George Lamb (alongside new presenter and Big Brother obsessive Emma Willis). Here, George looks forward to a fantastic summer, looks back on his favourite moments over the show’s history, and reveals why real men can still cry.

So, George, what can you reveal about what’s in store for us with the last ever Big Brother this summer?

There’s nothing I can tell you yet! What I do know is that they’re going to be pulling out all the stops with the show this year. I think the intention is to really push the boundaries of what we’ve seen before, and make the most of it and create something really special. Something that hopefully people will not have seen before. With that remit in mind, it goes right across the board to Little Brother and everything else. It’s the end of an era – arguably the most important TV format of all time – and it’s got to go out with an absolute humungous bang.

There are a few changes afoot on BBLB, aren’t there?

Yeah, the same thing applies to the show as to Big Brother – it’s going to be different this year. They’re completely ripping up the rule book. We’re not going to have a live audience, we’re not going to have loads of games, its going to go back a bit more to being a real behind-the-scenes look at the show. It will be the first port of call for real opinions and real inside info, and for the up-to-the-minute reports on what’s going on. In the past, my foil has often been the audience, and if they’re not there, me sitting there giving opinions on my own isn’t really going to run. So we’ve got Emma Willis coming on board to present the show with me. I love Emma, she’s fantastic, we’ve worked together brilliantly every time she’s come on the show, and I’m really looking forward to working with her and creating something fantastic. We’re going to have a lot of fun together.

What have bent her moments you’ve enjoyed the most on BBLB?

When you’re locked into BBLB it’s such an intense schedule, and you’re pushing so hard the whole time, you kind of pop out the other side and thing “Whoa, did that all just happen?” So my favourite bits are when, every year, at the end of the series, we do a best bits collage, and you get this quick-fire run-through of what’s happened during the series. So watching those often makes me well-up a little bit. That retrospective at the end of the summer is often my favourite bit – everything that’s gone on, all the funny people that have come on the show, the bits that have worked, the bits that haven’t worked, getting bitten by wolves, machines not working when they’re meant to, housemates running at the glass when you’re in the camera runs. That’s the nature of live television, and that’s what I love about it – the fact that it is so spontaneous and so bonkers and anything can happen. The unpredictable side of the show is what I love most about it.

One of the key elements of BBLB is the guests you have on. Who have been the best and worst that you’ve had on?

Lisa from Big Brother 9 came on – and she’s not the only one this happened to. People who go on Big Brother are often superfans to the nth degree. So when they find themselves on Little Brother, they can’t quite cope. They’re in some weird, surreal virtual world. You ask them a question, and they’re just sitting there taking it all in. They’re looking around them, seeing the wall of TVs, looking at something else, and they’re in a haze of wonderment. So they can’t really take in what you’re saying. That always makes for what you might call an ‘interesting’ interview. Boyz II Men were great, it was a lot of fun having them on – we got them all singing and getting involved, and they’d only turned up five minutes before, they had no idea what was going on. They were really good guys. Having Dirk Benedict on was pretty cool, because I always wanted to be Face when I was growing up. So that was a pretty cool experience. And I love having Iain Lee and Rick Edwards on, I really enjoy working with them.

You’ve mentioned the live element of the show, and the fact that anything can happen. Have you ever said anything or done anything that you wish you could change?

To be totally honest with you, that’s my job – to not say the wrong thing, and not buckle. If you’re going to be a proper television presenter, then you need to be able to do live properly, and there was nowhere in Britain I could have gained this kind of experience with such a cutting edge show. And I’ve now got 200 live shows under my belt, which at this stage in my career is pretty impressive. Watching myself from the first day I did it to how I do it now really is interesting. Things can be going wrong and falling down all around you, and your job as the presenter is to keep focus and make sure everything’s cool, keep a calm head. More often than not, everything’s going absolutely fine, but when you earn your money is when things are going wrong.

So do you think you’ve improved as a presenter having gained all that experience?

Yeah. I think in life you have to improve and evolve all the time. It would be pretty disappointing if you just stayed at the same level. Wayne Rooney has been a world class footballer for donkey’s years now, but this season he’s really come into his own and he could be the best in the world. So even those guys who are absolutely at the pinnacle of their game still have to push it on. I hope I keep improving, I hope I get twice as good as I am now. Nothing beats experience. You’ve got to put the time in and have things go wrong. There’s no substitute for that.

In Celebrity Big Brother, Davina snuck into the house. Would you like to do that, and if so, what costume would you wear?

I’d probably have to go in as a massive sheep/lamb thing – I know it’s super-basic, but that’s okay. Or maybe a giant bow tie. I’d love to go in there, and who knows what we’ll do on the last run.

You’ve said before that you’ll probably shed a tear when Big Brother comes to an end this year. Will you do that on screen?

Let’s hope so – a real tear-jerker. I’m pretty in touch with my emotions – crying’s just a release of tension, and I don’t have a problem with it. Anything you put your heart and soul into in life, when I comes to an end it’s sad. There’s a natural progression, and shutting one door will allow another to open, but it’s still sad. I was sad when I moved from weekdays to weekends on the radio – even though I’d decided to do it – I was crying on air when we did that, because it had been such a big part of my life. And it’s pretty much the same team on Big Brother and on Little Brother every year, so you become family. It’s the end of an era, so of course it will be sad.

Have you given any thought yet to what you’ll say when you sign off for the last time?

Not a sausage. I’ve got about 14 weeks to figure it out. I’ll hopefully come up with something wonderfully profound. Watch this space.

What’s been the best thing about presenting BBLB?

The best thing has been being part of something that’s as significant as Big Brother – it’s a world-recognised leader of conceptual television, and to be part of anything like that is fantastic. It’s a phenomenon, and to have been part of that and to have played just a small part in it has been a real honour. And I’ve got to work with some incredible people. It’s been such a lovely adventure, I’m gutted it’s coming to an end. But we’ve got one more summer to go, so let’s make the most of that.

By Benjie Goodhart

Big Brother kicks off on Wednesday 9th of June and Unreality TV will be touring the final BB house this Friday…..expect some juicy titbits at the end of the week!

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George Lamb has said that he is disappointed for his former co-host Zezi Ifore and admitted that his lack of rapport with her could have led to her sacking.

Zezi came under fire for her wooden presenting style and left half way through last years series of Big Brother’s Little Brother.

BBC6 Music host George told MSN: “My radio show I do with my best friend, who I have an incredible rapport with and we can finish each other’s sentences – unless you’ve got a relationship like that with your co-host, it’s not really worth having a co-host.”

“She’s a lovely girl and I’m sad it didn’t work out for her,” he said. “Unfortunately she got thrown in at the deep end and she didn’t have enough experience, and as a result it just didn’t pan out the way they’d originally thought.”

But he insisted Zezi had a bright future ahead of her and used a football analogy to get his point across:

“There are lots of footballers who get a run-out in the first team and it’s good for experience and it doesn’t quite work out for them and they maybe go off – David Beckham was on loan at Preston North End for a year when he’d already been in the first team at Man U, that’s what happens,” he said.

“Sometimes you have to go away and come back a bit stronger and you’ll have a great time. But it just wasn’t her time.”

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Big Brother’s Little Brother presenter George Lamb has said that it’s time to move on from Big Brother, arguing that Channel 4 should make this years series its last.

“I think they’d knock it on the head after this [series], the 10th anniversary, if they could,” he told The Sun.

“The show has made people a lot of money and it’s entertained viewers at home but now it’s time to move on and find the next Big Brother.”

Last week the show’s host Davina McCall, who has always championed the show ferociously, admitted that next years’ 11th season would be the last in the UK.

Am I mad to wonder if this is Channel 4′s way of breaking the news gently? Both of these presenters work for the Channel and for the show directly. I would be very shocked if they had made these comments without having first received clearance from their bosses to do so, in fact I would be surprised if they hadn’t had the ‘comments’ pre-written for them before they spoke to the press.

Although I can see that the BB format has gotten somewhat tired, it doesn’t stop me looking forward to this summer’s escapades. If it does end next year, I’m going to have to go and book a holiday or something!

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Presenters George Lamb and Zezi Ifore have been announced as the new hosts of Big Brother’s Little Brother. It’s now a case of “little brother and little sister” with the duo set to take the reigns of the ultimate BB fan show this summer.

As well as being super-fans of the show, George and Zezi are already part of the C4/E4 family, both presenting on E4 Music and daily morning music and entertainment show Freshly Squeezed. On joining the Big Brother spin-off, the pair said:

George: ”Imagine how excited someone would be if they were presenting Big Brother, well I’m just a little bit less excited than that but I’m still extremely excited.”

Zezi said: “This is preposterously good, I’ve always loved Big Brother – it’s omnipresent, you can’t help but get sucked in! And working alongside a lovely lamb too – George Lamb – ain’t half bad either. Bring it on!”

As a regular on Channel 4’s T4 and E4 Music, George has interviewed some of the biggest names in music and film including 50 Cent, Gwen Stefani, Ian Brown, Kiefer Sutherland and Lindsay Lohan. He’s also been seen presenting Celebrity Scissorhands for Children In Need on BBC3, plus The Restaurant: You’re Fried, also on BBC3. George currently has his own mid-morning radio show on BBC 6Music. Before hitting the small screen himself, George worked behind the scenes as manager to music acts including Lily Allen and Audio Bullys. George has also been announced today as the presenter for new ITV2 show, ‘The Fashion Project’ with Abigal Clancy.

Zezi’s squeezed a lot into her 23 years. A strong background in music led her to E4 music and Freshly Squeezed where she interviews some of the biggest artists around, and champions new talent. With her fellow E4 presenter Nick Grimshaw she’s even formed a DJ duo Zapotecsoundsystem. Zezi was the editor of cult fashion magazine Super Super, works in A&R for a music publisher and has even turned her hand to styling, with clients including Dizzee Rascal.

Big Brother’s Little Brother returns to E4 Monday to Friday, and T4 on Sundays in the summer. Davina McCall presents the main Channel 4 launch show, plus live eviction shows.

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