January 15th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Anthony Ogogo, Victor Arata

Celebrity Hijack bosses are hoping to spice things up this Friday noight, when they will be evicting two housemates instead of one.
Comedienne, Joan Rivers will preside over nominations tomorrow, but Victor Arata is already facing the chop after being nominated by Anthony Ogogo on Saturday.
An insider told The Daily Star: “BB wants to liven things up a bit and change the dynamic of the group. And what better way than to get rid of a few more of them.”
January 10th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Jade Eden, Jeremy Metcalfe, Victor Arata

Racing pundit John McCririck has left yet another woman in tears.
Whilst hijacking the Big Brother house, McCririck showed beauty queen Jade Eden video footage of some of her fellow housemates slagging her off.
The ditsy poser was in floods of tears as she watched Victor and Jeremy call her fake and too happy.
An insider told The Daily Star: “She was gutted by what she saw. Now she knows what she’s up against.”
January 8th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Jade Eden, Jeremy Metcalfe, Victor Arata

The Celebrity Hijack nominees have been announced, and the three housemates facing eviction this week are Jade, Jeremy and Victor.
Kelly Osbourne took the groups nominations, and though she usually sucks on live TV, I thought Kelly did a great job with the housemates. She struck a great balance between being friendly, funny and bitchy…..love that!
So what do you think? Are the right people in jeoprady? Who would you like to leave? Personally, I could lose Victor or Jade without being too worried. I think Jeremy deserves another chance.
January 5th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Calista Robertson, Emilia Arata, Matt Lucas, Victor Arata

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 »
January 4th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Emilia Arata, Victor Arata

Celebrity Hijack housemates, Victor and Emilia Arata, have endured deaths of close family members who were fellow circus performers.
The pair have lost both an aunt and uncle in circus stunts gone wrong.
“Their auntie, Eva Garcia, died when she was 38 in Great Yarmouth after she fell about 20 metres during her aerial act,” another aunt, Mariska Arata told The Sun.
“She was very experienced, who started in the circus at the age of seven, and was so fit and strong – such a fantastic artist. Read more & comment »
January 3rd, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Victor Arata

Celebrity Hijack housemate Victor is a 19 year old circus performer from Birmingham. The other half of the circus act, Victor, is Emilia’s older brother and together they are the star attraction at The Palazzo Variety Show in Berlin were they perform a dangerous acrobatic roller-skating act on a high platform.
Having won numerous competitions, prizes and trophies in circus events throughout Europe, Victor’s practicing involves up to eight hours a day. Read more & comment »