OHMYGOSSIP — Rylan Clark has not been contacted about presenting the ‘Big Brother’ reboot.
The ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ winner – who went on to host its sister show ‘Bit On the Side’ – has heard “the rumours” about the new ITV2 and ITVX programme and would love to present the revamp, but he hasn’t heard anything concrete about it.
While appearing on ‘The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan’, the 33-year-old television personality said: “I keep hearing the rumours but no-one has called me. I have campaigned since the day we found out.”
Rylan urged the need for the show – which began in 2000 on Channel 4 before moving to Channel 5 in 2011 – “to go back to basics” and focus on “real people” and not be another carbon copy of current iterations of the genre, such as ITV2’s summer flagship reality dating show ‘Love Island’.
He said: “It has to go back to basics. We have got ‘Love Island’ and it is amazing and it works but I don’t want Love Islanders in the ‘Big Brother’ house.
“I want real people living in that house like Jean from Wolverhampton … I want ‘Big Brother’ back where there is no interference and no outside contact.”
Last week, the BBC Radio 2 presenter gushed about how much he was loving the “gossip chat” about the revival of the show.
Rylan tweeted: “Big Brother gossip chat and Eurovision gossip chat the same day….. Jesus loves me.”
Previously, he revealed that he would be back in “heartbeat” as a presenter.
He added: “I’ve been very vocal that I’d always love ‘Big Brother’ to come back. I miss it dearly and I think we’re screaming out for it. So fingers crossed!”
Davina McCall presented the original run of the series – which saw winners such as Craig Phillips, Pete Bennett and Brian Bello – before previous victor Brian Dowling took on the mantle for the first series when it moved to Channel 5, before Emma Willis assumed the position in 2013.