'Hellish' house awaits Celeb Big Brother contestants
'Hellish' house awaits Celebrity Big Brother contestants
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Wednesday, 30, Dec 2009 10:07
By Lewis Bazley.
Contestants on the final series of Celebrity Big Brother will learn that "Hell is other people", producers of the Channel 4 show have pledged.
The logo for the last outing of the celebrity show - an eye wreathed in flame - was unveiled earlier this month and now members of the British press have been allowed inside this year's house at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
Decorated with a macabre, gothic theme, the house includes animal skulls, enlarged insects in specimen jars and throw cushions emblazoned with diamanté skulls.
The living room features blood red velvet sofas and carpet while a bathroom that includes a chaise longue tallies with producer's efforts to evoke the "faded opulence of an English country pile".
The kitchen, meanwhile, is stocked with outsized equipment and worktops that smack of the clinical coldness of a hospital morgue.
"The famous line from Dante's Inferno is 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here', which has inspired much of what we have done to the house," executive producer Shirley Jones told BBC News.
"When the celebrities arrive on Sunday night, they will definitely wonder what is in store for them."
Channel 4's David Williams added of the new house: "Hopefully we've made it more moody and atmospheric."
Celebrities rumoured to be competing include actress and singer Kym Marsh, 90s rapper MC Hammer and 80s television star Stephanie Beacham.
However, singer Boy George will not enter the house, after he failed in his bid to overturn a Probation Service ruling against his participation.
The final series of Celebrity Big Brother begins on January 3rd on Channel 4.