Follow the Big Brother 8 launch show on our live blog.

Join Anna Pickard for a live Big Brother blog tonight, when the 11 women contestants are expected to be joined by a new housemate - and blimey, it's a man.

I can't tell you why. She gives it all 'I love money' this and 'my cousin's a footballer' that, but she has polite eyes.

Live blogs tonight: The Apprentice v Big Brother launch, from 9pm.

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Liz Jones - now, how has she passed un-noticed on Lost in Showbiz? Maybe because there is something slightly depressing about giving attention seekers the attention they seek, hence the as yet total silence on this blog about last night's Big Brother (a silence we don't expect to maintain for…