Big Brother to get three new female celebrity housemates in new dating challenge

Two of the new arrivals will be chosen to become “fully-fledged” housemates 
New arrival: Big Brother is set to introduce three guests to the house

After VIP housemates Gemma Collins, Marnie Simpson and Nicola McLean holidayed in the Big Brother house last week, Wednesday’s show will see another trio of celebrities arrive.

Speaking on This Morning, Big Brother’s Bit on the Side presenter Rylan Clark-Neal revealed that three mysterious female guests will visit as part of a dating challenge.

He explained that the trio will enter the house this week and the existing contestants will have to pick two of them to become “fully-fledged housemates”.

“Make of it what you will, connect the dots,” said the host, before adding: “We’ve obviously lost a few people after the last few weeks”

Clark-Neal was referring to the number of contestants who have quitted the show in the past few days.

Last week Arthur Fulford left the house due to bullying, on Friday Sukhvinder Javeed opted to walk rather than stay on without evicted husband Imran and Kayleigh Morris was thrown out over the weekend after threatening to “smash [Chanelle’s] face in”.

The twist comes amid news of falling ratings for the Channel 5 show, which has been struggling to attract as many viewers as its reality TV rival Love Island over on ITV2.

And the new task has been seen as an attempt to win over Love Island fans, as Big Brother’s ratings fell to under 1 million for the sixth night in a row on Sunday.

Big Brother continues tonight at 10pm on Channel 5.

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