CELEBRITY Big Brother is set to make a sensational comeback after last year’s race row.


The reality show was axed by Channel 4 following the abuse of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty by Jade Goody and other contestants.


But replacement programme Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack was a ratings disaster — and bosses are looking to send a fresh batch of celebs into the house next January.


A Channel 4 source said: “We never said that Celebrity Big Brother would be gone forever.


“We wanted to give it a ‘time out’ — a resting period after all the friction and chaos of the Shilpa and Jade saga.”


The last Celebrity Big Brother saw Channel 4 rapped by TV watchdog Ofcom over the bullying of Shilpa, 32. Cops were called in and the station had to make an apology.


But bosses are set to give the high-profile show another chance.


They hope for a repeat of iconic scenes such as MP George Galloway acting like a cat and Michael Barrymore making his telly comeback dressed up as Adolf Hitler.


In 2006, the Big Brother brand netted Channel 4 £165million — a quarter of its advertising revenue.


The insider added: “Channel 4 can’t afford to let Celebrity Big Brother go — in the publicity or cash stakes.”


Last night a Channel 4 spokeswoman said “no final decision” had yet been made. Meanwhile, bosses are whittling down contestants for the ninth Big Brother series, which starts on June 5.

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Thank god they've got rid of the shambles that was BB:CH.

good bbch was so shite! i didnt even watch it!

how do you know it was ****?

I agree.CBB is much better than BB:CH.

Exactly

Glad to hear than CBB is returning. Wonder what the eye will look like with a star at the center?

after the first two days i found it boring so stopped watching it..

bb:ch was a good format. Glad Cbb is back tho

Glad CBB will return much better than BBCH.

I hope we won't have Z listers anymore, please.

i didnt watch celeb Hijack cos i was on holiday - so i cant remark on it - But, im glad to here Celeb BB is back!

Celeb Hijack was something new and a brave step
However i much prefer the cringe watch that is CBB.

I loved BBCH, it was fantastic, but Im glad to hear that CBB is back.
BBCH has been my 3rd fave series ever after BB5 and BB3.

The ratings for Celebrity Hijack were at least 4 - 5 times higher than BB USA on E4 so it wasn't a ratings disaster.

Exactly. The series averaged 700,000, hardly anything on E4 apart from sometimes Hollyoaks beats that. It was the highest watched programme over 2008 and still is, I dont know how that is a disaster.

BBUSA at its highest got over 300,000, but averaged about 120,000, and recieved lows of 50,000.

From Digital Spy.

its all well and good saying its going to be back, the problem is the housemates. They need better celebrities, ones that people have a actually heard of.

As much as I liked BBCH, I am so glad that CBB is back. It's just always something to look forward too, and I should think that after a year out, there will be multimple Zelebrities waiting to be picked to try and kick-start the career they once had!

The problem is that last year they didn't have any celebrities I knew that well. Shilpa Shetty is famous but not to the UK and I'd never heard of her until she went on CBB. Jamal Jackson; I'd heard of his brother at least. I'd heard of Jade Goody but only because she'd been on Big Brother. If CBB really wants to see high ratings, they need to get some BIG names on there! I'm talking Britney Spears, Nick Lachey, Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, Vanessa Hudgens type people. These big name celebrities who people have actually heard of are the ones who will get a lot of viewers and high ratings.

Get Britney in, that will sureley bring some viewers in

I like CBB i also enjoyed CH but I'm glad its returning.

About time too, I must prefer it to normal BB.

Well they did say that theyd only do one Hijack series. Thank God. it was the most pointless show. CBB is the best of all Big Bro's im thankfull its comming back.

woo whoo

I loved the concept of BB:CH...but you cannot beat Celeb BB...

Lets get some decent faces in there...