{"id":619042,"date":"2026-10-03T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619042\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:38:10","slug":"big-brother-unveils-two-new-housemates-in-surprise-live-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619042\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother unveils TWO new housemates in surprise live twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Brother has unveiled a pair of new housemates in a surprise live twist. Moments after Johanne lost to Rochelle in tonight’s highly divisive eviction<\/a>, newcomers Catrin and Twinks were inserted into the chaos – much to the surprise of the other contestants.<\/p>\n

Catrin, 23, is an SEN teaching assistant who described her personality as akin to “Donkey from Shrek”. Twinks, meanwhile, is a 36-year-old who said in her introductory VT: “The look I’m going for is ‘somebody’s third wife’.”<\/p>\n

The pair are entering the iconic compound as part of the House of Revelations, the season’s latest week-long theme. It remains to be seen how they’ll get on, but here’s hoping they keep the drama coming!<\/p>\n

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Related: Big Brother star Frankie leaves viewers “confused” following relationship speculation<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of her foray into the highly-rated series<\/a>, Twinks said: “I think people will be suspicious of me. I know that I’m a big character and I don’t think people are going to think I’m necessarily genuine or authentic off the bat – I’m going to have to earn their trust. <\/p>\n

“I’m going in there with cheeky, fun, light, joyful energy rather than to cause trouble – I’m not that kind of troublemaker. I’m a professional party-starter so that is what I would like to bring to the House. And hopefully try and mend some rifts – get everyone laughing and dancing together!”<\/p>\n

Having already seen some of the show, she added: “I’m excited to meet Rob and Sam – I think that’s where you’ll find me. I’m a silly goose in high glam. I really have no interest in talking shit behind people’s backs or being shouted at. I just want to sing some show tunes!”<\/p>\n

Catrin, meanwhile, said that the person she’s most excited to meet in the flesh is Philip, with the newcomer explaining: “I feel like there’s more to him than what we’ve seen.<\/p>\n

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“I think right now we’ve seen the calm Philip – the Philip who’s been there floating. I feel like there’s more. And I’m excited to meet Harry as well \u2013 everyone says he’s messy, but I’m intrigued to see if he is actually messy.”<\/p>\n

On her decision to take part, she recalled: “It was really on a whim. I watched it last year and thought ‘this is a bit of me’. One thing about me is I love being in front of a camera. So the thought of being sat in the Diary Room talking to Big Brother is wild.”<\/p>\n

Big Brother next airs on Sunday at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.<\/p>\n

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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro<\/a>, Attitude<\/a>, Huffington Post, The Mirror<\/a>, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online<\/a>, specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now<\/a> and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who’ll listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Brother has unveiled a pair of new housemates in a surprise live twist. Moments after Johanne lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[250738,147144,2115,304803,2117,156,207184,2116,111,139,69,304802,251090,148828,437],"class_list":["post-619042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-big-brother","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-116e2412-6ad4-4737-bb7a-b36e47c19c17","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shorttitle-big-brother-unveils-two-new-housemates-in-live-twist","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-reality-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}