Celebrity Big Brother is a Breetish telly reality gemme shaw based on the Dutch shaw Big Brother, creatit bi producer John de Mol in 1997.[1] The shaw follaes a nummer o celebrity contestants, kent as hoosemates, wha are isolatit frae the ootside warld for a extendit period o time in a custom biggit Hoose. Each week, ane o the hoosemates is evictit bi a public vote, wi the last hoosemate namit the winner. The series taks its name frae the chairacter in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.