50,000 apply for `Big Brother'

London - The lure of TV infamy and lucrative spin-off careers has prompted more than 50,000 applications to appear on the new…

London - The lure of TV infamy and lucrative spin-off careers has prompted more than 50,000 applications to appear on the new series of Big Brother, producers said yesterday. The flood of entries marks a tenfold increase on last year which saw contestants go on to land record deals or even their own TV shows.

Channel 4 and the show's devisers yesterday announced plans for the next series, which will begin at the end of this month, and showed off the new look house.

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