Big Brother 2026: Meet the contestants

Yasmin's a teacher from Manchester, and when asked what she'll bring to the house, she said: "I have a very bubbly personality. I'm very straightforward - what you see is what you get with me. You'll never be left wondering what you think about me. You will always know exactly where you stand with me."

She says: "I want to see if I can even put myself in an environment like the Big Brother House; I just wouldn't ever do something like this in normal life. I want to be able to put myself in different situations and see how that pans out."

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Harry, 30

Online fitness coach and former policeman Harry says he doesn't have a strategy for getting to the final, saying: "Just take each day as it comes because I feel if anyone does have a strategy or they've got a game plan, they get found out really quickly. So, there's not much point in my opinion. So just be normal, be yourself and whatever happens, happens."

He thinks he'll get nominated for "probably being a bit intense, I guess at the very start, people might want to relax and chill. And I love my own space. But then I also come alive at like 1am. I'll be up like a night owl. And I think that sort of thing might annoy people just because I'm so used to living on my own and doing my own thing; I like my own space. But then when it's my time I will come out. I like wouldn't say I dictate the mood, but when I want to be alone, I will be alone. And when I want to see people, I will."

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Chelsey, 29

Chelsey's a social worker from Manchester and says she applied "just for the experience – it’s a once in a lifetime thing to do. I told my mum that I wanted to do something exciting and she was the one who actually encouraged me to apply."

"I feel like when people meet me they think ‘oh, look at her she's come from a big house with all this money.’ But I haven’t. I fled to live in a women's refuge and grew up in there for a few years with my sister and my mum. It's been quite difficult, but it's made me the person I am today. I had a social worker myself when I was younger which inspired me to become a social worker."

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