Jack Dee hits out at Big Brother reboot after winning first-ever celeb version

Comedian Jack Dee opened up about the issues he thinks the Big Brother reboot will suffer from ahead of the reality show’s return to ITV2 last night.

The 61-year-old BBC radio star, who recently toured his brand-new show titled Jack Dee: Off The Telly around Europe, won the very first celebrity version of the show back in 2001.

The I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue host beat out the likes of Claire Sweeney, Vanessa Feltz and Chris Eubank for the top spot, charming viewers with his sense of humour.

However, he explained why he wasn’t feeling particularly positive about the show making a comeback in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk earlier this year.

“I mean they keep bringing it back, don’t they?” he reflected. “I think it’s always sort of diminishing returns with programmes like that.

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“I think the mistake that they always make is that they overproduce it now; they contrive it.

“They kind of overthink it and get one kind of person so then they’ll deliberately also get in someone who will antagonise that person and won’t get on with them…

“Rather than getting a random group and just seeing what happens, which actually I think ends up being much more interesting.

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“But I think those days are long gone and they’ll now produce all the life out of it,” he lamented.

Meanwhile, Jack had nothing but love for new BBC reality show The Traitors, enthusing: “Fascinating, wasn’t it?

Explaining that he found it particularly fascinating due to the genuine personalities that were allowed to interact with each other on the show, he explained: “It was actually, genuinely interesting.

“It wasn’t just ‘Let’s look back on their journey’ and all of that stuff. It was just a good bit of entertaining telly and really well-presented and well-produced.”

The new series of Big Brother kicked off with a bang on ITV2 yesterday, as the show welcomed in sixteen housemates who will now battle it out over the next six weeks in a bid to win £100,000.

Jack Dee performed at Henley Festival on Sunday 9 July. Find out more about next year’s festival here www.henley-festival.co.uk.

Listen to Jack Dee’s podcast ‘Oh My Dog!’ with Jack Dee and Seann Walsh on streaming services now.

Big Brother returns tonight at 9pm on ITV2.

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