Ulrika Jonsson reveals shock antics from Big Brother including drug use and star who only ate smoked salmon

03.08.2022 - 18:45 / ok.co.uk

Big Brother stalwart Ulrika Jonsson, who starred in two series of the celebrity version of the show, has spilled the beans on some of the shocking antics from the programme, including drug use and stars' eating habits, ahead of its hotly-anticipated return to our screens in 2023. Having previously aired on Channel 4, the legendary fly-on-the-wall show is coming back on a different channel - and ITV confirmed it would be broadcasting it by creating the show's iconic eye in ITV logos alongside its famous music, following the final of Love Island 2022.The show focused on a number of individuals being cooped up in the same house for weeks as their environment is manipulated to cause a change in their behaviour, whilst audiences watch from home, and, after the continuing success of Love Island, ITV clearly thought now was the right time to bring Big Brother back.

Ulrika, 54, won the 2009 series of Celebrity Big Brother, admitting it was the money or the "wonga" that tempted her to take part, and she was later invited back to appear on The Ultimate Big Brother with some of the show's most legendary characters. In a feature written for The Sun, Ulrika has lifted the lid on some of the behind-the-scenes secrets of the show, admitting that some contestants even "smoked weed" in the bathroom.Talking about how she "prayed to every God I could think of that I would be sent home", before Ulrika was eventually crowned the winner of the show in 2009, she said "not before having to endure some of my weed-smoking housemates puffing away in the bathroom on the night of the final." She also revealed that LaToya Jackson, the sister of the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, was granted permission, and had it stipulated in her contract, to