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"People are strange," crooned Jim Morrison - and looking at the BB application videos currently airing each day on E4 you'd have to concede the legendary rock god's point.
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Of the 10,000 hopefuls who applied to take part in Big Brother, a substantial majority appear to be ever so slightly insane.
And we're not just talking about the many who spend the duration of their audition tapes drumming into Big Brother just how "mad" and "crazy" they were. It's the ones who deny it who are much more worrying...
"People think that it's a bit weird. Trust me, it's not," insists a teddy bear toting area manager, who carries one of her beloved bears with her wherever she goes.
Trust us, it is...
Or what about the Bargain Hunt fan from Hartlepool, who chooses to pepper his well-reasoned argument for inclusion in the Big Brother house by shouting David Dickinson's catchphrases - as though he has a peculiar type of Tourette's Syndrome? What a BOBBY DAZZLER!
As ever, gratuitous nudity rears its mildly unattractive head. Among the naked and semi-naked candidates, one (thankfully not literally) stands out - a man who explains that there's "more to me than meets the eye" with only a few manipulated pixels covering his modesty.
The opposite angle is explored by a few hopefuls who dress to impress. But among all the spacehopping flight attendants, leek-wielding bartenders and skirt-wearing businessmen, one or two outfits cross the line between hope, madness - and something much, much darker...
Anyone can dress up as Father Christmas, but surely only a professional headshrink can explain the female recruitment consultant who chose to combine a Santa outfit with a bunny rabbit mask?
So what qualities do appeal to the Big Brother producers?
Well, half-dozen or so candidates seem to think that climbing into and/or out of a cardboard box is the best way to get onto the Box. And at least two hopefuls are convinced than an obvious appreciation of Nature would help their cause...
"I love the sky," volunteers one, making valuable use of his allotted two minutes of screen time. Another, a 48-year-old charity worker, argues that his extensive knowledge of birds of prey would come in useful in the House, making for "exciting and different" conversation.
Hmm. Not sure about that - although the owl in the background is a nice touch.
Honesty may be the best policy, but some take it too far. Pizza-making Charlie exemplifies this when she opens up her heart to Big Brother and confesses that the reason she'd make a great housemates is because she's "an attention-seeking freak".
And while a little bit of sex appeal can go a long way to bagging you a place in the BB House, lounging around on a sofa wearing a pair of baggy leopard skin pants and declaring yourself a "pervy Piscean" - as one fella chose to do - is probably overdoing things...
Catch all these tapes and more being played back to back on E4 from 2.00am to 2.00pm every day until kick off...
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