Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack was an E4 temporary replacement to Celebrity Big Brother, a spin-off series of the British reality television programme Big Brother, airing on E4, with a number of closely associated programmes also airing on the same channel. The series started on 3 January 2008 and ended on 28 January 2008; this series was announced on 8 October 2007 by Channel 4 that it would be replacing Celebrity Big Brother in January 2008, due to the widely publicised racism controversy in Celebrity Big Brother 5. It saw one celebrity a day taking control, with the help of Big Brother; organising their own tasks, making their own rules and talking to the housemates in the Diary Room. They were in charge of a set of housemates, ranging in age from 18–21 years old. The housemates competed to be the last to leave the house for a £50,000 prize. The series ended on 28 January with a live final show on E4.
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