Characters in "Dead Famous"
The housemates:
- Jason "Jazz", a trainee chef and wannabe comedian
- Dervla Nolan, a quiet and mysterious Irish trauma therapist (Revealed to have joined the show in an attempt to gain the prize money to help her family after a recent disaster in her home village)
- Garry "Gazzer", a stereotypical lager lout
- Kelly Simpson, a beautiful but unintelligent shop assistant; the murder victim
- David Dalgleish, a vain actor and secret porn star
- Layla, a snobbish fashion designer/shop assistant with "New Age" beliefs
- Hamish, an uninteresting doctor; operated on the principle of staying unnoticed in the house to avoid nomination while informing the public that he wanted to have sex on television to discourage them voting him out
- Sally Copple, a bodybuilding lesbian bouncer with a dark past
- William "Woggle" Wooster, an antisocial and unhygienic anarchist
- Moon, an exhibitionistic circus performer and topless model
The television crew:
- Geraldine Hennessy, the producer of House Arrest
- Bob Fogarty, the senior series editor
- Pru (Prudence), his assistant editor
- Larry Carlisle, a cameraman
- Chloe, the presenter
The police:
- Chief Inspector Stanley Spencer Coleridge, an old-fashioned but dedicated police officer
- Sergeant Hooper (forename unknown), a young modern police officer
- Constable Patricia "Trish" (surname unknown), a closeted lesbian police officer
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—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
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