Big Brother's Josie & John James get reality show

Big Brother's Josie & John James get reality show
Big Brother's Josie & John James get reality show (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Big Brother lovebirds Josie Gibson and John James Parton are to star in their own reality TV show. The Bristol girl, who won this year's Big Brother, met the short-tempered but sensitive Aussie on the reality show, and viewers watched as they fell in love. Now Josie, 24, and John James, 25, are to start in Josie and John James: What Happened Next? which will begin on Channel Five from Monday, October 11 at 10pm and show them moving in together, reports the Daily Star. The pair - who bickered constantly in the house, before making up - will be seen arguing in the first episode of their new show. Josie and John James are seen moving into a flat in the affluent Chelsea Harbour in west London. The Aussie decides to put up a giant poster of his football idol David Beckham, but Josie hates it, so she draws a giant willy on it. When John James sees her graffiti he throws one of his famous tantrums. Executive producer Brent Baker said: "Although the programme is more about Josie, John James's story is an incredible one because he spent more time in the Big Brother house than he had previously spent in this country."

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.