Celebrity Big Brother 2015 contestants

Full line up revealed
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A fresh batch of celebs are ready and waiting to head into the Celebrity Big Brother house.
And this series could be the hottest yet, with model Chloe Goodman, Baywatch hunk Jeremy Jackson and Calum Best all prepped to take part.
And could busty beauty Cami Li be looking for love following her split from TOWIE's Kirk Norcross? We hope so.
The full list of contestants, revealed by The Sun, will not be confirmed until the launch show tonight.
Here's the low-down on the latest reports, and we're pretty excited.

Professional motor mouth Katie is sure to cause plenty of arguments with that acid tongue of hers.
She found fame in The Apprentice, but has since shared her controversial opinions on everything from obesity to the Ebola outbreak.
The outspoken columnist was rumoured to have been offered a record fee to take part.

Gossip blogger Perez Hilton is friends (and enemies) with the likes of Paris Hilton (who he named himself after), Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie, so he could really spill the beans.
He’s signed a contract worth £150,000 and will enter the house in January, reports The Sun.

Actress Patsy Kensit
The 46-year-old actress once claimed she would be unwilling to participate in any reality TV shows apart from BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.

The blonde bombshell, who was married to Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, hinted at her stint in the house in a tweet, saying: "I have a feeling that meditation is going to help me a lot in the next month!"
You can say that again...

Keith Chegwin
The 57-year-old TV presenter is perhaps best known for his appearances on the Big Breakfast.
He has since starred on reality TV shows including 'Dancing On Ice' in 2013, so he should be right at home in the house.


33-year-old Calum has also made his way around the reality TV circuit during his career.
Who can forget his appearance on Celebrity Love Island?
As the son of footy legend George Best, he should have plenty of tales to tell.


Model Cami made headlines in 2013 for her whirlwind romance with TOWIE star Kirk Norcross.
The 27-year-old is also a host of a Venezuelan reality show about alternative models - Models and Rock.
With her love of skimpy clothes and body art, she could be a seriously sexy addition to the show.


Former Baywatch hunk Jeremy Jackson played David Hasslehoff's son in the hit TV series.
The 34-year-old actor is renowned for his troubled personal life after he was arrested in 2000 for manufacturing methamphetamines.
He has also admitted to an addiction to steroids in the past and has been to rehab five times.


Pop sensation Kavana had hits in the 90s and went on to join boyband 5th Story as part of last year's series of ITV2's The Big Reunion.
But its his showbiz friendships that are really interesting - he's close pals with the likes of Mel B. But will he dish some gossip?


Feisty model and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini double Chloe Goodman starred in MTV’s Ex On The Beach and was at the centre of one of the series' biggest bust-ups.
The raunchy model, 21, was a body double for X Factor judge Cheryl, in her L’Oreal TV adverts.
With her incredible looks, she's set to drive the boys wild.
Goodman also once shared a snog with Sugababe Amelle Berrabah in a film called Plastic.


Tele fave and Mirror columnist Nadia Sawalha starred in EastEnders, Casualty and The Bill.
She's also been a panelist on ITV's Loose Women.
And she could be the chef of the house - proving her culinary skills by winning Celebrity Masterchef.


Coronation Street legend Ken Morley is best known for playing supermarket manager Reg Holdsworth in the soap.
He has since starred in Benidorm, and could be fighting Nadia Sawalha for the kitchen - he's also competed on Celebrity Masterchef


American R&B singer Alexander O'Neal enjoyed plenty of hits in the 80s.
If You Were Here Tonight, anyone?


Plastic surgery addict Alicia Douvall has had over 350 cosmetic ops.
The model, and former girlfriend of Simon Cowell, has spoken openly about her body struggles.


Michelle Visage, a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race, has earned a reputation as Ms Nasty on the show.
Will her quick wit rival Katie Hopkins? We sense fireworks in the making.
Celebrity Big Brother's launch show will air on Channel 5 tonight at 9pm.

Luise Rainer First to Win Back-to-Back Acting Oscars, Dies at 104

Luise Rainer: a life in clips

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The German-born star, who has died at the age of 104, had a quick climb to the top in 1930s Hollywood – and an equally rapid descent

 

Luise Rainer, said to have been a keen childhood mountaineer, ascended to Hollywood's peak swiftly but suffered a vertiginous fall after finding her intellectual outlook and solid sense of self-worth were out of sync with the studio system. The German-born star astonished many with her acting ability and became the first person to win consecutive best actress Oscars, the second of which was obtained for a film in which she hardly spoke a word.

Her first Oscar came for her performance in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). This film had some strong autobiographical echoes, with Rainer bringing her own exoticism and, possibly, her experience as a Hollywood newcomer – she had only arrived in the US the year before – to the role of theatrical performer Anna Held. In this clip Held plays up her unfamiliarity with English and anxiety about how she will be received in the US while negotiating like a hard-headed veteran over finances.
A later scene where Held tearfully speaks on the telephone with her ex-husband Ziegfeld attracted particular admiration (about 8 mins in)

Oscar number two for Rainer came with The Good Earth in 1937, an adaptation of Pearl S Buck's Pulitzer-winning novel set amid the Chinese civil war. Rainer was rewarded for her remarkably expressive, largely non-verbal performance as O-Lan, a put-upon wife, who struggles through war, famine and appalling poverty.

But it was downhill from there in terms of her Hollywood career. She starred in several more films but suffered diminishing critical returns through outings such as Big City (1937), in which she starred opposite Spencer Tracy as a cab driver's wife accused of carrying out a bombing.
Her last big hit was The Great Waltz, in which she played alongside Fernand Gravet and Miliza Korjus in a biopic of Austrian composer Johan Strauss II. The trailer describes the film as "The Great Ziegfeld in Waltz Time!"

Her demands for serious roles and more money were not well received at the time and she gained a reputation for being difficult. She left the movie business, but continued to act on stage and lived an impressive and colourful life that included a career as an artist and an episode in which she signed a visa affidavit to help Bertholt Brecht's passage from Nazi Germany to the US.

 

HELEN BONHAM CARTER AND TIM BURTON SPLIT

Helen Bonham Carter and Tim Burton the most eccentric couple in Hollywood end their 13 year marriage

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After 13 years together, Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter have split.

The couple "separated amicably earlier this year and have continued to be friends and co-parent their children," Carter's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. "We would ask that you respect their privacy and that of their children during this time."

The pair – who never married – first met when Burton, 56, directed Carter, 48, in 2001's Planet of the Apes.

Since then, they've teamed up on several blockbusters, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows.

Attending the Wizarding World of Harry Potter expansion at Universal Orlando Resort in June with Burton and their two children – son Billy, 11, and daughter Nell, 7 – Carter told PEOPLE Burton simply represented "love."