Celebrity Big Brother 2016: The secret friendships, rumoured romances and connections between housemates

Thursday's launch won't be the first time this lot come face to face

joshua fox

Published: 11:21, 27 Jul 2016
Updated: 12:50, 27 Jul 2016

THE Celebrity Big Brother housemates are just a day away from moving into the famous compound, but they’ll be no excitable introductions as they settle into their new home for the summer this series.

The Sun Online can reveal the housemates are far from strangers, with many even choosing to spend their final days of freedom socialising together.

The iconic Big Brother eye has been revamped a head of the new Celebrity Big Brother seriesCredit: CHANNEL 5

Mob Wives star Renee Graziano has made no secret of the fact she’s set to star in the show, boasting about having drinks with fellow contestant Chloe Khan on Monday after arriving in the UK earlier this week.

Mob Wives star Renee has made no secret of the fact she's been hanging out with fellow housemates this weekCredit: twitter

We can also reveal Renee is good friends with fellow housemate Aubrey O’Day.

The pair met at a party in 2012 and have remained close ever since, regularly interacting on social media and promoting each other’s reality shows.

Renee is pictured here with Aubrey O'Day after meeting at a party in 2012Credit: TWITTER

Geordie Shore’s Marnie Simpson will also find comfort in the fact Towie’s Lewis Bloor will be by her side in the house. The pair first met in 2015 after Marnie began dating Lewis’s co-star Ricky Rayment.

Following her split from Ricky, she was then spotted sharing a taxi home from a nightclub with Lewis at 3AM just days later - sparking romance rumours.

Marnie grew close to Lewis Bloor while dating his Towie co-star Ricky RaymentCredit: TWITTER

Lewis isn’t the only housemate Marnie is already on first name basis with, the 24-year-old has previously bonded with Vicky Pattison’s ex, Stephen Bear, who is also set to enter to house.

Marnie often came to blows with Stephen's ex Vicky Pattison on Geordie ShoreCredit: MTV

After Marnie and Stephen met at a party last summer, Vicky later lashed out and accused her of trying to use her man to get some press attention.

Vicky Pattison hit out at Marnie Simpson after she met Stephen Bear at a partyCredit: TWITTER

Vicky accused Marnie of asking Stephen to accompany her to a cash machine so the waiting photographers would catch them together.

She told OK!: “[Marnie] tried to ask my boyfriend, Stephen Bear, to go to a cash machine with her. What the hell? Go get papped with someone who is single why does it have to be my lad?”