Previous contestants and where they are now

Big Brother is back, bigger and bolder than ever, with a whole new set of housemates ready to join the reality show which will have them under constant surveillance.

Twenty-three years after the original series hit our screens, the launch show for its latest iteration will air this Sunday evening.

The new cast of carefully selected housemates, from all walks of life, will become the first people to take up residence in the brand-new Big Brother house in West London for up to six weeks.

But they follow in a long line of former contestants over 19 series of the programme, some of whom entered the Big Brother house unknown and left to become household names.

We take a look who left as a winner and where they are now.

The full list of Big Brother winners

• Big Brother 1 (2000) – Craig Phillips
• Big Brother 2 (2001) – Brian Dowling
• Big Brother 3 (2002) – Kate Lawler
• Big Brother 4 (2003) – Cameron Stout
• Big Brother 5 (2004) – Nadia Almada
• Big Brother 6 (2005) – Anthony Hutton
• Big Brother 7 (2006) – Pete Bennett
• Big Brother 8 (2007) – Brian Belo
• Big Brother 9 (2008) – Rachel Rice
• Big Brother 10 (2009) – Sophie Reade
• Big Brother 11 (2010) – Josie Gibson
• Big Brother 12 (2011) – Aaron Allard-Morgan
• Big Brother 13 (2012) – Luke Anderson
• Big Brother 14 (2013) – Sam Evans
• Big Brother 15 (2014) – Helen Wood
• Big Brother 16 (2015) – Chloe Woodburn
• Big Brother 17 (2016) – Jason Burrill
• Big Brother 18 (2017) – Isabelle Warburton
• Big Brother 19 (2018) – Cameron Cole

Where are they now?

Craig Phillips won the first ever Big Brother in 2000 and donated his cash prize of £70,000 to his friend with Down’s syndrome, Joanne Harris, to pay for her heart and lung transplant.

Since leaving the house, the former bricklayer has presented a number of DIY shows including Renovation Street and Trading Up and has returned to Big Brother for anniversary shows. He married in 2018 and has two children.

Brian Dowling became the second ever Big Brother winner in 2001. The Irish former air steward joined children’s show SMTV Live as a presenter after leaving the house and has continued his career in television since then. He returned to Big Brother as the host when it moved to Channel 5 in 2011 and is now a presenter on Dublin’s 98fm.

Kate Lawler was the first female winner of the show in 2002. After the show, she became a DJ on Capital FM and later moved to Virgin Radio. She also has a podcast called Maybe Baby.

Season four winner, Scottish fish trader Cameron Stout, has presented shows for BBC Scotland and has written columns for Scottish newspapers.

The fifth series saw Portuguese-born Nadia Almada take home the prize. The show’s first transgender winner, she tried her hand at singing and presenting after leaving Big Brother but has since re-trained as a hairdresser.

Anthony Hutton won the sixth series at the age of 23 and dabbled in modelling before he eventually bought his own barbershop in Durham.

Pete Bennett became the seventh winner of Big Brother and won praise for raising awareness of Tourette’s syndrome. He has since done some acting and played in bands, once performing at Glastonbury.

He now runs a cleaning business and performs with the band Lovedogz.

Essex lad Brian Belo became the youngest person, at the time, to win Big Brother at the age of 19. After admitting he had never heard of William Shakespeare, he went on to take on acting roles after the show and was a regular on Harry Hill’s TV Burp. He hit the headlines again in 2013 when he sued the creators of The Only Way Is Essex claiming he had previously developed a similar show finally reaching a settlement with ITV.

Welsh-born Rachel Rice worked as a model and actress before Big Brother and re-trained as a teacher afterwards. She now works at a school in Wales.

Sophie Reade has continued modelling since leaving the Big Brother house and has become a mother.

Josie Gibson was the eleventh winner of Big Brother and famously dated fellow housemate John James Parton. Since leaving the show, she has taken on television presenting roles and is now a regular host on ITV’s This Morning.

Contract manager Aaron Allard-Morgan emerged from the house as the winner in 2011 and made subsequent television appearances. Now, he runs a bar in Weston-super-Mare.

Luke Anderson was the first transgender man to win the show and afterwards became an LGBT ambassador. Since steeping away from the limelight, he has been the co-owner of Cravin Bakery in Mold, North Wales, with his wife, Jamie-Lee.

Sam Evans took the Big Brother crown in 2013 and vowed he was returning to his job at Debenhams. Born with 80 per hearing loss, he has also campaigned for hearing charities.

Helen Wood was a controversial winner on Big Brother in 2014, after accusations of bullying. She went on to write a column for the Daily Star for a few years and released a tell-all autobiography, A Man’s World, about her life before Big Brother.

Doncaster resident Chloe Woodburn vowed to return to her life in South Yorkshire after winning Big Brother. She now runs her own baby clothing company Vinellie.

Stunt double Jason Burrill appeared in several films after winning Big Brother but now works as a property developer.

At the time of her win in Isabelle Warburton in 2017, she said she was going to use her winnings to open a fake tanning business in Manchester. The mother-of-two now works as an influencer and has over 77k followers on Instagram.

The last winner of Big Brother, Cameron Cole became a university student studying algae. He is also a vlogger with 30k followers on Instagram.