Part of the fun of Big Brother is having a bet on the winner - just make sure you do better than the punter from Birmingham who bet £50,000 with William Hill on twins Sam and Amanda winning Big Brother 8, only for them to come second - much to the relief of the bookies. The same gambler held the previous record for biggest bet on the show with a £50,000 flutter on Charley being evicted in July 2007.

Talking of Charley Uchea, over 90% of all the eviction bets placed with Ladbrokes in that series were for Charley being the first to be kicked out of the house. They even started taking bets on how many times she would namedrop her cousin, the Manchester United player Kieran Richardson, in her post-eviction interview, with the odds at 5/1 that she would mention him more than five times.

Go for decent odds, though - one gambler bet £32,000 with Paddy Power on Nicky being evicted, but as the odds were only 1/100 he only stood to win £320!