Given that Big Brother Africa has been such a success that Channel 4 are now using it to try and boost the popularity of their own Big Brother, how long will it be before we see Big Brother Europe?

OK, the language factor might make it slightly harder to bring off than the African version (where all the contestants come from countries where English is one of the main languages) but it shouldn't be too hard to find a group of bi- or multi-lingual contestants from across Europe - though I suspect English would be the principal language as it's the most widely spoken second language across Europe.

Plus, it'd give all the papers lots to write about - The Sun would no doubt start a 'Towel Watch' on the German contestant, The Star would be able to fill its pages with 'Euro-Babes', The Guardian would lament over how the other contestants' use of English puts our language teaching to shame and The Telegraph would complain that we should be taking part in Big Brother North Atlantic or Big Brother Commonwealth instead. I'm sure a number of bloggers would also come out with 'Big Brother Europe? At least they're admitting it now!' as well...