Big Brother is officially returning!

‘Big Brother’ is returning.

The iconic noughties reality television show - which saw a group of strangers live in a house on Channel 4 from 2008 to 2011 and on Channel 5 until it was axed in 2018 - is officially heading back to screens.

The news was announced in an advert that followed the ‘Love Island’ final on ITV2 on Monday night (01.08.22).

The show will be rebooted as part of ITV’s new streaming service ITVX - and also air on ITV2 - sometime in 2023 with a “contemporary new look”.

The six-week show will see a range of “carefully selected housemates from all walks of life” cohabitate as the public watch via a network of cameras, along with the much-loved public evictions and viewers getting to decide the ultimate winner.

Paul Mortimer, the head of reality commissioning and acquisitions and controller of ITV2, ITVBe and CITV, said: “This refreshed, contemporary new series of Big Brother will contain all the familiar format points that kept viewers engaged and entertained the first time round, but with a brand new look and some additional twists that speak to today’s audience.”

The show - which also spawned a celebrity edition, which has been won by the likes of Katie Price, Courtney Act, Ryan Thomas and the late Sarah Harding - launched the careers of many of Britain’s most adored television faces, such as ‘This Morning’ presenters Alison Hammond and Josie Gibson and the late Nikki Grahame, who lost her battle with anorexia in 2021, aged 38.

There is currently no word on who will host the show - which was originally presented by Davina McCall - but rumours circulating that ‘Big Brother’s Bit on the Side’ alum Rylan Clark will front he reboot have been squashed, despite saying he “a million per cent” he would host.

An insider told The Mirror: “This needs to be totally new and fresh. It’s all about drawing in a young audience. The aim is to get back to basics and interfere less, with fewer challenges.”

Rylan won the 11th series of 'Celebrity Big Brother' in 2013, and hosted 'Big Brother's Bit on the Side' and the celebrity version.

Emma Willis hosted the shows between 2013 and 2018, and 'Bit on the Side' between 2011 and 2015.