Big Brother sells Chanelle a night of passion for a slice of the prize pot

After weeks of losing audiences to rival reality show Love Island, Big Brother tried to spice things up inside the Borehamwood bungalow when it offered Chanelle McCleary £400 of the £100,000 prize fund for a night of passion with her boyfriend during Monday night’s show.

The series has bled viewers and we’ve seen Love Island dominate on social media, but in what could have been a cunning strategy to keep fans interested, one week before the final, producers invited Chanelle’s beau Jake into the Big Brother complex and asked him to wait for her in a pink bedroom beside a bed adorned with rose petals.

The former Ex on the Beach star was then called into the Diary Room and asked to decide if she wanted to forego a slice of the cash prize for a few hours with him.

Chanelle didn’t even have to think about her answer.

‘I wanna go. Do we get Prosecco? I’m doing it. There’s no questions asked. I’m going.”

Chanelle then headed into the pink boudoir where she got intimate with her boyfriend on a bed decorated with rose petals,’ she told Big Brother.

The ploy to please viewers comes after the chief creative officer of Endemol, who make the programme, admitted that he hasn’t ruled out ditching the Borehamwood bungalow for a house in sunnier climes – like it’s rival Love Islane.

Speaking to the Daily Star, Peter Salmon admitted that ITV2 made a ‘sensational’ format in its show and added: ‘If ‘Big Brother’ is not on top form, we have to keep changing it. You have got to get at it creatively to think what its next manifestation will be.

And when asked if ‘BBUK’ could move abroad, he said: ‘Listen, we should not rule anything out.’

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