Hampshire beauty Lucy Pinder is to enter the Big Brother house.

The 24-year-old glamour model is among the contestants in Celebrity Big Brother due to be screened next year.

Lucy, from Winchester, will join a host of other celebrities in the show that starts on Channel Four on January 2.

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Among the other well known women participants will be former Sugababe Mutya Buena, ex Liberty X singer Michelle Heaton, model Paula Hamilton and Loose Women host Sherrie Hewson.

The show returns after being rested this year following the race row in 2007 between Jade Goody and eventual winner Shilpa Shetty.