Big Brother thrown into chaos as technical blunder pulls spin-off show off the air after first eviction
BIG Brother was thrown into chaos during Friday’s live eviction, with a technical blunder pulling spin-off show Late & Live off the air.
ITV2 viewers were left perplexed when the audio cut out from the feed, before historic clips from the programme were shown.
The broadcast went awry after one audience member had said into the microphone: “I want Lily to go cos she’s annoying.”
Shortly afterwards, the following message was shown: “We’re currently experiencing a technical issue. Whilst we try to get it fixed, enjoy some of Big Brother‘s greatest ever moments. We hope to be back with tonight’s live show very soon.”
After five minutes, hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best were beamed back into fans’ homes – but then the transmission ended 10 minutes before the scheduled time.
Will said: “Guys, we’re sorry about that, we had a few technical issues but we’re back now,” before saying his goodbyes with AJ.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, fans shared their confusion, with some using humour.
One wrote: “Cackling that Big Brother has lost its sound due to technical difficulties. Then it says enjoy best bits whilst they sort it out but the best bits also has no sound! Somebody’s getting fired.”
Another added: “Will & AJ: Welcome back goodbye.”
Someone else shared: “Wow, the technical difficulties really caused Late and Live to end 10 minutes early than expected.”
A fourth said: “Well, you wouldn’t get this on Love Island…sort it out Big Brother,” with a fifth quipping: “Everything’s going well at ITV2 HQ tonight.”
One more posted: “I love the fact that someone in the L&L audience dissed Lily and the show immediately went off air.”
During the main show, Ryan Bradshaw became the first housemate to be evicted.
Ryan, 28, was given the boot after just six days during tonight’s live show, admitting he was “gutted to be leaving”.
The Blackpool lad, who lives in Stockport, received a heavy boo-ing from the crowd during his live entrance into the Big Brother house.
In his introduction VT, Ryan had described himself as a “working class northern lad” with “strong opinions”.
The northerner ruffled some feathers after going on to make a dig at those who self-identify.
He said: “There’s a lot of woke people out there.
“It’s all well and good if you want to use certain pronouns, and I get that, but it gets a bit confusing sometimes with people identifying as a spoon or whatnot.”