Rylan Clark-Neal has raised hopes for a Big Brother TV comeback after a late-night tweet tease.
The former Bit on the Side host shared his thoughts with his 1.5million followers on Thursday evening after attending a TV bash with the production company that made the iconic Channel 4 and Channel 5 reality series.
Working fans into a frenzy, he echoed a quote from author George Orwell as the Celebrity Big Brother 2013 winner tweeted: “Big Brother is always watching.”
Just last week the 30-year-old vowed to do his best to try and bring the telly favourite back from the dead.
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Big Brother is always watching….
— Rylan Clark-Neal (@Rylan) November 29, 2018
He told the MailOnline: “My brain just doesn’t understand that it’s not coming back. To me, I can’t understand that I have presented it for the last time.
“It’s going to be majorly missed. And trust me, I am doing everything I can do in my power to get it back.”
Rumours have also claimed TV bosses have been in talks with Netflix to become the “saviour” of the long-running series, which first launched in the summer of 2000.
And even though Rylan’s mention was at best a hint of a future for the show, fans still went wild at the possibility of BB coming back to TV screens.
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“Feel like you’ve been given some VERY big news,” tweeted one fan, adding a hopeful prayer emoji to their message.
“Don’t tease us like this as it’s cruel,” begged another.
And a third, very excited commenter, added: “Omg omg omg omg. Is it coming back?!?!?!”
In October it appeared Rylan had let the cat out of the bag – again, on social media – about winning a new gig as the presenter of a revived series of Supermarket Sweep.
Sharing a snap of documents featuring his face next to a new version of the gameshow’s logo, it appears Rylan was not aware the papers on a table in front of him were included in the quickly-deleted shot.
Or was he?
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