AJ Odudu drops huge hint she’s landed Big Brother hosting job with very cryptic comment
TV presenter AJ Odudu has dropped a huge hint that she’s landed a Big Brother hosting job with a very cryptic comment.
The star – who is best known for presenter Channel 5 spin off Big Brother’s Bit on the Side – teased fans they would have to “wait and see” if she would land the role.
ITV2 caused a flurry of excitement last summer when it announced it was reviving the iconic reality show after Channel 5 axed it.
Many names have been in the frame to host, including Emily Atack, Olivia Attwood and Love Island host Maya Jama.
Now, AJ, 35, has hinted that she could be the presenter to take up the mantle with a cryptic comment about the show.
Speaking to HuffPost UK, she opened up about her desire to front Big Brother’s comeback later this year.
Addressing the rumours she could be presenting the show, she said: “I feel like the Big Brother stans are out in full force, it’s incredible.
“I did this cameo in a sketch for Saturday Night Takeaway and I appear in that with Davina McCall.
“Twitter was going mad with, ‘Oh my God, AJ has done the murder [in the Murder At Bigwig Manor sketch as part of the show] – and then she’s going to murder Davina and that’s why she’s the new host’.
“I was like, ‘Oh, OK wow guys, you’ve really gone there’.
“Obviously, I’ve made no secret about how I would love to be considered to host such an iconic comeback, but who knows? You’ll just have to wait and see.”
AJ concluded that she was “excited” to see the show making a comeback, and “cannot wait” to watch the new series.
It comes after Saturday Night Takeaway fans were left convinced the latest episode “revealed” who the new Big Brother host is.
Eagled-eyed viewers of Ant and Dec’s weekend extravaganza spotted a clue in the show’s new whodunit mystery.
The show launched its new Murder At Bigwig Manor skit which saw a group of celebs caught up in a murder mystery.
The segment saw Ant and Dec go for dinner at a mansion belonging to an ITV bigwig, where they rubbed shoulders with a host of the most famous faces from the channel.
One wrote: “I’m taking AJ Odudu standing next to Davina McCall in the skit with ITV’s biggest stars as another clue that she’s hosting Big Brother.”
A second agreed: “AJ ODUDU? CONFIRMS HER HOSTING BIG BROTHER.”
Crucially, she was also stood next to former Big Brother host Davina, who fronted the show during its Channel 4 run.