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Egypt Big Brother Channel 5

Celebrity Big Brother wants EgyptAir hijack selfie Brit for the house

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

April 11, 2016 | 2 min read

Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother is set to stretch the definition of the word celebrity to its absolute limit by enlisting a man famous for appearing in a photo with a faux terrorist threatening to blow up a plane.

Earlier this month, an Egypt Airlines flight was redirected to Cyprus by a man purporting to have a bomb strapped to his chest.

Ben Innes, was one of the crew who took a picture with the would-be bomber Seif Eldin Mustafa, who in the end was found to be carrying a fake bomb.

Leeds-based health and safety auditor Innes gained notoriety for his toothy grin in the face of adversity which was incorrectly reported as a selfie in the media.

This comes after it emerged Celebrity Big Brother was named the most complained about series in the regulator’s history – boasting 73,788 complaints since it was first launched on Channel 4.

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