Oh, what a night!

Yesterday evening's Big Brother 2012 launch went with quite a bang and we're now pretty much fully acquainted with our 16 fantastic housemates. A more varied bunch you'd be hard-pressed to find.

But before all that we checked in on Jamie's mission to find a wildcard to stick in the house later this week. After a thorough and slightly brutal search, he managed to pick three auditioning hopefuls, all eager to enter through a side-door. So that's something to look forward to. And in the meantime we've got our lovely, shiny and new housemates to get to know. They entered one by one – some gracefully, some with swagger, and some, like Caroline, slightly clumsily.

Surely the biggest story of the night concerned the first brand spanking new HM to enter the House, Deana, who was instantaneously tasked with selecting three of the others to put up for eviction. Her discomfort was pretty obvious. Then, as requested, she was forced to make three other housemates face hardship, nominating Conor, Victoria and Lydia and stumbling over her reasons why because, frankly, she didn't actually have any.

After that, the champagne (and extra assorted boozy goodies) started to flow. There was a fair amount of flirting, there was a reasonable spraying of babble, a dose of insecurity and a slick puddle of smooth-talking. All in all, it was quite an eventful evening.

And there's plenty more to come! We're here for the duration, so make sure you stick with us.

It's going to be an interesting summer.