CELEBRITY Big Brother is to return — with cheeky MP Lembit Opik on it.
Limelight-loving Lembit has signed up for the show — back next January after a year’s break.
Bosses picked the goofy-grinned Lib Dem hoping he’ll reveal all about his doomed affair with Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irimia.
Lembit might even copy fellow MP George Galloway when he was on the show — and don a skin-tight red leotard.
Oddball Lembit, 43, and Gabriela, 25, got engaged after he popped the question in Rome in April, but split a few months later.
He’s also had a relationship with TV weather girl Sian Lloyd, 50.
A Celebrity Big Brother insider said: “Lembit is a brilliant signing for us.
“He’s wacky and funny, but more importantly it’s hoped he’ll spill the beans on his romance with one of the Cheeky Girls.
“We are all convinced he won’t be able to resist putting his mouth into gear about it — he seems a very outspoken character in general.”
Lembit, who quit his frontbench job in a bid to become the Liberal Democrats’ president, has a long list of entertainment credits to his name.
He’s been on Question Time and Any Questions, and hosted satirical BBC quiz Have I Got News For You.
He’s also appeared on Al Murray’s Happy Hour, The All Star Talent Show and All Star Mr and Mrs.
Other names in the frame for CBB include former Sugababe Mutya Buena, 23, and American singer Whitney Houston, 45.
CBB took a break in 2007 after alleged racist bullying of Bollywood babe Shilpa Shetty, 33, by Jade Goody, 27, Danielle Lloyd, 24, and 29-year-old Jo O’Meara.
Channel 4 was forced to broadcast three on-air apologies after Ofcom found that the series had breached the broadcasting code.
This year’s replacement E4 show Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack attracted only 600,000 viewers, so producers were keen to return to the original format
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