Big Brother 9 NEWS: Scotland gives up

Don't expect a world of kilts entering the house this summer...

The Scots are so fiercely proud of anyone else from their country that even if the person in question is completely without any redeeming features, they will adore him/her anyway. Like an unconditional love.

We are, of course, mainly referring to the MacDonald Brothers, who completely ruined X Factor in 2006.

Still, come summertime they can all be forgiven, as the chances of a pallid Scottish face lurking amidst the Big Brother contestants - skin so pale you can see the outline of their crucial organs as they shower - is looking slim after only three hundred people turned up to audition in Glasgow. Held over two days.

Every year, thousands have waited overnight to gurn and make a buffoon of themselves in front of a po-faced Channel 4 selection panel, but it looks like the dream might be over for our friends north of the border. That means no more Jasons (Big Brother Five), Camerons (Big Brother Four) - damn it, no more satanists in leather kilts (that weird guy - David? - last year).  

Not fair.