The eighth series of Big Brother is almost upon us, meaning that the next three and a bit months of your lives will be dedicated solely to watching around-the-clock bickering by people you're bound to instantly despise – but enough about Davina McCall.

And a new series of Big Brother means a new batch of Big Brother betting odds. Since none of our friends at Endemol want to tell us the exact Big Brother start date – all we have is a woolly 'soon' – we don't know exactly when we'll get to lay into all the awful Big Brother housemates on a daily basis, but until then it's Big Brother special betting all the way. And that starts today. Relax, soon enough it'll be like Big Brother never went away. That is a good thing, right?

So here are the Big Brother betting odds for the Big Brother housemates to all be evacuated in a bombscare, with help from Paddy Power…

All of the housemates to be evacuated from the house due to a bombscare – It's common knowledge that Al Qaeda hates three things – 1) The west, 2) democracy and 3) long-running reality TV shows about a bunch of wankers living in a house together and arguing about rice. Therefore it's inevitable that Big Brother is going to be the target of a bombscare this year. And, although the fair and decent thing to do in this situation would be to padlock the doors and windows of the Big Brother house tightly shut so that everyone blows up, chances are that the Big Brother housemates would be evacuated instead. And that means there might be footage of the Big Brother housemates outside of the Big Brother house. The last time this happened, Leo Saywer was bawling the word "cunt" at everyone. Needless to say, this means we're completely up for an evacuation. Current Big Brother betting odds – 25/1

Tomorrow - Big Brother betting odds for anger management classes. But if that's too long to wait – or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with – head right over to the Paddy Power Big Brother betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.