Celebrity Big Brother is well underway and the second round of voting has already come and gone.
Mickey Rourke and Trisha Goddard have officially booted from the house. Meanwhile, we've been getting to know the other housemates.
There's JoJo Siwa, the former Dance Moms star, Chris Hughes, former Love Island star, Donna Preston, long-time actor, and many, many more. One of the stars making her presence known in the house? Former TOWIE star, Ella Rae Wise.
From soap stars to talk show hosts and Love Islanders.
The reality star caused a little drama earlier this week when she put Hughes at risk of eviction after she accused him of putting all of his focus on Siwa and “game-playing.”
It was later revealed that Wise was struggling to connect with Hughes because of his romantic history with her friend Olivia Atwood, who, like Hughes, found fame on Love Island. “[It's] really hard 'cause I actually do know her and that's why I can't connect with him,” she was heard saying on the show. “But people change, it was years ago.”
Who is Ella Rae Wise?
Wise is a 24-year-old reality star and entrepreneur from Essex.
Wise initially found fame in 2019 when she joined the cast of The Only Way is Essex. You may remember her relationships with fellow TOWIE stars Pete Wicks and Dan Edgar during her time on the show.
Wise was wish Edgar until just before she entered the Big Brother house. “We are not together. And it's really, really sad that we're not together. We split up a week ago," she said to The Sun before entering the house. “It has nothing to do with Big Brother. It was a decision that I had to make because I didn't feel that we were getting things that we wanted out of each other."
You may have also seen Wise in some of her other shows. In 2022, she appeared in Ex on the Beach and in 2023, she appeared in The Challenge UK.
The couple went public with their romance earlier this year.
Ella Rae Wise on Celebrity Big Brother
Wise joined the cast of Celebrity Big Brother in 2025.
“I think the most I'm looking forward to has to be meeting and getting to know new people and learning new things about myself and others, as well and being out of my comfort zone and under pressure, weirdly because I deal with pressure really well,” she said before entering the house. "I'm quite relaxed but it might be a bit different being in a house with loads of people that I normally wouldn't spend time with, or know in normal day to day life."
She added, "I'd like to think I would be an easy housemate to get on with. I'm quite a big team player. I always want people to feel happy and comfortable around me. Even though I am a little bit blonde I do feel like I have a really understanding way about me. I do also have quite a caring side that I don't feel has been shown to its full extent yet. I'm really looking forward to being my 100% genuine self in all ways.”
So far, Wise has made headlines for her so-called “feud” with fellow housemate Chris Hughes, as well as her conversation with JoJo Siwa about her sexuality. While talking about coming out, Siwa said, “They say if you have the thought like, ‘I wonder if I am gay,’ you're gay,” to which Wise replied, “Oh my god I have had that thought quite a bit.”
She found herself at the centre of a controversy on the show.
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