Big Brother fans livid as Tom and Lotan openly admit they didn’t audition for the show… they were selected on FACEBOOK

BIG Brother contestants Lotan Carter and Tom Barber have upset fans after revealing they were asked to compete on the show via Facebook.

Taking part on the Channel 5 programme was once an impossible dream involving multiple auditions, psychological tests and weeks in hiding, but it appears that the two show hunks were given a fast track.

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At the end of tonight's episode, Welshman Tom turned to hunky Dreamboy Lotan to ask how he had ended up in the house.

He asked: "Did you apply for this?"

Lotan replied: "No."

Tom continued: "I was in Marbella, mate. I got a message on Facebook."

Their short exchange is bound to raise eyebrows, as moments before Tom had been voted IN to the house as the "People's Housemate", beating off competition from three other hopefuls.

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Tom - a 21-year-old nightclub owner - made a public plea to enter the house, declaring that he was "chill enough" to go in to the house.

As the People's Housemate, he will be given special privileges as the “eyes of the public”, and will be fed information by fellow housemates in order to cause trouble.

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Making his pitch to Rylan Clark-Neal, the outspoken Welshman slammed his fellow candidates before putting himself as the best person to enter the house.

The 21-year-old said: “They’re trying to hard – they all need to take a chill pill. Just chill out like!”

Tom added: “I’m a normal person, I’m just going to go in and crack on.”

The cheeky chappie isn’t afraid to splash the cash and lives a flash lifestyle – his family owns a house in Marbella, and he regularly parties there and in Ibiza.

He owns a nightclub, which his granddad gave to him, where he regularly performs DJ sets.

Later Tom also appeared to mention something about the dynamic of the competition, which could be interpreted that his success was guaranteed from the get go.As the credits rolled, he could be heard saying to one of the other Big Brother contestants: "It was weird though as we (I) was competing against three other people... we all knew. We all knew."

People at home were furious with Tom and 28-year-old Lotan's exchange, with some fans branding him and the situation "dodgy".

One fumed: "Oooooh Tom let it out of the bag that he didn't apply, he just got a message on Facebook messenger #BBUK."

Others added: "Tom and Lotan both just said they didn't apply to be on #bbuk, they were approached. Yup that's me done. @bbuk @bbspy" and "Tom and Lotan didn't apply for Big Brother? They got messaged on Facebook? 🙈🙉🙊"

A representative for Big Brother said: "Housemates are discovered in various ways and have to go through the selection process.

"Live tonight, Tom was voted in by the public as the final housemate."

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