Sidemen take on Love Island with £1m reality show
7 hours ago
Ian Youngs, culture journalist
Sidemen/YouTubeYouTube superstars the Sidemen have launched their own reality show, locking 10 influencers in a house for a week to fight for a prize worth up to £1million.
The first episode of Inside recorded more than four million views on YouTube in 24 hours after its release on Sunday.
Contestants include Love Island's Chloe Burrows, Made In star Chelsea Liv. Bentley and YouTuber Joe Weller.
Inside is the Sidemen's own version of hit reality TV formats like Big Brother, and will provide competition for Love Island, who was back on TV screens on Monday.
The Sidemen – the group of seven British internet stars, which includes content creator, rapper and the boxer KSI - have more than 130 million people. YouTube subscribers to each other.
SidemenAnother member, Vik Barn - aka Vikkstar123 - told the BBC last week: "We We've always grown up in the UK and watched reality TV throughout our childhood, from Big Brother to Love Island to I'm a Celebrity.
"We were thinking: 'OK, this year, what is our new project?'. Why don't we try our own version of a reality TV show?"
Barn, who grew up in Sheffield, told the BBC's Toby Foster Radio Sheffield said Inside was "a bit rawer" than a typical reality TV show, and "a bit like our videos where you record and see what happens".
"I think we found a really good medium between something that looks really professionally produced, like you're seeing it on a major TV channel, but at the same time, it involves us, our twist and the kind of chaos that only I think we could organize."
And unlike Big Brother, who asked the inmates, "please don't swear", there are no such restrictions on Inside
7 hours ago
Ian Youngs, culture journalist
Sidemen/YouTubeYouTube superstars the Sidemen have launched their own reality show, locking 10 influencers in a house for a week to fight for a prize worth up to £1million.
The first episode of Inside recorded more than four million views on YouTube in 24 hours after its release on Sunday.
Contestants include Love Island's Chloe Burrows, Made In star Chelsea Liv. Bentley and YouTuber Joe Weller.
Inside is the Sidemen's own version of hit reality TV formats like Big Brother, and will provide competition for Love Island, who was back on TV screens on Monday.
The Sidemen – the group of seven British internet stars, which includes content creator, rapper and the boxer KSI - have more than 130 million people. YouTube subscribers to each other.
SidemenAnother member, Vik Barn - aka Vikkstar123 - told the BBC last week: "We We've always grown up in the UK and watched reality TV throughout our childhood, from Big Brother to Love Island to I'm a Celebrity.
"We were thinking: 'OK, this year, what is our new project?'. Why don't we try our own version of a reality TV show?"
Barn, who grew up in Sheffield, told the BBC's Toby Foster Radio Sheffield said Inside was "a bit rawer" than a typical reality TV show, and "a bit like our videos where you record and see what happens".
"I think we found a really good medium between something that looks really professionally produced, like you're seeing it on a major TV channel, but at the same time, it involves us, our twist and the kind of chaos that only I think we could organize."
And unlike Big Brother, who asked the inmates, "please don't swear", there are no such restrictions on Inside
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