Big Brother fans spot VERY awkward blunder during launch show as Emma reveals she knows Thomas after they met at the auditions

Big Brother viewers discovered a very awkward blunder during Sunday’s launch when new housemate Emma revealed she knew Thomas just minutes after entering the house.

Aesthetics company owner Emma, ​​53, quickly approached amputee footballer Thomas, 20, as he entered the famous ITV2 house.

As she walked over to Thomas to give him a welcome hug, she said, “I knew you were coming in here after I saw you at the audition.”

Cameras quickly moved away from the couple as host AJ Odudu and Will Best introduced the next housemate.

Fans rushed to Instagram to scroll’.

“The producers after Emma said she saw Thomas at the auditions; I feel like Emma knows EVERYONE and then she’s like, “Oh, I saw you at the audition!” So messy, bahahah, mother knows everything.

‘Emma recognizes Thomas from the audition process; At least Emma confirmed that auditions were actually happening instead of a producer just scrolling through Instagram. The producers seeing Emma talking about auditions’.

Earlier in the show, Big Brother viewers went wild for new housemate Emma as she made an ‘iconic’ entrance into the famous house.

Emma claimed she would bring ‘peace and harmony’ to the home, but admitted there was also a chance she would cause drama.

When she arrived at the house and spoke to hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best, Emma made sure all eyes were on her in a dazzling strapless red mini dress with a daring feather top.

Fans were quick to tell X – formerly known as Twitter – that Emma is ‘already their winner’, calling her a ‘queen’.

‘Emma is already my winner; I already love Emma, ​​queen; Emma may be the icon of the season, but it’s too early to tell; Emma has icon potential; Emma is a bit penny; I already love Emma, ​​what an icon.’

During her VT introduction, Emma said she hoped she could be the “peacemaker” but admitted she “doesn’t really act her age.”

She said: ‘I’d like to think I’m the peacemaker. People ask me if I want to be the mother hen in the house. There may be times when I’m the mother hen, but generally I’m one of the girls.

‘I don’t think I really act my age when I should, so I don’t see myself acting my age on Big Brother.

She added: “If someone doesn’t get my humor they might think ‘she’s very abrupt and to the point and tells it like it is’, but that’s my humor.

‘I remain myself in there, but sometimes I can seem abrupt or say: ‘get over yourself’.

The original social experiment, which saw 16 strangers live together and be hospitalized 24 hours away in a custom-built home, threw open its doors once again after the huge success of last year’s reboot series.

During the live launch, the contestants arrived and introduced themselves to each other and the nation, hoping to scoop the show’s huge £100,000 prize later this year.

This year’s launch was initially thrown into doubt after it was revealed that both presenters AJ and Will, who are retuning for a second series, are both suffering from individual illnesses.

He explained that he had been affected by a ‘stiff neck’, meaning he has difficulty moving his head, and had been forced to visit an emergency physiotherapist.

Speaking to presenters Jordan North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby, Will explained: ‘Yes, I have a stiff neck. Today I’m a little better, yesterday was bad, I have an emergency physio in a few hours.’

Joking about the awkward timing, he added: “It’s always good not to be able to move right before the biggest show of the year, when you go live for six weeks, with all kinds of crazy stuff.

“So I’m sorry Chris, I can’t really look at you [laughs]you’re on the wrong side!’

Sian then joked: ‘That’s why we bought you a swivel chair, so you can move your whole body,’ prompting Will to joke back: ‘I can just present the live show on one of these!’

However, he added that he couldn’t even lean on his co-host for support as AJ has “lost her voice.”

Will said: ‘AJ has lost her voice too, yeah sorry, I saw her yesterday, we recorded a podcast. That’s why she’s not doing radio today!’

He admitted he was ‘nervous’ about the live launch, but insisted it was down to his love for the show and his desire to ensure everything went smoothly.

He explained, “Yes, of course I get nervous because I love this show so much, so I’m nervous that we’re going to do it justice, the format justice, I’m nervous how the housemates are going to do it.

‘But once we get to Sunday, just before we go live, the nerves more or less disappear. I can’t wait to meet these people.’