WATCH THE TOP BIG BROTHER HOT ROMANCES OF ALL TIME #BringBackOurGirls #Entertain9jar via @myentertain9jar

From ill-fated Jacuzzi romps, to marriages and inevitable divorces, Big Bro has sparked plenty of memorable romances. We gear up for Big Brother 2014 with our top 10 BB flings…

BIG Brother 2014 is almost here, and with a long hot summer ahead, we've got one thing on our minds: romance.
The Elstree compound has played host to some of the most compelling – and shocking – reality TV affairs of all time.
And while love's flame is often snuffed out quickly for the housemates, it usually burns twice as brightly while the cameras were rolling, making for unmissable viewing.
From Makosi Musambasi's 'moment' in the Jacuzzi with Anthony Hutton, to Pete Bennett's ill-fated romance with Nikki Grahame, here are ten of the greatest BB love stories of all time…

Ziggy Lichman and Chanelle Hayes' relationship was to end in bitter exchanges in the press [Wenn]

10. Chanelle and Ziggy – series 8
Chanelle Hayes and Zac 'Ziggy' Lichman's tempestuous romance was the talk of summer 2007 – until Chanelle walked on day 62 (Ziggy lasted another month).
Reunited on the outside world, their romance fizzled out, and by November it was over.
In the inevitable tabloid kiss-and-tells that followed, Ziggy branded his glamour model ex a "psycho", while she stormed: "All he's interested in is getting mobbed in clubs by scantily-clad girls and staying out all night."

Helen and Paul set up home in London after Big Brother but ended up drifting apart [Wenn]

9. Helen and Paul  – series 2
Helen Adams was a ditzy hairdresser from Cwmbran, south Wales, who by her own admission, "loved blinking". Paul Clarke was a Reading-based car designer.
Unlikely though it sounds, they were Big Brother's first proper celebrity couple, and stayed together for five years after entering the house in 2001, even setting up home together in north London.
Sadly, after half a decade, the pair realised that they were better off as friends.
Talking about the split, Paul admitted: "I love Helen to pieces and I always will, but I don't think we're in love with each other any more."

Grace Adams-Short And Mikey Dalton are a rare thing indeed: a BB couple who stayed together [Wenn, Rex]

8. Grace and Mikey – series 7
Grace Adams-Short was the housemate we loved to whinge about in 2006 – in fact she was voted the most-hated housemate of all time (harsh).
Thankfully Vernon Kay-a-like Mikey Dalton didn't feel the same way as the British public, and the pair started an enduring romance. They married in 2009, had a baby together in 2012, and are still together.
Grace now runs a theatre school while Mikey works as a DJ and music producer.

Josie Gibson was to be left heartbroken after John James fled back to Australia [Wenn]

7. Josie and John James – series 11
Bristol's Josie Gibson went on to become one of Big Brother's best-known housemates, thanks in part to her troubled relationship with John James Parton.
They dated for several months after the 2010 series ended, but John soon got cold feet.
Early in 2011, he admitted: "The more time we spend together the more I realise that we're opposites in every single way."
John then packed his bags and returned to Oz, leaving Josie heartbroken.
She's now training as a personal trainer having released a successful range of fitness DVDs.

Michelle Bass and Stuart Wilson kept everyone guessing with their under-the-tablecloth antics [Wenn]

6. Michelle and Stu – series 5
Michelle Bass and her 'Chicken' Stu Wilson made headlines with their raunchy antics in the house, with the nation asking: 'Did-they-or-didn't-they?' (FYI, Michelle claims they DID do the deed under the dining room table, hidden by a table cloth.)
Once the cameras stopped rolling, things got considerably less passionate, and the pair lasted just a year.
Michelle carved out a career as a glamour model and Stu unsuccessfully auditioned for a boy band.

Love's young dream? Louise Cliffe whispers sweet nothings to Jay McKray. Their romance came to, er, nothing [Wenn]

5. Louise and Jay – series 12
Jay McKray and Lousie Cliffe seemed like the perfect reality TV couple. He looked like something out of Geordie Shore (and had the accent to match), while drop-dead gorgeous Louise had glamour-model looks.
The pair met at the end of 2011 and married the following June, even setting up a live feed on their website so fans could watch the ceremony.
But alas, a year later, ex-plumber Jay confirmed that the pair had split, simply telling his followers "we do not get on".

Luke Maynard and Rebecca Shiner let their friendship grow in to something more [Wenn]

4. Luke and Bex – series 9
Luke Marsden and Rebecca Shiner may have looked like something out of a 1950s seaside postcard, but they had a genuine friendship that, at times, spilled over into romance.
Bubbly nursery nurse Bex certainly knocked the square corners off of geeky Luke. The couple consummated their relationship after leaving the house, with Luke revealing they'd spent their first night together in the four-poster bed of a £2,000 hotel suite.
But a year later, they'd split, with Luke admitting: "Bex told me she didn't love me anymore," and Rebecca complaining: "I like to go out and get drunk but he stays in and reads books. I don't really get on with that."

It was Jade Goody's relationship with housemate PJ that helped make her a household name in 2002 [Wenn]

3. Jade and PJ – series 3
Jade Goody's booze-fuelled fumble with PJ was the talk of series 3 – especially as show bosses refused to comment on what had actually happened between the pair under the duvet on their one night together.
Jade's, a-hem, up-and-down relationship with PJ, her rows with fellow housemates and her loveable naïvety sparked a media career that make her a household name up to her sad death in 2009.

Troubled souls: Pete Bennett and Nikki Grahame enjoy a rare moment of harmony inside the BB house in 2006 [Wenn]

2. Pete and Nicky – series 7
Tourettes sufferer Pete Bennett and Nikki Grahame, with her volcanic temper and "who IS she?" outbursts, were never likely to be a match made in heaven. But the troubled souls found solace in one another in 2006.
The couple got close in the house and after Pete scooped the £100,000 prize, continued their relationship. But Nikki got the boot after she complained that Pete's house smelled of "doggies".
"Pete wouldn't hurt an insect but he's totally destroyed me," she said afterwards, in typically understated style.

Anthony Hutton and Makosi Musambasi disagreed over what happened on this night in the Big Brother house [Wenn]

1. Makosi and Anthony – series 6
Show winner Anthony Hutton got himself into hot water with Makosi Musambasi in 2007 – their romp in the BB Jacuzzi resulted in the cardiac nurse claiming she might be pregnant by the dancer. Probably leaving Anthony in need of, erm, a cardiac nurse.
Anthony denied the pair had gone that far and clashed over her claims on Big Brother's Little Brother.
Makosi made headlines in 2012 after it was reported the Zimbabwe national had tried to re-enter the UK with somebody else's passport. Anthony released an ill-fated fitness DVD.
Honourable mentions of course to Tom and Claire,  Brian and Amanda, Rex and Nicole, and Chantelle and Preston, who don't make the list as they appeared in Celebrity Big Brother.
What BB romances would you have put in your top 10? Let us know with a comment…