Big Brother chaos as live eviction faces last minute change due to Storm Amy safety fears

Big Brother won't be airing its live eviction as usual tonight due to safety concerns over Storm Amy.

The live eviction will be taking place on the set of Big Brother: Late & Live instead of the usual location, which is outside the main set. The location change was made after Storm Amy made filming outdoors untenable. "The eviction will instead take place on the Late & Live set," a source told The Mirror. "It was strictly due to safety over the weather conditions."

While live evictions typically see contestants leave through the front door during a live broadcast, the first star to be evicted will be leaving via Late & Live due to the storm. This means that the evictee won't be met by a crowd or presenters AJ Odudu and Will Best.

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A Big Brother spokesperson said: "Due to bad weather and as a precautionary measure, tonight's live eviction will take place in the Big Brother: Late & Live studio with no outside broadcast. The health and safety of everyone remains our highest priority."

This marks the first time that the outside set has been scrapped last minute during the show's time on ITV. The Mirror understands that ITV will be accommodating as many audience members as they can after the change and that the eviction will be going ahead as planned.

There will be no change to the schedule, with the eviction airing at 9pm as usual.

The Met Office issued three amber weather warnings for wind earlier today as Storm Amy heads over the UK.

The storm is forecasted to bring 100mph winds and heavy downpours across Britain from Friday afternoon until Saturday. Met Office Chief Forecaster Neil Armstrong said: “Storm Amy will be an impactful autumn storm for many in Scotland and Northern Ireland, though impacts will also spread to northwest England and Wales, as well as a more widespread windy period for the rest of the UK."

“Within the amber warning areas, damaging gusts of around 100mph are possible for a time on Friday evening for parts of western Scotland, especially Skye, Tiree, Barra and western Lochaber." He added that the storm could cause significant disruption - from power cuts to damage to buildings and trees.

Earlier this week, Big Brother announced a huge change to the way voting would work for this series - with the public voting to save housemates instead of voting to evict. Revealing the change on Late and Live on Tuesday, host Will said: "You may have heard this series the game is changing.

"Ahead of the first live eviction of the series, I can now exclusively reveal that in a break from long-standing Big Brother tradition that you the viewers will not be voting to evict. You will be voting to save. The fans asked for it - we have delivered. Big Brother was listening."

Big Brother airs tonight at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.

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