Big Brother fans can’t get over the fact Hallie would have been in the same school year as Makosi Musambasi and Anthony Hutton’s ‘jacuzzi baby’.
Aged just 18, Hallie is the youngest member of the 2023 series cast who has entered the Big Brother house for ITV2’s reboot.
Viewers joked how they felt ‘old’ upon the realisation Hallie was born when series six of the show aired on Channel 4.
One of the standout moments in Big Brother’s history was when Makosi, now 43, asked for a pregnancy test after a romp with Anthony, 41, in a jacuzzi.
The then-housemate insisted she was almost sure she was pregnant, however it turned out not to be the case.
‘Now I feel old!’ Big Brother fans can’t get over Hallie would have been in the same school year as Makosi Musambasi and Anthony Hutton’s ‘jacuzzi baby’
Throwback: One of the standout moments in Big Brother’s history was when Makosi, now 43, asked for a pregnancy test after a romp with Anthony, 41, in a jacuzzi
Former cardiac nurse turned life coach Makosi, was just aged 25 when she appeared on Big Brother and after leaving the house, Makosi claimed she’d had sex with Anthony but he insisted this was not true.
Taking to X – formerly known as Twitter – one viewer wrote: ‘Thinking about the fact Hallie would have been in the same year at school as Makosi and Anthony’s jacuzzi baby’.
Another added: ‘Just realised that Hallie was born in the year the Big Brother 6 (yes, SIX) aired and I don’t think I’ve ever felt older’.
To which another fan replied: ‘Baby Jacuzzi’. ‘Oh come on, now I feel old’, said another.
On Monday night, viewers praised Hallie after she came out as transgender to her fellow housemates.
Hallie had chosen not to tell her story on Sunday’s launch night but had a change of heart the following day.
During a conversation round the dining table she said: ‘Hey guys, I just have something to say. Yesterday I feel like I wasn’t being 100% authentic in myself.’
Realisation: Taking to X – formerly known as Twitter – one viewer wrote: ‘Thinking about the fact Hallie would have been in the same year at school as Makosi and Anthony’s jacuzzi baby’
Show’s history: Makosi insisted she was almost sure she was pregnant, however it turned out not to be the case (pictured with Anthony and Orlaith in the pool)
Series six: Former cardiac nurse turned life coach Makosi, was just aged 25 when she appeared on Big Brother
‘I thought I’d let everyone know I’m trans, if you didn’t know already. I just thought I’d make that loud and clear. I’m a trans woman if you didn’t know.’
Hallie’s fellow housemates gave her a hug, with Chanelle saying: ‘Good for you. That’s very brave of you.’
While Dylan said: ‘This is a moment. I like it.’
Hallie continued: ‘I don’t know why I was nervous,’ prompting Farida to say: ‘You don’t need to be nervous.’
Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, one viewer wrote: ‘In this current climate it’s so refreshing but so important to see a trans woman being treated with so much respect and love from her housemates and on a major show like Big Brother. I hope Hallie will go really far in this series’.
With a second writing: ‘The Big Brother house going round and saying their pronouns so respectfully and not making a big deal, after Hallie came out as trans’.
Someone else said: ‘It shouldn’t be so moving and (pleasantly) surprising to see a respectful conversation about identity and pronouns between a group of strangers, but in the current climate it really is, showing how it’s done’.
And: ‘It is literally THAT easy to respect people’s pronouns’.
Hallie is not the first transgender housemate to appear on Big Brother – trans woman Nadia Almada won the in 2004 and trans man Luke Anderson triumphed in 2012.
Amazing: Big Brother viewers were quick to praise Hallie (pictured) after she came out as transgender to her fellow housemates on Monday
Sweet: Fans branded the youth worker, 18, ‘brave’ and ‘honest’ (Hallie, L, pictured with fellow housemate Trish, R)
Honest: During a conversation round the dining table she said: ‘Hey guys, I just have something to say. Yesterday I feel like I wasn’t being 100% authentic in myself’
Loving it: Fans took to social media to make their feelings known
