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We always get a little over-excited when we hear that a disabled person might be appearing on TV, and double-excited when we hear it's a reality show. So maybe you'll be as bowled over as us when we tell you rumours have been circulating that the former post-punk-panto-popstar Adam Ant may be making an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.

The gossip columns started the chatter that he had passed up an offer to appear on ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and signed to the Channel 4 show after a bidding war.

The identities of the contestants are, as ever, kept under wraps until the show goes live - tomorrow night at 8pm. and others have mentioned his name a few times within the last week but more recent tabloid predictions haven't included our favourite ant in the lineup.

Last Autumn, Adam Ant published Stand and Deliver, an autobiography which detailed the ups, downs and relationship-damaging sex addiction that he has experienced as a result of bipolar disorder. It is due to be released in paperback in 2007. Questions are already being asked as to whether Big Brother producers are more interested in the 80s star because of his nostalgia value or because we may get to see some of his illness related behaviour much reported in the tabloids.

After years of waiting, disabled people were pleased when the regular summer version of the Big Brother included a contestant with Tourette Syndrome, Pete Bennett, last year. Despite criticism he was on for shock value and as a freak, it was felt that the nation learnt some very important lessons about the disorder through the back door as the fanciable Brighton-based musician ticked his way through 13 weeks and won the £100,000 prize in mid August.

In a related story, it has been reported that Big Brother's Big Mouth presenter Russell Brand could be playing Adam Ant in a forthcoming movie version of his autobiography since denied by the publshers who told adam-ant.net that the book had not yet been optioned.