It’s only been a matter of hours since CBS announced the cast of Celebrity Big Brother and fans already have a lot of opinions. 
 
 As previously reported, the celebrities entering the house include Omarosa Manigault, Brandi Glanville, Metta World Peace (whose real name is Ron Artest), Marisa Jaret Winokur, Keisha Knight Pulliam, Chuck Liddell, Shannon Elizabeth, Ross Matthews, Mark McGrath, Adriana Gutierrez and James Maslow. The cast was revealed in a commercial ahead of the 2018 Grammys on Sunday, January 28. 
 
 Fans, including Andy Cohen and Lance Bass, were quick to react to the casting news via Twitter. 
 
 “Because what else could Omorosa (sic) possibly do to follow up her important work in the White House but appear on Celebrity Big Brother?�? the Watch What Happens Live host tweeted on Sunday. When a user replied to Cohen’s tweet asking what he thinks about former the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star joining the show, he wrote, “Brandi is going to eat her for lunch.�? 
 
 Bass, who is a known Big Brother fan, tweeted, “My gut top 3 to win are: Ross Mathews, Shannon Elizabeth, and Marisa ‘Janet’ Winokur.#CelebrityBigBrother.�? 
 
 “Celebrity Big Brother is literally the last place you go before being the headliner at ribbon cuttings for new Waffle House’s. What a fall from grace for Omarosa #CelebrityBigBrother,�? a fan wrote. 
 
 Users had mixed feelings about the cast, especially Manigault, who left the White House in December 2017 after serving as one of Donald Trump’s political aides: 
 
 One fan wrote, “Brandi and Omarosa are our only source of drama they need to last all of 2 weeks#CBBUS.�? 
 
 Brandi and Omarosa are our only source of drama they need to last all of 2 weeks 😂😂 #CBBUS pic.twitter.com/wRDmlIwOTI — jimmy (@jimmy_G236) January 29, 2018 
 
 “If @OMAROSA is on here you may lose a lot of viewers… I KNOW I won’t be watching and we watch every season! Judging by Twitter, I’m not the only one. #BBCeleb #whatashame#waslookingforwardtoit,�? another user tweeted. 
 
 “I had the stank eye going reading this list until I got to Omarosa. Cause I want to see some drama, and Omarosa gonna bring the dayum drama. #CBBUS,�? another user wrote. 
 
 Scroll through to see other reactions to the Celebrity Big Brother cast announcement: 
 
 Me thinking for a second that celebrity Big Brother was gonna be goodpic.twitter.com/OebHU3PbAp — H Ramos (@Hect) January 29, 2018 
 
 A woman who was a COUNSELOR to the PRESIDENT is going back to reality TV for Celebrity Big Brother. Our country is such a disaster right now. — Emilia (@PoliticalEmilia) January 29, 2018 
 
 They could at least put @spencerpratt on Celebrity big brother. — Katie☮ (@Kaitlynprintz) January 29, 2018 
 
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 Did I just read this correctly?!?! IS OMAROSA GOING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE…..TO CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER?!?!?! — 🇰🇲Comorienne🇰🇲 (@_ShamGod) January 29, 2018 
 
 OMG Omarosa and Brandi Glanville are gonna be on #CelebrityBigBrother and they're gonna burn the MF house down and I cannot wait for the drama. — Breanna Waterhouse (@BreannaPaige) January 29, 2018 
 
 Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox! ||||| Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, isn’t the only one with secretly recorded audio of the president. 
 
 Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Daily Beast that Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the infamous former Apprentice star who followed Trump to the White House, secretly recorded conversations with the president—conversations she has since leveraged while shopping her forthcoming “tell-all” book, bluntly titled UNHINGED. 
 
 For months, it has been rumored that Manigault had clandestinely recorded on her smartphone “tapes” of unspecified private discussions she had in the West Wing. Audio actually does exist, and even stars Manigault’s former boss. 
 
 One person confirmed to The Daily Beast they had heard at least one of her recordings featuring President Trump. Multiple sources familiar with the “Omarosa tapes” described the recorded conversations between Trump and Manigault as anodyne, everyday chatter, but said they did appear to feature Trump’s voice, either over the phone or in-person. 
 
 The mere existence of such recordings represents a dramatic betrayal of trust by a onetime confidante who has since abandoned years of professed loyalty to the president and has apparently decided to profit off her years of closeness to Trump. 
 
 Trump particularly loathes the idea of being recorded without his knowledge, and felt especially irked and betrayed when news broke that Cohen had done so, as The Daily Beast reported late last month. 
 
 Manigault didn’t respond to a request for comment on this story. 
 
 A spokesperson for Simon & Schuster, Manigault’s publisher, would not confirm or deny the existence of those surreptitious recordings. “Without commenting on the specific contents of UNHINGED,” the spokesperson said, “we are confident that Omarosa Manigault-Newman can substantiate her highly anticipated account of life inside the Trump White House.” 
 
 The reality-TV star-turned White House official-turned reality-TV star again promises the book will provide a candid and revealing look at her time inside the Trump administration. Part of the book documents what she describes as Trump’s “mental decline.” The president, she claims, “rambled. He spoke gibberish. He contradicted himself from one sentence to the next.” 
 
 In a page from the book obtained by The Daily Beast this week, Manigault lays out what she describes as her and Ivanka Trump’s involvement in an attempted White House purge of “leakers,” with Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived White House communications director, leading the effort. 
 
 “Along with his comms directorship, Scaramucci had a secondary job. He was apparently the hired hit man,” Manigault writes. “Very low-key, Ivanka [Trump] went around to the original Trumpers, the loyal soldiers, and asked the team to compile a list of suspected leakers. I’d already said my piece about Katie Walsh directly to Donald, and she’d been let go. But Ivanka wanted a new list and, once she had it, she would give it to Scaramucci, so he could fire them all. The final list that was texted to me on July 22 had ten names on it.” 
 
 Manigault then lists former administration colleagues who were suspected of leaking: Vanessa Morrone, Lindsay Walters, Janet Montesi, Raj Shah, Kelly Sadler (“she of the John McCain is ‘dying anyway’ comment; live by the leak, die by the leak”), Lara Barger, Ory Rinat, Kate Karnes, Michael Short, and Jessica Ditto. 
 
 “Anthony would start firing them all, after a quick rally in Ohio,” the page continues. Scaramucci, however, would last only 11 days on the job before getting fired by Chief of Staff John Kelly. 
 
 Short, reached by The Daily Beast on Wednesday afternoon, said he “never once engaged in an unauthorized leak during my tenure. I was never confronted about being responsible for an unauthorized leak during my tenure. No one has presented a shred of evidence that I was responsible for unauthorized leaks. And much of my time in the White House was spent cleaning up after unauthorized leaks, and I was a target of them myself.” 
 
 Short, a former assistant press secretary, also noted that “one of my superiors” had “falsely and amateurishly leaked against me,” referring to Scaramucci, and added that branding a fellow official a “leaker” during the first year of the Trump era was often about “coloring people with an expletive rather than having any substantiation for the charge itself.” 
 
 Manigault herself was ostensibly so fixated on helping to root out the anti-Trump “leakers,” but has now turned around to dish potentially damaging information to the president in her “tell-all”—and the irony is not lost on her former colleagues. 
 
 Her tenure with Team Trump ended in dramatic fashion when Manigault was escorted off the White House campus after attempting to “storm the residence,” as White House officials and people familiar with the “ruckus” characterized the episode. Manigault had attempted to confront the president over her supposed mistreatment by White House colleagues. One source at the time described the scene as “the closest thing to reality TV [I’d experienced] since getting here.” 
 
 Shortly following her ouster from the Trump administration late last year, Manigault made a series of media appearances that conveyed shock, and even tearful panic, over the direction of the Trump presidency. “No, it’s not going to be OK, it’s not… It’s so bad,” she said earlier this year of the Trump era to Celebrity Big Brother housemate Ross Mathews. Manigault said on the program that she wouldn’t vote for Trump again, not “in a million years, never.” 
 
 Shortly after the Big Brother segment went viral, the president was made aware of Manigault’s latest antics, and according to two sources close to him, privately expressed his fury and annoyance at what his supposed longtime friend was doing. He insisted that Manigault would be “nothing” without him and that she was making a complete fool of herself, according to one of the sources. 
 
 However, those close to Trump say his anger at his former associate quickly became an afterthought. Her betrayal didn’t even elicit a characteristic Trump hate-tweet. 
 
 As the communications director for the White House’s Office of Public Liaison, Manigault would routinely boast to her colleagues and cohorts that President Trump loved and protected her, according to several former and current administration officials. She would go as far as to say that she was one of the very few people who the president could count on to stay loyal, and that he was inundated by opportunists and double-crossers who only wanted to cash in on their proximity to Trump. 
 
 The White House declined to weigh in on Manigault’s latest. However, White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah told reporters in the briefing room back in February, “Omarosa was fired three times on The Apprentice, and this is the fourth time we let her go.” 
 
 He added, “she had limited contact with the president while here,” and, “she has no contact now.” ||||| A day after Omarosa Manigault Newman appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and said she was “haunted by the President’s tweets,” the White House is divulging the details on how she left her post as a former aide. 
 
 White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah said Thursday they were not taking her comments about the president “very seriously” and revealed she’d been fired. 
 
 “Omarosa was fired three times on the ‘Apprentice’ and this was the fourth time we let her go,” Shah said during a press briefing. “She had limited contact with the president while here. She has no contact now.” 
 
 Manigault Newman, 44, appeared on The Apprentice with Trump before becoming his director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison. One of the president’s most prominent black supporters, she announced her resignation in December. 
 
 During Wednesday night’s premiere, fellow houseguest Ross Matthews made it clear there was no love lost between the two. In a sneak peek for Thursday’s episode, the two seemed to bond in the backyard of the house as Matthews questions her about her time in the Trump administration. 
 
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 “As a voter, a citizen, I never got it, why you went to the White House with him,” Matthews, a comedian, said. 
 
 Omarosa Manigault Newman tears up during Celebrity Big Brother while talking about her time in the Trump administration 
 
 “I felt like it was a call to duty, I felt like I was serving my country by serving him,” Manigault Newman responded. “It was always about the country. Like, I was haunted by tweets every single day. What is he gonna tweet next?” 
 
 “Does anybody say to him, ‘What are you doing?'” Matthews asked.” 
 
 “I mean, I tried to be that person, and then all of the people around him attacked me,” she said, breaking down into tears and claiming she got iced out by the administration. 
 
 “Should we be worried?” Matthews asks, begging her to tell him everything will “be okay” because it’s what we want to hear. 
 
 She nods: “No, it’s not gonna be okay.” 
 
 Celebrity Big Brother airs Thursday at 8 p.m. ET, and the three-night premiere event continues with a two-hour live eviction show Friday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
– From the White House to the Big Brother house: Omarosa Manigault, who rose to fame on The Apprentice before a year in President Trump's White House, will return to her reality TV roots with a stint on Celebrity Big Brother, the first celebrity edition of the long-running CBS show. The new season, running from Feb. 7-25, will see 11 celebrities locked in a house as they battle for $250,000. Though Manigault is "the biggest name in the new cast," per the Hollywood Reporter, she'll be joined by other familiar names including Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath, American Pie actress Shannon Elizabeth, and former UFC fighter Chuck Liddell. Rounding out the cast is Brandi Glanville of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, former Cosby Show actress Keshia Knight Pulliam, former NBA star Metta World Peace, Marissa Winokur of Broadway musical Hairspray, former Nickelodeon star James Maslow, TV personality Ross Matthews, and former Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez. Still, it's Manigault who's created the most buzz, with fans hoping she'll dish about her time in the White House while monitored 24/7 by cameras and microphones. Big Brother fan Andy Cohen, however, predicts Manigault won't be around for long. "Brandi is going to eat her for lunch," he says in a tweet, per Us Weekly.