Bateman was ejected from Big Brother for breaking the rules

Penny Ellis and Narinder Kaur represent Channel 4's Big Brother 2 on the show, which is famed for the acerbic put-downs of its presenter.

Ellis, who was the first to be evicted from Big Brother house, has a repeat performance in being the first to be dubbed "the weakest link".

But she has said that treatment on Big Brother was worse than anything she faced on The Weakest Link.

"Anne Robinson was nicer to me than Stuart," Ellis said.

Meanwhile Kaur, who became a Big Brother legend for her own loud-mouth said that Robinson did not intimidate her.

Former schoolteacher Ellis is to host a radio show

"She didn't scare me, the wench with the long black jacket," she said.

ITV's Survivor contestants Zoe Lyons and James Stroud also took part along with Darren Ramsay, Caroline O'Shea and Nick Bateman from last year's Big Brother.

Trevor Kearon and Toby Waterman, who spent a year on a remote Scottish island for the BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary Castaway, also compete.

The special series of quizzes includes a fully Welsh edition, designed to let people offended by Robinson's derogatory comments about Wales to get their own back.

Kearon was a driving instructor before going to Taransay

Others include a football special, a TV doctors and nurses special and a comedian special.

The Weakest Link will return to UK screens in the Autumn, after a break while Robinson presented the US version of the show.

It has become hugely successful in America after a shaky start.

It regularly outperforms fellow British import Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?, and had higher ratings than the last in the current series of popular legal comedy drama Ally McBeal.

Special editions planned in the US include Robinson facing the six actors who played the kids in the 1969-74 sitcome The Brady Bunch.

The Bradys actors, along with their TV mother Florence Henderson and Robbie Rist, who played their cousin Oliver, played for charity.