The cast of this year’s Big Brother Australia have dived head first into the show which is has been dubbed ‘the raunchiest to ever grace Aussie television’. 

On Thursday night, Big Brother Uncut premiered on Channel Seven‘s streaming website, 7plus, 17 years after the X-rated series got pulled.

During the reboot’s premiere, the participants were filmed stripping down in the open showers.

The scene was a far cry from previous moments during the peak of Uncut in the 2000s, with the women mostly wearing bikinis or going topless and the men covering their modesty with a towel or their hands.

The original Big Brother, which previously aired at 9.30pm on Channel Ten, was often explicit, but Seven has touted the upcoming season as the ‘spiciest’ ever.

The scene was a far cry from previous moments during the peak of Uncut in the 2000s, with the women mostly wearing bikinis or going topless and the men covering their modesty with a towel or their hands.

The original Big Brother, which previously aired at 9.30pm on Channel Ten, was often explicit, but Seven has touted the upcoming season as the ‘spiciest’ ever.

It looks like the network is going to live up the promise following the return of Big Brother Uncut.

In addition to the nudity on display, there will be plenty of X-rated conversations between the cast too – although Seven was forced to draw the line when it came to talk of one taboo sex act which was deemed too hot for TV.

Industry insiders are already shocked by how far Big Brother Uncut is set to go this season, as many had assumed that it would be fairly tame given how family-friendly most programs on commercial television are these days.

‘No one was expecting to see any nudity or contestants sharing their raunchiest jaw-dropping sex stories,’ said one.

To avoid sparking an advertiser boycott and outraging censors, Seven have decided to air Big Brother Uncut on their 7Plus streaming service instead of their free-to-air channels.

However, some industry sources predict that the Uncut instalment could still get axed after the premiere if enough viewers complain to Australia’s conservative media watchdogs.

Even if it does get cancelled, a former producer from the original series says it’ll be worth it for all the publicity it’ll generate.

‘That one noisy episode will have done what Channel Seven needed. Which is to gain headlines and eyeballs on a show that is all but dead and buried,’ they said.

The original series aired on late night TV from 2001 until 2006 on Channel 10 after the family friendly version of Big Brother.

After the 2005 season, audience complaints prompted the Australian Communications and Media Authority to launch an investigation into the X-rated show.

The main complaint was that 10 had breached the industry code of practice by broadcasting footage that went past the maximum MA15+ rating for Australian commercial television.

The ACMA found 10 had breached the code on a number of occasions.

The controversy peaked in 2006 when Camilla Severi was ‘turkey slapped’ by two male contestants, which led to them both being evicted while Severi went on to become the runner-up of the season.

Channel Seven recently dropped its first trailer for the upcoming series, calling it the ‘spiciest’ season yet.

While previous seasons of the Channel Seven reboot have been focused on gameplay, this year’s house will feature ‘hot sexy singles’ ready to find love.

As with every year, the selected cast will be locked away in a custom-built house with every hook-up, breakup and ‘dancing doona’ recorded by more than eighty cameras and microphones.

The series will see a whole new set of rules, rooms, tasks, jaw-dropping twists, and heart-stopping challenges in what promises to be the most explosive series ever.

Big Brother returns to screens at 7.30pm Monday, 6 November on Seven, followed by Big Brother Uncut every Thursday on 7Plus