'Big Brother UK's hunky trans housemate has flooded the entire internet's basement

Big Brother UK just introduced its latest batch of housemates, and one contestant has already captured the internet’s heart. Meet Zelah, a 25-year-old personal trainer from South London whose mix of humor, honesty, and warmth is making him an early standout.

Also, he is very, very good-looking.

In his one-minute intro clip, Zelah delivered an unforgettable pitch that showed off both his wit and vulnerability. “I constantly get compared to a spaniel dog,” he joked. “I’m pretty unbearable if I don’t get my 12,000 steps a day.” He explained he’s half-Indian and half-English (“My mum’s from Calcutta and my dad was from Cornwall”) before poking fun at his mullet and tank top: “The kind of people I don’t usually get along with are bro-y guys — which I know is ironic to say as I sit here in a wife pleaser with a mullet.”

Then came the reveal that stunned viewers: “Something that people are usually pretty shocked to find out about me is that I lived as a woman for 23 years of my life,” he said. “I think I’m living proof that being transgender is not a choice, because why would I choose to go from the luxury, the sanctuary that is the women’s toilets to the horror that is the men’s?”