Channel 5 has announced that the next instalment of Celebrity Big Brother will be an all-female affair, with only women entering the house for a set period of time until their male counterparts begin to filter in.

Scheduled to tie in with the 100th anniversary of women finally being given the right to vote, the show is being slated as a “salute to a centenary of women’s suffrage” and promises to be “celebratory, surprising and insightful”. Not only that, but it sounds like it will be a genuine experiment: Channel 5 says the contestants will “take part in a series of entertaining tasks and hidden experiments which will test their – and our – assumptions, challenge gender stereotypes and reveal fascinating truths about what it is to be a woman – and a man – in the 21st century”.

Best of all, the channel signs off with the delicious promise that we will “see what happens when women hold the power”.

This all sounds great, obviously. So which inspiring women will be plucked from the celebrity scene and sent into the house to raise the profile of womankind? Who will be helping us push forward our collective agenda to finally reach equality? Who will be representing our gender on live TV and wielding “the power” in the new CBB house?

Unfortunately, we have no idea. At the time of writing, the only sneak peek we have had of the female contestants is that of seven unidentifiable eyes. But while show bosses are yet to confirm a single woman for the 2018 line-up, they have chosen to reveal the first male contestant on the show instead. And while the baffling decision to first name a man for a supposedly female-run show is bad enough, the choice of said man is downright worrying.

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