Anthony Scaramucci joining Kato Kaelin, Lindsay Lohan's mom on Celebrity Big Brother

Following in the esteemed footsteps of another fired Trump administration official, blink-and-you-missed-him White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci will appear on season two of Celebrity Big Brother.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, Apprentice villain and former aide to President Trump, was on the show's first season, where she spoke openly about her experience in the White House. During Manigault Newman's time on the show, host Julie Chen Moonves tells The Hollywood Reporter, The Mooch was invited to appear that season, "and he turned it down. But now he will see the attention Omarosa got."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.