Twins tipped to win Big Brother
The eighth series of Big Brother ends tomorrow night after 13 weeks.
Twins Sam and Amanda Marchant, 19, who count as one person in the vote, are favourites to win the show.
But Essex boy Brian Belo, a 20-year-old data clerk, is also a strong contender.
Others still in the house are activist Carole Vincent, 53, former boyband member Ziggy Lichman, 26, tree surgeon Liam McGough, 23, and museum visitor assistant Jonty Stern, 36.
This year the show failed to make the big splash it has become famous for, and viewing figures were down.
But these were the most talked-about moments of the eighth Channel 4 series:
:: A Man-Free Zone
For the first time in the show’s history, Big Brother kicked off with an all-girl house.
But the man-free zone ended three nights later when Ziggy entered the house.
He had 11 women for company, before more men were brought on to the show.
:: The First Ever Twins
Sam and Amanda Marchant, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, were the first ever twins to enter the reality show.
The identical twins were nicknamed “Dumb and Dumber” because of their dizzy blonde ways.
Some bookmakers have already begun paying out on the twins winning tomorrow.
:: Emily Booted Out
After coming under fire over the Celebrity Big Brother race row, TV executives were quick to demonstrate their muscle when another incident threatened to flare up.
They booted out posh Bristol student and aspiring actress Emily Parr, 19, after she called black contestant Charley Uchea a n***er.
The blonde, who had boasted of her intelligence before she entered Big Brother, was humiliated and has been little heard-of since.
:: Most Hated Contestant
Charley Uchea rated herself ten out of ten for attractiveness and ruthlessness.
But viewers felt differently, and she was dubbed the most hated Big Brother contestant ever.
The 22-year-old was pilloried for constantly name-dropping her football star cousin Kieran Richardson and for unleashing uncontrollable rages at her housemates.
Big Brother bosses were accused of trying to bend the rules to keep Charley, one of the most colourful contestants, in.
When she was eventually voted out, the loudmouth ruined her chances of raking in the cash from her 15 minutes of fame by revealing too much about herself in the show’s post-eviction press conference.
:: Chanelle
Chanelle Hayes’s life story was the talk of the series in the early days.
She was born in prison to her drug addict prostitute mother who was murdered just six months later.
Orphaned by the murder, Chanelle was adopted by social worker Harry Hayes, 55, and his wife Christine, 49.
When they told Chanelle her true background when she was a teenager, she tried to kill herself.
Her mother’s murderer was due to be freed from Full Sutton maximum security prison in York just weeks after the start of the show.
:: Family Secret
Viewers are waiting to see how Brian Belo, who famously said he did not know who Shakespeare was, will react when on leaving the house he discovers a secret about his family.
He was given up by his Nigerian parents when he was just four months old.
But the contestant does not know that his real father and foster mother were once married to each other.
Brian’s parents attempted to regain custody of him when he was five years old.
His foster mother claims that his father told her they would have to marry if she wanted to keep looking after the youngster because he feared he was going to be deported.
The pair divorced in 2002.
:: Romance
Posh Spice wannabe Chanelle and Ziggy provided this year’s biggest romance - the pair fell for each other just hours after the former boyband member entered the show.
