[Headie]

The young Cambuslang woman unceremoniously kicked off TV show Big Brother has revealed the ensuing drama has been the worst experience of her life.

Ellis Hillon – who was publicly ejected from the long-running reality show on her 20th birthday – has been too upset to leave her home.

The former Cathkin High pupil has been left devastated since being portrayed as a racist over comments made on Twitter when she was aged just 15.

“It’s been horrible, I just wanted to go to sleep and not wake up,” said Ellis.

When the Reformer spoke with Ellis at her house, she was close to tears and barely recognisable from the bubbly girl who first walked into the Big Brother house on September 14.

Just 19 hours after first appearing on national TV, Ellis was sent home by Channel 5 bosses after comments she made on Twitter several years ago surfaced.

Ellis had posted on September 11, 2014: “Oh ******* aye its 9/11!! RIP to everyone who died n ******* they smelly P*** terrorist b*******!!!”

Big Brother bosses called Ellis into the Diary Room and then delivered the shock news that she would be removed from the house immediately because of
her “offensive and unacceptable” online posts.

She recalled: “I couldn’t believe it, I was totally shocked. I saw ‘2014’ on the sheet of paper and I definitely couldn’t remember writing that stuff on Twitter.

“But I wasn’t going to say that I didn’t write it because I wasn’t going to lie. I always want to tell the truth.

“I responded, ‘yeah...but years ago’ because it was so long ago.”

Big Brother asked Ellis if she had anything to say and she replied: “No. Apart from that I’m sorry.”

Ellis told the Reformer: “At that point I thought that the whole nation was against me. I said I was sorry and just wanted to go home, I was so embarrassed.

“When I left the Diary Room I felt empty. I had to sit in a room for a while until Big Brother got my cases.

“I do regret writing that back then and I would never say anything like that now. I was 15 – you don’t know what’s going through your head at that point as a teenager.”

Within an hour of being removed from the house, Ellis was put into a taxi with her suitcases for a six-and-a-half hour journey home.

Show producers phoned her mum, who was shocked to learn that her daughter would be arriving home in a cab after midnight.

Ellis said: “I thought my mum was going to be angry but she was so worried. She rushed out to the taxi when I arrived to give me a hug.

“I couldn’t stop crying and at that point I was thinking, ‘I don’t want to live, I just can’t face this’.”

After finally walking through her front door at 12.30am last Saturday, Ellis ran straight upstairs to her bedroom.

She said: “I just wanted to go to sleep and not wake up.

“A couple of years before all of this I was feeling quite down for a while, and I thought this was my time to be happy and live my dream.

“I don’t think I can be strong, I don’t. I’ve been so upset and don’t understand everything that’s happened.

“Right now, it’s like ‘where do I go from here?’

“I don’t want to go outside. People are going to be asking me lots of questions and I just can’t take it right now.”

Some national newspapers have wrongly reported that Ellis faces the sack from her full-time job at a McDonald’s in Glasgow.

Ellis, who was on unpaid leave while in the Big Brother house, said: “I’ve worked there for three years and my manager and workmates have been in touch asking how I am.

“I get on great with my workmates and they don’t have a bad word to say about me.

“We’ve got a board on the wall with customers’ feedback and I always get great comments for always smiling and going that extra mile for all our customers.

“I just really wish I’d been given a chance on Big Brother to show that I’m a nice person.”

Source: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/l...other-13311326

[Greg!]

I feel so bad for her

[Jase.]

Removing her, shoving her in a room to wait while they packed her ****, then dumping her in a taxi home. Ruthless

[Jessica.]

How could anyone not remember posting something like that? She shouldn't be mistreated by anyone but I think it was good that she got kicked out.

[Jase.]

I bet the Elstree to Glasgow taxi didn't come cheap

[Rob!]

NOT a taxi from London to Glasgow

[Epic.]

She should never have been accepted by the show in the first place, and it would've saved her, the fans, and the show from unnecessary controversy

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by Greg!

I feel so bad for her

I'm afraid I don't. Social media is a dangerous thing if you are going to vent opinions like that...and being 15 is no excuse.

For the short time she was in the house her behaviour was extreme to say the least...she behaved like a wild child..

[Cherie]

Peoole saying 15 is young, you do know right from wrong at 15, and she posted a sectarian tweet in April this year so..... yeah its horrible but she can move on now with a lesson learned

[RileyH]

Poor girl

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Rob!

NOT a taxi from London to Glasgow

Better than a public train or plane journey, I don’t see the issue

[Vicky.]

Its shocking that they let her in in the first place, just to kick her out for something that should have been uncovered within minutes. 'Enhanced background checks' my arse.

[Rob!]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Better than a public train or plane journey, I don’t see the issue

I think she'd have been alright on a plane if she just wore sunglasses or something. It's not as if people will have recognised her even if there were any huge Big Brother fans on the plane.

[Elliot]

It’s such a shame their incompetence ****ed her over. Either do background checks and don’t let them in in the first place or don’t put people in the spotlight just to kick them down over a tweet they made at 15. This was just unfair to her.

[Elliot]

What’s the point of having the show if you’re just gonna judge them from the outside AFTER putting them in the house. There are literal criminals in there right now, and have been before. Where’s the consistency?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jase.

Removing her, shoving her in a room to wait while they packed her ****, then dumping her in a taxi home. Ruthless

It was not.
RACISM is not permitted
even if it's from her Digital footprint

[Jase.]

Originally Posted by arista

It was not.
RACISM is not permitted
even if it's from her Digital footprint

Um am I talking about the reasoning behind why she was removed? NO.

[storybrooke]

Aw I do feel bad for her, hope she has a happy life anyway

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Rob!

I think she'd have been alright on a plane if she just wore sunglasses or something. It's not as if people will have recognised her even if there were any huge Big Brother fans on the plane.

Would there be that much difference in journey time? ...a hour transfer to the airport...a two hour wait there...an hour in the air ...another half hour getting out of the airport, then the tranfer time home, dragging two suitcases...if I had the choice I would have hopped in a taxi

[y.winter]

I hope she gets through it soon.

That being said, it's the same girl who jumped on Lewis G with her butt all out just a couple of hours after entering the house. So there's a pattern

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by Jase.

Removing her, shoving her in a room to wait while they packed her ****, then dumping her in a taxi home. Ruthless

Evil Big Brother is back?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jase.

Um am I talking about the reasoning behind why she was removed? NO.

Her tweet was DUG UP.
It went Worldwide.



RACISM on Ch5/Viacom

Not Legal

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Its shocking that they let her in in the first place, just to kick her out for something that should have been uncovered within minutes. 'Enhanced background checks' my arse.

Talk sense
It was a deleted tweet

Its Not Endemol's fault at all.

A member of the public dug it up.
that person started it all.

[Glenn-C]

By all means I agree that she had to be removed, but she shouldn't have been put in in the first place if they'd just taken 10 minutes to scroll through her Twitter feed and save her and themselves all this embarrassment

[Marsh.]

Shown up their sh*tty background checks for what they are. As if all of the housemates with clear mental health issues and addictions that are only exacerbated by being in there didn't prove anyway.

But their "aftercare" seems to be shown up as shoddy too. Tossed in a taxi with your suitcase within an hour and off you pop to contemplate suicide after the BB producers allowed you your public humiliation.

Probably for the best it's ending.