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Cameron's is writing a column every week in the Sunday Post. This is what he had to say about Big Brother, David Blaine and the fishing industry.

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My life has been turned upside-down since Big Brother win

Just don’t call me a Bible-basher

Who’d have thought it? This time last year, chances are I was sitting with my family devouring a bacon roll and reading the Sunday papers.
Today I have my very own column in the best of the lot!
If someone had said to me back then that I'd soon be travelling the world, living the high life alongside a clutch of celebrities and making regular appearances in the national media, I'd have told them to get their head examined.
But that's exactly what I've been doing for the past eight weeks, and it's been amazing.
I've been swept off my feet by Billy Connolly, shared a packet of Minstrels with Kirsten Dunst who was in Spider-Man and been impersonated on radio and TV.

Roller-coaster
I've attended movie premieres, music festivals and media parties. I've even stood in for Robbie Shepherd on Radio Scotland. Life just doesn't get any better! Some people say I'm on a roller-coaster journey, but that involves going up and down — and so far I've just gone up, up, up.

Honestly, the only negative I've experienced since winning Big Brother is reading some of the nonsense that's been written about me though even that makes me chuckle.
One minute I'm described as boring, the next it's fun-loving. Other times I'm called a teetotaller even though I enjoy the odd drink. I've even been portrayed as a Bible-bashing, God-fearing freak.

It really makes you wonder. Anyone who watched Big Brother will know I'm not teetotal and I'm certainly not a Bible-basher.
Yes, there are things that are important to me, and those include going to church and reading the Bible, but I'm aware there's nothing that puts people off religion more than someone constantly harping on about it.
As for boring, I was really disappointed when Jonny Regan slated me for that last week. If there was one person I really liked on the last series of Big Brother it was him.
I just hope that when we eventually meet he'll change his views.

Thankfully, it appears not everyone agrees with him. I've received thousands of cards and letters, predominantly containing offers from females I've never met before!
The problem is, I'm so busy travelling the length and breadth of the country that I've not had a chance to open them all yet, never mind respond.

As I said the night I won Big Brother, I am keen to meet someone, but at the moment it's proving to be a big enough struggle catching up with all my friends. What I can say is that it's unlikely anything will ever happen between me and Steph.

Open invite
We get on great, but we don't fancy each other. It’s that simple. However Steph, and all the other housemates, have an open invitation to visit me in Orkney.
And if they get even a fraction of the reception I got when I returned, they'll be bowled over.
People ask me what the highlight of the past eight weeks has been. Well, along with the incredible trip to Africa with Ray recently, sailing back into Stromness harbour will live long in my memory.

When I saw 3000 people waiting to welcome me it really hit me how bizarre my life had become.
Orkney means a lot to me and my life there has always been fantastic, so to see so many Orcadians happy for me was a great feeling.
I only wish I'd had more time to spend with them.

But that time will come. At home I'm still just plain old Cameron and I know that when I do return for good, my life will return to normality.

Even if you couldn't describe it as normal just yet.

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Caption: I'm really looking forward to writing for you all. Right-- Steph and I get on great, but we don't fancy each other.

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Diet boost for fishermen

I'M DELIGHTED to see there's a new "miracle" diet based on eating Sots of salmon, mackerel and trout.

The dermatologist who devised it claims it helps prevent wrinkles. If it takes off like the Atkins Plan, what a boost that would be to Scotland's fishing industry, which needs all the help it can get.

Having worked in the sector for 10 years it's a subject I'm very passionate about.
It makes me livid when I hear fat-cat politicians making decisions that affect thousands of livelihoods, based on a report written by a faceless bureaucrat.

They claim they are experts but I doubt if any of them has ever been on a fishing boat.
It's high time the decision-makers started listening to the people who are involved at the sharp end of fishing.
Otherwise, never mind a diet to lose a few pounds. They're in danger of losing a whole industry and people's livelihoods worth millions of pounds.

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Blaine boo-boys don't surprise me

I'VE BEEN in London a lot recently and all the talk is of David Blaine.
Let me tell you, if he reckons it's difficult sitting in a glass box, constantly in the public eye, he should try going on Big Brother!

Seriously though, the negative reaction he's received from the British public hasn't surprised me one bit.
People are bound to resent what he's doing.
After all, just below him along the riverside there are hundreds of people sleeping in even smaller cardboard boxes who regularly go without food, but they have little choice in the matter.

I don't want to sound hypocritical, because he obviously wants to prove something to himself like I did by going on Big Brother, but it's little wonder some folk have found his antics insulting. I, for one, cannot understand what he hopes to achieve from carrying out this stunt.

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