Unlikely heroine triumphs in a human petri dish
 

Last Night: Big Brother C4
By Thomas Sutcliffe
07 August 2004


In the end the bookies called Big Brother right. Earlier in the day a Ladbroke's spokesman, with the sense of perspective for which bookie's runners are noted, said that it would be "one of the biggest shocks in television history" if Nadia Almada - now officially Britain's most famous transsexual - failed to win the fifth series. In the event the O.J. verdict and the moment that the second plane hit the World Trade centre held on to their unchallenged status as moments of communal astonishment.

Despite a surprising surge in support for Jason Cowan (whose only previous claim to fame was the title of "Best Buttocks, South Lanarkshire"), Nadia's support held and she took the £63,500 that remained on offer for the winner with a conclusive 74 per cent of the vote. She greeted the announcement of her victory with a shriek that suggested she had just gone into the final stages of labour.

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