Just like Wolfie four years before her, Castleford till operator Ellie presented herself as a salt-of-the-earth Northern lass in her intro VT. And her initial fears about measuring up to the housemates she considered more glamorous only added to her whole underdog arc.
But in one of the clearest good-versus-bad divides in Big Brother history, Ellie chose the wrong side.
And thanks to her desperate advances towards chief villain Lotan and foul-mouthed tirades against the much more likeable Chanelle, Raph and Isabelle, she was eventually evicted alongside her showmance partner Sam the week before the final.
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