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Tough day for Jodie

9 January 2006

CELEBRITY Big Brother housemate Jodie Marsh faces a stressful day in the house on the third anniversary of her best friend's death, her parents have revealed.
Viewers have already seen the tearful model claiming that the only thing that is keeping her in the Big Brother house is her family and friends.

Her mother, Kristina, and father, John, said they expect the 27-year-old Essex girl to shed further tears before she "comes into her own".

Marsh's friend Kim Banyard was strangled and battered with a hammer on her 22nd birthday by her 21-year-old painter and decorator boyfriend Jonathan Dore, who was later jailed for life in November 2003.

Mrs Marsh told GMTV they had mixed emotions watching their daughter on the show and fear she will find it hard to cope on Day Five.

She said: "She is going through a bit of a traumatic time.

Death

"Today is the anniversary of her best friend's death.

"She was murdered three years ago and it always affects Jodie so today I think she will be quite emotional and quite tearful."

Mr Marsh added: "She's very emotional and stressed at the moment but after today I think, hopefully, she will start to get back to her normal self.

"We have enjoyed watching most of it so far and hopefully after today she will start to come into her own."

The glamour model was the centre of attention in the house after she showed both her spiritual and argumentative sides.

She spent her first Sunday in the reality show taking part in Buddhist chanting with actress Rula Lenska, then arguing with Pete Burns over his fur coat.

The spat began when the '80s singer said he was outraged at Marsh boasting about the revenge she had wreaked on a former boyfriend - by literally airing his dirty underwear in public - in her autobiography.

Monkey

The glamour model replied: "Well, I think it's low that you wear a monkey coat, It offends me every time I see it on your back."

Burns, 46, hit back, saying: "That thrills me. I get off on the fact that my coat offends someone who put her boyfriend's dirty underwear in a book."

When Marsh said a trip to the butcher's left her with the impression of "dead bodies everywhere, I see it as murder", Respect MP George Galloway, 51, joined in.

"Should Eskimos wear fur? They live in the frozen north and there's nothing they can wear except animal skin. They're not murderers," he said.

Earlier actress and Buddhist Lenska spent time chanting and was joined by the glamour model who quickly picked up the complicated rhythmic words.

Lenska, 57, sat in the corner of the living space and rang a bell several times before she began. She was joined by Marsh, American actress Traci Bingham, 37, and Faria Alam, 39 - famous for her fling with England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson - who all watched.

Source: Manchester Online