Ben favourite artist : Alanis Morisette
It's a great pleasure to introduce a great friend of mine. The very hilarious, wonderful person : Benjamin Tristan Foster!
He was born in Croydon from a wealthy family and had quite a good childhood.
But there was sadness as well. He lost his father and two brothers before he was four, saw his mother try to take her life and also saw her beaten by his stepfather and dragged down the road on a car.
At around 11 years of age he learnt to throw himself into reading to escape his life and at 15 he got into poetry.
Ben has very fond memories of his school days.
He went to a Grammar School to start with , then to a normal school, because he moved to Hastings.
He fell into a crowd who smoke, drank and did drugs, so he ended up doing those things as well.
But he always tried to do well at school, because he knew the importance of education.
He was deemed intelligent by his teachers, but easily distracted.
He once made his french teacher cry by taunting her with a toy doll pretending it was a german baby.
He got kicked out of home at 15 and went to Scotland to work with his aunt, then went travelling for a bit.
When he came back he worked three jobs to put himself through college and went to uni in Devon.
He loved his uni days, because it was nice to be down in Dartington, away from city life.
There were a lot of parties outdoor he used to love listening to music by the river.
His course was good. He once reduced his group to tears with one of his performances and it was a great moment for him.
Ben graduation
He went and studied in Portugal for three months and at the time he had a fiance' back in the UK, who he was missing very much.
Ben has also lived in Melbourne, Australia, for six months; there he met other backpackers and had the most amazing time.
One time he made a sheep costume for the nativity play, had too much to drink and woke up on the beach with some penguins.
He also travelled in the Outback of Australia for three months and really enjoyed living immerse in nature.There was a lovely creek with kangaroos and crocodiles.
He also lived in New Zeland for a year, where he got a job in the travel industry.
This gave him the opportunity to travel and do some amazing things for free, like bungee jumping and canyoning.
Ben doing a bungee jump Auckland, New Zeland.
He really enjoyed living in New Zeland, because everyone was so laid back and he made a lot of friends there.
One night Ben had drank too much and threw his work shoes out of the window (it was on the fifth floor).
Ben in Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, Mitchell Falls, Australia.
Ben in Auckland, New Zeland
He went and studied in Portugal for three months and at the time he had a fiance' back in the UK, who he was missing very much.
Ben has also lived in Melbourne, Australia, for six months; there he met other backpackers and had the most amazing time.
One time he made a sheep costume for the nativity play, had too much to drink and woke up on the beach with some penguins.
He also travelled in the Outback of Australia for three months and really enjoyed living immerse in nature.There was a lovely creek with kangaroos and crocodiles.
He also lived in New Zeland for a year, where he got a job in the travel industry.
This gave him the opportunity to travel and do some amazing things for free, like bungee jumping and canyoning.
He really enjoyed living in New Zeland, because everyone was so laid back and he made a lot of friends there.
One night Ben had drank too much and threw his work shoes out of the window (it was on the fifth floor).
Ben now works in travel. He enjoys trying to get people to leave their comfort zone and do something new.
It also gives him the opportunity to travel more.
He just got back from Amsterdam and has trips to Denmark and South Africa planned.
He loves pizza and enjoys listening to most kinds of music, especially Ludovico Einaudi and Alanis Morisette.
His favourite movies are Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind and Grave Of The Fireflies.
Ben has been a member of the This is Big Brother forum since July 2008, where he has won TiBB Next Top Model 4, Darkwood twice, In Cold Blood, The Mole and The Pub quiz twice.
He has run a few forum design competitions and created many popular games, like Elimination and The Mole.
He also brought back the The Hot Seat, where a member answers questions from other forum members to get to know each other better.
The most popular threads he has created are : The Ambience Lounge, where people can listen to soothing music, the Poetry Hut, a place to post poems members have read or written and The Avatar Graveyard, a galley of old avatars.
He's currently planning to bring to the forum a new game called The Amazing Race, based on a successful tv show.