RUSSELL JACKSON
AFTER 71 days, the latest and most controversial series to date of the reality television show, Big Brother, disgorged its winning contestant in to the limelight last night - a 27-year-old Portuguese transsexual.
The show, the fifth in the series which pits members of the public with often violently conflicting characters together within the confines of an Orwellian, camera-monitored house, has attracted up to six million viewers.
The winner, Nadia Almada, a transsexual bank clerk from Surrey, beat Jason Cowan, a refuse collector and nude model from Lanarkshire, into second place along with 11 other contestants who originally set out in the house. She claims a £63,500 prize.
With her squawking voice and grating laugh, Almada had seemed unlikely to endear herself to the British public, but became the 50-1 on favourite for victory.
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