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DEREK'S PEEP SHOW WITH THATCHER

By Himaya Quasem

THIS is Big Brother's Dark Deceiver Derek Laud with Margaret Thatcher moments before she was forced out as Prime Minister.

The 40-year-old political analyst is peeking out from behind the curtains of No.10 as the crowds gather below demanding the Iron Lady quit.

Thatcher is just visible behind the nets beside Derek, who was one of her speech writers until she resigned in November 1990.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here star Christine Hamilton - wife of disgraced former Tory MP Neil - claims the Big Brother star is a close friend of the former PM. She said' Derek was her adviser but over time became Margaret's friend as well.

'He was really crushed when she lost the leadership and appalled by the way she was treated by the party.

'The picture of her at the window is quite a famous one but not many people realise it's Derek beside her.

'All you can see are his little eyes peeking through.'

Christine - who is tipping Derek to win Big Brother - also revealed how her pal, who boasts of his £100,000 salary, had humble beginnings.

She said: 'Derek's parents were Jamaican and his mum was a nurse.

'He wasn't planned and his parents were not married. He was given up for adoption and taken in by two middle-class women in Norfolk.

'But Derek is very enterprising and everything he has achieved has been from his own hard work.

'I should imagine he is a good deal more well-to-do than most of the other housemates and probably has more brains than all of them put together.

'I think he is missing intelligent conversation. The poor dear hasn't any newspapers or books and the other housemates don't provide him with much intellectual stimulation.

'And he's probably hating the bad language and sexual exhibitionism

From the Sunday Mail