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DS have put together some Top 5's in the run up to their Reality Awards tomorrow night.

Top 5 Reality TV Villians

5. Pete Bruns, Celebrity Big Brother 4
There were plenty of candidates for the series villain title at the start of Celebrity Big Brother 4, with basketball star Dennis Rodman and politician George Galloway looking likely contenders. But Dead or Alive star Pete Burns trumped the lot with his foul-mouthed tirades, which showcased his sheer contempt for his fellow contestants. Chantelle Houghton was a "brass-faced little slag", singer Preston was a "little *****", while he ranted one evening for 40 minutes about how the "insincere" Tracy Bingham made his "sphincter squeeze like a lemon". It was venomous, jaw-dropping TV.

4. Charley, Big Brother 8
Every series of Big Brother has had gobby, loud-mouths who don't know when to stop, but self-professed 'It' girl Charley Uchea took the biscuit. Uchea managed to be obnoxious, argumentative and self-obsessed all in the same breath and came away with very few friends at the end of the series. Her motor-mouth and constant desire to be the centre of attention led to major run-ins with pretty much every one of her rivals. Charley's nadir came after a fake eviction from the house, where she discovered how much of a hate figure she had become for the British public. However, rather than change her ways, Uchea went back in the house bragging about her popularity and acted ten times' worse!

3. Katie Hopkins, The Apprentice 3
There's been plenty of idiots, schmoozers and bulls**ters who have taken part in The Apprentice over the years, but nobody riled up the boardroom and public quite like Hopkins. She proudly admitted that she would steal married men, called one rival "a dog" and said that she hoped Adam Hosker would be run over. Compared to everyone from Cruella De Vil to Miss Piggy by the press, she walked out of Sir Alan's boardroom at the semi-final stage, leading many to suspect she didn't want the job in the first place. After her firing, revelations in the tabloids continued about her bed-hopping, which only intensified her villain status further. She was so bad, she made Sir Alan look like a pussycat!

2. Simon Cowell, Various
"You should sue your singing teacher!", "You have invented a new form of torture", "You have the personality of a handle". 'Nasty' Nigel Lythgoe may have laid the groundwork on Popstars, but Simon Cowell took talent show villainy to a whole new level when he took the role as head judge on Pop Idol. Cowell's scathing asides have destroyed the dreams of thousands of deluded singers and generated several multi-million TV franchises in the UK and America. His withering looks, blunt metaphors and sneering put-downs have become the blueprint for all other reality TV judges to follow.

1. 'Nasty' Nick, Big Brother 1
A man so bad he has the word 'Nasty' pre-fixed to his name is always going to be a wrong-un. He was the very first reality TV villain, but there has arguably been nobody better since. When Big Brother first aired, no one knew it would be a success and it may not have been without Bateman's tactics and lies. He was willing to make up a story about his wife dying in a car crash and successfully manipulated his rivals into voting each other off with ease. His gameplaying and ploys were clever and have been mimicked by hundreds of reality contestants since. When he was eventually caught out and thrown out, Nick had reached such infamy that he made every national newspaper front page.

Top 5 Worst Reality Shows

5. CelebAir, ITV2
"A real plane, flying to real places, staffed by real celebrities!" Well at least the ITV2 pitch was half right, because there were definitely real planes involved. However, we'd be stretching it a bit to categorise Johnny Shentall, Chico and Amy Lamé as genuine celebs. CelebAir sounded awful on paper and didn't get much better when it actually screened. Eventually won by former So Solid Crew member Lisa Maffia (not that it really mattered by the end), we very much doubt we'll be seeing a second series any time soon.

4. The Farm, Five
It's pretty bad when Rebecca Loos tugging off a pig is a show highlight, but when a giant green duck is your eventual winner, its probably best to throw in the towel. Amazingly managing to last two whole series, The Farm was Channel 5's second attempt to create a rival to Big Brother after Back To Reality bombed. Hosted first by Ed Hall and second time around by Colin & Justin, it crowned Jeff Brazier and Keith Harris & Orville as champions. What they won apart from a loss of dignity (some hay? a pig?), we're still not quite sure. It would have been higher on the list, but any show that throws together Lionel Blair and Flavor Flav gets a little bit of our respect.

3. The Club, ITV
What do you get if you hire fading MTV presenters Donna Air and Matt Brown, recruit the services of Richard Blackwood, Dean Gaffney and Samantha Fox and cobble together a series format on the back of a beer mat? Late night ITV series The Club, that's what! All three 'celebs' were asked to run a bar at Nylon in London, while a complex and needless elimination element was incorpoated for bar staff, forcing the trio to hire and fire. Gaffney was victorious and got handed £15,000 for his time. It surely can't have been enough to wash away the shame.

2. Trust Me I'm A Holiday Rep, Five
For the lowly standard of celebrities alone Five's Holiday Rep had to be in here. From the sad (kiss 'n' tell girl Emma Jones) to the desperate (Noel from Hear'Say, BB's Nadia) to the downright bizarre (Syd Little, Nancy Lam), it didn't just scrape the barrel, it took a whole flipping chainsaw to it. The first series, hosted by Toby Anstis and Nancy Sorrell, was based in Ayia Napa and was about as classy as an Essex girls' hen-do on the Cyprus resort. The worst thing of all was that someone commissioned this nonsense for a second series!

1. Celebrity Wresting, ITV
There's many reason why Celebrity Wrestling tops our list. Kate Thornton was a host, it classified Annabel Croft, Leilani Dowling and Mikey Green as celebs, and those horrendous nicknames (James 'Gentleman Jim' Hewitt, Kate 'The Brawler' Lawler). But worst of all was the actual content. With very little actual wrestling and even fewer real celebs, it was a stinking mess from start to the graveyard-slot Sunday night finish. An embarrassment for all involved!

Top 5 Reality TV Shocks

5. Darren Gough wins 'Strictly'
Barnsley-born cricketer Darren Gough looked as though he would be about as graceful as a rhino when it came to ballroom dancing. But as the third series of Strictly progressed, the fast-bowler transformed himself, suddenly coming across as dainty and nifty rather than clunky and bulky. His improvement was so vast that by the time he reached the final, the fact he beat loose-limbed Colin Jackson and the nimble Zoe Ball didn't cause too many jaws to drop. Even still, the fact Goughie managed to go all the way to winning the glitterball trophy is still the biggest shock in Strictly history.

2. Maria eliminated on 'The X Factor'
In the fifth week of the second series of X Factor, Maria Lawson was a 66/1 bookmakers rank-outsider to get the boot. While her performance of The Rolling Stones' 'Brown Sugar' was an ill-advised pick from mentor Sharon Osbourne, no one suspected she wouldn't survive. In the first shock of the night, Maria was picked for the bottom two by the public. But even then, the nation presumed the series favourite would be saved by the judges over Irish jokers The Conway Sisters. Little did we count on the inexplicable judgment of Louis Walsh, who voted to save the Conways. Sharon Osbourne apparently blamed the Irish Mafia, but we just blame Louis.

3. Leon wins 'X Factor'
Very rarely do Simon Cowell or the bookmakers get it wrong. But in the final of X Factor series 4, they were both in for a big surprise. White-haired pop-opera oddball Rhydian Roberts had been the star of the series and no one believed he could lose. Even after a duet with Kylie, most believed that little Leon Jackson didn't have enough about him to win the show. But we were in for a shock when Kate Thornton revealed the winner, because the Scottish lad had done it. Despite protests and phone error investigations, the eventual answer was that Leon really was the most popular singer.

2. Raef is fired on The Apprentice
Michael Sophocles should have been fired long before week 9 of The Apprentice series four. He had somehow slithered under Sir Alan's net, despite being involved in one of the biggest ever cock-ups in the show's history with the Kosher chicken debacle. He appeared to be clinging on by the fingernails and when it came to the boardroom showdown with loveable toff Raef Bjayou after their botched TV tissue advert, everyone believed Sophocles had finally met his match. Amazingly, Sir Alan believed otherwise, choosing to axe 'The Raef'. We still haven't figured out the multi-millionaire's thinking on that one.

1. Ulrika wins 'Celebrity Big Brother'
Verne Troyer was the hot favourite. Terry Christian was popular on the forums. Coolio was the outsider and Ben from A1 had potential to surprise. But barely anyone gave mother-of-four Ulrika a cat in hell's chance of winning Celebrity Big Brother 6 when it came to the final. She had come across as reasonably pleasant, but had failed to sparkle in the house, spending most of her time praying for an early exit. But as the housemates were chopped one by one, suddenly there was only Ulrika and Terry left. When Davina revealed the former weather-girl had won, Ulrika uttered the words the whole nation was thinking: "It's a fix!" It wasn't, and it was arguably the biggest shock in the show's history.

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