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It's 18 months since Lisa Appleton from Big Brother 9 split from her husband Mario Marconi, but instead of living the dream as a single girl about town, she's living in a rat-infested flat on a rough council estate full of drunks, druggies and gangs.

She's too scared to venture out for fear of being recognised and abused in the street by vile gangs who terrorise the estate.

Her flat stinks and is riddled with damp, mould, rats and an infestation of bluebottles. Police are constantly on the estate knocking on doors at all hours and the sirens and rats keep her awake all night.

Lisa, 46, says the estate in Warrington, Cheshire, is covered with rubbish and empty bottles, and drunken fights, violence and drug use is rife.

Talking exclusively to Reveal, she tells us: "I'm terrified to leave the flat and, at 6ft tall, I stick out like a sore thumb. Everybody seems to know that I'm 'that one off the telly'. I've always prided myself on looking good and taking care of myself, but now I just want to hide," says Lisa, who grew up in a pretty village near Warrington.


But the fairytale soon turned sour when the lovebirds went from media darlings to the victims of a conman's cruel scam, leaving them broke, homeless and sleeping rough in a public toilet for shelter - pressure that, five years later, killed the marriage.

"I thought life couldn't get any worse after I'd slept rough on the floor of a stinking toilet in a London railway station," says Lisa. "That was the breaking point in our relationship."

"It was hard finding out that all our hard work filming a new TV reality series was a scam. The fake exec was only using us, and the show, to get people to invest in his company.

"We turned down work to film the series and when we didn't get paid, we were left broke and homeless.

"We started bickering like cat and dog. It was easy to start blaming each other and, before we knew it, our marriage just fell apart."

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