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With the FINAL series of Big Brother well under way. Im going to take a look back at the housemates from both Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother over the next few weeks and fill you in on what happened to them and where they are now

Lets go

BIG BROTHER 1
Launched: 18 July 2000
Ended: 15 September 2000
Duration: 64 Days

Sada Walkington

Age upon entering: 28
Age Now: 46

Trained actress Sada now lives in Argentina and works as a yoga instructor.

She has changed her name to Guru Amrit Dev and is married to Argentinian
musician Sat Man Swaraj.

The couple have twins, Indigo and Padma, born in 2005.



Andy Davidson

Age upon entering: 23
Age Now: 41

Andy, famed for kissing Melanie Hill in the house, is now working as the head
of client strategy at insight and brand consultancy Flamingo, based in
London, and is a father of three.

On Flamingo’s website, he says he first applied to work at Flamingo in 2001
but was turned down because of his “murky reality TV past”.

After that, he worked at MTV for four years, before creating a $1.5million
business conducting research for brands such as Weetabix, McVitie’s,
Doritos, Idea and Starbucks, before heading back to Flamingo to head up
their UK practise.

He is the brother of Formula One racing driver and BBC Radio Five commentator,
Anthony Davidson.




Caroline O’Shea

Age upon entering: 37
Age Now: 55

Former dancer and pop star wannabe Caroline ‘Caggie’ O’Shea was unemployed
when she entered the Big Brother house, and soon began to irritate
housemates with her distinctive laugh.

She was nominated for the first eviction but clung on, eventually being kicked
out after three weeks when an incredible 900,000 people voted for her.

Caroline was reportedly depressed after the series, but she was last seen
making a brief appearance in Ultimate Big Brother in 2010 to participate in
a task.




Nick Bateman

Age upon entering: 32
Age Now: 50

Nick was caught trying to influence nominations by writing names on a piece of
paper.

Nick appeared as a housemate in Ultimate Big Brother in 2010

He was thrown out and vilified by fans. But the ex-stockbroker bounced back
with a media career.

He also wrote a book, Nasty Nick: How To Be A Right B*****d, and trained as a
camera director.



Nichola Holt

Age upon entering: 28
Age Now: 46

Shaved headed artist Nichola was famed on Big Brother for stripping to make
clay imprints of her naked body on the walls of the house.

She is currently believed to be a single mother to a four-year-old girl and
living in her home town of Bolton, Lancashire.

She was previously married to personal trainer Yas Parr. The couple are said
to have married on the island of Huatulco in Mexico, where her wedding dress
was composed of a white swimsuit and white silk sarong.




Tom McDermott

Age upon entering: 31
Age Now: 49

Tom got together with housemate Claire Strutton. The couple had a baby, but
split soon afterwards.

Tom now lives in a village on the coast of Cornwall where he runs his own
property company.

He remarried ten years ago, and former wife Claire, a florist, did the flowers
for his wedding.



Claire Strutton

Age upon entering: 25
Age Now: 43

Florist Claire entered the house after Nasty Nick was kicked
out for cheating.

Claire got together with fellow housemate Tom McDermott. They
had a baby boy, Pierce, and moved to Spain. But they split up within a year.

Claire remarried and has founded a luxury beach resort in Marbella as well as
night spots in Gibraltar and Chigwell, Essex.



Melanie Hill

Age upon entering: 26
Age Now: 44

Melanie worked in marketing and was interested in the
technical side of Big Brother.

Melanie has written a magazine column and worked as a marketing
director.

She is currently taking a career break to look after her son, Otis, with her
boyfriend Glenn.



Darren Ramsay

Age upon entering: 23
Age Now: 41

Darren was an aspiring model and dancer.

Darren came out as gay after the show

Darren came third and had various TV jobs for a while. He now
works for a research company.



Anna Nolan

Age upon entering: 29
Age Now: 47

Anna was an Irish, lesbian, former nun.

Anna finished second. She got a job on BBC3 before returning to
Ireland where she had a successful presenting career.

Now she is an executive producer and also presents the Great Irish Bake Off.

Host Davina McCall took a shine to Anna and got her to sign
to her own agent. The pair are still friends.



Craig Phillips

Age upon entering: 28
Age Now: 46

Craig launched a career as a DIY expert and hosted shows such as
60 Minute Makeover.

He now has his own production company doing makeover programmes for the
British Forces Broadcasting Service.

He is also an ambassador for tradesman website checkatrade.com.
He says: “There have been 14 other winners who haven’t been as successful as
me. Winning first makes a difference but if you’ve got nothing else to give,
you’ll fade away.”