[James]

ROBERTO CONTE, the "Italian Stallion" from last summer's Big Brother reality TV show, is on his way to Perth, Western Australia, for the toughest leg of the Clipper round-the-world yacht race after a chance meeting on a train to Liverpool with one of the event's organisers. The former school teacher booked a flight to Durban in South Africa to take his berth in the amateur race 48 hours after hearing about it from a Fast Track executive. After three weeks on the treacherous southern oceans, he will wish he was back in the Big Brother house.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...893611,00.html