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Jun 15 2008 Meida Wales


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BIG Brother babe Imogen Thomas has sensationally blasted the show that made her famous – claiming it should be pulled off the box.

The 25-year-old pin-up from Llanelli told Wales on Sunday Big Brother was “fake, boring and full of clones” and that she was so turned off she hoped this year’s series would be the last.

Former Miss Wales Imogen, who starred in Big Brother Seven with drama queen Nikki Grahame and Tourette’s sufferer Pete Bennett, said she is so fed up with the reality show she’s only seen one full episode – adding it needs a drastic makeover to boost the “rubbish” ratings.

“I think it needs to go away now,” she said.

“It needs a break – it should go away for a year or so and come back with a bang.”

Imogen is now a successful l ads’ mag model who has used her high profile to set up a Cardiff nail bar – due to open with a swanky party at a city hotel next month.

And she said she was loathe to use her precious spare time watching Big Brother, which she claims has given viewers nothing but carbon copies of the characters she lived with since they left in 2006.

“Since I was in it two years ago, it’s like everyone’s trying to be clones of BB7,” she said.

“I saw someone trying to act like Nikki and it was pathetic.

“When I see people going into the diary room and putting on stupid voices it’s just embarrassing.”

Imogen, who was portrayed as quiet in the house, gave Wales on Sunday her exclusive tips for Welsh house-mate Rachel Rice to deal with the bullying that has already hit this year’s show, in our interview on pages 22&23.***

“BB7 was the best one apparently – and I agree,” said the other half of Swansea City star Matt Collins.

“We didn’t have any bullying, me and Richard argued at the beginning then sorted it out and that was an argument, not bullying. Ours was a very loving house.

“There’s a lot of bullying going on this year, and maybe that will make people watch.

“But the ratings now are rubbish – people are trying to be like us.

“We had much bigger characters like Pete, who had Tourette’s, which people had never seen before, and Nicky with her childish tantrums., and Aisleyne as the ghetto girl with a great heart, and it was genuinely funny. “Everyone tries too hard now.I’d like to see them be themselves. Since last year I really starting thinking people were just in there for fame and fortune – it’s not like it used to be.”

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-o...1466-21078507/