OHMYGOSSIP — Kate Lawler nearly didn’t audition for ‘Big Brother.’
The 42-year-old TV star competed on and eventually became the first-ever female winner of the Channel 4 reality show back in 2002 but revealed that it was her twin sister Karen who initially wanted to take part until she found that the application form was “too long.”
She said: “My twin sister wanted to do it but she couldn’t be bothered to fill in the application form because it was too long. So I said I’d do it. And then I filled in the application form but nearly didn’t send it off. It was the very last day I could send it, I did a stupid video and then I was asked to be a housemate.”
The former Capital FM DJ added that even after she had been offered a place on the show – which is set to be revived on ITV2 in 2023 almost five years after it was axed – she was still unsure in case her time on the show followed the same fate as former contestant Nicholas Bateman, who was dubbed Nasty Nick after being accused of manipulating housemates.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘This Moring’, she told hosts Vernon Kay and Rochelle Humes: “Then I debated on whether or not to do it. I was thinking to myself ”Oh my God, do I do it? What if what happened to Nasty Nick happens to me?’ You see a psychologist before the show and they brief you that it could all go horribly wrong.”
Kate then added that she thought fellow housemate Alison Hammond – who `eventually placed 12th on the series but has since gone on to front ‘This Morning’ alongside Dermot O’Leary – would win the programme and “knew” that it was time for a female to finish first.
She added: “I thought Alison would win it when I arrived in the house. I was looking at Alison and I was like ‘You’re definitely gonna win it, you’re amazing, you’re this big bubbly personality. But there was a point in my series that I thought I could win it, I knew that a female would win my series. That’s what I knew. I thought it was time.”
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