Day 23: Non-celeb Chantelle wins
Posted by Simon at January 28, 2006 08:58 AM
Oh the British public are so funny, they must think they're really ironic voting for a non-celeb to win the 'celebrity' Big Brother... Yes, that's right, Chantelle won CBB... Madness.
She pipped quizshow star Michael "top middle or bottom what's a hotspot not" Barrymore to the title of Celebrity Big Brother 2006 winner, who went out to a massive wall of cheers from the crowd who were chanting "michael, michael michael!".
Barrymore said that he wasn't frustrated to be out of the house now rather than being the winner, saying "I'd already won before I got to this evening" - clearly pleased with his experience in the Big Brother house, and considering that to be more of a "win" than actually finishing in first place.
Highlights of Michael's time in the house concentrated on his entertaining of the other housemates, including when he was pretending to be Maggot, impersonating a German, dancing around in a leotard, and generally clowning around like only Barrymore could do.
His personality clash with Jodie and Dennis were bought up by Davina in the interview - Jodie sat there looking bitter and pissed off whilst he spoke about their disagreement, clearly not happy to have anything to do with him and not prepared to accept any apology if there was going to be one. She's made up her mind and that's that.
Whilst Michael had been receiving his interview on the stage outside, Chantelle had been pacing around the lounge shouting "o-mi-god!!!" and when Davina spoke to her she asked "'avv you checked? are you shuurre?" - clearly not beliving what she'd achieved.
Once Chantelle had made her way out of the house a fireworks display burst in to action, before being wisked to the main stage for her interview, where Davina revealled some suprise news that as she'd gone in a non-celeb and ended up winning, she'd receive a £25,000 prize - in as a nobody, out as a celeb with £25,000... can't be bad.
As with Michael the crowds seemed happy with Chantelle's win, and didn't boo her at all, although it seemed as though Chantelle really couldn't take the news all in, and must have been sitting there wondering if it was all just a big dream.
So it's all over for another year, but thankfully it's not all over for "2006" because the "normal" Big Brother is back again this summer... and The Eye will get back to you!