Big Brother had plenty of these moments but no contestant is more quoted or remembered than the late Nikki Grahame who died on Friday after years spent battling Anorexia.
She was one of the original reality TV stars, polarising and infantile yes, but undeniably magnetic. We mustn’t be too cloying or over-intellectualise the significance of her being a young outspoken woman on TV.
Nikki was entertaining because she was a spoilt brat, and in the most jarring of ways too. Whether she was complaining about the central heating (“I’m so coooooold”), calling out her greedy ‘fat ox’ housemates or lashing out over failed attempts at tasks, she was a spectacle to behold.
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