Big Brother series seven: where are they now?

The 2006 series was an absolute classic

Big Brother series seven cast

by Georgina Terry |
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Big Brother is back Back BACK on Channel 4 this year with Davina McCall after ten years in the wilderness of Channel 5.

Well, sort of.

Davina and Rylan Clark-Neal are teaming up this summer to have a look back at Big Brother's best ever episodes in celebration of the show's 20th anniversary.

And we feel certain that many of those will be from series seven AKA the best one.

It brought us 93 (93!) days of Pete Bennett, Richard Newman and, err, Glyn Wise. Plus introduced us to one of our favourite women ever Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, as well as launching Nikki Grahame on an unsuspecting world.

Check out: Big Brother 2006 cast - what happened next?

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Big Brother series seven: where are they now?

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Pete Bennett

Pete was the first housemate to enter the Big Brother house, and made quite an entrance by falling down he stairs. He was also the last to leave after winning the show with a landslide 61% of the vote.

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Pete Bennett now

Pete's now an actor, starring in a show called Green Fingers on Amazon Prime. In late 2020, he's appearing in a Catherine Tate film, This Nan's Life.

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Glyn Wise

Remember Glyn? Only vaguely? Us too, yet he came second on the show after a whopping 93 days in the house. Blimey.

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Glyn Wise now

Glyn stood as Plaid Cymru's candidate in Cardiff Central in 2016 but resigned from the party later that year.

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Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace

Aisleyne divided opinion among the Big Brother housemates, she was voted to be sent to the House Next Door in week six, but she was popular with viewers and ended in a very respectable third place.

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Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace now

Aisleyne is the biggest monetary success story of her series and is worth an estimated cool £4.3m. She's still a darling of the tabloids and, honestly? We're still a little bit in love with her.

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Richard Newman

Another housemate who stirred up mixed feelings in the house, Richard survived eviction a whopping six times. He wound up in fourth place.

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Richard Newman not really now tbh

It's remarkably difficult to find an up-to-date snap of Richard (rude) so here's a jolly picture of him and fellow housemate Lea Walker. He went on to present a show on Gaydar radio for two years after the show.

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Nikki Grahame

One of the most iconic Big Brother contestants of all time, Nikki Grahame was booted out of the house on day 58 but was put back in on day 83 and basically jumped on Pete. She ended up in fifth place which is weird considering her "WHO IS SHE?" rant is still common parlance.

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Nikki Grahame now

Since leaving Big Brother, Nikki has done a whole lot more Big Brother, including Ultimate Big Brother (she came second to Brian Dowling) and Big Brother Canada 4 (she lasted a whopping 59 days).

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Jennie Corner

Look, we're going to level with you here. We don't remember anything about Jennie's time in the house and yet she was part of the finale and came in sixth place after 49 days in the house.

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Jennie Corner...still in 2006

Jennie's post-Big Brother life seems to have been lived out of the spotlight (as is her absolute right). She did a saucy photoshoot for now defunct lads' mag Zoo, posted some tweets in 2013 but other than that...nada.

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Imogen Thomas

Miss Wales 2003, Imogen lasted 86 days in the Big Brother house, just missing out on a place in the finale.

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Imogen Thomas

Unlike Jennie, Imogen has very much kept herself in the public eye. Her most notorious moment was when her alleged affair with Ryan Giggs was subject to a gagging order in 2011.

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Mikey Dalton and Grace Adams-Short

Grace and Mikey got together on the show, although when Grace left on day 30, Mikey stayed on and clocked up 79 days in the house.

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Mikey Dalton and Grace Adams-Short now

There can't have been any hard feelings though: the pair married in 2009 and are...still together.

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Lea Walker

Lea once claimed to have the biggest boobs in Britain. Ah, mems. The big busted former porn star, who we were HUGE fans of, was evicted on day 51 but returned for three days at the end of the show's run.

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Lea Walker now

Lea presented a radio show with Richard for two years (see above). She now has an OnlyFans account, as is the modern way and, from Twitter, seems as feisty and opinionated as ever. Hooray!

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Sezer Yurtseven

Sezer was the second person to be evicted from the house (after Bonnie Holt) but the fifth to leave after two housemates walked in the first two weeks (Shahbaz Chauhdry and George Askew) and Dawn Blake was ejected for apparently breaking the rules.

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Sezer Yurtseven now

Sezer's had quite the glow up since leaving the house. He know describes as a homeless campaigner which just adds to the phwoar factor.

Well, of course we've only included the ones of note. It was hard enough finding information on Jennie, we couldn't face looking up e.g. Bonnie Holt. We're sure she's having a lovely time though and we wish her all the best.

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Late last year, Aisleyne spoke to Closer about getting the biggest breast implants allowed by UK law.

"I had my boobs boosted to the biggest implant size allowed in this country, which is 800ml. I don’t know what bra size they’ll measure at, as they’re still swollen, but I guess around FF. I love them," she told us.

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Aisleyne says her breast implants are the biggest UK law allows ©James Rudland

Arriving at our photoshoot she said, "I’ve had a bit too much filler in my lips this weekend but, oh well, it’ll go down!”

Love. Her.

But while Aisleyne has undergone a surgical transformation including three boob jobs, lipo and Botox, plus collagen injected into her bottom, she insists she won’t go to dangerous extremes.

She told us, “In my twenties (Aisleyne was 27 when she appeared in Big Brother), I was insecure and still trying to find myself. I remember dreading my thirties, but they turned out to be the best decade yet. I was actually very sexually liberated, didn’t care what anyone thought and felt empowered as a woman.

"Now I’m in my forties, I might like the odd cosmetic tweak to keep me looking young, but I’m going to keep grabbing life by the balls."

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