Newport’s Craig Phillips who was the original winner of Big Brother was this afternoon going back into the Channel 4 show to join this season’s housemates.
He was being sent into the house in a bid by producers to boost ratings as part of the 10th anniversary year of the show.
Alan Hamilton, Craig’s agent said: “Craig has nothing to prove, he won the first series and is arguably the most famous and successful BB winner of them all, he is taking a copy of his autobiography with him and is hoping to pass this to housemates to inspire them.
“Producers have promised to offer a significant fee to cancer-related charities in memory of Jade Goody for Craig to take part in this year’s series.
“Whilst Craig and Jade were never best of friends, they supported many of the same charities as each other. To date Craig has raised over £500,000 for charities across the UK completing many challenges from skydiving to shark diving.”
Mr Hamilton said: “His first task is to go head-to-head in an assault course challenge with a current housemate.”
He added: “We are as yet unsure as to exactly when he will leave the house but he has 140 shows of 60 Minute Makeover to film, an autobiography book party to organise and he’s currently building a development of five new apartments - so he has no time to stay even if he wanted to.”