Big Brother: What are Wales’ contestants doing now?

Reality TV present Big Brother is returning to our screens after an absence of 5 years.

It was axed by Channel 4 and Channel 5, however will now be proven on ITV.

The present launched the careers of This Morning’s Alison Hammond and former Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts.

Over the 19 collection, there have been 16 contestants from Wales, and three winners, with Welsh spoken within the Big Brother home by two of those – however what are they doing now?

Glyn Wise, 35, from Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, got here second in Big Brother 7 in 2006.

“I’m cooking an egg for the very first time” grew to become considered one of his catchphrases on screens.

However, he and fellow housemate Imogen Thomas have been banned from talking to one another in Welsh.

It led to criticism of Channel 4 which then aired their conversations with subtitles.

Since leaving the home he has labored as a radio presenter, a instructor and stood in a Senedd election.

“I can do a reasonably good Sunday roast now,” he additionally stated of his time within the Big Brother home.

“They have been particular, unforgettable days due to the broad vary of experiences I’ve had because of that present and I liked each minute.

“I used to be doing my A-levels at Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy on the time and went to the audition the place there have been 1000’s of individuals and thought I’d give it my finest shot.

“I went into the home in my lifeguard shorts to boos from the gang and got here out to fulfill Davina McCall after which going to premieres with Michael Douglas pondering ‘What an earth’s happening?’

“It was like there have been two completely different Glyns from the Glyn who went in and the Glyn who got here out.”

He is not certain the rebooted model will probably be successful as a result of the best way viewers devour tv has modified within the age of streaming.

“I feel it will be like when Gladiators was introduced again by Sky. No-one watched it,” he stated, including: “Sion a Sian got here again to S4C and no-one watched that.

“The TV panorama is so completely different and folks do not watch programmes like they used to.

“Big Brother’s success was you went home and at 9 o’clock, all of us watched it, however you’ll be able to watch what you need, whenever you need on the streaming providers.

“I feel ITV try to get folks again watching TV. I do not know if it will work, but it surely did with Love Island, so Big Brother would possibly do too.”

Lateysha Grace, 30, from Port Talbot, completed eleventh in Series 17 in 2016.

Big Brother wasn’t her first style of actuality TV fame, having starred in MTV’s The Valleys between 2012 and 2014 and MTV’s Celebrity Ex on the Beach.

“It was career-changing for me and anybody that will get to do the brand new collection is so fortunate,” she stated.

“I’d achieved The Valleys, however Big Brother was completely different, as a result of it wasn’t industrially produced, you bought to be your self and forgot the cameras have been on you.

“It was unfiltered and unscripted and also you by no means pretended to be another person,” she stated.

She now works for MTV as a casting producer.

“It feels so surreal to be working behind the digital camera, it is at all times been a dream of mine to be a TV producer in the future.”

She hopes the brand new collection will return to its roots.

“Big Brother could make you or break you relying in your persona,” she stated, including: “I hope it is regular folks from regular locations, not simply people who find themselves fame hungry.”

“I’m actually wanting ahead to watching it.”

Rachel Rice, 39, from Pontypool, was the primary Welsh winner of Big Brother after spending 93 days in the home in 2008.

She is head of drama at Abersychan School in Torfaen.

Helen Adams, 45, from Cwmbran appeared on the second collection of Big Brother in 2001.

She was runner-up to Irish flight attendant, Brian Dowling.

The hairdresser, who labored at Classy Cutz in Newport, grew to become recognized for her “Helenisms”, together with “I really like blinking, I do”.

Helen and fellow BB contestant Paul Clarke have been in a relationship for 5 years however cut up in 2004.

In 2008 she appeared as herself in Charlie Brooker’s zombie-horror mini-series Dead Set on E4.

Luke Anderson, 41, from Mynydd Isa, Flintshire, received the thirteenth collection, on Channel 5.

The growth chef was the second transgender contestant to win the present, the primary being Nadia Almada.

Luke received half the £100,000 prize, after a twist which noticed the opposite half being given to a different contestant.

In 2013, Series 14 was received by Sam Evans, 33, from Llanelli.

Series 16 noticed Joel Williams, from Cardiff, come second.

He studied legislation at Cardiff University and works as an employment specialist and office investigator.

He can be a Conservative councillor and represents Pontprennau and Old St Mellons on Cardiff council.

On his web site he lists his pursuits as “spending time with household and pals, taking part in racket sports activities and climbing mountains”.

The present returns to ITV on Sunday.