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Belinda's best bits


Evicted: Week 6

She was the last of the new arrivals to come in - and now Belinda, Belinda, Belinda is the first to walk out.

Belinda was determined to make a name for herself in the Big Brother house - and so she repeated hers in triplicate.

Upon meeting Stuart, she said, "My name is Belinda, Belinda, Belinda - I say it three times so you don't forget it!"

"That's amazing, my mum's name is Melinda," he replied in earnest.

In her audition tapes, the 44-year-old claimed her easygoing personality would make her a delight to live with.

But after her first night in the luxury bedroom, her fellow housemates realised her declaration was anything but true - as she had an unbearable snoring problem.

After their first restless night with the noisy napper, the group dubbed her The Belinda-snorus, claiming her bedtime booming was worse than Mario, Mikey and Stuart's snores combined.

Her nocturnal rumblings were so loud, in fact, that eternally happy housemates Kathreya and Rachel finally found something to complain about - and moved from the luxury bedroom to the basic B-Block.

And the theatre director's annoying noises didn't stop there.

The group soon learned one of Belinda's greatest passions is jazz singing - and she didn't hold back her "talent", frequently serenading each of her friends with her scatting.

And in honour of the vocalist, Big Brother even set the house a task to sing instead of speak - for an entire hour.

The warbler got stuck straight into the challenge, but the others were less than impressed, with Dale later describing her not-so-dulcet tones as "like a thousand needles in my eye".

The housemates eventually passed the challenge, winning a few bottles of alcohol, but Belinda's musical "talents" failed to help them pass their next Irish jig task.

Ten contestants had to learn and perform a dance routine, and Belinda volunteered to lead the three others - Mikey, Mario and Luke - in beating out a rhythm on the drums.

Mikey and Mario listened to her advice, but later mocked her percussion skills. "I cannot believe she's got a degree in music," Mikey exclaimed.

The blind housemate later confronted Belinda after she had announced to the others he needed extra help with the drumming because of his disability.

"I just don't like the way you were going on tonight. You were saying 'Mikey needs more help because he's blind'. Well, I don't want any extra attention from you," he said.

Belinda burst into tears, and proceeded to apologise to Mikey, insisting she had not intended to patronise him.

But you couldn't fault Belinda for trying - she always gave 100 per cent to the group.

In the following week's Viva La France shopping task, she proved her dedication by struggling through thirty minutes of strenuous pedaling on an exercise bike.

"I feel so weird," sobbed Belinda after finishing, "that was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. It's worse than f***king childbirth!"

But it wasn't all tears and tribulations in the house - Belinda managed to find a true friend in body-builder Lisa.

In Belinda's final week in the house, Lisa told her, "I'm very intensely drawn to you. I find you really fascinating."

So did we all, Lisa.

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