Big Brother 9 - Rachel

Housemate: Rachel

Age: 24

From: Torfaen, Wales

Occupation: English and Drama student, trainee teacher

Chatterbox Rachel is a trainee teacher from Wales and managed to surprise presenter Davina McCall and get the audience on her side as she made her way to the Big Brother house. By the time she got to the top of the stairs the crowd where cheering her on.

Rachel is a former child actor, who featured alongside Hugh Grant in the film Night Train to Venice when she was just eight years old.

Filming in Rome, she says Grant even organised her eighth birthday party.

Rachel went on to perform in three other films and over 20 commercials, but eventually stopped acting because she says she had to choose between acting and education - and Hugh Grant suggested she get her qualifications first.

The 24-year-old is a self confessed fitness fanatic and she trains at the gym five times a week and runs 10 miles a week giving her her amazing size eight figure.

She believes people should eat more healthily, and that the Government needs to reduce the price of fruit and get rid of ready meals so people will be encouraged to cook and eat more healthily.

A former local beauty pageant winner, she went on to be crowned runner up in a Miss Wales competition the year Big Brother 7's Imogen Thomas won.

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