‘I WENT IN A BOY & CAME OUT A MAN’
He’d also never cooked an egg
Do you remember entering the house? I remember getting booed! But then, I did turn up in a lifeguard’s outfit. It wasn’t even proper lifeguard attire, just something I found. I was only 18, but I was always thinking aboout how I could make the papers. But Nikki beat me to it by arriving in a Playboy bunny costume. What did it mean for you to get on the show? It was a dream come true – everything I’d ever wanted. I was from a very small town in the middle of North Wales and everyone else had come from big cities. I was confident, but I was a big fish in a very small pond. One of the housemates went to
Eton and knew Prince Charles and I’d never met a celebrity in my life – I’d only seen the back of Tim Henman’s head. But I went in a boy and came out a man. And now you’re working as an English teacher in China? Yeah, I’d always wanted to be a teacher. But just after Big Brother, I could get £2k for walking into a club. Going back to normal life was exhausting. I became a teacher and I loved my job, but because of my past experiences, the money just didn’t reflect the work, so then
I got a job in Shanghai in a prestigious international school. Do you still get recognised? I walk into a pub back home and people still yell, “Glyn to win!” It’s nice, but I would hate for anyone to think I was up my own arse. And every time I go on Twitter, I get a message about eggs. I was in the house for three months and that seven-second clip of me singing, “I’m cooking an egg!” was the main takeaway – there were pictures everywhere of my face on eggs.