The bitch fight that started years before the show

Fireworks erupted between Simone, Leah and Jen at last week’s cocktail party, but architecture student Leah says her feud with blonde bombshell Simone began long before the cameras started rolling. “I know Simone from outside the show as we share some mutual friends,” explains 25-year-old Leah. “I felt like she was two different people on and off camera so I kept trying to bait her in order to expose her true colours.”

It’s not just Leah who had issues with Simone, either. Jen, 27, says Simone, who hails from Manchester, was prone to “raging, massive, screaming rows” in the

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mansion. “She just has a very short fuse and has taken it out on about eight people,” says Sydney-based Jen, adding something as little as Simone’s nuts being moved or someone washing their fake tan off in the shower could set her off. “I’ve never been a victim myself but it’s been quite scary.”

But Simone, 26, says it’s Jen and Leah who are the show’s “mean girls”. She says, “From the moment we went into the house Leah wasn’t nice and we didn’t get on. I felt intimidated by some of the personalities.”