When I went on Big Brother no one had heard of reality TV
First winner Craig on 20 years of the show and building his dream home Women can have midlife crises too
Craig in lockdown
Craig put building a home ahead of fame
As winner with Davina
ants were desperate for the fame, thinking fortune would come immediately. They were going in there with agents. That took the edge off the show. I wouldn’t do it again as it’s not the same.”
SKILLS
But Craig hasn’t done badly on the back of Big Brother. He’s enjoyed a lucrative media career which has allowed him to build his dream sevenbedroom, four-bathroom house in Liverpool. “I had my building skills and I used them to do make
With Laura and Nelly over shows for the BBC, ITV and Sky,” he said. “I was happy not going to all the awards and events. I was happily ticking away doing that.”
Craig admits his experience holed up in the BB compound has come in useful lately.
“Big Brother did prepare me for lockdown – but it was much harder in there. We weren’t allowed out of the house for walks. We couldn’t talk to people. We had no TV, no news, no social media.”
He reckons now may be the perfect time to bring the trailblazing reality show back. And
Craig – who has one-year-old daughter Nelly – revealed he could be back on TV soon.
“We’re really excited about the new baby,” he said. “And I’ve got some telly projects coming up.
“Laura and I have been focusing on helping people with DIY on social media. We have a workshop studio for teaching people.”
janine.yaqoob@mirror.co.uk Craig will appear on Big Brother: Best Shows Ever, being shown tonight at 9pm on E4.
Star Davina
DAVINA Mccall says women can have midlife crises as well as men.
The Big Brother host reckons husbands are not the only ones who question their marriage when they get into their forties and fifties.
Davina, 52, split from her husband Matthew Robertson in 2017 after 17 years together
She said: “You know what, it’s not just men.”
The mum-of-three said on boyfriend Michael Douglas’s podcast, Making The Cut: “I know lots of women who are at a stage in their life where they think, ‘Is this it?’
“It probably comes as no surprise that there are so many divorces between the age of 40 and 50. “That’s the mid-life crisis where you’ll start asking yourself those questions: ‘Am I happy? Is this what I want? Where am I going? What am I doing? Who am I?’
“Because in those early years it’s all about family, the toddler years, everybody’s in it together. And then the toddlers start growing up, they don’t need you any more and then – who am I?”
Davina had been friends with hairdresser Michael, 46, for years before they began dating last year.
They have had to spend lockdown apart, but Davina says she has learnt a lot about him over the weeks from the podcast.
She told him: “Even though I’ve known you for 20 years, every podcast I’ve learnt something new about you. That’s really going to help me.”