Drag queen wins CBB

DRAG queen Courtney Act was crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2018, beating Ann Widdecombe in the live final.

The star of RuPaul’s Drag Race, whose real name is Shane Jenek, said it was “slightly ironic” to win the show in the “year of the woman”.

She added: “I have to say thank you to the eight glorious women who were in the house and all my other housemates.

“It’s amazing to think the public have chosen me, it’s a validation of the things I came in believing.”

She said she hoped her win was inspiring to “all the teenage boys who didn’t know where they fit in and not knowing what that means.”

She added: “If it was OK for me to be different, it’s OK for them to be different too.”

Dancer Wayne Sleep was the first to be eliminated, coming in fifth place.

The choreographer was reunited with his husband Jose Bergera before telling host Emma Willis it was “a real test” but “the experience of a lifetime”.

Ex On The Beach star Jess Impiazzi was evicted next, to bag fourth place, and said she thought she would only last four days.

“I ran out of face wipes, I ran out of everything!” she told Willis.

Boyzone singer Shane Lynch got the boot third, to take third place.

He revealed to Willis he had told his wife not to come to the house in Elstree to see him leave but she had come anyway.

The series came to an end just over a month after the first contestants entered the compound.

The show began on January 1 with an all-female line-up to celebrate the year of the woman, with a cast of male celebrities joining them on January 5.

Big Brother will return to Channel 5 later this year.