{"id":789466,"date":"2026-10-02T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789466\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:04:08","slug":"everyone-in-the-big-brother-house-was-just-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789466\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Everyone in the Big Brother House was just crying’"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 18-year-old Big Brother contestant says she achieved her dream – but appearing on the show was a challenging experience.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Nott, who lost parts of her arms and legs to meningitis when she was two, made a memorable entrance to the house<\/a> when she removed her prosthetic legs after breaking her shoe while stepping on to the stage.<\/p>\n

But after 13 days, Nott, from Oxford, made the decision to leave after reaching her “breaking point”.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Radio Oxford, she described the experience as stressful and restrictive, but said she was happy to have done it.<\/p>\n

“Everything is out of your control. You can’t even sing. If you start singing, they tell you to stop,” she said.<\/p>\n

“You have no control over anything. I think it’s just taught me a lot about myself.”<\/p>\n

Nott, who had dreamed about entering the Big Brother house for most of her life, applied in the last week of auditions.<\/p>\n

She said she had little memory of her entrance.<\/p>\n

“You’re going on the stage, and you’re on the massive screen and there’s like 500 people staring at you. Your adrenaline is so high that you just forget,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve watched clips of me in there but I haven’t watched it back when I walked in. I’m too scared.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old Big Brother contestant says she achieved her dream – but appearing on the show was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}