NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
It’s been 23 years since Anna Nolan became the first runner-up on Big Brother, losing out to Craig Phillips.
At the time, the 29-year-old former nun was working as office manager when she entered the Big Brother house – completely unaware that the Channel 4 reality TV series was about to become one of the most captivating and monumental moments in television ever.
Anna was cooped up in what was then a tiny compound compared to later incarnations of the Big Brother house, with the likes of Craig, Darren Ramsay, Melanie Hill, some chickens and of course, ‘Nasty’ Nick Bateman.
23 years after being catapulted to intense stardom overnight, Anna, 51, is now head of development at one of Ireland’s leading TV production companies, chair of the National LGBT federation and boasts over 10,000 followers on Twitter.