Book uncovers life after 'Big Brother'

A new book is to reveal the lives of contestants once they leave the Big Brother house.

Narinder Kaur, a contestant in the second series, has spoken to scores of former housemates as well as show producers. The result of her interviews, Big Brother: The Inside Story, is due out on May 24.

Excerpts, published in the News of the World, reveal Big Brother alumni have been attacked, threatened and come close to suicide.

Sam Heuston, from Big Brother 6, said she enjoyed the limelight immediately after leaving, but then became depressed and cut her wrists in front of her father.

"This life was like a huge high and I could soon feel it slipping out of my hands," she recalled. "At one point I tried to slit my wrists — there was lots of blood and my parents called an ambulance."

And Makosi Musambasi, who claimed she had sex in the Jacuzzi with Anthony Hutton in the same series, said she was left hated by her community.

“I am a Christian and I was asked to stop going to church," said the Zimbabwean. "I didn’t stop but they would point at me and said I had a bad spirit in me, a demon. All because I wore a bikini and because I had sex in the Jacuzzi."

Melanie Hill (pictured) was in Big Brother 1. She was given security protection after she left the show but was later left scared by the public attention.

“I thought I have to get on with it, get on a Tube. That was the worst thing I could have possibly done," she recalled. “I got on a Tube in the middle of the day and had a group of lads shouting, screaming and intimidating me, so I got on for one stop and they followed me, shouting, ‘show us your bum’.

“I was so scared. It was horrible. One night I went out with a mate in Soho and people were p***ed and suddenly someone said, ‘There’s Mel from Big Brother’, and suddenly everyone just started grabbing me."

Kaur commented: “Big Brother is huge, and I mean huge. Every episode is watched by 5 million people and viewing figures rise to ten million on eviction night.

“There are now around 100 former housemates, some drifting around aimlessly, some the walking wounded, some who went back to their old lives as best as they could, and some, well... who knows?"