Big Brother's first winner Craig Phillips reveals reason he's never watched his series

Craig Phillips was the victor of the archetypal bid of Big Brother successful 2000 and portion he's watched each different bid of the show, he's ne'er recovered clip to ticker his own

Craig Phillips, the first-ever victor of 'Big Brother', has admitted he's ne'er watched his bid of the world TV show.

The 53-year-old Liverpool-born builder revealed that contempt being fixed each occurrence connected videotape erstwhile helium near the house, he's ne'er recovered the clip oregon tendency to revisit the summertime that catapulted him into fame.

In a chat with BoyleSportsGames, Craig confessed: "I’ve watched everybody else's but I haven't watched my programme. I didn't get clip erstwhile I near the house. I was fixed immense boxes with hundreds of VHS tapes, of each the content, with each azygous show. I didn't spell location for 97 days, truthful I didn't person a accidental to really ticker it, and past erstwhile I did travel out, due to the fact that I’d done hundreds of vigor interviews and interviews with journalists, etc.

I felt arsenic if they told maine everything happened. I knew what happened due to the fact that I was there, but they told me. I got a precise wide representation of what was utilized successful the full bid from each the questions I was asked astatine the time, you know. So I felt arsenic if aft six months oregon so, erstwhile things started to yet easiness disconnected a small bit. I didn't really request to ticker this, due to the fact that I've already seen it successful a way.

"Obviously, I've talked to hundreds of 1000s of people, and they've told maine their versions of what they’ve seen and that's mapped retired the full amusement for me." Craig, present blissfully joined to Laura Sherrif with youngsters Nelly, five, and Lennon, aged three, confessed he's rewatched the famed 'Big Brother' moments similar his showdown with 'Nasty Nick' Bateman countless times owed to his plethora of chat amusement appearances.

He admitted: "I’ve seen a batch of the iconic moments of maine similar confronting Nasty Nick, oregon maine winning and those moments hundreds of times due to the fact that I went connected each tv chat amusement and they’d amusement clips earlier I went on. But I inactive person each of the tapes and funnily enough, I was going done a large benignant retired precocious and I recovered hundreds of 1000s of photographs, astir apt astir six oregon 700 VHS tapes. "

Recollecting his BBC days, helium continued: "When I utilized to enactment with the BBC, again, we would travel disconnected each the unrecorded shows and springiness maine a signaling of it. I don't adjacent cognize what I'm gonna bash with them all. I've kept each those small wristbands you get erstwhile you’re invited to awards, oregon a VIP thing."

"I’ve got astir six boxes wholly afloat of each these small memorabilia things. They’re worthless to anyone else, but they’re beauteous memorabilia to maine of what I've done and wherever I've gone. " Moreover, helium delved into memories of documenting his whirlwind beingness successful the spotlight, saying: "I brought a video camera which I utilized to movie each these weird and fantastic things for the archetypal year, right? For the archetypal year, erstwhile I was doing idiosyncratic appearances, foundation work, TV worldly with celebrities. I've got boxes and boxes and boxes of those tapes still."

Follow Mirror Celebs connected TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads.