Big Brother star unrecognisable 17 years after shock exit from show

She changeable to fame successful 2007 aft appearing connected Big Brother and leaving a way of contention successful her wake. Now 17 years later, you whitethorn conflict to recognise her.

Emily Valentine, who was known arsenic Emily Parr connected the deed UK show, made her TV debut erstwhile she was a 19-year-old play pupil from Bristol. Now 36, she’s swapped her beingness of world TV for a beingness of social media fame. 

With implicit 50,000 followers connected Instagram alone, Emily has built up a lifestyle-focused community, with her posts covering style, wellbeing, and entrepreneurial trends. 

But portion her perfectly curated provender is impressive, it’s her caller look proving conscionable however acold she has travel since her days connected the show. 

When appearing connected Big Brother, Emily was nary alien to a casual yet eye-catching look. Some of her astir memorable outfits included a bluish garment and skinny jeans combo and an unmissable yellowish bodycon dress.

As for her hairsbreadth and makeup, the then-cigarette smoker usually wore her blonde hairsbreadth successful a messy bun connected apical of her head, portion her constitution stayed earthy and minimal.

In caller years the societal media influencer has adopted a clean-cut aesthetic.

A speedy look astatine Emily’s Instagram leafage paints an unrecognisable representation from her earlier years, with pictures including a slicked-back bun and clean-girl constitution look.

One of her caller videos adjacent includes a caption astir her emotion for an ‘old money, agelong bob’ benignant for her hair, admitting that the ‘hair chopped giving maine beingness erstwhile again’.

Her societal media posts besides revealed the prima is getting joined soon, with overmuch of her contented focusing connected bridal make-up, bachelorette outfit inspiration and a database of bridal quality products she recommends.

Emily starred successful the eighth play of Big Brother, which was won by Brian Belo, and became a favourite of immoderate fans until her stint came to a swift extremity aft she spoke to her roomie, Charley Uchea, successful the plot and made a racist comment. 

The squad of the then-Channel 4, present ITV-produced show, rapidly removed Emily from the Big Brother location successful the aboriginal hours of the morning, and her exit prompted the teen to connection a heartfelt apology. 

‘There’s nary magnitude of words that tin screen however atrocious and however anserine I’ve been,’ she said successful a connection astatine the time. 

‘But we’ve each got to determination connected now, and each I inquire from anyone speechmaking this is that they recognize what truly happened and judge my apology.’

She besides spoke with OK! magazine in 2021 astir the incident, admitting it is simply a play successful her beingness she ‘tries not to revisit’.

‘The media sound and intrusion was bad, but what was worse and lasted for a portion was the heavy shame I felt astir what I had said.

‘The lone mode I’ve recovered I could determination guardant from my mistake was to amended myself and make a overmuch amended knowing of what these radical slurs mean and wherefore they are truthful awful.

‘As good arsenic having a amended knowing of racism and however it manifests successful our nine today.’

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