Saffia walks out of Big Brother house

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Big Brother10 has had its first walk-out after beauty therapist Saffia Corden left the Channel 4 reality show last night after only eight days.

The single mother-of-two reportedly missed her children and was unable to cope following an argument with fellow housemate Sophia Brown.

Footage of the 27-year-old asking to leave the house is to be screened on Big Brother tonight, while an interview with her will be shown on spin-off show Big Brother's Little Brother.

Saffia’s departure comes as Sophia and Halfwit, who entered the house as Freddie Fisher but changed his name by deed poll in an early challenge, face eviction.

The pair will find out tonight who has survived a public vote. Bookmakers predict Sophia will be the first housemate of the series to be evicted. The banker has proved unpopular in the house and with the public, after repeatedly arguing with Saffia and shouting down other contestants.

Last week, Beinazir Lasharie was voted off the show before ever achieving housemate status. As she had failed to complete tasks that would have made her a bone fide contestant, she was ushered out to find no crowd, no interview and only a bus to whisk her away.

Saffia walks out of Big Brother house - Times Online

After opening its 10th series with nearly 5 million viewers, the second episode of Channel 4's Big Brother lost 2 million of its audience on Friday, 5 June.

Big Brother attracted 2.8 million viewers and a 12% share of the audience between 9pm and 10pm, down on an average of 4.8 million the previous night, according to unofficial overnight figures. Another 265,000 viewers watched Big Brother on digital catchup service Channel 4 +1.

The long-running reality show lost out to a repeat of Martin Clunes in Doc Martin on ITV1, which pulled in 4.1 million viewers and an 18% share.

Big Brother was also beaten by BBC1's Apprentice catchup show, The Apprentice: Why I Fired Them, with 3.6 million viewers on BBC1 between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.

And BBC1's Have I Got News For You, hosted by Gavin & Stacey star Ruth Jones, which pulled in 5.1 million viewers and a 23% share between 9.30pm and 10pm.

But Big Brother beat an NICS repeat on Five, which drew 1.5 million viewers and a 7% share.


TV ratings - 5 June: Big Brother sheds 2 million viewers | Media | guardian.co.uk


I don't watch it, but is it crap compared to previous years then?

[Puratech]

Strange article tbh, BB viewing figures have been dropping every year.

Also plenty of us watch the first night just to see whos going in, but cant be bothered with the daily drivel of what theyve been upto. Normal BB shows always have less viewers than the first night, but they make it sound like theyve lost 2m fans in a few days

[Detomah]

I've not given this series more than 5 minutes of my time for the first time since the shows conception. I took one look, cringed, pressed mute, then sat shaking my head for a couple of moments at the complete bollocks that they are trying to pass off as entertainment. I've always liked the pyschological aspect of the show, how the contestents change over time and how their front slips and they reveal their real selves after a while, but this series, there is no front, these people in that house are the actual monster product of years of reality television, these people are the genuine article, completely dead behind the eyes, completely moronic, yet egoist and narcissistic.

The show should have stopped at least 2 series ago, if not 3 or 4, as that's when the last trickle of entertainment was washed down the BB plughole.

[chakotay]

still compelling in acar crash kinda way , but the other half & i have been pulling our jumpers over our heads & cringing several times !

tbh , they've gradually been moving away from the "pure" BB format laid down by Endemol , culminating in the fact that this year there is little or no live feed , leaving the editorial slant & who ch4 favour totally biased . Don't watch the live feed myself , but i can see it's importance to the format , the housemates should be open to scrutiny 24/7 not as & when the producers see fit .