Big Bro's Martin Kemp admits 20-quid toilet trip

Big Bro's Martin Kemp admits 20-quid toilet trip
Big Bro's Martin Kemp admits 20-quid toilet trip (Image credit: PA)

Martin Kemp has revealed he once resorted to using 10-pound notes when he ran out of loo roll on a night-out. The Spandau Ballet star admitted to the pricey alternative during a discussion with his Celebrity Big Brother housemates about their toilet habits. Ex-EastEnders actress Cheryl Fergison quizzed her fellow contestants about whether they had ever been forced to use the cardboard tube in desperation. Martin - whose hits include True - admitted: "I have, in a nightclub. And I used a tenner once. A £10 note, 'cos that's all I had. "It was do or die. It was in the middle of a nightclub and nothing there. Ten quid." He went on: "It was more expensive than that 'cos I had to use two, but when you're stuck with nothing 20 quid down the toilet was all right. I thought it was a bargain." Several of the housemates looked embarrassed by Cheryl's line of questioning as she pressed them on how many sheets of paper they used. The stars of the Channel 5 show were enjoying a makeshift funfair in the garden with coin-operated rides and a bikini-clad Jasmine Lennard trying her luck on a 'penny falls' machine. Julie Goodyear and Julian Clary were among the stars to be splatted with custard pies as they popped their faces through an end of the pier-style 'cut-out'. The housemates face their first eviction on Wednesday night with Jasmine and fellow model Rhian Sugden facing the axe.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

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