Michelle and Vanessa evicted from Big Brother

Michelle and Vanessa evicted from Big Brother
Michelle and Vanessa evicted from Big Brother (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Michelle Bass and Vanessa Feltz have been booted out of the Ultimate Big Brother house in a double eviction. Michelle, "Nasty" Nick Bateman and Vanessa each faced the public vote after being nominated by their fellow housemates earlier on in the week. Michelle, who received 39.3 per cent of the vote, was the first to leave. She smiled and waved at the crowd as she left the house in a white thigh-skimming evening dress. Interviewed by host Davina McCall, she said of her eviction: "I was really ready to go tonight. I decided I was going." Michelle appeared embarrassed when played footage of her risque antics during her first appearance in the Big Brother house. In response to other housemates' observations she had become more introverted, she added: "I'm actually a lot more confident and relaxed now. I was younger then, more carefree, get your boobs out all the time." Vanessa was later named as the second housemate to be shown the door with 31.3 per cent of the public vote. As Davina congratulated her on lasting six days, Vanessa said: "It was a really big thing. Last time I just made three nights and four days and I cracked up, I was in a right old state. I wanted to get a bit beyond that and I have, so for me it's a personal best and I'm really delighted." She added: "I'm in a much better place in my life, I went in, I felt better about myself." Seven remaining housemates are due to battle each other for the Ultimate Big Brother crown in Friday's grand finale. They are Nick, Brian Dowling, Chantelle Houghton, Nikki Grahame, Samuel Preston, Ulrika Jonsson, Victor Ebuwa.

Patrick McLennan

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. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.