Ivana and Nicola T exit Celebrity Big Brother

Ivana and Nicola T exit Celebrity Big Brother
Ivana and Nicola T exit Celebrity Big Brother (Image credit: Contract Number (Programme))

Ivana Trump has been kicked out of the Celebrity Big Brother house after failing to charm viewers. Glamorous Trump, best known for her marriage to US billionaire Donald Trump, was the first of two celebrities to get the boot. Glamour model Nicola Tappenden was the second housemate to leave. The celebrities did not nominate this week and all the housemates were left at the mercy of the public vote, with viewers voting for who they want to win the show. Tappenden, who won The Sun's first Page 3 idol competition in 2002, is engaged to Crewe Alexandra midfielder Simon Walton and the couple have a one-year-old daughter, Poppy. Trump, who was a surprise addition to the house on the fifth day, smiled and blew kisses to the crowd as she left the house to a chorus of cheers. She told the show's host Davina McCall that she had bonded with some of the housemates and they would remain her friends for 'a long, time time'. Trump tipped footballer turned actor Vinnie Jones to win the show, saying he was 'a nice guy', but said she expected the public vote to be close between him and singer Dane Bowers. Housemates were not aware of Tappenden's departure as she left via the diary room, still wearing a chick costume she had earlier donned. Host Davina McCall climbed into Tappenden's chick costume and headed into the house to trick the celebrities - she has hosted the show for almost a decade but has never been a housemate. Jones, Bowers, Reid, Beacham and Jonas Altberg, aka Basshunter, are through to Friday's final.

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.