Julie Goodyear voted out of Celeb Big Brother

Julie Goodyear voted out of Celeb Big Brother
Julie Goodyear voted out of Celeb Big Brother (Image credit: PA)

Julie Goodyear and Prince Lorenzo have become the latest celebrities to be voted out of the Big Brother house. After being nominated by their fellow housemates alongside actor and musician Martin Kemp, the former Coronation Street star and the cosmetics entrepreneur lost out to the Spandau Ballet bassist in the public 'vote to save'. Lorenzo, who appeared in the US reality series The Bachelor, told host Brian Dowling that he did not expect to win. But he claimed that Julie, who played pub landlady Bet Lynch in the long-running soap, was desperate to be crowned the Big Brother winner. Julie was the second housemate to be evicted and was loudly booed by the crowd as she left. During her post-eviction interview, she said: "Who wants cheers all the time? I'm a 70-year-old disabled pensioner, I'm so proud I've done three weeks." Asked about her relationship with fellow housemate TV personality Coleen Nolan, the actress dismissed any ill feeling. "Coleen was more friendly with the younger girls and then when they left it gave us the chance to bond a bit more," she said. After watching clips of her time in the house, Julie responded: "What you see is what you get, take it or leave it." She then picked comedian Julian Clary as her favourite housemate. After surviving eviction, Martin will battle Coleen, Julian, rapper MC Harvey, US reality star Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino and judo Olympian Ashley McKenzie to win the reality show on Friday.

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.