First ever Big Brother winner Craig Phillips will appear on the Richard Bacon show on Monday 12th December 2011 as part of their Help! feature. As one of the UK's leading DIY experts, Craig will be taking calls from listeners with DIY questions and giving them some expert advice!
In the summer of 2000, Craig beat 45,000 applicants to appear alongside nine other contestants on Britain's first reality TV show, Big Brother. Watched by over 10 million people, Big Brother was a huge success, riveting the public and media alike. After more than nine weeks in the Big Brother house, Craig won the nation's hearts with his cheeky humour and came out triumphant with 3.7 million votes, £70,000 prize money and a National Television Award for Best Live Television Moment of the Year. Craig famously donated his entire winnings to childhood friend and Down's syndrome sufferer Joanne Harris. Within six days of leaving the show, he had raised £250,000 to pay for her life-saving heart and lung transplant.
Since leaving Big Brother, Craig has forged a fantastic career in the media as one of the UK's leading DIY and home improvement experts, presenting and producing over 850 shows which have reached millions of viewers across the world.
The Richard Bacon show will be broadcast at 2.00pm on BBC 5 live – make sure you tune in!