Lesley Brain was a housemate on Big Brother 8 (UK).
Entering the house at 60 years old, Lesley was the eldest housemate of the season, bringing a sharp wit and upper-class sensibility into the house. Despite her intelligence and articulation, she often found the chaotic atmosphere overwhelming, struggling to connect with the younger housemates, and ultimately chose to walk from the house after feeling immense boredom, placing 21st.
Biography[]
“I like to think that I’m intelligent, eccentric, perhaps a little unpredictable,” says Lesley, a member of the Women’s Institute. She has been married twice, first at 16, and her second husband is 23 years her senior.
Lesley ran her own recruitment business for 20 years. She also worked as a Cambridge fellow and set up a marriage agency for successful divorced people. She and her husband recently returned from a six-year spell living in Portugal, where she tried her hand at stand-up comedy.
Lesley’s tastes range from Michelin-starred restaurants to fish and chips, and she enjoys dinner parties and country house weekends. She has a personal trainer and a cook - “I don’t do anything domestic” - and devours Victorian literature, Dickens being her favourite. Harvey Nichols is her big love but she hates music as it’s “distracting”.
Lesley claims to be honest and honourable, and says she’d hate to share the house with “no-hopers”. She hates “negative under-achievers, arrogance, people without ambition and people who don’t try.” She predicts she’ll be the “safe older woman” in the house, but admits, “I do have terrible temper tantrums. If I don’t like something and I don’t want to do it, the bottom lip starts wobbling…faux crying…”[1]
Player History - Big Brother 8 (UK)[]
Nominations History[]
| Week | Nominated | Nominated By | Final Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ineligible |
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| Walked | |||
Post Big Brother[]
Trivia[]
- At 60 years old, Lesley is the oldest housemate to appear on the civilian version of Big Brother UK. At the time of entry, she was 85 days older than Big Brother 22 winner Richard Storry, also 60.
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