Coronation Street star Antony Cotton has been talking about the end of Channel 4′s Big Brother.

The show’s final airs this evening and unless another channel picks up the format, after tonight, Big Brother is no more.

Cotton who plays Sean Tulley on the ITV soap, said he thought BB had been “a very interesting social experiment”.

“People said it’s not a social experiment – it’s a freakshow. But now you can look at it as a 10-year project,” he told The BBC.

“In that 10 years mobile phones and internet access have come on, the world has become a smaller place. In Orwellian terms Big Brother is always watching – it now is more true than ever.”

Sean went on to admit that he used to be an avid fan of the show saying:

“For the first time in about five years I’ve watched every single episode. And I’ve even watched the live feed – which I never imagined I’d do.”