Former Big Brother housemate Rachael White has revealed that she was glad to leave the show, because she couldn’t have survived all summer without male attention.

The Beyonce lookalike, became the first person to leave the 11th BB house last night and she told the News Of The World that she is glad that she can flirt again.

“I like a lot of male attention, and if I was in there for the full time it would have driven me mad” she said.

“I like to have a flirt with guys and it was very hard in there. It would have been 12 weeks without any male attention.

“They would have to drop in some new guy housemates for me if I’d stayed. But I was getting some female attention. Shabby was making a few comments.

“And if anyone is flirting with me, it’s nice. Doesn’t matter if it’s male or female. It’s still a bit of attention.”

On why her fellow housemate John James Parton took such an instant dislike to her Rachel added:

“John had an instant dislike for me. Maybe he knew I was insecure deep down and he latched on to that.

“And if that was his game plan then it worked because I did crack. But I never ever got an apology.

“I would have much preferred not to have had this drama with John James. Three days straight I cried every day. I didn’t want to be like that, I wanted to be my usual self.”

But then she added: “I don’t want to hate him – if he wants to meet up when he gets out the house then I would be up for that. I would like to be friends but I don’t think there will be a romance there.”