Rachel Rice is the winner of Big Brother 9

September 6th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.

Big Brother winner Rachel RiceAfter beating out big personalities like Rex, Darnell and Mikey, Welsh housemate Rachel has been crowned winner of Big Brother 2008.

It was an unexpected victory for the schoolteacher – the strongest characters like outspoken chef Rex and Darnell were wiped out first, leaving a three-way between Rachel, Mikey and Sara.

Aussie Sara was evicted next to a rapturous applause, and looked stunning throughout her high-octane interview with Davina afterwards. This left a classic Scotland versus Wales showdown between Mikey and Rachel. Our bets were on a big win for the curmudgeonly Scotsman, but everybody in the audience was shell-shocked when Rachel was announced the winner.

The nice girls are supposed to finish last, aren’t they?

Possibly the most shocking aspect was the look on ex-housemate Sylvia’s face as the result was announced. The po-faced cohort of evictee Alexandra de Gale adopted an ‘oh no she didn’t’ expression which lasted for a solid ten minutes. It didn’t go unnoticed by the audience who chanted “Jealous, jealous, jealous” at her during Rachel’s interview!

Sadly, there was a group of numpties in the crowd who insisted on booing Rachel as she left the house. However, this just spurred people on to cheer her all the louder and drown the jeering out! Anyway, Rachel walks away with a prize of £100,000, so she won’t be worrying too much about the opinions of a couple of yobs in the audience!

So, to all of those who thought this year’s BB would be a fix with Rex set to win, what do you think now? And what do you think of the closeness of the finale – 51.3% of the vote went to Rachel. I predicted the final two housemates yesterday, and also reminded you that we thought the public were apathetic about the show – to the point where the least hated would win the prize this year.

We’ll have more gossip for you tomorrow about the Big Brother finale, so tune in then for some juicy backstage info :)

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2 responses to “Rachel Rice is the winner of Big Brother 9”

  1. Karen says:
    September 6th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    I don’t think you can ever really say that the “least hated” will win. Even if the public was apathetic (and I’m not sure that they were, since they managed to get rid of everyone they didn’t like, whether they were “entertaining” or not!) people actually have to take the positive step of voting FOR the winner to win, so it’s not comparable to a situation where the person with the least votes for eviction wins.

  2. Trudy says:
    September 6th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    I think Rachel was a worthy winner, she did not bitch about anybody in the house, was bullied by Rex and held it together, was wonderful and patient with Mikey and helped in take part and know what was happening in the house. I thought Davinas interview with Rachel was undermining and horrible, what happened to the good bits that she gave up her letter home, bought back suitcase even though she did not like Nicole, helped Mikey learn the dance moves when Rex & Nicole couldn’t be bothered. Davina on BBBM was even worse and Davina should be ashamed of herself, never has a winner been treated so bad, the public picked the winner ao yes it must have been the right one. Loved Mikeys interview he took over and said it as it was, go Mikey. Can’t wait for the gossip.