Matt Williams, husband of Erica Hurst is trying desperately to be given a place on the BBC’s Castaway team, inn order to be reunited with his new wife.
The pair were married only a matter of weeks before Erica jetted off to the other side of the world to take aprt in the BBC’s newest reality TV show. Matt has now formally nominated himself with a Radio 1 competition to join the 14 other castaways on New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island this week.
The nightclub security manager from Lostock is hoping to make a shortlist from which the station’s listeners will vote one person onto the show next month.
If the ratings keep slipping, BBC might just find this is the twist they need to bring the viewers back.
March 12, 2007 – 12:53 pm
Last night saw Castaway, Erica Hurst boast to her companions about some of her steamy explouts, out in the real world.
She said: “I was in Brazil and my boyfriend wanted a threesome. He said to pick a woman.
“One came over and she was lovely. Then another one came over and she was lovely too so we took them both.”
Shy girl that Erica!
March 11, 2007 – 10:23 pm
Erica Hurst must really be a woman in love. Not only did she give up her lucrative career in lap dancing because her husband wasn’t happy with her job, but on tonights show we saw her pass up the opportunity to swim with dolphins as she had promised her husband she would keep herself covered up.
Erica was still officially on honeymoon when she packed her bags for the Castaway island. Her husband Matt admits:
“While she’s watching the sun set on an exotic island, I’ll be working on the door of a nightclub in Lancaster,” he smiles. “I already miss her like crazy. We only wed four weeks ago. To see her jet off for a quarter of a year on a TV reality show is a complete killer.
“But I know she won’t do anything - otherwise she wouldn’t have married me, would she? I trust her and she trusts me. And at least I can watch her on TV.”
Name: Erica Hurst
Age: 22
From: Bolton
Occupation: Lap Dancer
Relationship Status: Recently married
Star Sign: Aries
Motto: “F*ck it, you only live once!”
Having received high grades in her GCSE’s A Levels and BA HONs degree course, Erica is delighted at the thought of never studying again.
Currently a lap dancer at a well known strip club, Erica aspires to be an actress.
A tomboy at heart, Erica is keen to get stuck in to the challenges that Castaway might bring. She lists snowboarding, Thai boxing and extreme sports as some of her hobbies and says she will try anything once, but not without her mascara.
