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IT'S THE WOMEN WHO HAD THE PROBLEM WITH MY MAN STU
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STUART Hosking's beautiful wife stood by her man yesterday - and laid the blame for his Big Brother eviction on the girls in the house.

But Sian, 34, admitted she had barely recognised the man she saw on TV as her husband.

She blamed a mixture of booze and sexual tension inside the House for his arrogant image.

Sian insisted: "Stuart's a lovely man - all my friends adore him. It's rubbish to say that he has a problem with women.

"When he takes the kids to school, he chats to all the mums in the playground."

And in a swipe at Amma and Penny - both reduced to tears in blistering rows with her husband - Sian added: "Stuart was being kind and nice to them. I think the women had a problem with him, not the other way around."

Sian hit out after her first night of passion in three weeks with Stuart at a five-star London hotel.

More than one million people voted in Friday's Big Brother eviction and 899,788 of them - a massive 86 per cent - demanded that Stuart went. Just 143,170 voted for fellow nominee Paul Clarke.

Sian agreed her husband had come across badly, especially in Thursday night's row with lap-dancer Amma when he shouted her down in the Jacuzzi.

She said: "I was surprised at him. He kept trying to make it up to her. I think that's because we have a rule in our marriage that we don't go to bed on an argument.

"But when he insisted on trying to sort out the situation, I just thought: 'Oh my God, you've had too much to drink... go to bed. She's not going to accept your apology so sort it out in the morning'.'

"He obviously had a lot on his mind. It was our son Rory's second birthday, he was missing us and there was the pressure of being in a house with nine other people."

But Sian claimed Amma and Penny - who clashed earlier with Stuart after he said he wouldn't sleep with her - were most at fault.

"Stuart wasn't the man I know and love but I think that Amma misinterpreted him.

"He was trying to say they all came from different backgrounds and I think she thought he had everything handed to him on a silver plate, which isn't the case.

"I also think from the two arguments he had with Penny and Amma that they had confided in him and regretted it afterwards. Stuart's very good at talking to people and getting to know them. They probably opened up in a way they wouldn't always do and he brought out a side in them they had hidden or didn't know about. They felt backed in a corner and attacked."

Sian had to celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary without Stuart on June 4. But the reunited couple spent yesterday afternoon hosting a birthday party for son Rory and 20 of his friends at their new, nine-acre farmhouse home in Mercot, Oxfordshire. Sian moved into the luxury home the same day Stuart went into the Big Brother house.

And in a touching gesture which will help redeem him with the millions of Big Brother viewers, family man Stuart wrote out a birthday card before entering the house and left letters for their other two children, Isabelle, six and four-year-old Madeleine.

He even arranged for friends to surprise Sian by taking her out for a three-course meal in Oxford on their wedding anniversary so she would not be alone.

Yesterday Stuart, who met his wife when they worked together at the same IT firm in East London, said: "I'm so happy to see her. Going three weeks without sex has been difficult."

With a glint in his eye, he added: "We made up for it last night - in style with champagne."

Stuart insisted he would remain true to his word and invite his Big Brother housemates to a garden party at his new home later in the summer.

He labelled Brian and Narinda "immature" and said: "Helen is a lovely girl but she's very young for her age and we haven't much in common."

But he added: "There was no one in the house I really disliked and Dean, Paul, Bubble and Josh are all the sort of people I'd have a beer with. Paul is a bit of a lad but he reminds me of how I was when I was his age."

Brian is the bookies' favourite for the show's pounds 70,000 prize but Stuart said: "If the tension between Brian and Josh doesn't calm down, I can see the housemates putting both of them up for eviction.

"I think Josh's coming in has taken away a lot of the limelight that Brian was enjoying so much.

"It has changed everything for the group and it will be fascinating to see what happens now. I think Bubble is a strong contender."

Stuart, 36, hinted he now plans to turn his back on his lucrative former career as a sales director in telecommunications - and try his hand at TV presenting instead.

The electrician's son said: "First, I obviously need to change the public perception of me. I realise I am unpopular at the moment but I'm a nice person, believe me.

"I'm a poser. I'm very competitive and maybe too direct. But I'm certainly not the new Nasty Nick.

"A lot has been made of my winking, but there was nothing machiavellian about it. It's just a mannerism I've got."

Bookmakers William Hill say air steward Brian remains the favourite to win at odds of 7-4. Dean is the next at 11-4 followed by Elizabeth at 5-1.

Meanwhile, Stuart returns to the Big Brother house today - to deliver the contestants' weekly shopping.

Channel 4 bosses asked him to shop for his ex-housemates and leave their goodies in the diary room - but he will enter through a back door unseen by the others and has to leave again after just 15 seconds

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