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Nick knack Sun muscles in on Big Brother

Fiachra Gibbons
Monday August 7, 2000

The media circus around the TV show Big Brother took another bizarre twist last night when a newspaper tried to drop leaflets on the house urging its remaining occupants to kick out "Nasty Nick".

Nick, 32, a London insurance broker who claims to be a vice-chairman of Fulham Football Club, has been shown on the Channel 4 programme to be plotting against the other occupants.

But thus far he has not been nominated to be voted out.

The intervention yesterday by the Sun newspaper, which hired a helicopter to fly over the Big Brother house, was an attempt to tip off the other occupants of the house to Nick's activities before they decide today on which of their number would be nominated for the chop.

The last participant remaining in the house will win £70,000.

The Sun helicopter managed to drop about 40 leaflets in the vicinity of the house and its grounds but only a few landed in the garden.

A spokesman for the show said the company was now going to tighten the security regime and was considering hiring barrage balloons to repel further airborne attacks.

Last Friday Andrew, a twentysomething sales manager, became the second person to be ejected from the house. His exit came as a shock to him and the general public who had expected Nick to be the most vulnerable. A campaign against the smooth talking Londoner has been waged in several tabloid newspapers.

Last night the Sun was not owning up to its stunt. A staff member said: "I'm completely unaware of this."

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