SA’s Vanessa makes it to BB’s dirtiest dozen

VANESSA Nimmo of Cape Town is the first South African to make it into the UK Big Brother house – and she has walked straight into a sex sleaze storm.

Nimmo (26), an archery champion and once a Sans Souci schoolgirl, is hailed in the United Kingdom as the most beautiful BB contestant ever. She is going to rock the show, according to her brother Richard – but it was other housemates who hit the tabloid headlines right away with a steamy sex-toy session in the whirlpool bath.This is exactly what the producers wanted as they turned up the heat for the fifth season.The 12 housemates entered the house, in London, a week ago.Big Brother is regulating the liquor intake, but they all sleep in one small room.This means Nimmo – who grew up in Rondebosch – is locked up with a sex-mad gay contestant, a lesbian ex-hooker, a sex-change bank clerk and a stripper from Manchester.Viewers of the Channel 4 reality programme were on Sunday treated to the spectacle of some of the 12 contestants playing with a sex toy in the spa.This followed a mud-bath involving four contestants on Saturday.Gay student Marco and self-obsessed Stuart were joined in the spa bath by bisexual would-be “glamour” model Michelle Bass, 23, and Nadia, the bank clerk who had a sex-change operation.Nimmo herself is known as sociable, clever and sexy.”She’s not busy with strategies,” brother Richard said, “she’s just in it for fun.”Nimmo left Cape Town in 1997, after matriculating from Sans Souci in Newlands in 1995.By then she had won the South African archery championships in 1991, 1992 and 1993.Because both her father Malcolm and mother Ann were born in Britain, she has a British passport, and therefore qualified to enter Big Brother UK.Although she hasn’t been back to South Africa in four years, her brother said she is still proudly South African.”The only thing that will probably bother Vanessa is that she is slightly claustrophobic,” he said.Insiders on the show have privately admitted, according to the Daily Mail, that they want to film the first ‘BBB’ – Big Brother bonk.But Richard said the sexy atmosphere wouldn’t bother his sister.”She’s not a shy girl, but I do think that it will always in her mind that her brother, mother and friends are watching.”She promised me she would not fool around, but hey, it’s England, I know what happens there.”According to the Daily Mail, Vanessa is alleged to have had assignations with GBP7-million (about N$84 million) Manchester United striker Alan Smith, whom she is said to have met while working in a hotel.The weekend frolics in the house will have delighted the producers, who are trying to make the show as voyeuristic as possible – they have installed glass-walled toilets and showers.With the winner standing to take home up to GBP100 000 (about N$1,2 million), many of the contestants have been trying to garner as much time on camera as possible, not hesitating to strip off, wear see-through clothes or confess sex secrets.There are 10 weeks to go, with the show going out live continually over the Internet and TV, but the rapid descent into sleaze is well under way.She is going to rock the show, according to her brother Richard – but it was other housemates who hit the tabloid headlines right away with a steamy sex-toy session in the whirlpool bath.This is exactly what the producers wanted as they turned up the heat for the fifth season.The 12 housemates entered the house, in London, a week ago.Big Brother is regulating the liquor intake, but they all sleep in one small room.This means Nimmo – who grew up in Rondebosch – is locked up with a sex-mad gay contestant, a lesbian ex-hooker, a sex-change bank clerk and a stripper from Manchester.Viewers of the Channel 4 reality programme were on Sunday treated to the spectacle of some of the 12 contestants playing with a sex toy in the spa.This followed a mud-bath involving four contestants on Saturday.Gay student Marco and self-obsessed Stuart were joined in the spa bath by bisexual would-be “glamour” model Michelle Bass, 23, and Nadia, the bank clerk who had a sex-change operation.Nimmo herself is known as sociable, clever and sexy.”She’s not busy with strategies,” brother Richard said, “she’s just in it for fun.”Nimmo left Cape Town in 1997, after matriculating from Sans Souci in Newlands in 1995.By then she had won the South African archery championships in 1991, 1992 and 1993.Because both her father Malcolm and mother Ann were born in Britain, she has a British passport, and therefore qualified to enter Big Brother UK.Although she hasn’t been back to South Africa in four years, her brother said she is still proudly South African.”The only thing that will probably bother Vanessa is that she is slightly claustrophobic,” he said.Insiders on the show have privately admitted, according to the Daily Mail, that they want to film the first ‘BBB’ – Big Brother bonk.But Richard said the sexy atmosphere wouldn’t bother his sister.”She’s not a shy girl, but I do think that it will always in her mind that her brother, mother and friends are watching.”She promised me she would not fool around, but hey, it’s England, I know what happens there.”According to the Daily Mail, Vanessa is alleged to have had assignations with GBP7-million (about N$84 million) Manchester United striker Alan Smith, whom she is said to have met while working in a hotel.The weekend frolics in the house will have delighted the producers, who are trying to make the show as voyeuristic as possible – they have installed glass-walled toilets and showers.With the winner standing to take home up to GBP100 000 (about N$1,2 million), many of the contestants have been trying to garner as much time on camera as possible, not hesitating to strip off, wear see-through clothes or confess sex secrets.There are 10 weeks to go, with the show going out live continually over the Internet and TV, but the rapid descent into sleaze is well under way.