Craig Phillips, Big Brother Winner, Reveals Surprising Fact: He's Never Watched His Iconic Season trucc

   

Liverpool-born Craig became the first winner of Big Brother in 2000

Craig Phillips became the first winner of Big Brother in 2000

Craig Phillips, the first-ever winner of 'Big Brother', has admitted he's never watched his series of the reality TV show. The Liverpool-born builder, 53, who shot to fame in 2000, revealed that despite being given every episode on videotape, he's never found the time - or desire - to relive the summer that catapulted him into the limelight.

In a chat with BoyleSportsGames, Craig confessed: "I’ve watched everybody else's but I haven't watched my programme. I didn't get time when I left the house.

"I was given huge boxes with hundreds of VHS tapes, of all the content, with every single show. I didn't go home for 97 days, so I didn't have a chance to actually watch it, and then when I did come out, because I’d done hundreds of radio interviews and interviews with journalists, etc. I felt as if they told me everything happened. I knew what happened because I was there, but they told me.

"So I felt as if after six months or so, when things started to finally ease off a little bit. I didn't actually need to watch this, because I've already seen it in a way. Obviously, I've talked to hundreds of thousands of people, and they've told me their versions of what they’ve seen and that's mapped out the whole show for me."

Craig, who is happily married to Laura Sherriff and shares two children with her - Nelly, five, and Lennon, three - has seen all of his standout moments from the show, including his infamous face-off with 'Nasty Nick' Bateman. He's also held onto all of his memorabilia from his time on the show and beyond.

He shared: "I’ve seen a lot of the iconic moments of me like confronting Nasty Nick, or me winning and those moments hundreds of times because I went on every television chat show and they’d show clips before I went on. But I still have all of the tapes and funnily enough, I was going through a big sort out recently and I found hundreds of 1000s of photographs, probably about 600 or 700 VHS tapes.

"When I used to work with the BBC, again, we would come off all the live shows and give me a recording of it. I don't even know what I'm gonna do with them all. I've kept all those little wristbands you get when you’re invited to awards, or a VIP thing.

"I’ve got about six boxes completely full of all these little memorabilia things. They’re worthless to anyone else, but they’re lovely memorabilia to me of what I've done and where I've gone.

"I brought a video camera which I used to film all these weird and wonderful things for the first year, right? For the first year, when I was doing personal appearances, charity work, TV stuff with celebrities. I've got boxes and boxes and boxes of those tapes still."