Big Brother celebrities tap into their spiritual sides

Celebrity Big Brother housemate Jodie Marsh tapped into her spiritual side today when she joined a fellow contestant for some Buddhist chanting.

Actress and Buddhist Rula Lenska spent time chanting and was joined by the glamour model who quickly picked up the complicated rhythmic words.

Lenska, 57, sat in the corner of the living space and rung a bell several times before she began and was joined by Marsh, 27, American actress Traci Bingham, 37, and Faria Alam, 39 – famous for her fling with England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson – who all watched.

But the glamour model soon joined in for the ten minute chanting session.

Lenska told the women afterwards she had been a “Tibetan Buddhist” for many years but had been doing “Buddhism for the common man”, which had no hierarchical structure, for two years.

“We all have Buddhist god within us...we just have to tap into it,” she said.

“This is strictly not a religion more a philosophy, within yourself you have your own god.

“(If you) chant positive things, the universe has a way of paying you back in a positive way.”

Yesterday fake pop star Chantelle Houghton was forced to perform in front of her housemates, even though she cannot sing.

The 22-year-old model and Paris Hilton lookalike has been told to pretend she is a member of a band called Kandy Floss.

But despite her stuttering rendition of their supposed hit, I Want It Right Now, she has yet to be caught out by her fellow contestants – although some have expressed suspicions.

Michael Barrymore is the favourite with punters to win the Channel 4 reality show.

Bookies William Hill make him 2/1 favourite – but Alam has been snubbed by gamblers who don’t want to back her, and she is a 40/1 outsider.

Graham Sharpe, spokesman for the company said: “Barrymore clearly has the sympathies of the gambling public and has been easily the best backed runner since the race began, but Faria is a pariah as far as punters are concerned and they are just not prepared to bet on her.”

The full odds are: 2/1 Barrymore; 11/4 Maggot, 4/1 Preston Samuel, 10/1 Houghton and George Galloway, 14/1 Marsh and Pete Burns, 16/1 Dennis Rodman and Lenska; 33/1 Bingham, 40/1 Alam.