Carole and Jonty get boot on Big Bro finale

Youth worker Carole Vincent and museum visitor assistant Jonty Stern became the first two housemates to be evicted in tonight’s Big Brother finale.

Both emerged to cheering crowds as they left the house following a count of the public votes already received.

Carole, a 53-year-old activist who has been in the show from the beginning, came fifth in the final poll while Jonty, 36, was sixth.

Twins Sam and Amanda Marchant, 19, who count as one person in the vote, are the red hot 1-6 favourites to pocket the £100,000 winner’s cheque as the eighth series comes to an end.

Jonty told Davina McCall in an interview following his eviction that he was amazed he had lasted so long in the house.

He said: “I thought I was going to last one week so I have lasted five times longer then I thought.”

Carole agreed with Davina that she had become a bit too obsessed with cleaning the house but insisted it was not a trait she had in real life.

“I am not at all obsessed about cleaning stuff at all. It was just boredom,” she said.

She added: “I have learnt loads of stuff: That I don’t know it all, that I can let other people do stuff. Actually I am very bossy and that is a trait from a lot of women in my family.”

Fourth in the public vote was former boyband member Ziggy Lichman, 26, whose romance with Posh Spice wannabe Chanelle was one of the main talking points in this year’s show.

The pair fell for each other just hours after Ziggy entered the show as the first male housemate.

They were soon canoodling under the bed clothes and sparking speculation that they had sex.

But their passion turned into explosive rows, and Chanelle walked out of the house after a blazing argument with her on-off lover.