Glamour girl Pinder evicted from Big Brother house

Glamour model Lucy Pinder tonight became the first celebrity to be evicted from the 2009 Big Brother house.

Pinder was up against former weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson who shored up her place in the house when her duet with actor Verne Troyer proved a surprise hit on the show's website.

Bookmakers slashed the odds on Pinder being voted out after she failed her part of the house shopping task.

As part of the task, Big Brother set Jonsson and Troyer the challenge of performing Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross's classic 'Endless Love' for the housemates, and getting 10,000 web views of the video.

Surprisingly, the pair's woeful rendition proved a huge hit - with 81,483 views by the end of the challenge at 11pm and more than 100,000 by this afternoon.

Pinder declared her wish to leave the Big Brother house today after being driven to distraction by Coolio's incessant rapping. Jonsson found her sobbing in the toilet having left the press pen in tears. Pinder told her: "I'm just really tired. I really want to go home tomorrow."

After the announcement, Pinder and Jonsson embraced and Jonsson burst into tears.

Pinder promised: "I'll see you all again," but added: "I'm so glad I'm going home."

She received 57% of the total votes cast by the public.

Before leaving the house, Pinder said: "I want to go now, but it's not going to be nice being booed."

Malone said: "You just want to get through it, get your money, go home. Who cares what anyone thinks?"

Sure enough, Pinder left the house to a chorus of boos, but she greeted fans cheerfully and posed for paparazzi.

Inside the studio, presenter Davina McCall's first question to the glamour model was why she had failed to reveal her breasts on the show.

Pinder replied: "I'll get them out for you later. With my job it's work and it's in a studio, but I was in a house with 10 people that I didn't really know."

McCall asked: "Do you think that's part of the reason why you're sat here now, because that was what your fans expected of you?"

Pinder said: "Yeah, probably," but denied she had kept her clothes on in order to prove she was more than "just a pair of boobs".

She said: "I don't mind if I'm seen as just a pair of boobs. It's just it's cold and I haven't fake tanned or anything."

McCall said it was reassuring that even a glamour model had the same worries as everybody else.

Speaking about her tempestuous relationship with Coolio, Pinder said: "Hopefully he's not malicious but...he kind of jokes to a lot of women that he's going to come over and elbow them in the face and it's like, you're a very big guy that we don't know and you're kind of being threatening towards us."

But she added: "I was sat there thinking... it's not about who you like, it's about what makes good TV and this does make good television."

Pinder admitted there were times when she "sat there thinking: 'I hate it here, everyone's really boring me and I want to go home'," but she said: "I don't want to moan. You think, there are terrible things going on in the world, and I'm just in a house with people who, most of them, are really nice."

She said she was glad to have left the house and that Jonsson deserved to win the vote. "For me, Ulrika was the biggest surprise. She's really warm and lovely; she's a top bird."

The glamour model admitted being quite starstruck by singer La Toya Jackson, because she is "a big Jacksons fan". Of actor Vernon Troyer, she said: "He is such a gentleman and his little one-liners are just gold."

Asked why she thought she had been the first celebrity to be evicted, Pinder said: "I haven't got my clothes off. I'm probably quite boring because I'm just quite normal and I don't like the sound of my own voice that much."