Big Brother favourite hints at early walk out

HARDMAN Vinnie Jones has hinted he could quit Celebrity Big Brother after appearing to show the strain.

The footballer turned Hollywood actor hinted he could walk out less than 48 hours after entering the reality TV house on Sunday.

Jones is thought to be the highest paid celebrity on this year’s final Channel 4 show – receiving £350,000 to take part – and bookies have made him favourite to win.

But the former Wimbledon star’s talk of wanting to leave began when he was asked what present he would like for his 45th birthday, which he celebrated in the house.

“A red card straight from here would do me,” he told Jordan’s ex-boyfriend Dane Bowers.

He said in the Diary Room: “I don’t fancydoing three weeks. I keep eyeing up those walls to see how high they are.”

Later Jones branded some housemates “tabloid celebrities”, saying: “I don’t really know any of them and some are trying a bit hard in here.”

When Bowers asked Jones if he had heard of the movie Condemned, he said: “I was in it, you nutter.”

Actress Stephanie Beacham revealed she considered leaving producers in the lurch at the last minute.

In a chat with housemates, the former Dynasty actress confessed she still had not decided if she would definitely take part in the show as her car drove her up to the screaming crowd on Sunday night.

Beacham, 62, said: “The fact that all those people had come out to see me... at that point I didn’t actually know if I was going to do it.”

Meanwhile, Jordan’s on-off boyfriend Alex Reid has irritated some female housemates by walking around topless.

The cagefighter and aspiring actor showed off his physique while cleaning up.

Ronnie Wood’s ex-flame Ekaterina Ivanova told DJ Basshunter: “I don’t find it attractive”, while rapper Lady Sovereign added that next time she did any cleaning she would take off her top too.

However, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss must have enjoyed the spectacle, saying to Reid beforehand: “You definitely have a cute little body.”

Fleiss has been the first to break the silence about her housemates in the Diary Room, describing some as “annoying” and “idiots”.

“Right now I think Stephen’s a bit of an idiot, but I could be wrong, she said.