Big Brother’s Nadia Almada doesn’t want the ITV2 reboot to be like ‘soulless’ Love Island

OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Big Brother’ winner Nadia Almada doesn’t want the show to be like “soulless” ‘Love Island’.
The 46-year-old hairdresser – who snagged victory on the fifth series of the original Channel 4 run in 2004 with 74 per cent of the vote – is “super-excited” for the ITV2 reboot of the iconic reality show but urges the producers to “listen to the fans” and make it like the Davina McCall-fronted edition with “real people” and not glossy wannabe influencers like on the dating competition.
She told the Daily Star newspaper: “I’m super-excited for Big Brother. They will have to listen to the fans. They want the humour, the real people.
“But I think they are really trying to keep the essence of the show, the social ­experiment, people from all walks of life connecting.
“We need to step away from influencers and models and go back to people like me, Brian Dowling, Pete Bennett, Jade Goody – people that created the foundations for this amazing show.
“We created reality TV – the whole genre was based on that show. ‘Love Island; is very generic. I find it’s not real. There’s no soul to it. I’m sick and tired of forced love relationships.”
Nadia – who was the first openly transgender woman to compete – admitted she was grateful they were considering “bringing back familiar faces” but was unsure if she wanted to be involved.
She said: “I appreciate the fact they are considering us, bringing back some ­familiar faces.
“It’s very honourable and almost like an appreciation for what we created and ­delivered for that show.
“I’m not sure I’d go back as a contestant but in a guest spot or something like that.
“Or it would be quite nice to have a commentator position, looking at highlights of the night or week.”
She labelled the new crop of contestants are “having it easy” compared to her heyday.
Nadia said: “We did 12 weeks. They’re having it easy and will probably have all mod cons – we didn’t even have a washing machine or dishwasher.”

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