Narinder Kaur made a candid confession about why she went on Big Brother 21 years ago, as she made a shock TV return on Steph's Packed Lunch.
Geordie star Narinder became a Big Brother icon in 2001 when she starred in the second series of the much talked about Channel 4 show.
She was firm friends with BB2 winner Brian Dowling during her time in the house and it came as bit of a shock that she was given her marching orders by viewers after just a few weeks.
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Life immediately after Big Brother saw Narinder grace the front pages of magazines and newspapers, attend film premieres and showbiz parties and even appear in a TV sketch with music megastar Britney Spears as she became a household name.
And on Wednesday, the now 48-year-old made an unexpected TV comeback on another Channel 4 programme - lunchtime chat show Packed Lunch.
Narinder appeared in the studio to front a cookery segment, as she made a king prawn and spinach curry, but host Steph McGovern couldn't resist grilling her on her Big Brother past.
And it was then that Narinder, unlike many other people who've walked through the doors of the Big Brother house, made an admission on why she went on the show.
Asked by Steph why she did Big Brother, Narinder replied: "Because I wanted to be famous. I think I'm the only contestant that will ever admit that.
"They always say it's for the money but actually I said 'I want 15 minutes of fame,' and I got it."
Talking about the downside of instant TV fame, Narinder added: "It was actually hard, really really difficult as you don't expect it; you're like a no-one and then you become a household name and then you've got press and all the negativity that came with it; it was actually really hard.
"And of course, I'm from the Asian community so that became a bigger deal."
Quizzed on if she thought it was harder for reality TV stars now to cope with fame, given online trolling and bullying, Narinder replied: "We had the papers; we were trolled by the papers, whereas now it's social media.
"Where they get trolled by social media, they also make money from social media. I'd rather be famous and rich than famous and poor which we were.
"We were sat in that house thinking 'no-one's watching this just our families, so when we came out...oh my god!"
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