The Valleys star of the last series of Big Brother has said that being on the notorious reality show helped prepare him for life in Covid lockdown. Rhondda's Akeem Griffiths claimed the months he spent in the BB house, isolated from the rest of the world with only a handful of others for company, acted as an invaluable "practice run" for the strict social restrictions brought in during the pandemic.
He also credited the long-running show with helping him meet the "love of his life" with whom he recently celebrated the birth of their baby daughter. Akeem, who hails from Treorchy in Rhondda Cynon Taf, was runner-up in the final of the long-running series in 2018 shortly before it was finally axed from the UK's airwaves.
"Having been in an artificially sealed environment like that, cut off from friends and family ,would prove really beneficial for me come Covid," said the 30-year-old, who was in the BB house for a total of 53 days. "When lockdown hit it was just like deja vu – I felt like I was right back on the programme.
