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Scottish Sun
11 hours ago
- Scottish Sun
I won Big Brother 10 years ago – here's what I really spent my £116k prize on & what I'm doing now
Plus, scroll down for the list of Big Brother winners from over the years CASH REALITY I won Big Brother 10 years ago – here's what I really spent my £116k prize on & what I'm doing now Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A DONCASTER lass won Big Brother a decade ago and has now revealed what she really spent her prize money on. Not only this, but Chloe Wilburn, who chose not to pursue a showbiz career, also got candid on what she's up to now. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 A Big Brother winner has opened up on what she spent her prize money on Credit: TikTok / chloejade105 4 As well as this, Chloe Wilburn also got candid on what she's up to now Credit: Getty Images - Getty 4 Chloe won Big Brother back in 2015 Credit: Handout 4 She got herself braces, paid off her mum's mortgage and bought a property outright Credit: TikTok / chloejade105 Prior to her Big Brother win back in 2015, the brunette beauty was a call centre worker. But after beating off tough competition and swooping a jaw-dropping prize of £116,100, Chloe returned home to Yorkshire. Now, speaking on social media, the mother got candid on what she paid for with her winnings, and it's sure to leave you surprised. Posting online, Chloe responded to a comment which read: 'Sorry to be nosey, but what did you spend it on?' To this, Chloe replied and acknowledged that rather than designer clothes and expensive holidays, she put the money to good use and not only treated herself to a set of braces, but ensured her mum was sorted out too. The down-to-earth woman confirmed: 'So I paid my mum's mortgage off, I got braces, because I had rank, crisscrossy teeth. 'I bought a house in Edlington, which is in Doncaster, outright. 'And then I did the house up, sold it and made a bit of money.' While two years ago it was reported that Chloe was running Surgery Sisters, a company that sells specialist post-surgery garments and vitamins, the star got candid on turning her back on celebrity life. After getting married to her boyfriend Dom Tasker and having a son together, the series 16 winner explained: 'Now I own a couple of houses and a dog grooming salon in Sprotbrough in Doncaster.' Big Brother's 7 unprecedented changes to season 27 revealed - as stars watched by 'very invasive' new cameras Chloe's TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @chloejade105, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly racked up 94,700 views, 1,812 likes and 48 comments. Big Brother fans eagerly raced to the comments to praise the humble winner and some even called her an 'inspiration.' One person said: 'Loved you on Big Brother, you were my winner from day one.' You deserve all of what you have received! TikTok user Another added: 'It makes me so happy to hear that someone has benefited from it. 'You're so normal and authentic, and it didn't go to your head! You should be so proud.' A third commented: 'Wow, well done babe.. an inspiration. I remember watching you and rooting for you to win.' Whilst someone else beamed: 'You deserve all of what you have received!' Meanwhile, another gushed: 'Nice to hear [you've] not wasted it.' At the same time, one user wrote: 'Fair play, I thought you [were] a dope.' In response, Chloe responded and joked: 'Haha think I must be some level of dope to go on reality TV, but thank you.' Unlock even more award-winning articles as The Sun launches brand new membership programme - Sun Club
The Herald Scotland
12 hours ago
- The Herald Scotland
Here's my top 10 Edinburgh Festival picks not to be missed
BOOK EVENT Hanif Kureishi: Shattered but Unbroken Edinburgh International Book Festival, Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute, August 15, 3.15pm Author Hanif Kureish (Image: Getty Images) Some years ago (maybe around the time Gordon Brown was Prime Minister) I interviewed Hanif Kureishi at his home. He was a splendid, feisty, bullish interviewee, calling out my questions and taking the hump at times. In 2022 he suffered a fall that left him paralysed. He's now a tetraplegic. If anything, he might have become a better, braver writer as a result. Hosted by journalist Chitra Ramaswamy, this Book Festival event sees him appear remotely, but, such is the force of his personality even now, that shouldn't make any difference. CLASSICAL Best of Monteverdi Choir Edinburgh International Festival, Usher Hall, August 4 I do like a choir. And in this year's compact (or should that be financially constrained?) Edinburgh International Festival this is the performance I'm drawn to. Led by conductor Jonathan Sells, it should be a showcase for the choir and the English Baroque Soloists. The programme takes in Purcell and Bach (both JS and Johann Christoph) and culminates with a performance of Handel's Dixit Dominus. ART Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years Royal Scottish Academy, July 28-November 2 Stretched Canvas on Field, with mineral block removed, after a few days of sheep eating it, 1997 (Image: Andy Goldsworthy) Sometimes you can have enough of flyers and street jugglers and dingy comedy venues, right? That's the time to take in an exhibition. And this August you are spoiled for choice in Edinburgh. Resistance, curated by filmmaker Steve McQueen, continues at Modern Two for anyone seeking inspiration to be an activist. Dovecot Studios is home to an exhibition dedicated to the textile design of IKEA and the Scottish Gallery has a celebration of the artist Victoria Crowe on her 80th birthday. All well worth your time. And then there is Andy Goldsworthy taking over the Royal Academy. This exhibition includes more than 200 works by Scottish-based environmental artist, including an expansive new installation built in situ. Remarkable work from a remarkable man. TALK Tim Pope Fringe by the Sea, The Dome, North Berwick, August 2, 2.45pm It's tempting to forego [[Edinburgh]] all together this August and just decamp to North Berwick for the duration. Because this year's Fringe by the Sea programme contains everyone from Chris Hoy, Eddi Reader, Judy Murray and Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) to Hamish Hawk, the Bluebells and Dave from Blur. There's even an indie disco overseen by Scotland's pre-eminent musical Stuarts, Murdoch and Braithwaite. But can I single out this appearance by director Tim Pope? His work with The Cure, Siouxsie Sioux, Talk Talk, Soft Cell, Strawberry Switchblade and even Wham! (he directed the video for Young Guns Go For It) made him one of the key visual artists of the 1980s. In this special event he's in conversation with Vic Galloway. FILM Grow Edinburgh International Film Festival, August 16-19, Cameo, Filmhouse, Vue, various times Grow with Nick Frost (Image: unknown) I suppose we should be grateful that we still have an [[Edinburgh]] International Film Festival at all after the collapse of CMI in 2022, but even before that it seemed to be struggling to match the buzz and the engagement found at the other end of the M8 at the annual Glasgow Film Festival. This is the second year of the revivied Film Festival under director Paul Ridd and it comes trailing some criticism that it's not Scottish enough. (Critic and journalist Siobhan Synnot has claimed that 90 per cent of the people selecting films for the festival live outside Scotland). Despite all that, there is much to see here. As well as a retrospective of Budd Boetticher westerns, there will be in-person conversations with directors Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank) and Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels and the upcoming 28 Years later sequel The Bone Temple), producer Jeremy Thomas, as well as premieres from directors including Paul Andrew Williams, Andrew Kotting, Helen Walsh and the Dardenne brothers. I'm intrigued to see Grow, the new film from Scottish director John McPhail (Anna and the Apocalypse), with a cast of familiar British comedy faces (including Jane Horrocks and Nick Frost) and a plot description that combines the phrases 'Scottish fantasy' and 'pumpkin-growing contest'. FILM Bulk Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cameo, August 14, 11.55pm And sticking with the film festival ... 'This is a midnight film through and through. Car chases, gun fights, sci-fi and romance,' director Ben Wheatley has said of his new film Bulk which is having its world premiere at this year's EIFF, part of the festival's Midnight Madness strand. Sounds fun. Wheatley's last outing was Generation Z, the Channel 4 TV horror series (the one with Anita Dobson and Sue Johnston as OAP zombies). Before that he gave us The Meg 2. But I'm hoping Bulk - which stars Sam Riley and Noah Taylor - might be fit to stand alongside his best films, Kill List and A Field in England, both of which belied small budgets to offer up potent, unheimlich horror thrillers. Here's hoping this is another one. If midnight is too late for you, there are screenings of the film on Friday, August 15 at the National Galleries and Vue, and there will be a special In Conversation event with Wheatley himself on August 15 at 1.30pm at the Tolcross Central Hall Auditorium. DANCE Journey of Flight: Kathryn Gordon DB3 @Dance Base, August 12-17, 2.30pm Intrigued by the sound of this dance performance based on the migration patterns of birds and the idea of place. Accompanied by live music from Jenny Sturgeon, Shetland-based dance artist and choreographer Kathryn Gordon's show combines bespoke visuals and avian-inspired movement and should offer a calm retreat from the hurlyburly of the Grassmarket. 'We've really explored what home is to us and that feeling of nostalgia and leaving and coming back,' Gordon says of the piece. It also involves paper planes. And who doesn't love paper planes? POETRY At What Point with Caitlin O'Ryan Spiegeltent, Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 19, 6pm Actor Caitlin O'Ryan was a regular in the TV series Outlander, but it's her spoken-word poetry that has really got her noticed. Last year her performance of her poem At What Point went viral and it wasn't hard to see why: an impassioned cri de coeur about violence against women, gender inequality and the challenges of female experience, it had echoes of Self Esteem's breakthrough hit I Do This All the Time. But, if anything, O'Ryan's words hit even harder. In this book festival event she talks to Holly McNish. COMEDY Zainab Johnson: Toxically Optimistic Pleasance Courtyard (Above), July 30-August 24 There is quite a lot of work-in-progress shows coming to Edinburgh this summer, Aisling Bea, the wonderful Ania Magliano, Laura Smyth and Larry Dean among them. Nothing wrong with that but usually Edinburgh is what you're progressing towards. Case in point. Zainab Johnson may have her own hit stand-up show on Amazon Prime (Hijabs Off), but here she is making her debut at the Fringe. Johnson's new show talks gun ownership (yes, she is American), relationships and, as the title suggests, optimism as a toxic trait. 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Scotsman
2 days ago
- Scotsman
Bloodstock: When did the metal festival first start and who are the big names who've played?
Still undecided whether to head to Bloodstock Open Air this year? Perhaps a history lesson about the festival might aid your decision. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Bloodstock 2025 is only a few short weeks away - the second metal and rock festival taking place in Derbyshire this year. But for those unfamiliar with the festival, what are its roots, and does it predate Download Festival? Here's a brief history of the metal festival - from when it became Bloodstock Open Air through to some of the headline acts throughout the years. Start your festival packing once again, metal fans - it's no more than two weeks until Bloodstock Open Air takes place at Catton Hall in Derbyshire! Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad But Bloodstock isn't just about the current line-up; it boasts a fascinating journey from its humble beginnings to becoming one of the UK's premier independent metal gatherings. So before you (stage) dive into this year's action, let's explore the rich history that makes Bloodstock truly special - and maybe convince those sitting on the fence to come on over. When did Bloodstock first begin? A brief history of Bloodstock Festival, ahead of 2025's event taking place from August 7 2025 in Catton Park, Derbyshire. | Getty Images Bloodstock Open Air, often just called Bloodstock, officially began in 2001. However, it's important to note its evolution. Between 2001 and 2004, it started as an indoor festival known as "Bloodstock UK Metalfest" held at the Derby Assembly Rooms. The very first event in 2001 was a one-day affair. But from 2005 onwards, the festival transitioned to an outdoor event, moving to its current home at Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. This is when it became "Bloodstock Open Air" and really began to grow into the large-scale festival it is today. So, while the "Open Air" format started in 2005, the Bloodstock name and concept date back to 2001. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Why did Bloodstock begin? Bloodstock was founded by Paul Raymond Gregory and his family (later joined by his daughters Vicky Hungerford and Rachael Greenfield, and son Adam Gregory as directors). Paul Gregory is an acclaimed fantasy artist, known for his album artwork for heavy metal bands, including Saxon's 1984 album Crusader. The festival originated from a passion for heavy metal music and a desire to create an event that truly catered to the metal community. It was conceived by fans, for fans. The initial indoor events were a way to bring this vision to life, and as demand grew, it naturally transitioned to the outdoor format to accommodate more attendees and bands. It aimed to provide an immersive and authentic experience for metal fans, fostering a sense of belonging and camaraderie within the community. Is Bloodstock older than the Download Festival? Yes, Bloodstock is indeed older than the Download Festival, having started as an indoor event in 2001 before moving to its current outdoor home at Catton Hall in 2005, whereas Download Festival officially began in 2003. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad However, it's important to note that Download is the direct successor to the legendary Monsters of Rock festivals, which were held annually at Donington Park (Download's current location) from 1980 to 1996. This means while Bloodstock as a distinct festival brand predates Download by two years, Donington Park has a much deeper, longer-standing history as the UK's premier site for major rock and metal gatherings. What big names have performed at Bloodstock previously? If they're one of your favourite metal acts, chances are they've performed at Bloodstock previously. While we could spend all day listing every line-up, let's focus on those bands who have headlined the festival during its outdoor iteration – starting in 2005. A history of Bloodstock headliners - 2005 - 2025 2005: HammerFall, Within Temptation 2006: Stratovarius, Edguy 2007: Lacuna Coil, In Flames, Testament 2008: Dimmu Borgir, Opeth, Iced Earth 2009: Arch Enemy, Blind Guardian, Saxon 2010: Opeth, Twisted Sister, Children of Bodom 2011: W.A.S.P., Immortal, Motörhead 2012: Iced Earth, Machine Head, Alice Cooper 2013: Slayer, Lamb of God, King Diamond 2014: Emperor, Down, Megadeth 2015: Trivium, Within Temptation, Rob Zombie 2016: Slayer, Mastodon, Anthrax 2017: Amon Amarth, Ghost, Megadeth 2018: Judas Priest, Gojira, Nightwish 2019: Sabaton, Parkway Drive, Scorpions 2021: (Rescheduled after 2020 cancellation) Devin Townsend, Kreator, Judas Priest 2022: Behemoth, Mercyful Fate, Bloodbath (originally planned for 2020/2021) 2023: Killswitch Engage, Meshuggah, Megadeth 2024: Architects, Amon Amarth, Opeth 2025: Gojira, Trivium, Machine Head What differences are there between Bloodstock and Download - if any? While both Bloodstock and Download Festival are premier UK events for rock and metal fans, they offer distinctly different experiences rooted in their scale and philosophy. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Download, typically hosting around 80,000 attendees at the vast Donington Park, caters to a broader rock and metal audience, often including more mainstream acts, and its sheer size can lead to longer walks and a more spread-out atmosphere. In contrast, Bloodstock, with a more intimate capacity of 20,000–25,000 at Catton Park, maintains a strong focus on pure heavy metal subgenres, fostering a close-knit, community-driven "Bloodstock family" vibe. Its smaller, more compact site means shorter distances between stages and amenities, often leading to quicker access to bars, food, and even allowing attendees to bring their own alcohol into the arena, contributing to a more relaxed and less corporate feel than its larger counterpart. Are there tickets left to attend Bloodstock 2025? If your interest has been piqued, there are still tickets left to attend Bloodstock 2025 when it arrives in August. Visit the official Bloodstock website for tickets, accommodation options and those all-important car parking passes. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Have you been to Bloodstock and Download Festival and have a preference, or do you think they both offer something different for fans of metal and alternative music? Let us know your experiences at BOA by leaving a comment down below.
