Pauline for Big Brother 2026 / © ITV
Age: 31
From: Essex
Job: Carer
Social Media: To follow
Why did you apply to be on the show?
“Big Brother has been something that I’ve been watching since I was five, and it’s one of those once in a lifetime opportunities. And it’s just too good to pass up. Especially because the last three years of my life I’ve spent caring for my mother. And I also lost my father in March. So, I thought, ‘let me try and do something, that if the world was ending tomorrow, what would you do?’ I like to take on new opportunities because life is short.”
What will you bring to the house?
“I’m a very bubbly person. It takes a lot to push me over the edge. My default setting is laid back, very calm. I always try to see the silver lining, and I think I have a lot of patience. Tons of patience. I think I bring this sort of energy like ‘let’s get on with it’. Especially with tasks. I like to see something through to the end. I also hope to bring about awareness and a new way of people relating to others. I think a lot of time we don’t give each other grace or society’s angry all the time, for whatever reason. But I think the perspective that I bring is a sort of ‘Okay, just calm down. Think about it first, take time, assess and move forward’.”
Do you have a strategy for making it to the final?
“I really don’t, because all my life, I’ve only ever wanted to be me. But I don’t care about what anyone else is doing. So, I think you can’t lose. Even if you hypothetically don’t respond, you can never lose when you are just you and authentically yourself – no one can take that away from you. I feel when you have to put up front, you have to keep that up. And so yeah, I’m just me. You don’t know what to expect from me.”
Why might someone nominate you?
“To be honest, I actually was not thinking that I’d be nominated but if I was, maybe my directness. I’m a very straight shooter, I’m going to say how it is because I don’t feel like telling people lies to soothe them.”
What would you do with the prize money?
“Definitely a few touches in the house that need to be done. A few renovations here and there to allow my mum to have some ease. She mentioned years ago that she wanted to go to Disneyland in Florida, so that’s definitely on the cards. And then I think I’ll make some adaptations to my motorbike as well.”
