Richard Storry for Big Brother 2025 / ITV
Age: 60
From: London
Occupation: Composer and Author
Why did you apply to be on the show?
“I was watching the last series and saw the announcement for applications for the next series. As soon as I pressed the submit button I thought ‘what have you done?’. I don’t know what prompted me, honestly. Mine was a complete spur-of-the-moment decision.”
What will you bring to the house?
“I would like to say humor, but people don’t always find my dad jokes all that funny.”
Do you have a strategy?
“As much as I’ve thought about this at all, I was asked in the audition ‘do you think you can win it?’. I said then, and I still think now, realistically that’s probably an outside chance, by virtue of the fact I would have thought that most people who would watch this show are going to be at the younger end of things and are going to identify more closely with the younger housemates and more likely to vote for them. But you just never know – it would be quite a coup if I did carry it off.”
What would you do with the prize money if you won?
“I certainly won’t be rushing out to buy a Lamborghini or an original DaVinci or anything like that. My mind doesn’t think like that. The thing that gets my mind going is projects – things to put the money into and then see something happen, rather than just go and buy something. And there’s one thing in particular – there’s an upcoming young classical guitarist who wants his second album to consist of music written entirely by me, that I’ve written especially for him. It’s difficult to persuade a record company to take on such a project, but if I had the money to pay for the studio time that would be brilliant. That would give him a nice extra boost at the start of his career, and it’d be nice for me to get my music out there.”
Big Brother airs Sunday to Friday at 9pm on ITV2.
