Zelah and Sam for Big Brother 2025 / ITV
Zelah chose to open up to fellow housemate Sam about his trans identity on the group’s first full day in the Big Brother house.
The pair were talking in the bedroom when Zelah revealed that he “went from lesbian to man”.
“Did you always know that you were a man deep down?” asked Sam, who goes by he, she or they pronouns.
“When I was six years old,” Zelah replied, “if you looked at me then and look at me now, you’d think I went from A to B, I looked like a little version of me now. I had the skin fade and everything.
“I was still bullied for being a man in school. Like there’s always something…”
He continued: “And then I realised I was queer around 15, things started to get better because I started to be a bit more masculine, went through my toxic masculinity phase, got a motorbike and my tattoos…”
On launch night Zelah had appeared to be reluctant to talk about his transition early on, telling Big Brother: “Naturally that conversation will come up, because if you ask me about my school experience, I went to an all-girls school. If people ask me more about the personal training business that I’m trying to build, it’s centred towards trans people and women.
“It will naturally come up, but for now I’m making a conscious decision to not bring it up for a bit, let people make their first impressions of me outside of my gender identity.”
Big Brother airs Sunday to Friday at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
