Zelah for Big Brother 2025 / ITV
Age: 25
From: South London
Occupation: Personal Trainer
Why did you apply to be on the show?
“I’m in this weird in-between where I’ve recently left the corporate world into having a bit of a looser schedule while I get qualified and build my business, so it felt like a ‘why not’ situation. I’m someone who doesn’t have much of a social battery that runs out, so I’m very intrigued to see how far that goes in the house. Also, being trans, I think that a lot of the media narrative at the moment is taken out of our hands, and it will be nice to re-centre that and retake control. Shows like Big Brother show the normality of people – you can’t get more personal than watching someone 24/7.”
What will you bring to the house?
“I’m quite an energetic person. I think that’s both a strength and a weakness. I might get a little bit unbearable without the gym – that’s definitely my main coping mechanism for the chaotic-ness of the energy I have. I’m very social – I’m someone who takes on the role of the rounder-upper. I like to organise things, I like to do things in a group. I’d like to think that I’d contribute to group work in the house. And I’m really looking forward to the tasks, so I think I’d be someone who can throw themselves into that.”
Do you have a strategy?
“No. I have a strategy for coping. I’m aware that when you’re in there you apparently forget about the cameras. I’m hoping I do because there’s a lot of pressure to try and get things right. My main aim is to not hold my personality back out of fear of getting things wrong. I would like to win, I would like to get to the final, but I don’t really have a strategy on how to get there.”
What would you do with the prize money if you won?
“I’ve had a few thoughts about this – I think the biggest thing would be that I’d contribute towards my business – training LGBT people and women. On a smaller note, I’d like to take my girlfriend on a really lovely holiday to say sorry for leaving her while I’m in the Big Brother House.”
Big Brother airs Sunday to Friday at 9pm on ITV2.
