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Big Brother's Algarve Brain
• 13 Jun 2007 •
 LESLEY BRAIN, who at 60 years of age was the oldest contestant ever to have entered the Big Brother house, has quit the reality show. The retired head-hunter, who is well known to many Algarve residents, walked out of the house at 9.15am on Saturday after complaining she was already bored.
“I am more bored than is acceptable to me in the sense that I have better things to do,” she told Big Brother earlier on in the week.
Just two years ago, Lesley and her second husband, David – 23 years her senior – lived an idyllic lifestyle in Santa Bárbara de Nexe.
Views from their luxurious home stretched out to the distant ocean and with a social circuit of good friends the Brains appeared to have the perfect retirement package.
Lesley, an academic who studied at Cambridge University, achieved a first-class degree in Psychology. In later years, she became an expert on aspects of English literature, especially Charles Dickens. The author became her passion and she gave several lectures on his works, which were attended by other scholarly expatriates living in the Algarve.
So why, some wonder, would Lesley with her fine credentials, return to England and subject herself to the humiliation of Big Brother? When the Brains left Santa Bárbara last year and moved to Gloucestershire, no-one was surprised to learn they had bought a house near Highgrove and had started fraternising with the Waleses. A reference contained in Lesley's biography on the Official Big Brother website confirms a royal connection.
The site also details information about Lesley being a member of the Women's Institute and explains her financial status, living off money accrued during various successful business ventures. It fails to mention that one of these was a dating agency, 'Assignations,' which she ran in Bath. Lesley personally interviewed all potential clients.
Some judge this to have been a rather 'seedy' enterprise, especially for someone who was exceptionally well qualified. A further and even more surprising undertaking was into the world of erotic fiction – again not referred to on the website. Lesley was commissioned to write for women readers aged between 25 and 40, detailing female sexual fantasies.
Her publisher specified the style and length of the stories and she delivered them to order. All were written under a pseudonym, known only to Lesley and her professional colleagues.
With so many male-craving contestants in the Big Brother house, perhaps Endemol calculated that Lesley's story-telling skills would have come in useful. I guess we will never know. |  Return to Top
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