Former Big Brother U.K. star Jade Goody has died in her sleep after a very public battle with cervical cancer.

Goody’s agent, Max Clifford, made the announcement a short time ago after receiving the confirmation from the 27-year-old’s mother, Jackiey Budden.

“It’s just very sad,” Clifford said, on the verge of tears. “We got very close and I’ve got a lot of respect and admiration for the girl. She was a 27-year-old girl facing up to cervical cancer.”

Clifford received a phone call from Budden shortly after 3 a.m. this morning, who told him: “My beautiful girl has gone.”

Ironically, Goody passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning – Mother’s Day in Great Britain – after agreeing to live the last weeks of her life in the public eye to give her sons the best possible chance at a future free from financial struggle.

The controversial reality television star first learned that she had cancer whilst competing in the Indian version of Big Brother.

Whatever your opinion of Goody, I am sure you will all join me in sending your condolences to her family, husband and sons, who now face life without such a strong, vibrant character in their lives. May you rest in peace, Jade.

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Regina “Reggie” Sorenson, the 2003 winner of Australian Big Brother, has a degenerative eye disease and is going blind.

The former chip shop owner found out about the delibitating disease – known as retinitis pigmentosa – just three weeks ago, and has been rapidly losing her eyesight since the diagnosis was made.

“I will go blind. I was devastated and so upset. I knew it was there, but now that it has gotten really bad… it has just really hit me,” Reggie told Woman’s Day magazine.

The 34-year-old added that she was now declared “legally blind,” and that her greatest fear was not being able to watch her daughter, 16-month-old Mia, grow up.

However, there may be hope for the one-time reality television star. Scientists in the U.K. are trailling an experimental gene therapy to combat the disease, and Reggie and her family are considering relocating to the United Kingdom so she can be included in the trials.

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For those of you who didn’t quite catch Pam Anderson while she was in Australia, here’s the Baywatch star’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance on reality show Big Brother.

She was paid over half a million dollars for this?? What a waste of good money!

More videos from her time in the house available after the jump.

Pamela entering the Big Brother house on Australia’s Gold Coast for the very first time.

Her interview with the show’s hosts, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, prior to entering the house.

Ms. Anderson’s finale interview with Jackie O after leaving the Big Brother compound for the last time.

Big Brother in Australia is no more.

The once popular reality television series has been canned after a disappointing eighth season, which saw the nightly number of viewers slip by 1.8 million.

The decision to cancel the show was made by Ten programmers last last week, something that was heartily backed by the network’s board of directors. Endemol Southern Star, the producers behind Big Brother, were informed shortly after the decision was made official, but opted to keep the axing secret over the weekend while former Baywatch star Anderson – who was reportedly paid over half a million dollars for her few hours of footage – was injected into the mix.

Ten’s chief programmer David Mott said in a statement last night: “This decision has been going back and forth for sometime and we have been having a very close look at it.

“But it has still been a tough call, and while the numbers are still working it is now time for us to move forward.”

Rove McManus first announced the axing on his Network Ten variety show Rove, commenting that “not even Pamela Anderson” could “resuscitate” the floundering reality series.

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Since her snap eviction from the Australian Big Brother house on Wednesday night, there’s been a surge of Brigitte-related news on the web, not all of it pleasant.

Throughout her time in the house, blonde bombshell Brigitte spoke of an “Eric,” someone who everyone on the outside – and inside, for a time – thought was her boyfriend. In short, she was terrified of interacting with any of the males on the show, for fear her “beau” would take it the wrong way and think she was flirting or trying to start a new relationship.

Apparently, this wasn’t far from the truth. Brigitte was literally terrified of even talking to any of the boys in the Big Brother compound, but not for the reasons given on the 7 p.m. Daily Shows.

In an interview with YourTV.com.au, 21-year-old Brigitte revealed that just prior to entering the Big Brother house, “Eric” had threatened her with the existence of a sex tape involving her, and told her that if she acted up with any of the boys, he’d release it to the worldwide web.

Needless to say, Brigitte was distraught, and cites this as the only reason behind her two months of tantrums and cries to go home.

However, the day after her mid-week eviction, Eric made an announcement on a Big Brother forum, telling fans across the country that Brigitte was nothing but a crazed “stalker” who “threatened to kill herself” on a regular basis and “bashed” up any girl who came near him.

As always, there are two sides to every story. To get Brigitte’s side of the story, follow the jump.

Q. Speaking of boys, there’s something I have to ask you – this is a bit of a sensitive subject.

[Groans] I’m sure I’ve been asked about it all day.

Q. I’m sure you have but I’m going to make you answer it one more time: I want to ask about Eric, who popped up on your eviction episode. I’ve heard a rumour he has some sort of sex tape with you in it. What’s going on?

Okay, I’ll tell you the story. He… how do I word this? We were never going out. I made it clear to the housemates that he was not, is not, and will never be my boyfriend. On the day I left for the house he told me that if I embarrassed him by hooking up with any of the guys in the house, then he would embarrass me by releasing this tape. Which I didn’t know had been made, and I still don’t know if it’s real or not.

Q. You’ve never seen it.

Never seen it, didn’t know that it was made. So it could be made up – it could just be him trying to threaten me.

Q. You’re saying he’s being a bit sneaky.

A bit sneaky, yep. So I was kind of… I don’t know if you noticed, I’m pretty sure the whole country noticed, but I was being a bit of a, um, a cow to the other guys in the house.

Q. I may have noticed.

[Laughs] Whenever they got a bit too close I thought it would be perceived as something that it’s not. Which would result in a video being shown. So I’d have a bit of a go at them, and I wasn’t really friends with any of the guys in the house in the first six weeks. That made my time bad – it was shitty that it was like that, that that’s what was ruining my time in the house.

Q. You didn’t want to tell the other housemates?

I didn’t want to tell anyone else my reason for it, because I just didn’t want everyone to know. It’s not something you want to tell everyone, that there’s a sex tape. But I decided to tell Ben and Bianca about six weeks into the show, during a game of “snaps” – which is our little game where you figure out words. And they understood straight away why I was being why I had been. I told them not to tell everyone and obviously they went and told everyone! But it turned out to be good, because everyone helped me through it. They thought about it with me and said he probably doesn’t have a tape, and said he’s making it up, and even if he does have a tape it’s illegal, to do with without you knowing, and he’ll get in a lot of trouble.

Q. So what did you do in the house after that?

During the last four weeks in the house I just decided to forget about it. If there is a tape, there is; if there’s not, there’s not. I can handle it when I get out.

Q. Once that was off your chest, did you become a lot closer to the other housemates?

Yeah. I did. I was so happy that I could just talk to Ben and Rory. I really like them. I was so happy I could just talk to them, muck around with them like friends do, and not have to keep my distance and worry about not being in the spa when they are, and stupid rules like that. Ridiculous things were wrecking my time in the house. But I got over that and everything turned out okay… until I came out of the house and there was all this mess.

Q. How are you going to handle it?

I’m just brushing it off. I did nothing wrong, and I enjoyed my last couple of weeks in the house. That’s all that matters.

Q. It’s interesting you say you were holding back, because some housemates who’ve left the house have said they thought you were playing a character.

I wasn’t playing a character – I was just being a lesser version of myself. I was being myself, I wasn’t being someone else, but there were certain things I had to hold back from because I didn’t want some tape suddenly surfacing on everyone’s computers.

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Brigitte, the 21-year-old buxom blonde who became the latest evictee of this year’s season of Big Brother when she was booted from the house in a snap eviction last night, is allegedly a stalker.

According to her friend, the infamous “Eric,” Brigitte has taken her obsession with him to the extreme, doing drive bys of his house, bashing up his girlfriends, and even threatening to harm herself if he continued to refuse to be with her.

Throughout her stay in the house, Brigitte told her fellow housemates that Eric was her boyfriend – something which Eric insists is not, and never has been, true – and also hinted that he was a controlling partner, and would not look kindly on her for any of her interactions with males in the house. The young girl even went so far as to blame her relationship with Eric for barely speaking to the male members of the house for the first few weeks of her stay.

Since Brigitte’s accusations first appeared on the show, Eric has been inundated with abuse, both in real life and on the various Big Brother web forums, over his mistreatment of the blonde beauty. In order to clear his name, Eric made an appearance on last night’s eviction show, which, ironically enough, saw Brigitte evicted from the house.

During his short appearance, Eric explained that he’s never been Brigitte’s boyfriend, and that the two were simply “friends.” When co-host Kyle Sandilands pressed him about his claims that Brigitte was a stalker, he refused to comment further.

However, Eric has now decided to speak out truthfully about his relationship with the young Big Brother evictee, revealing “his” side of the story on the ‘Behind Big Brother’ forums.

Eric’s story is kind of lengthy, so follow the jump to continue reading.

Here’s what Eric had to say:

Hi everyone this is ERIC the person that you are all talking about.

Firstly there’s some things I need to clear up so you can all stop talking about someone you don’t even know in the slightest. I’ve always been a good “FRIEND” to Brigitte and I mean “FRIEND”. My following points are not lies and there is many people in Canberra that know my situation and could back these points. I also want to apologise to Brigittes family if this offends them but like them I want to clear my name truthfully.

1) I’m MOST DEFINITELY NOT THE BOYFRIEND NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL. I’ve told Brigitte numerous times I never have and never in my life will ever go out with her

2) I don’t care in the slightest that she’s even on BB or hooking up with another guy ! Since she’s been on the show I feel like I’ve been freed. I’ve told her so many times to find another guy but she has been so obsessive that she refuses no matter how I treated her, for example I have hooked up with other girls in front of her, not to be mean but to give her another reason to move on. In the 2 years I have been friends with Brigitte, I have been openly involved with other girls and she accepted this and not because of me forcing her to stay. Brigitte is a good girl with a good heart and I just want to see her move on and be happy without me.

The only reason I answer her repetitive calls is out of pity and because I feel worried she will follow through, with her threats that she would hurt her herself if she couldn’t see me.

3) Many times my parents to tell her to get away from my house because she would do drive bys of my house to check if there was other girls there. My house hold was constantly disrupted due to her constant calling and that my mum has to take the phone off the hook. One example I left my mobile in my car for 1 1/2 hrs and there was 112 missed calls from her !

And that’s not all! Eric continues, and goes on to explain that just two weeks prior to the start of Big Brother 2008, a girl who was seen out with him was bashed by Brigitte and her friends.

4) I don’t understand why she keeps saying that I will ruin her life if I find out she does anything with boys. I’m not a controlling guy in the slightest, I never gave her any rules before she went in the house. Quite frankly I thank Cherry for hooking up with her and now she is out of my hands =) !!

5) The only reason I went on the eviction show is because the rumors about me being her boyfriend had already started and I wanted to deeply clarify that we were only friends. Thats the one and only reason why I went on.

Just to enforce how much better my life is with her being on the show is that I can actually meet girls now without Brigitte threatening to bash them or even kill them. 2 weeks before she went on the show her and her friends bashed a girl because she was seen with me.

I’m not writing this post to attack or degrade Brigitte but because of the constant ridicule of my name on this forum. I don’t appreciate me being talked about by people that don’t know me, that is why I have come on here to explain my situation with her. I’m nothing more then a FRIEND and just a friend ! I hope this clears everything up about me being a controlling guy and answers all your questions about my situation with Brigitte. I don’t like BB it means nothing to me, I don’t watch it and I don’t support her or anyone in the house, it’s boring and I probably won’t come on here often so your replies won’t be answered promptly.

Thank YOU BYE!!!!!!!

Eric added: “I have added to this post because I know there will be people that won’t believe I am ERIC. I have no reason to lie, I find it hard to believe that there is seriously losers with that much of a mental problem that would come on a forum and lie about being someone else. Look I have photo’s to prove it, what more can I say.”

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Former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson has entered the Australian Big Brother house, but has ruled out showering nude or sunbaking topless during her three-day stint on the Gold Coast, much to the disappointment of her many male fans, I’m sure.

The buxom blonde burst into the house just before 9 p.m. AEST last night, shortly after fellow blonde Brigitte, 21, was booted back into the real world.

According to a source, Mamela won’t spend the entire three days in the Big Brother compound, and will be free to “flit in and out” as she sees fit. No doubt she’ll jump between the tiny Gold Coast complex and her 5-star luxury condo at the Palazzo Versace hotel.

During a press conference outside the Palazzo yesterday, the serial Playboy covergirl admitted that she was being paid “a lot” for her three-day appearance on Network Ten’s hit reality show, though she refused to reveal just how big her paycheck was.

“Much more than I’m worth. I had to come. I can’t believe it,” she said. When she was asked if she’d received more than $500,000 from Big Brother’s producers, Anderson added: “I don’t want to say how much, but it was a lot.”

However, Pamela insisted that the whopping paycheck wasn’t the only thing that drew her in to the Big Brother appearance. “I think it’s a lot of fun and I like doing things people tell me not to do and this is definitely one of those things,” she said.

Big Brother airs at 7 p.m. AEST every evening on Network Ten. To view Pamela and the other housemates live in the house, head to the official Big Brother website.

UPDATE: A couple of pics from Pamela’s appearance on the eviction show last night have been added. Please follow the jump if you’d like to view them.

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Mamela Anderson busts into the Aussie Big Brother house tonight for a three day stay.

Mammy is already on the Gold Coast and reportedly visiting the tigers at Dreamworld, where the Big Brother house is located. She was also seen at the Palazzo Versace Hotel yesterday.

Her Aussie stay is forecast to feature in her upcoming reality TV series.

I wonder if they told Mamela that there is only one giant bed in the house that everyone shares? It’ll be interesting to see which one gets Mammy as a pillow.

Mind you, that should not be unfamiliar to Mammy, who has done the Playboy thing a few times, so knows the workings of Hugh’s mansion.