02 November 2023 , 09:01
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Big Brother star Kerry Riches was rushed to see the doctor after suffering a painful off-screen accident.
The 40-year-old contestant was the fourth housemate to be eliminated from the house in a surprising Halloween twist. On Monday night, three housemates were nominated by Noky and Trish in a secret mission, the contestants facing the public vote were Dylan, Kerry and Olivia. After a flash vote on Monday night, the results were revealed during Tuesday's episode in a tense moment.
Big Brother revealed that Kerry had been eliminated and was leaving immediately to which she had an abrupt backdoor exit via a decorative coffin for the Halloween-themed episode - without even getting to say goodbye to her fellow housemates not in the room.
However, fans didn't know she needed medical attention during her time in the house. She suffered a burn on her hand after using a hair tong. It burned her so badly that she ended up getting medical attention - which wasn't filmed for the show.
Kerry suffered a painful burn while in the house (ITV)Speaking to The Sun about the painful accident, Kerry explained: "I burnt my hand on a hair tong that got hot very quickly, and I didn't realise it was on and straight away they asked me to go to the diary room. I was asked if I had any blisters - the team were really on it.”
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After leaving the house, Kerry complained about the younger housemates being disrespectful and having loud, drunken pillow fights until 4 am while she was trying to sleep. She revealed it worsened her MS condition. But Kerry, who uses a mobility scooter to help cope with her condition, refused to contact Big Brother to request private sleeping arrangements for fear of being labelled “the disabled contestant".
Speaking to The Mirror, she said the disrupted sleep made her condition worse and she was also battling a flare-up of her optic neuritis. "I went to the Diary Room one lunchtime because I lost a bit of vision in my left eye - a bit of blurred vision,” she explained. “It was one of my first symptoms when I got diagnosed with MS."
The NHS worker was relieved to find out she was getting booted from the Big Brother house in the shock twist. The star "really struggled" with her time in the house and said: "I could hear my MS nurse saying: ‘Listen to your body and rest when you need to.’ I massively underestimated the sleep part of it. Massively.
“I didn’t want to be treated differently. I wanted that authentic experience. I didn’t want to be ‘the disabled one’ that couldn’t get involved.” Kerry was up against Dylan and Olivia during the shock nominations with fellow housemates Noky and Trish choosing their fate in the middle of the night.