Nikki Grahame death

A new Channel 4 documentary and tribute to Nikki Grahame will air exclusive interviews and insight into her life.

She died on April 9, 2021, and the documentary is a tribute to her life one year after her death. Nikki's battle with the eating disorder continued throughout her life and she has discussed her journey on TV, as well as writing books. When she was diagnosed with anorexia aged eight she was one of the youngest people in the UK with the eating disorder. In 2010 Nikki entered the Big Brother house again for the Ultimate Big Brother when she came second. In one of her books Fragile, about her battle with the eating disorder, she said: “I started to think that to be better at gymnastics and to be more popular, I had to be skinny. She was so popular with the viewers that she was voted back into the Big Brother house and later finished fifth in the series.

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Recounting the first time she realised that Nikki was suffering from an eating disorder, Susan said: "I first noticed when Nikki was about seven and a half. Following her appearance on the Channel 4 programme, she was given her own reality show, Princess Nikki, which ran for six episodes. Nikki Grahame rose to fame after competing in the seventh series of reality show Big Brother in 2006.

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‘It was the happiest day of her life. Tom Quinn, director of external affairs, said in a statement sent to Metro.co.uk: ‘A documentary about Nikki Grahame is airing this evening on Channel 4. She was so busy,’ she said. From now on, she was going to be alright, you know? One of the people who features prominently in the documentary is Nikki’s mum, Sue Grahame, who shared on the programme that she believes Big Brother played a role in ‘saving her life’. ‘An amount will be used for the funeral costs and the remaining funds will be used to go towards an organisation that helps those suffering with eating disorders, the crucial funding that has been lacking to help people in these awful situations has not been addressed, we will use this money to the best of our ability to try and and stem this horrific, debilitating illness,’ an update read at the time.

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Sue said: "In order for her to eat she needs to know she can exercise, so when they closed it was quite a worry, the isolation as well. In 2015, the reality star appeared as a guest house mate on the 16th series of Big Brother UK - and a year later, she finished in sixth place on Big Brother Canada. Who IS she?’.

The star, who passed away in 2021, is now the subject of a new documentary that will explore her life and battle with anorexia.

Sue Graham, Nikki’s mother says: “Nikki was so much more than a reality TV contestant and I am looking forward to celebrating her short life in this documentary. Her mother Sue explained that “in order for her to eat she needs to know she can exercise, so when they closed it was quite a worry, the isolation as well. Channel 4 says the hour-long film “film will celebrate Nikki’s life through archive and home movies. I knew she needed something to take her mind off her illness – she was always on the edge of falling back into it. She also starred in Ultimate Big Brother in 2010, she was again a housemate in 2015, she starred in Canadian Big Brother in 2017, and also returned to the UK version in 2018. But we had such fun there too, getting into trouble like teenage girls do.”

SHE was known for her huge personality, but when Big Brother star Nikki Grahame tragically died at the age of 38 following a 30-year battle with anore.

She didn't think she was anything special, but she was." Speaking about the moment Nikki rose to fame in 2006, Carly says: "I wasn't worried about her going in the house. "One day she tried to get up the stairs and she had to crawl on her hands and knees. It was almost like it gave her a reason to live again... She would be there for you with every inch of herself - that was the best Nikki. "She was so poorly. the voice that's telling me to self destruct. She was so busy." She was never happy. It was just awful. I needed to control something in my life. "She suddenly came alive...

Tragic Big Brother star Nikki Grahame struggled with an eating disorder since the age of eight and was admitted to over 17 institutions over the years to ...

Giving a tour of the apartment, Sue goes into the bedroom and says: "When I come here and stay in her flat, I sleep here on this bit in her bed, cuddling Pingu, who actually she was cuddling when she died. Part of me has died and I miss her, more than I can say." "When the lockdown came along in 2020, I don't know if it was premonition or not, but Nikki was really, really scared," Sue, Nikki's mum, says. "Watching them put my little girl in a bag, taking her down in the lift and I asked them which end her head was," Sue says. The paramedics said to her 'One day your body will give up Nikki, but we can't take you against your will'. "There was one Sunday morning when she called me and said, 'Imogen, I just want to die.' The first thing I done was call the ambulance," she says.