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BLP sources|date=July 2010Infobox person| name = Nadia Almada| image =| caption =| birth_name =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1977|01|28|df=yes| birth_place= Ribeira Brava, Madeira | television = Big Brother 2004 (UK)|Big Brother 5 Ultimate Big Brother Nadia Conceicao Almada http://web.researcha.com/iccquery/detail/? did=27331569& c=uk Researcha (born Jorge Leodoro 28 January 1977 in Ribeira Brava, Madeira ) is a Madeira n-born UK reality television star, best known for being the first transsexual winner of Big Brother (UK)|Big Brother in Big Brother 2004 (UK)|series 5 in 2004.
Media career
Big Brother
Almada competed in the fifth series of Big Brother in 2004; she kept her gender reassignment operation a secret from fellow contestants although viewers were informed. After 71 days in the Big Brother House, she emerged as the winner, securing 74% of the overall vote and winning £63,500. She had regularly topped polls as the public's favourite Big Brother winner. Big Brother presenter Davina McCall always said Almada was her favourite housemate of all time.
Life after Big Brother
Almada went on to record a single (music)|single entitled " A Little Bit of Action ", which reached Number 27 in the UK Singles Chart in December 2004.cite book|first= David|last= Roberts|year= 2006|title= British Hit Singles & Albums|edition= 19th|publisher= Guinness World Records Limited|location= London|isbn= 1-904994-10-5|page= 387 She also made a guest appearance in the soap opera Hollyoaks turning on the Christmas Lights. She entered the Big Brother Australia 2005| Big Brother Australia house visiting the three finalists during week 14 and has made various appearances on televised chat shows and game shows. In 2008 she co presented The Big Brother Launch Night Project on the launch night of Big Brother 9 . She took part in Celebrity Fitness Videos Not Fit For TV , which was hosted by Lorraine Kelly and Eamon Holmes . The show featured celebrities performing Almada's own Latino inspired Dance/Fitness video, Latino Dance Workout , which she released in 2004. http://www.virginmedia.com/homefamily/health/celebrity-fitness-videos.php? ssid=13 Best and worst celebrity fitness videos Virgin Media
In 2005, Almada was a contestant on the Channel Five reality show, ''Trust Me...I'm A Holiday Rep . Almada was a replacement for Britain's Next Top Model'' contestant Jasmine Lennard. The following year she was a celebrity guest on a four-day stay on Channel 4's reality TV show, Fool Around With... ; her goal was to decipher who out of several male contestants was single, enabling them to win £10,000. In an interview with Heat (magazine)|Heat magazine in June 2009, Almada revealed that she is writing her memoirs.Citation needed|date=September 2009 In 2010, to mark the end of Big Brother in the UK, she appeared on a Big Brother winners special of Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me , with Big Brother winners Brian Dowling , Brian Belo and Sophie Reade . Almada finished in third place.
Ultimate Big Brother
On 24 August 2010, Almada entered the Big Brother house in Ultimate Big Brother , she immediately lost fans when she told Josie Gibson - who had won the Big Brother 2010 (UK)|eleventh and final series earlier that night - that her boyfriend John James Parton did not really like her, Josie left the house via the fire exit less than 48 hours later, Almada was blamed for this, she later had blazing rows with Coolio and told Big Brother in the Diary Room "it's either him or me!", Coolio was removed from the house shortly afterwards, it has since been revealed that Coolio had made transphobic comments towards her, none of which were broadcast http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/big-brother/big-brothers-nadia-almada-in-suicide-bid/. She later had a blazing row with Ulrika Jonsson over a plate Ulrika accidentally smashed, viewers labelled Almada a bully after this row. She was nominated for eviction on Day 8, and was evicted with 33.3% of the public vote in a double eviction after Makosi Musambasi on Day 11. Upon receiving a negative reception from the crowd, Almada broke down in tears during her post-eviction interview with Davina. Later that night, she did not appear on Big Brother's Big Mouth (a standard expectation of evicted housemates). She also did not make an appearance on Big Brother's Little Brother on 5 September (another expectation of evicted housemates). She was the only Ultimate Big Brother housemate not to attend the final on 10 September 2010. It has been reported since she left the house that she is to take legal action against Channel 4 for not broadcasting Coolio's alleged offensive language. She has also stated that the show has made her consider suicide . http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/big-brother/big-brothers-nadia-almada-in-suicide-bid/
Personal life
Almada was born male on the Portuguese island of Madeira, under the name of Jorge Leodoro,cite news |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2004/aug/22/features.review17 |title='The more people criticised, the stronger I became'|first= Barbara|last= Ellen|work= The Guardian |date=2004-08-22 |publisher= Guardian Media Group|GMG |location= London, England|London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |accessdate=23 April 2011cite news| url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/bigbrother/article-1310771/Ultimate-Big-Brother-Nadia-Almada-suicide-attempt-days-booed-eviction.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | title=Ultimate Big Brother: Nadia Almada in 'suicide attempt' days after being booed at eviction | date=10 September 2010 but was known as Carlos. cite news| url= http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1960367.ece | location=London | work=The Sun | first=Clodagh | last=Hartley Almada moved to England in 1996 and worked in a department store in Woking . She has also managed a children's bookstore. Before appearing on Big Brother , she worked as a cashier in Barclays bank. Her father, Luis, did not know his child was transsexual until The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun newspaper tracked him down and revealed the story. The Sun also dubbed Almada the Portugeezer, the "Portuguese Man O' War" and Nads, 'nads' being a slang term for gonads ( testicles ). http://www.pfc.org.uk/gendrpol/pcc-doss.pdf Gender politics index Press for Change - Transsexual people and the press - collected opinions from transsexual people themselves (PDF) (see section B.5.j) Her mother had not seen her for a year, since before Almada's transitioning (transgender)|transition , but was there to welcome her back into the outside world after the show concluded.Citation needed|date=September 2009
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External links
IMDB name|id=1661916|name=Nadia Almada
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1661916/bio Nadia Almada - Biography" IMDb, Retrieved 31 March 2007
http://www.pfc.org.uk/pfclists/news-arc/2004q3/msg00014.htm Press For Change: UK: Nadia's Conundrum (Digital Spy)
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