I’m a Big Brother legend and made £10million after the show – here’s how the new housemates can get rich too
BIG Brother legend Imogen Thomas has revealed the secret to her huge success after the show – and it’s down to one important rule that she follows.
Welsh star Imogen was a 23-year-old hotel worker and waitress when she entered Big Brother back in 2006.
The former Miss Wales, 40, lasted 86 days in the house, becoming good pals with the late Nikki Grahame and fellow Welshman Glyn Wise, who finished runner-up behind Pete Bennett.
Imogen now boasts a property empire now worth £10million and has some advice for the current contestants looking at getting rich quick.
The mum-of-two said fame “doesn’t last forever” as she urged the new batch of reality stars to “take every opportunity”.
“What you get offered take because beggars can’t be choosers at the end of the day,” Imogen said.
“When I was on the show, there were so many magazines that I could be modelling for and I was for like 10 years straight. I had so many contracts with them.”
She continued to the Metro: “Yes, you’ve got social media and I work on that now and I’m making thousands a post but brands are a little bit more cautious now and they don’t want to be paying the money anymore.
“So for me, I would just say take whatever you can get and make good of the situation because it does dry out.”
As soon as she was evicted she was commanding five-figure sums for racy lads’ mag shoots — and was named Wales’s Sexiest Woman.
She recently told The Sun: “I came off the show and I just started working from day one. It was amazing, I made a lot of money.
“It was just all a bit surreal because I went in as a hostess and came out just making all this money and being wanted by everyone.
“It was pretty crazy to get your head around. But I loved it.
“I was in there for three months, no contact with the outside world, then all of a sudden everyone knows you, and you’ve got to get used to the fame.”
With the help of a financial adviser, Imogen immediately started investing her money in property.
Her £10million portfolio now includes two houses in Wales, a flat in Notting Hill, West London, and another townhouse in Chelsea over the road from where she lives with her two daughters, Ariana, ten, and Siera, seven.
She added: “Because I own properties I have a lot of passive income, so I don’t technically work.”