Peter Alexander BennettIndex of Births, Marriages and Deaths in England and Wales, 1837-1983. (born 22 March 1982) is an English television personality, actor and musician, who rose to fame after winning the seventh series of the Channel 4 reality series Big Brother in 2006.Pete Wins Big Brother 2006 Channel4 Website URL last accessed on 1 October 2006. He has Tourette syndrome.Big Brother 7. Pete Bennett. Accessed 21 May 2006. U.tv. Tourette's sufferer Pete 'very brave' Accessed 22 May 2006.
Career In 2006, Bennett was selected as one of the original 14 housemates for the seventh series. He won the series with 61.2% of the final vote."Big Brother - does anyone really still watch it? Yes, one in four of us actually", The Guardian website, 19 August 2006. Accessed on 10 September 2014.
A TSA spokesperson said the series "has put Tourette's on the map".Allen, Liam. "BB Pete: Exploitation or education?", BBC News, 18 August 2006.
Later in 2006, Bennett was nominated for a National Television Award in 2006 for "Most Popular TV Contender"; however, this was awarded to fellow Big Brother contestant Nikki Grahame.
Bennett's autobiography, Pete: My Story, was published in hardback in November 2006"Pete's BB Book" Amazon.co.uk URL last accessed on 16 January 2007. and reissued in paperback in 2007 as My Journey with Tourettes.
Bennett was also the lead singer in a band called Daddy Fantastic, but he left the band after agreeing with a record label that he should become a solo artist."PETE TO BAND: S*D OFF", Sunday Mirror, Accessed 11 September 2006. He then wrote music with songwriter and record producer Guy Chambers. Bennett went on to form another band, Pete Bennett and the Love Dogs, which played at Glastonbury, and venues such as IndigO2 and The Cavern Club."Bennett makes most of his 15 minutes" The Scotsman Accessed on 21 November 2006.
In 2013, he guest starred on the web series GIFTED in the pilot episode.
In 2016, he set up a cleaning business called Celebriclean which folded in 2018.
Filmography +Television and film rolesYearTitleRoleNotes2006Big BrotherHimselfWinner2006Friday Night with Jonathan RossGuest2007The Friday Night ProjectGuest2010The Story of F***2011Big Brother's Bit on the Side1 episode; panelist2014Mind SetShort film2014The MothertownReporterFilm2015XD JunctionOverlord Corson1 episode2015The SlayersVampireFilm2016Female Zombie RiotBertie DumbleFilm2016Clown SyndromeFrizbeeTelevision special2016–2017London CallingHimself2 episodes2017Crispy's CurseSteve SmithFilm2018I Need HelpRogerShort film2018Jack SoutheastBillyShort film2018CoulrophobiaTwitch GrockShort film2019–2022Green FingersDesTV series2019Tales of the Creeping DeathTBAFilm2019Rotten CottonTBAFilm2022The Nan MovieBradleyFilm
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