A contestant on Big Brother was forced to shave off her eyebrows last night in order to secure her place as a house mate on the programme.

Noriin Kelly, 25, had been in the house less than an hour when fellow contestant Rodrigo Lopes, 23, was told to shave off her eyebrows.

Kelly, from Ireland, accepted to challenge because she had “worked to hard to get here”.

Big Brother told the house mate she would have to reapply marker pen in place of her eyebrows for the foreseeable future.


Noriin Kelly before losing her eyebrows.

Both Kelly and Lopes, who is among the early favourites to win the show, have been made official house mates.

Sixteen contestants entered the Big Brother house last night for the tenth series of the reality show.

But unlike previous years, contestants are not given house mate status until they complete a task.