What is in the water that those servants on Celebrity Big Brother are drinking? It has onle been a few days, and the big brother house has already had two contestants walk away. Ken’s departure was much less entertaining than Donny Tourette’s a couple days ago however.

Russell was one of the servants, and apparently that was just too much for him.

For a director who demonstrated a rare talent for controlling actors as difficult as Oliver Reed, a short sojourn in the Big Brother house should not have presented Ken Russell with too big a problem. But yesterday the 79-year-old cinema veteran’s patience was finally snapped by the Goody clan. After deciding enough was enough he slipped into the private Diary Room for a cup of tea - and walked out.

The most distinguished of the long-running goldfish bowl’s bizarre cast of guests told the organisers that he didn’t want to take any more of the Goodys - professional celebrity Jade and her mother Jackiey who have made the latest series one of the bumpiest yet.

Russell had been flouting the rules of the celebrity prison with the nonchalance of a man whose films, including Women in Love, The Devils, and Tommy, have attracted awards and controversy in equal measure, and had appeared to have patched up the latest in a series of tiffs with Jade. But he secretly contacted Big Brother, the hit programme’s manipulative organisers, and told them that he wanted out, no buts.

I wonder who will be next? It is quite unheard of for so many celebs to quit any reality series. And this could just be the start of the mass exodus. But exodus or not, it makes for entertainment!

This spoiler posted on Sunday, January 7th, 2007 at 8:31 pm.

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