NIKKI Grahame fans branded her the “ultimate reality TV star” as they broke down over emotional scenes in a new documentary. The star, who passed away in April last year after a lifelong battle with anorexia, was remembered tonight in a new Channel 4 show. As soon as Nikki Grahame: Who Is She? started viewers […]
NIKKI Grahame fans branded her the “ultimate reality TV star” as they broke down over emotional scenes in a new documentary.
The star, who passed away in April last year after a lifelong battle with anorexia, was remembered tonight in a new Channel 4 show.
As soon as Nikki Grahame: Who Is She? started viewers took to social media to confess they were crying from the start.
One wrote: “This is going to be tough to watch. Nikki was an absolute reality TV hero. Bless her heart.”
Another said: “This is heartbreaking already. Going to be a difficult watch.”
And Nikki’s fans insisted she was the ultimate reality TV star after she shot to fame during the seventh series of Big Brother.
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Someone commented: “Nikki Grahame was the Ultimate Reality TV star. She was vulnerable, funny and kind. The Queen of Big brother.”
Another viewer said: “Nikki really is the ultimate Big Brother Housemate.”
And a third added: “Nikki was the ultimate #bigbrother contestant, such a fun personality on the outside, but so many demons on the inside, so sad that she never fully beat her illness.”
On March 19, 2021, Nikki checked into a private hospital to treat her eating disorder after her desperate friends managed to raise more than £65,500 to start paying for life-saving care.
Her friends had said at the time that the specialist clinic was her “last hope”.
Nikki’s mum Sue appeared on This Morning and said her daughter’s health battle was sparked when gyms closed during lockdown as the star dreaded eating if she couldn’t exercise.
She said: “With Covid, it sounds crazy but stuff like gyms closing impacted her.
“In order for her to eat she needs to know she can exercise, so when they closed it was quite a worry, the isolation as well.
“I asked her if she would come and stay with me but she said she needs to be in her home.”
“She was (suffering terminal loneliness) she felt very cut off and spending too much time on her own with not enough to think about other than food.
“It all came to a grinding halt. Also for Nikki, she would muddle herself through the year knowing she’s got friends abroad and she would visit them.
“She spent a lot of time last year cancelling holidays.”
Nikki was always open about her anorexia battle since finding fame in Big Brother back in 2006, releasing the autobiography Dying To Be Thin in 2009.
She had been fighting the illness since she was a child, and was first admitted to a psychiatric hospital at the age of 12 following a suicide bid.
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At one point, Nikki had to be force-fed through a nasal tube after she starved herself.
Nikki died from anorexia at the age of 38 on April 9 2021.
