Mikey favourite to win Big Brother

12:40pm Friday 5th September 2008

The winner of the ninth series of Big Brother will be crowned on Friday.

Rachel, Sara, Rex, Darnell and Mikey have survived 93 days in the house, but on Friday night one will walk away with the £100,000 prize.

Bookies' favourite Mikey Hughes, 33, is a radio producer from Ayrshire, Scotland. At 23 Mikey lost his sight while undergoing an operation and is now a radio producer for the blind station Radio Insight.

The outsider is albino Darnell Swallow, 26, a songwriter from London. He was deported to the UK after getting involved with gang culture in the United States.

He was born in Ipswich and raised in St Louis in the US and focuses much of his time mentoring community groups.

Australian Sara Folino, 27, was a late comer to the Big Brother house. She had a rural upbringing in Melbourne but moved to London five years ago. She now works as a personal assistant.

The housemates had a special supper on Thursday to mark the end of their time in the house.

Big Brother marked their last supper by playing music into the house, including My Way by Frank Sinatra and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston.

Darnell, Mikey and Rachel huddled into the Diary Room to thank Big Brother for the party.

"Whitney Houston, man. That was it, right there. That was the tune to put on at that moment, that did it right there," Darnell said.

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