Original sentence: At first, bookies rated Mary as the least likely to win Big Brother this year.GnomeCam was trailed as a major element of this year's contest.In the first days of the series, she is said to have claimed that the plastic gnomes in the garden were alive.Many fans took to her immediately, however, and her odds steadily rose over the first few days until she was rated as one of the most likely to win.She also stated that she remembered a past life in Atlantis.She expressed several unusual beliefs in her audition, claiming that she had been abducted by aliens seven times.While this comment won her further ridicule from some quarters, others observed that Dermot O'Leary, presenter of the comment show Big Brother's Little Brother, had described a particular gnome with a hidden camera as "alive"
Edited sentence: Currently, bookies are rating Mary as the least likely to win Big Brother, although many fans are putting her down as the current favourite (taking her to be someone who'll turn it around, as Nadia Almada did in Big Brother 2004).O'Leary claims that she comes from Atlantis in her past life, and took center stage in the early period of Big Brother 2005 as she believed that the garden gnomes were alive (believers in the supernatural claim that Mary was sensing the camera that was hidden in one of the garden gnomes, which was presented as the 'alive' gnome in sister show of Big Brother, Big Brother's Little Brother)