Nikki Grahame

Nicola Rachele-Beth "Nikki" GrahameEngland and Wales Birth Index, 1837-1983; district Brent, volume 11, page 1494, quarter April/May/June (28 April 1982 – 9 April 2021) was a British television personality. 

Big Brother
Grahame became famous in the UK when she became housemate on Big Brother 7 in 2006. A former model and promotions girl, Grahame has become renowned for throwing temper tantrums — behaviour that divided viewer opinion during her time on Big Brother. It led to her being given her own reality television show called Princess Nikki.

Grahame won a National Television Award for most popular TV contender in 2006. Grahame wrote a regular column in OK!'s "Hot Stars" magazine.

She returned to the Big Brother house in June 2015 as a special guest at Big Brother 16, spending a total of 16 days inside the house. She was a HouseGuest in season 4 of Big Brother Canada, having entered the house in March 2016.

Health
Grahame spent most of her adolescence in psychiatric hospitals.  She had the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, a condition that left her comatose and near death at the age of 12. She has told about her experience in two autobiography books called "Dying To Be Thin - The True Story Of My Lifelong Battle Against Anorexia" released in 2009 and "Fragile - The True Story of My Lifelong Battle With Anorexia" released in 2012.  In October 2011, Grahame said she had relapsed and was suffering from anorexia again. She had checked into her 11th institution and weighed just 
. In 2012, Grahame was put in hospital after she took an overdose of pills.

Death
Grahame died in a private hospital in England on 9 April 2021 from anorexia at the age of 38.

References

Category:1982 births
Category:2021 deaths
Category:Big Brother contestants
Category:English models
Category:Television personalities from Hertfordshire
Category:People from Watford
Category:Deaths from anorexia