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Gemma Jones

Big Brother's Makosi Musambasi is unrecognisable 16 years after notorious TV stint

Big Brother's Makosi Musambasi looks completely different 16 years after appearing on the show.

The reality TV star was working as a nurse before appearing on the show in 2005, but when the NHS found out that she'd be appearing on Big Brother she had to choose between her job and the show.

She had a controversial time on the show, emerging as one of the most notorious reality show stars of that time after she got a bit frisky with fellow housemate Anthony Hutton in the hot tub while others were there too.

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Afterwards, she demanded a pregnancy test saying she was 90 or 100% sure she was pregnant just hours after the encounter, but she wasn't.

The now 41-year-old lives in Nigeria and works as a speaker and a life coach after having to choose between her job and the show, due to living in the UK on a visa which allowed her to stay as long as she worked for the NHS.

When she left the Big Brother house, Makosi had just 10 days to leave the country or appeal against the decision.

At the time she said: "I feel very betrayed. I've entertained the nation for three months and then you come after me.

"Go into any hospital. The amount of cleaners that probably have the wrong immigration status, but because they are doing the dirtiest job that nobody wants to do, they will not make an example of that person."

Makosi and Anthony having a cheeky snog in the Big Brother pool (The Mirror)

She applied for asylum in the UK but it was denied, so then she decided to move to Nigeria.

Makosi currently has more than 40,000 Instagram followers who she shares updates on her life with.

She plays a lot of golf, calling herself a "social golfer", and looks completely different as she is often running marathons or hitting the gym.

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