Big Brother can be a pressure cooker of emotions for housemates.
Trapped in a house with strangers, cut off from loved ones, faced with intense challenges and surviving off food rations, it’s no surprise tensions boil over.
Fresh from her eviction, the house’s youngest member, Sarah McDougal reveals there was one unaired moment that had each and every housemate in tears.
WATCH: Big Brother’s Daniel receives a call from his girlfriend Ana
Fans may recall the touching moment AFL star Daniel Gorringe received a call from on-again-off-again girlfriend Ana Cannon.
The emotional and teary exchange pulled on the heartstrings of even the most stern-faced fans.
Now, speaking to New Idea, 19-year-old Sarah reveals Dan wasn’t singled out by Big Brother like fans may have thought, in fact, every housemate received a video message from home.
“When we reached the final 10, we had a Mexican fiesta and during that, we actually all got a video from home and we were all balling our eyes out,” Sarah recalls.
While Dan received a face-to-face call, Sarah says every one else in the house received a pre-recorded video message from home.
“It’s really what you needed at that point [of the game]. I’m surprised they didn’t show that.”
Sarah’s message came from her boyfriend, Nathan.
“He just said how proud he was, how excited he was that I was in the top 10 and he was wearing a shirt that I gave him for Valentine’s Day. It’s a shirt with my face on it, of me and my cat. It’s pretty funny.”
Although Sarah’s time on the show was cut painstaking short – just one eviction away from the top three live finale – she says she has no regrets… except maybe one.
“I did judge Hannah pretty early on,” Sarah admits.
Fans may recall intruder, Hannah Campbell was outcast not long after arriving in the house and has since opened up about the “bullying” she endured.
After meeting Hannah during the audition process, Sarah admits her first impressions got the better of her judgement.
“I actually apologised to her; we had a massive heart to heart in the diary room.
“They didn’t show any of that, but Hannah and I became really close friends.
“I wish I didn’t judge her too quickly, but that’s how I felt at that time. So, I can’t really regret that.”
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