Big Brother contestant
Nadia Almada
Date of birth	January 28, 1977 (1977-01-28) (age 31)
Resides	Woking, England
Season(s)	Big Brother 5
Finish	1st

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She was born male on the Portugal Island of Madeira, under the name of Jorge, but she was known as Carlos. She moved to England in 1996 and worked in a department store in Woking, where she lives. She has also managed a children's bookstore. Before entering the Big Brother house she worked as a cashier in Barclays bank. Barclays Bank is the fourth largest bank in the United Kingdom. ...

Big Brother

Almada competed in Big Brother that took place in 2004. After 71 days in the Big Brother House, she emerged as the winner, securing 74% of the overall vote and winning £63,500. Winning the programme was of great importance to Almada, not because of the prize money, but for the chance to be accepted by society as a woman. In the house she kept her past a secret from her housemates, although the production team and the audience knew, as did a housemate who entered the house some weeks into the competition. Some housemates suspected it, such as Marco Sabba and Jason Cowan, but said nothing to Almada. She heard people outside the house discussing it, which upset her, but the other housemates said they did not hear (although Stuart Wilson later claimed he did).

Almada's popularity with the audience possibly came from her dress sense, her gentle but also volatile nature and her humorous side - such as extreme use of brooms - and showering in her 6-inch high heeled sandals. She felt that she would be voted off at the earliest opportunity due to her past, but this too endeared her to the public.

Her father, Luis, did not know his child was transsexual until The Sun newspaper tracked him down and revealed the story. The Sun also dubbed Nadia the Portugeezer, the "Portuguese Man O' War" and NADS, NADS being a slang term for gonads (testicles) ^[1]. Her mother hadn't seen her for a year, since before transitioning, but was there to welcome her back into the outside world after the show concluded. Her mother then told Almada how proud she was of her. This article is about a British tabloid. ... For other uses, see Slang (disambiguation). ... A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in an complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis... Human male anatomy The testicles, known medically as testes (singular testis), are the male generative glands in animals. ... Transitioning is the process of ceasing to live in one gender role and starting to live in another, undertaken by transgender and transsexual people. ...

After Big Brother

Nadia Almada in her music video for "A Little Bit of Action".

Since Big Brother, Almada released a music single called, "A Little Bit of Action" which charted at #27 in December, 2004. She also made a guest appearance in soap opera Hollyoaks, turning on the Christmas Lights. She entered the Big Brother house (Australia series 5) visiting the three finalists during #Week 14. A temperamental housemate had Almada in tears within hours of her entry, by asking if she was born a man or a woman, however Almada became close to the housemates during her stay. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 571 pixels Full resolution (848 × 605 pixel, file size: 194 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a screenshot of Nadia Almadas Music Video, A Little Bit of Action. This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted music video... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 571 pixels Full resolution (848 × 605 pixel, file size: 194 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a screenshot of Nadia Almadas Music Video, A Little Bit of Action. This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted music video...

Nadia has since been on many television appearances, one in an advert for Big Brother (UK series 7) Golden Tickets, where she was a shop assistant in a supermarket stealing Kit Kat bars as she scanned them, and an appearance in a sketch in June 30, 2006's episode of The Friday Night Project, where they parodied another sketch from Little Britain. She also appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats, a comedy panel show as a panelist. Host Jimmy Carr joked, that "throughout the world, there have been 114 Big Brother winners - 67 male, 46 female, and Nadia". is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Friday Night Project is a British comedy-variety show by Princess Productions that first aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 in February 2005. ... This article is about the British TV show Little Britain. ... 8 out of 10 Cats is a comedy panel game made by Zeppotron (a subsidiary of Endemol) for Channel 4. ... James Anthony Patrick Carr (born September 15, 1972 in Limerick, Ireland [1]) is an Irish comedian known for his deadpan, satirical and often dark humour. ...

In 2006, she had a four day stint in the Channel 4 reality show Fool Around With Nadia, which had previously starred Big Brother 3 housemate Spencer. Big Brother 3 was the third series of Big Brother UK. The series started on 24 May 2002, and ended on 26 July 2002. ...

References

• Nadia Almada - Biography". Retrieved 2007-03-31.
• Press For Change: UK: Nadia's Conundrum (Digital Spy)

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External links

• Nadia Almada at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with The Observer