Kitten's dad gets catty

The man responsible for the Big Brother house's chief rabble-rouser Kitten, has said that she was never a prostitute.

10:54 01 June 2004

The man responsible for the Big Brother house's chief rabble-rouser Kitten, has said that she was never a prostitute.

Kitten has said many things about her background since joining the house, but her father has denied a string of them.

He has told the Daily Mail that "Kat", as he calls her, was at a 12,000-a-year private school aged 16 - when she claimed she was on the game.

But he did say that she wrote a dissertation on prostitution while at university.

Kitten, 24, has shown some awareness that her parents are watching her every move - on Sunday morning she said "sorry Dad" before tucking into a bottled beer at 10:30 BST.

Her parents are, according to the Mail, not impressed to see their daughter in the house.

"Obviously I would prefer her not to be on the programme," said Mr Pinder, from St Albans, Hertfordshire.

But it is not her fault, he went on to accuse Big Brother of playing games for ratings.

"I do not know why she has said what she has said. Her parents have loved her and cherished her," he said.

"My daughter is a pawn in a much bigger game. The game being played is being perpetuated by Channel 4."

But Kitten herself seems to be enjoying playing the game.

After finding a way to do what no one else could (by nominating herself), the hellcat has been breaking microphones, climbing on the roof, sleeping through the "extra loud" alarm, and wrecking Big Brother's plans for bed sharing by kipping in the treatment room - Kitten now has plans to stay forever.

"If anybody gets evicted and they don't want to leave, just go to the love shack and get as many people who will support you to hold you hostage or something," she said last night.

Of course, that is where she sleeps.