Nick Bateman

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Nicholas "Nasty Nick" Bateman (born 5 November 1967 in London, England) is a British television personality who found fame as a contestant on the first series of the British version of Big Brother. He was asked to leave the show after being caught trying to influence fellow housemates' votes in the weekly eviction process. Such was the media interest in this first series of the show, the news that Nick had been thrown out featured on the front page of every national newspaper in the UK, apart from the Financial Times.

For a time after his departure from the show, Nick enjoyed considerable media exposure and attending many show-business parties and premieres. He went on to present the television series Trust Me, wrote a book entitled Nasty Nick: How to be a Right Bastard (ISBN 1-903402-26-3), and appeared on the reality television series Back to Reality and in the Big Brother pantomime. Later, he featured in a stage production of The Rocky Horror Show as the narrator.

Nick now is an editor at large of The Good Holiday magazine and married to Lynnette Peck^{[citation needed]}.