Nick Bateman
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Nicholas "Nasty Nick" Bateman (born 5 November 1967 in London, England) was as a contestant on the first series of the British version of Big Brother.
[edit] 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 attended many show-business parties and premieres. He went on to present the short-lived television show 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 as the narrator in a stage production of The Rocky Horror Show.
[edit] Personal life
He grew up in Kent with his four sisters. He was educated at a boarding school in Kent for five years, then at the private Gordonstoun School near Elgin in Scotland at the same time as the Earl of Wessex. He decided not to go to university but instead went travelling round the world for three years then worked in the City of London for nine years as a broker for the Willis Group (doing work for Lloyd's of London) from 1991. Nick is now an editor at large of The Good Holiday magazine and married to Lynnette Peck.
