In MANY ways, Big Brother is a completely different beast to Love Island. Take the alcohol rules on the show, for example…
In case you don’t know, alcohol is seriously limited on Love Island (and we get it) – in fact, according to many recent Islanders, production only allow them to have one drink per night (sometimes two if it’s a special occasion). But they’re not allowed to share alcohol and they are not allowed to swap glasses. In other words, getting drunk in the villa is completely off the cards. Again, we get it.
We also could never.
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Big Brother, however? A completely different ballgame, apparently. At least according to Big Brother 2024 star, Lily Benson.
Lily recently guested on Love Island’s Jessie Wynter and Will Young’s podcast and her NDA is clearly up (what with Big Brother 2025 now dominating over our evenings) because she was spilling. Not only did she expose the rules regarding smoking and vaping, but she revealed that housemates can drink ‘loads’ on Big Brother (at lease compared to a more regimented reality show like Love Island).
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She told the couple, ‘[You can have] loads [of alcohol]. Well, not loads. The housemates in our house, not a lot of them drank – there was only like five of us who drank. So, they give [out] about six bottles of wine and then you get loads of cans, as well. So when the wine bottle came, you could just pour yourself loads, hide the bottle and keep it all. Everyone would hide alcohol. As soon as you’d get the alcohol, everyone would hide it. Every night, I was like, sloshed.’
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She continued, ‘And then in the morning, I woke up with the worst hangxiety ever. Sometimes I couldn’t be bothered to put my pyjamas on so I’d fall asleep in my dress and wake up in the morning and be like, “What happened?” It’s so good, though – especially as it gets so boring in there.’
Lily, if you’re reading this, never change.
She added, ‘And you could always request what wine you wanted. They always gave us white and rose, and I’d be like, “Can we have some red, please?”‘
Islanders could never.