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Big Brother contestants Kerry Riches and Farida Khalifa appear to be glacially gliding towards an argument as every interaction between them is peppered with tension - not least a conversation about make-up tutorials.
While 40-year-old Kerry entered the Big Brother house revealing she is an NHS worker from Essex, 50-year-old Farida has been relatively quiet about her own career as a make-up artist. The proudly muslim emerging reality star from Wolverhampton has previously explained how she has built up a career while embracing her beliefs.
She told viewers before entering the house: “A lot of people think that wearing a headscarf might stop you from having opportunities, whereas for me, it's been completely the opposite. I embrace it with confidence and it's actually given me lots of opportunities.”
During Thursday night’s highlights show on ITV2, Farida opened up about her career as a make-up expert, turning to Kelly to proudly tell her about her achievements as an online make-up advisor and how she helps other women pain perfect make-up. But Kerry, far from being impressed, was blunt with her fellow housemate and undermined her achievements.
Kerry had a blunt response to Farida's make-up tutorial achievements (ITV)When Farida mentioned that as many as 300,000 or 400,000 people watched one of her tutorials online, Kerry responded in disbelief, saying. Farida boasted of: "There’s thousands and thousands and thousands of user" tuning in to watch her, but Kerry abruptly interrupted her to state: "That watch you?"
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Looking a little taken aback, Farida then said: "Yeah! My video all go viral. I’ve got like 300, 400,000 views just on one video" - to which Kerry then replied very a lacklustre “wow”. Farida continued, saying: "And when I livestream, if I live-streamed every day, trust me, I have had 400 followers in just 15 or 20 minutes while I’ve live-streamed."
Kerry dismissed the informant and claimed "It’s a different world" - while Farida concurred and said: "It is."
Farida looked a little hurt by Kerry's dismissive tone (ITV)Viewers took to social media to comment that Kerry seemed unnecessarily dismissive of Farida and her experience. One fan wrote online via X: “Kerry jealous of Faridia , horrible response to her here.” And another asked: “Kerry hates Farida so much... but why?”
Another viewer took to the social media app formerly known as Twitter to stated: “Farida casually flexing her half celeb status at pressed panini Kerry.” Other fans of the show commented that Kerry seemed bitterly jealous of Farida’s achievements.
One commented: “Omg Farida Lee Art telling Kerry how famous she is. BOOYAKA IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE! Lerrem know!” And another wrote: "Kerry the Karen is seething with jealousy, silly bint #BBUK.”
While others suggested they sided with Kerry’s view, with one writing: “Kerry shocked people watching farida. Tbh I’m with Kerry I wouldn’t wanna watch her lmao.” And another suggested the duo had more common with each other than they would likely admit, writing: “Kerry and Farida are obsessed with each other.”