Julie has been evicted from Celebrity Big Brother!
Julie Goodyear, blonde bombshell and Corrie legend, has been evicted from the Big Brother House.
Losing out in the public vote on the night of a double eviction, the woman who filled the role of Bet Lynch for decades in one of the UK's favourite soaps paid the price for what a large percentage of the public found to be dubious behaviour.
Julie was game for all the tasks presented to her, whether it was dressing as Aphrodite and pelting her fellow housemates with mud, presenting news bulletins or spending hours pedalling a pedalo with her best pal, Julian. In fact, her friendship with Julian was a highlight of the whole series. The two were thick as thieves since Day One and their genuine affection for one another cheered many viewers as their friendship developed.
But it was other, slightly less sincere alliances that bothered those who were keen to have the grand soap dame ejected from the House. In the opening days, Julie was more kind than she needed to be with Jasmine, understandably disassociating herself behind Miss Lennard's back. But when she tried the same trick with the Prince and, earlier on, Danica, the public took it to be too two-faced for their tastes. The crowd booed her, her housemates nominated her and the rest is history.
But that's not how we want to remember Julie. We'll look back on her time in Celebrity Big Brother as one filled with hilarity. The way she munched a cherub's banana will stay in the history books forever, but her ability to socialise with others less than half her age on their terms was a sight to behold β as was her wry, dry and slightly wicked wit. A housemate to remember, that's for sure.