One of the more shocking early revelations in this year's Big Brother came in the early hours of the housemate's first night, when audition-round arch enemies Kitten and Victor were talking by the spa. Kitten told Victor that at 16 she was exploited as a prostitute by a pimp in East London.

On hearing he lived in Forest gate, she told him "Yeah, I lived in Forest Gate for a while. I lived there with some other girls and we worked as prostitutes. It was the worst year of my life. I couldn't believe I survived. Some bloke acted as our pimp and just basically took advantage. I was 16. I had nowhere else to go."

However, Kat "Kitten" Pinder's Friends Reunited listing places the rebellious 'political activist' firmly in East Yorkshire (then North Humberside) at 16, at Cottingham High School, near Hull and Longcroft School, Beverley. £12,000-a-year Denstone College in Staffordshire followed, and a degree at the University of Hull where Kat became the LGB officer for the University's NUS branch.

Kitten confused matters further when Victor asked if he should "sort out" the pimp for her, but 24-year-old Kitten said "Nah, it was ten years ago". However, The Mirror claims she was exploited after studying at Hull.

Kitten now lives in Brighton.