Pete gets all excitedPete gets all excitedTourette's sufferer Pete Bennett has won the seventh series of Big Brother.

The 24-year-old rock singer from Brighton beat teenage Welsh lifeguard Glyn Wise to walk away with the £100,000 prize.

Third place went to self-styled "ghetto girl" Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace.

Pete had been hot favourite to win throughout the 13-week competition.

He told presenter Davina McCall appearing on the show had saved his life.

"Last year I went mad, a bit bananas. I was completely, absolutely at the end of my tether in life, and all that," he said.

"I had a huge visit from my mate in heaven. He came down and he showed me a huge spiral.

Big Brother 7Big Brother 7"Where I was was hell. He showed me the only way to remember who I was was to go up the spiral and on the way I had got to go into Big Brother and win and that's the only way."

Bookmaker William Hill is now offering odds of 2-1 for Pete to have a number one single within six weeks.

The first of the six finalists to be evicted was 18-year-old Scouser Jennie Corner.

Next to leave was 24-year-old Nikki Grahame, who had already been booted out of the show earlier.

Gay Canadian waiter Richard Newman came fourth.