List of Big Brother 2007 Housemates (UK) - Gerry

Gerry

Gerasimos Vallerios "Gerry" Stergiopoulos (Greek: Γεράσιμος Βαλλέριος Στεργιόπουλος) (born February 13, 1976) is a 31-year-old, originally from Patras in Greece. He moved to the UK in 1995. In his entry video, he claimed to be 29 years old. He has three degrees (BA, MSc, MPhil,) in History of Art, Classical Archaeology and History from Edinburgh University and is half-way through a PhD on the influence Bronze Age Art had on Contemporary sculpture, to be submitted to the University of Athens. In 2002 he contributed a chapter to a book entitled Cult and Death, about Archaeology and ancient history. His subsequent career was entirely in the commercial Art world including training at the paintings department of Sotheby’s Olympia and working a well-known private gallery in St James, London. He was the 13th housemate to enter the Big Brother house, the second boy after Ziggy. He kissed fellow housemate Seány on 18 June during a game of Truth or Dare, sharing the first gay kiss of UK Big Brother. Gerry was evicted in Week 11, after requesting from the winners of the 'guru task' - Ziggy, Tracey and Amanda & Sam, to choose him for eviction over Carole who had received 50% of the votes that Friday night. However, after Gerry's departure, Tracey and Ziggy both revealed that they would have chosen to evict Gerry regardless of what he had asked. Following his 80 days at the Big Brother house Gerry appeared on Big Brother's Little Brother, The Friday Night Project, 8 out of 10 Cats, Richard & Judy and other TV shows. In October 2008 he released a dating manual for women, Treat Them Keen, and Keep Them Keen by Random House publishers. The book was favourably reviewed by the Daily Mail, The Sun and Closer, as well as the ITV daytime show Loose Women. In October 2009, the Italian Translation of the book entitled “Trattali male” reached Number 8 in the Italian non-fiction Best Seller list. His official website is www.treatthemmean.com