Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace

Television career

Horgan-Wallace entered the seventh series of Big Brother UK on day 12 as a late entrant alongside Sam Brodie. The series averaged 4.7 million viewers per episode, making it the third most watched in history. She became known for her catchphrase "you better know yourself" and for rivalries with Grace Adams-Short, Lea Walker, and Nikki Grahame; she later became close friends with Grahame until Grahame's death in 2021. On day 44, the public voted her into the "House Next Door", a secret room where she lived with five new housemates and chose four to enter the main house.

She reached the final and placed third with 22.0% of the public vote. In December 2007 she appeared in multiple episodes of Celebrity Stars at Work, then signed a one-series contract with Red TV for a self-titled four-episode documentary series, Aisleyne, which began airing on 5 March 2008. In 2009 she appeared on Snog, Marry, Avoid? and was interviewed by Grace Dent for the documentary Big Brother: A Decade in the Headlines. In August 2010 she turned down an offer to compete in Ultimate Big Brother to finish filming a minor role in the film Anuvahood, released on 18 March 2011.

She later appeared on Celebrity Hens and Stags, Celebrity Salon (finishing runner-up), and in 2012 was a contestant on the third series of Celebrity Coach Trip alongside Nikki Grahame.

Other work

Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace first appeared on screen with a small part in the 2006 film Rollin' with the Nines. She later wrote about Big Brother for The Sun Online and penned a weekly column on the show for Reveal magazine during its eighth, ninth, and tenth seasons. She also served as an agony aunt for More magazine. In 2008, she started hosting a programme for the online station Invincible and frequently appeared as a guest commentator on BBC's Asian Network.

The following year, she co-hosted a show on SMUC Radio alongside Eamonn McCrystal. By 2019, she had become a recurring guest on BBC Radio 5 Live's 10 o'clock show. In 2011, she acted as a guest judge at the Miss Universe Ireland pageant in Dublin. In March 2014, she launched her own fitness retreat, Aisleyne's Booty Camp, at a country house near Grantham, Lincolnshire.

She is a patron of Brain Tumour UK and an ambassador for Club4Climate, a nightlife-focused climate initiative. She ran the London 10K for Brain Tumour UK in 2007 and again on 6 July 2008. She has backed the NHS Stop Smoking campaign with Cancer Research UK and supported No Smoking Day annually since 2008. She also joined the Put the Knives and Guns Down! campaign, which encourages teenagers to avoid violence.

Personal life

Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace counted Amy Winehouse among her friends. After Winehouse’s death, Kelly Osbourne criticised Horgan-Wallace and others close to the singer for talking to the press. In April 2008, Mainstream Publishing secured the rights to her memoir, Aisleyne: Surviving Guns, Gangs and Glamour. She and Nicola McLean were robbed during a night out in May 2022. A month earlier, a go-kart crash left her nearly paralysed after she landed on her head. In 2025, she said a counterfeit weight-loss injection nearly killed her.