Rodrigo Lopes's Biography

Rodrigo Lopes and Noirin Kelly became the first actual housemates when they passed a task on the first night of Big Brother.

Rodrigo entered the diary room and was told he had to persuade someone, who turned out to be Noirin, to have their eyebrows shaved off, and then he had to do it in 4 minutes.

Rodrigo along with David, Siavash, Charlie and Sophie made it through to the final day of Big Brother.

In the end, Rodrigo came fifth in Big Brother series 10.

Rodrigo Lopes was a 23-year-old student from Sao Paolo in Brazil but studying TV production at the University of Bradford when he entered Big Brother.

Rodrigo had just retaken his first year when Big Brother 10 started.

Rodrigo is a Christian and before Big Brother, he would go to church three or four times a week.

He is half Italian and half Brazilian. His grandparents were Italian and he has Italian citizenship.

He has found himself fancying both men and women.

In 2003 at 17 years of age Rodrigo Lopes stayed with an English family in Leeds.

He lived with them for six months. He then went back to Brazil and studied journalism, but he was not happy and returned to the UK in January 2007 and stayed with the family for another year, before moving out to live on his own.