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#325. Big Brother Acid Trips & Tourettes - Pete Bennett

Dodge Woodall

Dodge Woodall

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5857 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Pete Bennett shot to fame as the unforgettable winner of Big Brother 2006.

In this raw conversation, he opens up about Tourette’s, the highs of overnight celebrity, and the struggles that followed.

From wild acid trips to toxic fame, Pete reveals the truth behind the headlines.

Now turning to music and creativity, he shares how he’s found peace after the chaos.


This is the eventful life of Mr Pete Bennett


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0:00.0

When did you first know you had Tourette's?

0:02.0

I didn't know how to retts.

0:03.0

There was a...

0:04.0

What?

0:05.0

Hello.

0:08.0

What's your journey been when you went to Big Brother in 2006?

0:13.0

How did you get that opportunity?

0:14.0

The opportunity happened because of a massive acid trip I had.

0:18.0

What was the Big Brother experience like for you, knowing that you're live on air?

0:22.7

The whole situation was, got to get on Big Brother, I've got to raise awareness of Tourette's.

0:27.4

What was it like for you leaving Big Brother and all of a sudden becoming super famous overnight?

0:31.9

Could you deal with that?

0:33.9

When you're using care, the more I use this, the more it's helping my Touretrette's It's a double-edged Isn't it? Sometimes I'm so stressed out So like anxiety-ridden Big Brother became a toxic thing You know It's like you feel like you're getting close to someone in there Yeah Nikki Nicky Graham Always so hard to talk about Because know, obviously what happened? Nikki Graham has died at the age of 38.

0:56.4

How did you feel at that time?

1:03.2

Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Borma Sevens,

1:07.7

the world's largest sport at music festival. On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives.

1:13.8

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1:26.4

That's a good way to start, in it. Pete, welcome to the show, mate. Hello, you're right? Yeah, very good, very good. All right, safe, come on then. Right, fantastic. Nice one for making the effort coming down. Yes, fine. I went to bed early and everything. Did you? No, yeah. Early than usual. Let's roll the way back. Oh, fuck. When did you first know you had Tourette's

1:46.0

I didn't know I had Tourette's

1:47.8

I knew something wrong but

1:49.2

to be diagnosed at 14

1:52.2

was when I knew I had Tourette's didn't even know

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