WHIPPS Cross Hospital campaigner Carole Vincent has a real chance of winning Big Brother Eight this week, and pocketing a £100,000 cash prize.

Carole, 53, narrowly escaped last week's eviction when Gerry selflessly asked housemates to select him for eviction and give Carole a chance to win the money.

Backing her mum to win, Carole's daughter Ebony Vincent, 26, said: "I hope she will win, she deserves to "The others are all young enough to be able to get modelling jobs and presenting careers, and my mum has also got the opportunity and ability to do a lot of things, but when she was applying for jobs before she went into the house she found her age was against her.

"She has been genuine the whole way through, and even if she has moaned quite a lot in the last few weeks she has not bitched about people behind their backs; she is the sort of person who goes out of her way for people all the time."

Carole has been ridiculed for hiding biscuits away when the housemates were surviving on food rations, but Ebony explained that she did it because she has experienced real poverty and starvation before, and knows what it is like to have nothing.

She said: "She hid them to save them, and when everybody was hungry she gave them out and didn't take any for herself. She just wanted to make sure everybody got food.

"She has been in that situation before, when I was young and when she was little as well."

Carole, a sexual health worker for the NHS and London Borough of Waltham Forest, has been a foster mother to around 100 children at her home in Grove Green Road, Leytonstone.

She has one adopted son and intended to adopt three other children. After taking out loans to fix up the house for the children, the adoption fell through, leaving Carole around £20,000 in debt and without the children she hoped to raise.

Ebony said: "It has spiralled from then. She worked for the NHS and the council, but has had difficulty finding work again, and people have been saying she is scrounging.

"She is so giving. I really hope she wins."

Watch the final evictions live on Channel 4 on Friday night.