Artist Kay Lovelle, 32, is a passionate vegan who wants the lifestyle to become mainstream. Her dream job would be as an animal activist. She’d love to save animals across the world and create a loving, peaceful sanctuary for them.

While she currently works as an artist, creating 3D wall sculptures and 3D phallic art, she has also done some acting in her time. Her favourite role was playing a Russian assassin on an HBO series.

Kay was well-cast for that role: she was born in Georgia, she lived in Moscow and moved to London as a child.

She walked out of the Big Brother house after a heated argument with her fellow housemates. She left in the early hours of the morning after refusing to spend the rest of the night in the house and threatened to "break the fire exits".

Here's her pre-show interview...

Why are you taking part in Big Brother and what will you bring to the house?

I think I will be a great mental test for me to be put in such an enclosed environment, to see how I survive. I do feel like I really want to push myself mentally because I have always been in my comfort zone.

I think Big Brother will push me above and beyond my comfort zone. Recently also, I have become quite a private person, which is quite ironic given that I’m now doing Big Brother.

Sometimes in life you have to do the opposite of what you would usually do. And also it’s a chance for me to mix with so many new characters who I may not have ever crossed paths with in normal day-to-day life.

[I'll bring] A lot of love and warmth, because naturally I’m very much like the Buddha of my friends. I contribute in sorting out their lives and their problems. I’m also a big cleaner.

Expect the unexpected. Because I have no idea what to expect of myself, as I’ve never been put into this situation. In the weirdest way, I’m the biggest class clown, I’ve highly entertained everyone I’ve ever met. I’m definitely a people’s person. But in that environment, who knows.

Do you have a favourite Housemate and who will you / won't you get on with?

I really liked Pete Bennett [Big Brother 7]. He was such a lovely soul, and really genuine. You really warmed to him as a character, and he had something about him.

Anyone who’s intellectual, is a reader, likes philosophical discussions. I’m genuinely drawn towards those sorts of things.

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I’m vegan, and with that comes a lot of responsibility. I feel like I’ve got to do veganism justice, and really alter people’s perception of it.

I hate to sound judgemental, because everyone’s at their own stage in life, but anyone who’s really narcissistic, who only wants to talk about themselves and not ask questions of the other person. So very self-absorbed sort of characters. And characters who are just about the aesthetics.

Don’t get me wrong, I love looking glamorous, but people who are only focused on that, it’s really boring to spend time with those kinds of people and to engage with them.

What will you miss from the outside world and what's your favourite possession?

My first instinct was nothing. Purely because I think I’m ready for this. I feel like I’ve almost become slightly reclusive and there’s an element of boredom in my current life and how I do things. So I’m actually quite excited to cut myself off from the world. I feel like I want to disassociate from everything that I’ve known and really dive into this environment.

There’s nothing really. But maybe I will miss certain foods. As I said, I’m vegan, but I mean I’m fine on brown rice and vegetables if that’s all there is in the House, I’m not fussy. But maybe I’ll miss the foods that I’m used to, like my morning-special vitamin shake.

Anything you wouldn’t do on camera?

Going to the toilet and washing. For the shower, I’m taking in some cover-ups that I’m going to wear, just in case.

How to find Kay on social media

Kay's Instagram is mylittlekay