In summer 2000, millions of us were glued to our televisions every nights as a new media phenomenon was born - reality TV. Subsequent series of Big Brother might have been more notorious, but it is the first winner that everyone remembers. Craig Phillips, the endearing Liverpudlian 'with a heart of gold', came out trimphant with 3.7 million votes, and promptly donated his entire £70,000 prize money to his Downs Syndrome friend, Joanne Harris, to contribute towards the cost of her £250,000 life-saving heart-and-lung transplant.

Craig had already established a successful construction business before appearing on Big Brother, and he quickly combined his building skills with his newly acquired media savvy to forge a brilliant career spanning both worlds, appearing on over 800 TV shows.

To this day he remains a hugely popular figure who rubs shoulders with the famous and influential - from pop stars to prime ministers - and has risked his life in daredevil challenges to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for numerous charities.

Not bad for a dyslexic working-class boy from a deprived area of Liverpool. Craig's is the ultimate story of triumph over adversity. but it could have been so different...........