Age: 53 years

From: London

Occupation: Young people's sexual health and HIV worker - unemployed

Status: Single

"I am gonna shake it something rotten and they will be shaking s***less. If people want an argument, here's the f***ing argument!"

Carole is a born and bred Londoner, who has spent most of her life protesting, being actively involved in politics and welfare issues, and is staunchly anti-war.

Boasting an incessantly hectic lifestyle, she has been a protestor at everything from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camps to more recent anti-war rallies, but is a member of The Socialist Workers' Party, Respect, Unison, Action For South Africa, the Stop The War coalition, among many others.

She has also been a foster carer. Carole says the person she'd most like to meet is Nelson Mandela, and says she was driven to join George Galloway's Respect party after Tony Blair sent troops to Iraq.

Carole has been promising herself a tattoo or piercing for a while and might go ahead with it for her next birthday, and she thinks Peter Kay and Ricky Gervais are geniuses. She even admits that 20 years ago she sang in a band called Fancy Footwork.

She's a massive fan of the programme and wants Big Brother to change her life. She wants to bring important issues into the public eye, wants some excitement and to maybe find love in the house.