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Title: Scots sex-swap soldier set for Big Brother
Post by: Natasha on April 07, 2008, 01:52:39 AM
Scots sex-swap soldier set for Big Brother

Link (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/04/07/scots-sex-swap-soldier-set-for-big-brother-86908-20375129/)
4/6/2008

"A SCOTS sex-swap soldier is being lined up to star in Big Brother 9 this summer."
Title: Re: Scots sex-swap soldier set for Big Brother
Post by: Jay on April 07, 2008, 03:30:51 AM
"Jan's really excited about the TV offers flooding in."

Publisity stunt?
Title: Transsexual soldier to enter Big Brother house
Post by: Shana A on April 08, 2008, 08:49:45 AM
Transsexual soldier to enter Big Brother house

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/08/ntrans108.xml (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/08/ntrans108.xml)

By Lucy Cockcroft
Last Updated: 9:40am BST 08/04/2008

A former soldier who became the first Army officer to have full gender reassignment surgery has been lined up to appear as a contestant on Big Brother this summer.

Jan Hamilton used to be known as Ian, a 16 stone captain in the Parachute Regiment, and even served in Iraq and Afghanistan.