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Would you like to be locked away from the world for three months with thirteen complete strangers for company? Well that's what Leeds lad Science has done by taking part in Big Brother 6.


Facts

Big Brother 6 began on Friday 27 May 2005.

Science is 22 years old. His favourite film is How High and his favourite TV programme is The Simpsons.

In 2005, Science won a Spotlight Award - an award in recognition for the difference he has made to the community. A plaque in his honour has been mounted in the Archway Youth Centre.

A documentary made for this website shows that his interest in other people might make him the perfect housemate.

Before he found fame on television, Science made a documentary called Searching for Truth for BBC Leeds' all_2gether_now project.

The documentary, made in late 2003, consisted of a series of short films made by Science and cameraman Gareth. The films take a look at what life is really like for people living in the Chapeltown area of our city.

Science met with ordinary people on the streets of Leeds, encouraging them to discuss their feelings about contemporary society. Gareth filmed the resulting conversations.

Science on Searching for Truth

"I already know my opinions and what I think about things and feel about certain situations I've been in or experienced from life. So I wanted to find out other people's opinions and feelings and see what they thought about life.

"This documentary is about young people today in today's society, growing up with today's reality and how urban life is responding throughout Leeds...

"I'm from here - I might not have been in all of the bad things or all good things that happened, but I know of all those things that have happened. We aren't talking about the people as if they are the reason why the problems are there. People aren't the problem. People do make problems sometimes but I don't know how they are
supposed to act if they are in those situations - the type of dilemmas that people are in around here."

Gareth on Searching for Truth

"My name is Gareth Gumbs. I'm the cameraman on Searching for Truth. From the outset I knew this wouldn't be a normal project. I got involved in making this collection of films because I wanted to convey life from our position looking out, this is us and how we see things. I tried to convey the fact that this is two black guys with a camera and a microphone finding out what is really going on. This is life when the camera's not on.

"I started this as an experiment to see if life – the truth - could be caught on video. To give a voice to the unheard. Give light to the faces behind the news stories and the rumours that have tainted the areas we live in. I tried to shoot this as if the camera wasn't there and focus on the environment were the interviews were taking place giving viewers a true feeling of reality. I wanted it to feel gritty.

"Being out with Science is such a joy, because he is so infectious, the camera loves him. There is something about Science's interviewing that always creates something special."

Watch the films by following the links on this page.

last updated: 06/06/05
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hullboy
YO science u kcied ass man nd shuda won brother

Yourdream babe
Science you are talented & contagious!shout all u like,u have something to say that needs to be heard! keep up the much needed work about the truth.what are you doing next?

Rosie
love ya science x x well done for being you x you made me chuckle in BB....hope 2 meet ya some day around leeds....power to the people!!!!!!hehe.....mwah!x!

steffen robinson webster
gareth is sorted because he is my cosen

C.P.T BRACKEN EDGE
Hey Science, Now I ain't sayin everbody in rich areas is all bad but they ain't ready 4 the pplz in the ghetto. CPT u get what I'm sayin

Jatt Driver Fauji
Nice Doc About leeds

SabZ
Science 4evr!! He will do real well now, better than Maxwell and Saskia. Science works on his community

sadia
what can i say science, u were da best bb housemate dere. u bought alot of entertainment aswell as humour its a shame u aint still dere, u were ROBBED!!!

j_lee
science has been da best eva bb contestant i wld like to b in der wit him he has a gr8 character n seems a gr8 person 2 b wit big up science he shlda won u get me

onegal
eassssssyyyyyyy science pint waiting here for ya star. you one of few good people around. keep trying in your quest to be heard and one day im sure you will be understood.. good man.....

Juliet
Big Brother is finished without Science..He was the star of the show, and its not worth watching without him The film clips show he has great talent, I hope we see more of him on our TV screens soon

tasha
science has given leeds a name to me as i havent known them 4 anything, untill now, BB is crap now the ultimate entertainer has left the building; not being homophobic but pure gay man left in the house and they aint amusing, all respects 2 science

Jon
Science shouldn't have gone! Nobody really listened to him...He had so much more to give.

Laura
The clips I have seen from Science and Gareth's film "searching for truth" have given me a real insight on what life is like to be in the minority. The student clip shows that anything is possible if you work hard for it, while the expelled clip shows us how hard it is to succeed. I am a big Science fan and I think it's a shame that some people can't see the person that he truely is. Science was the winner of big Brother 6 in my eyes. Well done!

Steven
I loved Science in the House, he should have won - the only true housemate. These documentaries show his commitment and talents and I hope he goes far. Better than any of the scum left in the house now...

Ray
Science should have won Big Brother! I have stopped watching it now, it's boring!

Lukas
Alright Sci, I am a big fan because you because you do what you do, not what people tell you too, i have plans for a hip hop music career as producer and lyricist and I want to make a difference and I don't care what people say, its my opinion and I will see it through to the last, so I see similar qualities in you. want to know where i can get to hear some of your music, Power 2 tha People...

Shavana
I rate Science a lot. I believe he is a strong character and feel he can inspire other young black males to achieve in life. I wish to meet Science one day because I know in my heart he is a deeply intelligent guy. Nuff love Science, Shavana x

science fan
i love science hes brill i watch big brother everyday its brill you no why cus science is in there he he he lv science fan

Nicolle Middleton
that is a really good thing to be doing, coz not all people dont really know what goes on around the community. i think that you should make a docmantary and put it on television you never know it might open a few peoples eyes.

Pamela
win boy. you are the only one even remotely interested in making a difference, making a change, marking what's happening. if you don't -- it's a reflection of the ills of our society, where the self-servers win. Power to you and I really really hope you win. Really. If not, I know you will carry on making a difference. Thank you.

Anon.
Science has very little respect for anyone. He doesn't see that there can be more than one opinion. He is demented, talking to himself, hiding behind a nickname, not referring to himself as 'I', but only as 'Science'.. 'Science always gets his way, etc, etc.' I hope he learns to grow up.

Dont worry
science is buff!!!!!!!!! science i hope you look at dis and c it yea ur OVA nice yea!!!

Mark
Science has to win Big Brother ya get me?

Tom
Brain, you are a silly person. Hopefully that comment cant be removed. You do get idiots in this world, its a shame but thankfully there few and far between. Anyway peace to Science, some great stuff he has dont for the Leeds community. I am from Sheffield myself, Its good to see a fellow yorkshire man representing the people. He has done him self no harm on Big Brother. A bright future ahead for the guy, I would say.

brian
science is an a**hole

mags
Science is up to be evicted from the Big Brother house - I hope that people, not only from Leeds but from the whole country will keep Science in the house by voting out Maxwell. Start a campaign people and don't believe all you are shown on the C4 10pm shows ... Science is one of the rare good guys ...

Vera
Science has much to say about conditions in Britain but I can't help wondering if he would prefer to go back to the life in his ancestors countries. He is no more picked on than any working people - apparently his bitterness is because he feels overlooked - he had the same chances as any other child in this country some do well and some waste the chance to improve. He did the latter and decided it was not his fault it was everyone elses' fault. He needs to grow up and use the intelligence that he is wasting.

Rajiv Thukral
1st off I do NOT know who wrote the Classified view but every one is entitled to their own views as the BBC shows you but I don't know science that well so please DO NOT give the grief or hassle I aint a guy that would say anything about some one I don't know you get me?

joseph arimillo
From what I have seen of science, and admittedly that may not be entirely representative of his true character, he is a naive, misguided individual who talks a lot of nonsense. Who will ever know the truth? the truth is what we make it, one persons truth is not anothers. Therefore his project may have good value in trying to give a multi representative view. but it seems as if he thinks he knows it all but really he aint got an inkling. I may be wrong - and would dearly love to be proved wrong by this young man

Emma Thornhill
Hi I think you are good and i watch you so come on tell people what Leeds people are really like .

CLASSIFIED!
1st of all so what if SCIENCE made it BIG and got an award some people don't even like the GUY! also Archway isn't in CHAPELTOWN don't know where you got that info from because its in HAREHILLS also ARCHWAY is well known and it has people like SCIENCE making a change in the COMMUNITY like a friend of mine called RAJIV THUKRAL but its people like him that are in the UNKNOWN category because who can he go to with all the work and his personal life. Personally go there make a trip to Archway and see what kind of people you get like Rajiv he is a great guy go and see him for yourself.

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