Donny Tourette

Donny Tourette
Background information
Birth name	Patrick Brannon
Born	4 March 1981 (1981-03-04) (age 30) Liverpool, England
Genres	Punk rock Rock
Instruments	vocals
Associated acts	Towers of London The Tourettes
Website	http://www.myspace.com/towersoflondon

Donny Tourette (born Patrick Brannon^[1] on 4 March 1981) is an English singer-songwriter best known for his work with the pop rock band Towers of London.^[2] He first became famous after appearing in the 2007 edition of Celebrity Big Brother.

Celebrity Big Brother

Tourette was the eighth Celebrity Big Brother 2007 contestant to enter the UK Big Brother House on 3 January 2007. He swore at the crowd and made rude gestures, some crowd members chanted 'Who are ya?'.^[3] The host, Davina McCall, said that he "smelled like a brewery".

On his first night in the house, Tourette jumped into the Jacuzzi fully clothed. Later on, Jo O'Meara of S Club 7 pop fame, grabbed the double bed in the bedrooms, stated "I'm not sharing with Donny. I'd rather sleep on the floor. I can't sleep with a guy like that".^[4] Leo Sayer offered to swap with O'Meara, but after a while entered the diary room, saying "Donny's all right, but seeing him sprawled stark naked is not appealing". In the end Tourette had the bed to himself.

The house was later divided into "servant" and "master" quarters with Tourette as part of the servant section. Tourette scaled the garden wall to freedom after fewer than 48 hours in the house,^[5] stating "I'm not waiting hand on foot, on some fucking moron and her family", in reference to Jade Goody and her mother, as his reason for scaling the wall.

On 7 February 2007, Tourette appeared as a contestant on pop quiz game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Series 20, Episode 2). During the show, Tourette was lampooned by several of the other panellists including Bill Bailey who famously described him as "about as punk as Enya".^[6]

Notes and references

1. ^ "NME: TOWERS COURT DECISION", NME.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
2. ^ "The Towers Of London @ The Oxford Zodiac", BBC, 2005-02-17. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
3. ^ "Celebrity Big Brother: Latest news from the CBB house", The Sun Online. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
4. ^ "Leo saves Jo from Donny's clutches", AOL Entertainment. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
5. ^ "Donny is Gonny", Channel 4, 2007-01-06. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
6. ^ "John Walsh: Tales of the City". The Independent. 13 February 2007. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/john-walsh/john-walsh-tales-of-the-city-436241.html. Retrieved 26 September 2010. 

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Name	Tourette, Donny
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Date of birth	4 March 1981
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