Big Brother's Mario Marconi: I want to propose to Lisa Appleton

Contestant plans to go down on one knee

Mario Marconi and Lisa Appleton enter as a couple

Mario Marconi and Lisa Appleton entered the Big Brother house together

Big Brother reject Mario Marconi says he planned to ask his girlfriend to marry him before he was evicted.

The 43-year-old entered the BB house with Lisa Appleton, 40.

But show bosses made him pretend to be in a relationship with housemate Stephanie McMichael, 19, before he could pop the question.

‘I genuinely think it was created with the aim to split us up,’ he says.

‘It had been my plan to propose to Lisa in the house and I had told someone at Big Brother’s production company.

'Then, within ten minutes of entering the house, I was getting married [to someone else]!’

But Mario says he will get down on one knee as soon Lisa leaves.

‘Being in the show with her and seeing how we got on – and missing her as much as I do since leaving the show – the timing is right,’ he says.

Stephanie McMichael was the first person to be evicted from the current series of the Channel 4 programme.

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