Stuart Hosking is gradually getting used to the fact he is a household name. When he used to pick up his daughters Isabelle and Madeleine from Charlton-on-Otmoor Primary School he would chat to other parents and teachers just like any other father, writes Zahra Akkerhuys.

Now, he has to live with the knowledge that they all know exactly what he looks like in the shower and what he likes for breakfast.

Stuart, who has just moved into the sleepy village of Murcott, near Bicester, gave up his high-flying business career after being picked to take part in the second series of Big Brother, being screened on Channel Four.

Stuart Hosking

Last week, he was evicted from the house when a massive 86 per cent of voters said he should leave instead of car designer Paul Clarke.

He spent three weeks away from his family within the confines of the infamous house and earned himself a reputation as a bit of a poseur after turning up in a suave designer suit and spending hours on end toning and tanning his body.

He has been back in the real world for just a week and he says his feet haven't touched the ground since then. "My mobile has been going all the time since I got out. It's just been manic," says Stuart, 36, who is keen to dispel the popular belief that he is two-faced and sly.

"I was concerned that people thought I was like Nasty Nick, from last year, and so I've been trying to set the record straight."

Stuart's rows with Amma and Penny became legendary during his stay but he says he's not really an argumentative person.

"Sure, I had clashes in the house but everyone has arguments in the real world. It's normal that you quarrel with people and then make up and move on. I think my secret winks were also misinterpreted.

"I had enormous fun taking part in the show.

"The whole thing was completely surreal. You would never be able to recreate it."

Stuart, who moved to Bicester with his mother, Val Webster, when he was 11, is delighted at being catapulted into the limelight by the show.

He says: "I'd love to be a TV presenter but if it doesn't come off then I'll just accept that and move on. At the end of the day, I've got to pay the mortgage, just like everyone else."

While Stuart was in the Big Brother house his wife, Sian, and their children, Isabelle, six, Madeleine, four, and Rory, two, moved from their home down the road in Charlton-on-Otmoor to their new place in Murcott, which has nine acres of rolling fields attached.

Sian had the stress of moving while her husband settled into living with nine strangers. She worked hard to make sure the children didn't miss their father too much and reassured them that he hadn't abandoned them.

Stuart says: "Before I went in I wrote them individual letters for them and videos of me talking and playing for them to watch. Of course I missed them a great deal, especially when it was Rory's second birthday."

Stuart is devoted to his family and he has made sure they have been kept out of the Big Brother limelight although he and Sian deny they erected a tall fence around their new home to maintain their privacy.

"My friends and Sian keep my feet on the ground. They would tell me if they thought I was changing and falling in love with myself," he says.

After having lived in such close proximity with the others for several weeks Stuart obviously misses his fellow housemates, especially Bubble and Dean. But the million-dollar question is: do they miss him?