Big Brother 9: Mario Marconi On The Telly
“MARIO beat me up, says ex-lover,” says the Sun. “Big Brother’s Mario is a violent bully with a vicious temper,” says Denise Bailey, “now happily married with three children.”
Says Denise: “I want people to know the truth — that he is a very nasty person who does not deserve fame and celebrity status. He is jealous, obsessive and violent. I think in 13 weeks on Big Brother, his true colours will show.”
Denise is not bitter nor obsessive, just keen to tell Sun readers that 20 years ago Mario, nee Shaun Astbury, aka the “BBEAST” is a complete swine who gave her a busted lip, black eye and punched her in the stomach.
Says Denise, who lives on “an exclusive estate near Premiership soccer players”: “I am not saying this for financial gain but to tell people what he is really like. I am not scared of him any more.”
Mario has appeared on BBC2’s Kitchen Criminals, Brits Behind Bars and Ant and Dec on Saturday Night Takeaway.

June 9th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
sounds like an ex with a grudge!
He might have been like that with you…. doesnt mean he will always be like that! Maybe you brought out the worst in him?
Move on!
June 10th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
dont know the ex but do know him and it is true. watch him very carefully , he will zoom in on anyones weakneses and try to use to his favour….watch this space…and for the record i am not another bitter ex but in the interests of justice thik the true side of him should be known . BB taking public for a ride here .
June 12th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I dont like him at all. He is using Mikey’s disability to his advantage, trying to make out that he is this friendly helpful person.
He is a leach. He doesn’t have enough personality of his own, so he is stuck to Mikey.
The antics of him and Lisa in the diary room were a pathetic attempt to look fun and cool, they looked like animals, and what is with the fake laugh.
BB should be taking genuine contestants, not people who have been on telly before. He is boring to watch. I think he is trying to be Top Dog, i would laugh my backside off if he got evicted on friday. Fingers crossed
June 12th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
BB makes me laugh! trying to make out they select unknowns to appear on the show when the majority have either been out with someone famous, related to someone famous or are serial tv contestants.what about the real people like we had in the first big brother? people that werent known, that had real lives!
June 16th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
RE “MARIO”
A man who needs to change his name
To scrape for crumbs of short term fame
Will only have himself to blame
When others catch on to his game
He’s put his mugshot in the frame
But he should hang his head in shame
The public - he will never tame
So send him back from where he came!
June 17th, 2008 at 10:50 am
He’s hillarious - the real-life David Brent. Especially now he’s mistakenly thinking that the public likes him after Friday’s eviction. Ha Ha I’ll laugh my head off when he realises what a pratt he looks - or then again - maybe people like him never see themselves clearly!!
June 19th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Well it seems my partner and here friends were all correct at seeing him for the first time on BB. “A slimey big head who I wouldn’t trust with my daughter” was the general theme.
As for changing your name to a Nintendo character, quite fitting as it’ll be game over for him sooner than he thinks….
July 10th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
mario is a d**khead,he is a bully,he bullied belinda,kat and rachel get him out now. He,lisa and luke sit and talk about other housemates all the time they need to be exposed to the other housemates,get the other housemates in the diary room one at a time and show them what they say about them then see what happens,they are sooooo two faced,they talk nice to people then when the person leaves the room they say what ever they said was rubbish GET THEM OUT NOW PLEASE
July 11th, 2008 at 10:01 am
mario is a big fat doosh bag who goes on like he,s done everything being mikeys m8 thinkn he will win us over while bitchn with luke the little moaner poor lisa why doesnt she kick him 2 the kurb
July 11th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
ha ha laighin my socks mario your out u make me ill
July 12th, 2008 at 12:55 am
ha ha at last the right person was evicted,what happened to the home truths he was going to tell people,he is all talk no action glad he is out,i HATE him,i’ve never hated anyone in my life untill now,what a knob,hope darnell wins,he tells it like it is DARNELL TO WIN
July 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I dont think his ex is bitter.Any man who hits a woman in that way is NOT a man.
He is a slimey creep.Hes a bullying ,arrogant know all.Must be a liar to as all the jobs he claims of of had he would of been about 10 when he started! As for fan club lol Hes on my space with only 13 friends!!