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She’s the outspoken single mum of three who walked away from a broken marriage to start afresh – and scooped a whopping $135,000 cash prize by being crowned Big Brother Australia‘s 2025 winner along the way.
But some fans have claimed Coco Beeby received a “winner’s edit”, thanks to the snippets being aired on the daily show, and the amount of airtime the former childcare worker from NSW garnered.
So let’s unpack the situation.
Coco, 30, was certainly known for her straight-talking approach in the house – and yet she was reduced to tears on occasion too.
Take the time she was given the opportunity to “steal” a $25,000 cash prize from her fellow housemates.
As part of the Christmas challenge, housemates could opt to steal $25,000 for themselves, or stack it in the prize fund to be added to the winner’s jackpot.
However, there was a catch. If more than two housemates opted to steal the money for themselves, the prize pot would vanish into thin air.
“It will change my life immensely, Big Brother. Not just mine, but my kids,” a conflicted Coco revealed in the diary room. “It’d be a bloody good head start, I’ll tell ya. It would help a lot.
“There’s a big weight on my shoulders every single day to show up for my kids,” the single mum confessed.
“It’s tough doing it by myself. So I just feel like I need that money, right? I need that money.
The mum finally resisted the last-minute temptation – securing the affections of a legion of viewers in the process.
And it wasn’t the first time Coco wore her heart on her sleeve in front of the cameras.
During a Christmas barbecue with housemates, she also reflected on what she was grateful for this festive season.
“One thing I’m grateful for this Christmas is I get to have my children on Christmas this year. I didn’t get to see them last Christmas,” the reality star told housemates.
“I’ll have enough money this Christmas to buy them presents, cause last year I didn’t have enough money, so that’ll be great.”
But Coco’s on camera confessions saw her become a polarising figure on the show, with some fans taking to a Reddit thread called “Daily show trying to get Coco to win” to share their opinions.
“Coco is amazing, I hope she wins and yes, I watch the Livestream,” one fan wrote ahead of the finale.
“Since Holly has been evicted there has been nothing but a smear campaign on Coco and it’s truly pathetic. Coco is beautiful in every single sense of the word.”
“I think the casual TV viewer who doesn’t watch the lives will be in denial and/or ignorant and will vote for Coco, so there’s a real chance she wins due to her angel edit narrative,” another disagreed.
Coco hit back at suggestions she was given a “winner’s edit”, in a post-finale interview with Woman’s Day, saying, “If that means I got special treatment, that’s definitely not how it goes in the Big Brother house.
“I had no idea that I was going to win. I didn’t have any special treatment whatsoever… it’s an equal playing field in that house.”
Even so, a live Reddit disussion during the show finale showed that viewers were still divided once Coco was crowned.
“Other than Coco winning, I thought this was a pretty good finale and one of the best episodes of this season,” one fan shared. “Reggie and Tim are the only two winners ever in Australian BB who I personally wanted to win so I’m not surprised that someone I didn’t won yet again. At least Emily got a great leaving package and shined once again. You should have won Emily but you will always be a life winner.”
“I wanted Emily to win but I wasn’t shocked it was Coco. She got a great edit on the live episodes which probably convinced the casual viewers. Just glad it wasn’t Colin to be honest as I think he himself fully expected to take it,” another added.
Evicted housemate Vinnie Brigante weighed into the “winner’s edit” conversation, in an interview with Chattr, explaining Coco “was shown… probably more than I thought, but I think that’s just because she’s a vocal person, and she shares her opinion a lot”.
“I wasn’t shown a lot [near the start] because I’m not really one for drama,” he went on.
“I don’t think Coco is a drama seeker, but she stands up for what she believes in. She’s a proud woman.”
However one housemate who wasn’t a fan of the straight-talking mum was Perth model Holly Young, who didn’t hold back when he came to delivering a scathing assessment of the mum as she was evicted from the show.
“Coco, thank you for reminding me why I don’t trust females,” Holly said in her fiery eviction message.
“I’m so disappointed with how you’ve treated our relationship. Looking back at it now, I realise that it was pretty much just all fake. You’re very good at the game playing and, you know, slithering around, crying when you need to cry.
“I’m sure you’ve come into the diary room and said the most, whatever you’ve wanted to say about me, but know, it took far longer to get me to say anything bad or negative towards you.”
Speaking after her win, Coco told Woman’s Day that she wanted to “leave all that negativity” back in the Big Brother house.
“I haven’t spoken to Holly at all, but like, it’s water off the duck’s back to me now,” the reality star said. “Obviously, I was hurt by the comments, but I don’t have anything bad to say about Holly.
“I think she’s a beautiful person. We’re just very, very different. Our values just don’t really align. And yeah, that’s that.”
