A RIBBLE Valley rapper who entered the Big Brother house earlier this week said he “could become a doctor if music doesn’t work out”.

Former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School student Cristian MJC – whose real name is Matthew James Clarkson – told millions of viewers about his musical aspirations just moments before being locked in the infamous Big Brother house, where he will spend the foreseeable future under the glare of dozens of cameras.

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The 20-year-old Mellor resident bragged: “In terms of achievements, I’m pretty established and getting established in music.

“I play tennis at county level, and I go to one of the best universities in the world. Number four to be exact.”

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The self-confessed ‘ladies man’ also studies biomedical science at the prestigious University College London, and told Big Brother’s cameras: “If something happens and I don’t want to do music, I could just be a doctor. I could be a surgeon.”

Seconds before entering the house, Cristian received a mixed reception from the waiting crowd, and told Channel 5 presenter Emma Willis he would have to “wait and see what happens” in the house with the female contestants.

In an interview with the Lancashire Telegraph last year, when he released his latest EP, Born A Star, Cristian told how he suffered a rare disease as a child, which left him deaf in one ear.

The deafness was caused when he was three by Kawasaki’s Syndrome, a condition that mainly affects children under the age of five and if untreated can be fatal.

He also battled a benign tumour, leaving him with a huge scar on the side of his head that Cristian said made him a target for bullies.

He said: “No matter how hard times get, or how bad life hits you, by having faith in yourself, you can always get back up and recover using setbacks and failures to your advantage.

“Impossible is not a word in my dictionary.

“I was told I would never be successful in the music industry, but I am clearly proving them wrong.”

Big Brother: Timebomb, the 16th series of the show, had 1.8 million viewers, a 10% share of the audience from 10pm on Tuesday. The show saw contestant Simon Gross evicted within hours of entering.

It was down 300,000 on the 2.1 million viewers who watched the opening episode of the last series, but matched its 10% share of the audience, and a long way down from the heady heights of nearly 7 million viewers who watched it launch on Channel 4 in 2006.