text: Big Brother star Pete Bennett, who won the TV programme in 2006, has revealed he is now homeless. The 33 year old from Brighton's life went rapidly downhill after he finished first in the seventh series of the Channel 4 show nine years ago. Despite being given £100,000 of prize money and releasing a successful autobiography, Pete is now broke and living off the charity of friends. Scroll down for video . Pete Bennett appeared on Jeremy Kyle today to reveal that he is now homeless . Speaking on the Jeremy Kyle show today, the star revealed that he doesn't have a roof over his head and spends each night sofa surfing. He believes that finding fame on Big Brother kick started a range of problems that led to a dependency on the Class B drug ketamine. He said:'I had all of that money and I didn't know what to do with it – I put it on the wrong things. 'The fame pushed me in a way that I didn't want to go.' Pete's entry picture for Big Brother . Pete continued: 'I first got into drugs 15 years ago, I've always been the last man standing at a party but then I became addicted to ketamine. 'I couldn’t go out without doing it. It became a habit and I did it every day. 'I couldn't go anywhere without getting given stuff. I don’t want to know how much I spent on it.' It is an issue that has also affected many of his friends - in the last nine years since becoming famous, seven of his friends have died from drug-related incidents. Pete's drug addiction wasn't his only problem though - he believes that his appearance on the reality show meant that he found it impossible to get a job or being taken seriously for his music after he left the house. He said: 'The work dried up pretty fast. No one would touch me with a barge pole because I was on Big Brother. 'When I left the house I was led down the garden path with a lot of things. 'I felt like I was not being allowed to do what I wanted - I was a puppet.' Pete Bennett leaves the Big Brother House as the winner during the final of Big Brother Seven on August 18, 2006 . Although Pete has had a tumultuous time since leaving the house, one area where he has made great strides is overcoming his Tourette's Syndrome. The star claims that when he was younger, he had one of the worst cases of the condition in Europe. On the show, he would involuntarily hit his throat, twitch and shout out swear words, particularly the word 'w*****s'. But during his appearance on Jeremy Kyle, Pete's behaviour was far more controlled. Although he had the occasional twitch and still appeared quite hyperactive, he held back from shouting out any unplanned words. Unfortunately, as well as he battle with drugs, Pete's personal life and career prospects have also been marred with difficulty over the last nine years. A week before he left the Big Brother house in August 2006, Pete started an ill-fate relationship with fellow contestant Nikki Grahame but it quickly fizzled out. A month later Nikki revealed that Pete had called time on the romance. Nikki Grahame and Pete arrive for the National Television Awards in 2006. The couple started a relationship after leaving the Big Brother  house . Pete at a signing of his book in November 2006 . Pete then started dating one of his good friends, Gemma Costin, better known as Cherry, who he'd had a secret crush on for three years. The pair continued to date for eight years before marrying in a fake ceremony at Glastonbury festival in 2011, before sealing the deal with an official ceremony on the reality show Four Weddings in early 2014. But last  September he revealed in a Facebook post that they were getting divorced after just six months of marriage. After years of running from his problems by getting high on drugs, Pete finally decided to seek proper help by getting in contact with a drugs counselor a few years ago. He said: 'You don't know you're out of control until it suddenly hits you. 'When I went to get proper help for my addiction, this drug worker started to ask me about loss and I talked to him about all of the friends I’d had who died. 'I hadn’t been dealing with it. I was dealing with it by taking Ketamine and not dealing with it. 'I had to deal with my friends deaths and that's what got me off the Ketamine.' Pete at the opening night of Glastonbury last year . Since getting clean, Pete admits that he has relapsed but states that he is now back on track. He said: ' I took Ketamine again and I relapsed but I hated it, I didn’t like being disassociated. 'I like being here now and being able to chat to people. I'm living my life now the best I can. 'I'm not Perfect Pete anymore, I’m just Pete.' The star is now trying to get his life back together and is attempting to make his name as an actor. He said: 'I do wish I'd done things differently but I've got a plan. 'I’ve got into acting, I'm doing loads of films and working my way up the ladder. 'My Tourette’s has calmed down so I thought, why not give it a chance. We have to start somewhere. 'I've got my eye on Hollywood.'
target: 2006 Big Brother winner Pete Bennett is currently homeless .
  The star squandered his prize money after becoming addicted to ketamine .
  He is now clean and wants to make his name as an actor .