Craig North who normally sleeps for at least eight to ten hours a night took part in a TV show where he had to stay awake. On Tuesday night he was evicted from the show and gave LILY CANTER an insider's view.

Sleep-starved TV star Craig North was kicked off one reality show and went straight into another yesterday.

The 20-year-old tanning consultant, of Ivy Road, Chippenham, was booted off Channel 4's Shattered on Tuesday night after spending 80 hours awake. He was woken up with a refreshing body wrap on the same channel's The Salon yesterday morning.

The 20-year-old tanning consultant spent 80 hours awake in the live reality television programme in an attempt to win £100,000 prize money.

Mr North had been bidding to win £100,000 prize money by staying awake for a week but he was evicted after losing an elimination challenge.

Since the programme began on Sunday from a specially built apartment in London Docklands, ten contestants have been competing against each other to stay awake.

Each day and night they have been undertaking gruelling endurance tests including peeling hundreds of potatoes, counting peas, listening to shipping forecasts and hugging a teddy for an hour without falling asleep.

On Tuesday night three contestants including Mr North were put forward to the elimination challenge after they showed the greatest deterioration in a series of scientific tests.

Each contestant had to take part in the answer-the-question-I-asked-you-before challenge. A muddled Mr North came last, answering only five correct questions in the allotted time.

Instead of returning to the house he went straight to bed. "I have had a nice long sleep and I feel wide awake now," Mr North said yesterday.

After he was eliminated he was allowed back into the house to say goodbye to the other contestants and then he appeared on E4 programme Absolutely Shattered. Before going to bed in an on-site trailer he was checked over by a psychiatrist. "It was basically a caravan but you don't care where you sleep just as long as it is a bed."

Mr North said he was disappointed to leave the programme but he was unlucky with the challenge.

"I wanted to go all the way through to the end but there are no hard feelings. I would definitely do it again. I am really glad I did it, it was such an experience. It was so much harder than I expected. A few hours felt like forever. Times just go out the window. Everyone just looked forward to seeing the daylight because the early hours of the morning were the hardest."

Mr North said he had an hallucination while standing in the garden when he saw something fly past another contestant's head.

"It is a really weird feeling. People say it is like being drunk and you fall over. I did fall over but only because everything was so soft."

During his five-day stay in the Shattered house Mr North said he made good friends with fitness instructor Salma, 33, from Birmingham.

"We got on really well. She was just so lovely and so mad. She kept everyone's spirits up. I got on with Clare M as well."

Mr North said he was more reserved in the house than usual because he did not have time to show his real personality. I am quite a loud person really but I didn't want to be loud and intimidate everyone.

"In the beginning Chris was all 'I know this and I know that,' but I spent some time with him and ended up quite liking him. Chris and Dean are playing up to the cameras though."

Mr North said during his stay in the house he had three and a half hours sleep over 80 hours.

"When you wake up from such a short sleep you are really disorientated and don't know where you are. It is like being in a coma. You are dead to the world and you don't dream," he said.

Art lecturer Graham Smith, 51, showed Shattered contestants how to draw a nude model during a night class on the reality television show.

Mr Smith, of North Street, Calne, is a lecturer in illustration and fine art at Swindon College.

He said: "I am an aged, depraved hippy really. I think I was chosen because I look the part with a beard and long hair."

Following a dream

CRAIG North is a determined, energetic 20-year-old Chippenham lad who loves to shop.

When he is not trying to stay awake for a week he works as a tanning consultant in a salon in Bath, but his real dream is to take to the air and in February he starts training as a cabin crew member for Air 2000.

Craig lives with his parents Lynn, 53, and Mick, 56, and sister Donna, 22, in Ivy Road.

His father is a plasterer and his mother works in a local supermarket. They have lived in Chippenham ever since they married. Craig's sister is a sports therapist.

Craig went to Hardenhuish School and left at 16 to go to Chippenham College.