Makosi: 'Terrorists treated better than me'

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The 24-year-old Zimbabwean has been told to leave Britain for breaking the terms of her working visa.

She quit her nursing job to appear on the Channel 4 reality show.

Makosi was stopped by police on Monday over a driving matter and officers passed her on to immigration officials to be questioned about her visa.

Today she said: "Terrorists don't even go through that. Terrorists are paid £2,000 a week to look after their health and stuff. A lot of illegal immigrants are paid to stay in this country and are fed by taxpayers.

"I am here paying my taxes and working but I'm treated like a thug."

Makosi said she was stopped by police on the M25 for not wearing a seatbelt.
She recalled: "They checked my details and said there was a flag on my name telling them I had overstayed my visa so they needed to take me in for questioning.

"The immigration person took four hours to come out. They took my fingerprints and a DNA swab from inside my cheek.

"I felt like a criminal. It was not nice at all."

Makosi's visa was curtailed and she plans to launch an appeal. The former Big Brother housemate said she hopes to return to nursing - but cannot go back yet because she is too famous.

"I have a lot of magazine and TV things coming up and I can do a lot for charity. After that I can go back to my old life," she explained.

"If I was Mary or Lesley or even Saskia and I was a nurse, I could go back to nursing because they are not in the papers or magazines every day.

"But I couldn't walk back on to a ward now. Instead of reversing heart attacks, I would cause heart attacks."

Makosi was speaking during an in-store signing at the Carphone Warehouse in central London.