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Big Brother 2012’s runner up, Layla, captured the heart of many Australians as the only Brit to enter the house, along with hearts of two of her fellow housemates, George and Sam.

Dubbed the ‘Aussie Princess’, Layla spoke to e-Travel Blackboard about how she yearns to be back in the Big Brother house and why Ibiza is her favourite destination of all time.

e-Travel Blackboard: You’ve been greeting guests in the Big Brother house at Dreamworld since it opened for tours. Is it strange being in the house without your other housemates?

Layla: It is the weirdest thing I’ve ever experienced in my whole entire life...I just want to cry when I walk into the bedroom!

I welled up the other day...I just want to come back in the house!

e-Travel Blackboard: What is it that you miss so much about the house?

Layla: I just really miss everything…

You form such a relationship with it...it was our comfort zone for three months and being out of it now and seeing people walk around it is just the weirdest thing ever.

e-Travel Blackboard: Have you had the chance to spend any time on the rides at Dreamworld?

Layla: I went on a few rides on Friday night!

We all went on some of the rides! It was hilarious!

e-Travel Blackboard: I think that the housemates that they had this year had so many different personalities...everyone was entertaining!

Whether it was, the shower boys singing or Stacey and Ben making outfits for a show… there always seemed to be some form of entertainment.

Layla: Do you know how good it was to have Josh in the house?

He constantly used to sing a song and make up all these songs because we weren’t allowed to sing commercial music, we would make our own music.

e-Travel Blackboard: What did you miss most when you were in the house, apart from family?

Layla: Music...I found it so hard not to have music with me.

Before I even went into the house I said I was going to miss music, that’s going to be the thing I miss the most...and it was.

You don’t realise how it gets you through the day.  When you’re in the house, you just want something; a piece of the outside world and you can’t get it.

e-Travel Blackboard: Sam said that it was going really well with you guys...but he said that it feels like you’ve gone backwards in your relationship because you were living together and now you’re not.

How does it feel to be in a kind of ‘normal’ relationship now, on the outside?

Layla: It is the weirdest thing ever! For three days, I didn’t even have his number!

We have gone backwards, but it’s nice. We wanted to go backwards! We’ve had a really good time texting and he comes and stays at mine all the time.

e-Travel Blackboard: So you live in the Gold Coast...with George moving there too, you have both of your ‘boys’ in the same city!

Layla: Yeah, George and Sam were out last night, so that was cute.

It’s cute that we can all be really good friends. Everyone thinks that it’s awkward, but it’s far from awkward, it’s like the complete opposite!

e-Travel Blackboard: Do you feel any pressure because you’re ‘the Big Brother relationship’? Do you feel like you have to be together?

Layla: Not at all. We’re not the type of people to do that. It wasn’t for the show and we wouldn’t continue for the show.

We are taking things slowly and we’re going back to the dating and we’re just going to see how things go.

We are a step ahead in relationship aspects because we have lived together and we’ve spent 24 hours, seven days a week with each other.

In the normal dating scene, you spend a couple of hours a day together…so in relationship terms, it’s like we’ve been together for seven months!

e-Travel Blackboard: Which was your favourite challenge in the house?

Layla: My favourite challenge was house two because that tested us and we got the cake fight out of it...that   was the best thing that ever happened to me!

e-Travel Blackboard: Have you met any of the Big Brothers?

Layla: I’ve met them all!

e-Travel Blackboard: Is it strange to actually meet the man, or the men, that you’ve been telling all of your secrets to, but you’ve never known what they look like?

Layla: It was so weird! It was nice to meet them. They were all amazing...I just want to hang out with them because I feel like I  know them and I feel like they know me.

e-Travel Blackboard: What do they look like?

Layla: They’re ALL really good looking and the daytime Big Brother is a little bit older, but I knew that already anyway because in the house he used to give me advice that the others couldn’t.

He used to help me, you  know, like my dad would...in a nice way…

Then there was Apprentice...we nicknamed him Apprentice because he was only in on a Saturday.

Then there was De Niro...I don’t know why we nicknamed him that, but he was in the nighttime.

The daytime was Statesman because he was like the Morgan Freeman of the house!

You know, with the ‘authority’.

e-Travel Blackboard: So which direction do you see yourself going now?

Layla: I haven’t really set myself a path that I want to take.

I kind of just want to go with the flow and if it seems right at the time, just go with it.

My dream job is to be a fashion designer.

I started dressmaking in the UK, so I’d love to do that. Dresses and shoes, that’s my thing, but I’m not going to go out of my way to go down that path, that’s just a dream job I’ve wanted since I was a kid.

e-Travel Blackboard: What about modelling?

Layla: I’ve not really thought about modelling, it’s not something that I’ve even thought that I could do. All models have to be skinny!

I’ve got this thing that I’ve been doing with a magazine, it’s a campaign for fitness, so I’ve got my personal trainer and I’m doing Jenny Craig.

I only want to lose a few kilos...I want to keep my curves!

I just want to tone and lose a couple of kilos here and there. But, yes, I’m doing this campaign. I’m not too sure exactly when it’s starting, but I’m really excited for that.

e-Travel Blackboard: It seemed like everyone enjoyed working out in the house except you and Angie...was it odd to workout knowing you were on national television?

Layla: Being in the house was the worst place to exercise and Angie and I thought we needed to try because everyone else was doing it.

I actually didn’t want to do it because I knew in the house, all you wanted to do is sit down and talk about everyone’s life story!

That’s what me and Angie both had in common, we didn’t care about the gym while we were in there.

Before I went into the house, I was going to the gym twice a day every day...I was hammering the gym and I got my fitness levels up, but because of a thyroid problem, I wasn’t losing weight anyway and it was so disheartening.

Coming into the house I thought, I’m not exercising all the time...because you’re on camera!

Us girls, we liked to feel all clean and fresh, just in case we had something big on that day! You never knew what was around the corner!

e-Travel Blackboard: Were you aware of the cameras?

Layla: At first...in the first couple of weeks and then after that, no. It was like I didn’t even think I was in a place with cameras.

e-Travel Blackboard: Where in the world would you like to visit the most?

Layla: I’d like to go to Brazil.

That’s a place that I would never really think to go, but I always see programs on it and it just looks amazing and I’d like to experience it.

Fiji and Bali as well...

e-Travel Blackboard: Every housemate I’ve spoken to seems to want to go to Bali!

Layla: Well it’s because Josh had talked it up so much! That’s his favourite place – I’m going to go with Josh.

e-Travel Blackboard: All of you should have a reunion in Bali!

Layla: I think Ben should pay for it, though!

e-Travel Blackboard: So what’s your favourite destination to travel to?

Layla: Ibiza! Ibiza is my favourite place in the world!

e-Travel Blackboard: What do you recommend that our readers do if they go to Ibiza?

Layla: I think you should be open to anything.

There are a million points of the island that you could see, so don’t just do the touristy places, go to the secluded beaches.

Get a ferry to Formentera, which is the smallest of the Balearic Islands.

That is like a hippy island, a surfy island...there are no cars, they’re not allowed to build on it and it’s all old, it’s amazing.

And go to Pacha!

The Big Brother house is now open for tours. Log onto www.dreamworld.com.au for more information.

To keep up to date with what Layla is up to outside of the house, follow her on twitter: @LaylaSubritzky