Ray joined Big Brother host Sonia Kruger after being booted from the house. Source: Supplied
BIG Brother's answer to Tom Cruise, and its latest evictee, Ray Baxter, admits TV confinement was sending him crazy and is testing the housemates' sanity minute-by-minute every day.
The chocolate milk-slurping gym junkie was in sensory overload after being voted out of the BB experience, with rivals Estelle and Angie surviving another week.
With the house divided over new intruder Ava, Baxter revealed she had made an instant impact in fracturing already fragile relationships - especially with the other women.
"When Ava first came on the screen, and she's a gorgeous woman, Georgie boy and I gave it five days before the other girls erupted... but it was more like 24 hours."
Her instant bond with Estelle had been the most obvious, but Ava's impact on house Romeos like George and Josh "snaked" any chance the 25-year-old Brisbane veterinarian felt he had with the Melbourne beauty.
He revealed George had also slipped up and called Layla by Ava's name: "which didn't go down so well."
Ray awaits what would turn out to be bad news for his hopes of winning this edition of Big Brother.
Told of Sarah's predictions he would hook up with the femme fatale, he blamed mate Josh for stealing his thunder.
"He's the worst wingman ever...and getting a lot of attention from the girls inside, I just wonder if a few hearts will be broken."
The house experience heightened his already hyper personality, with small moments turned into a big excuse to explode.
"I would lose my s*** at least three times a time...when I got my chocolate milk, during a captain's challenge, anything. I was definitely going insane in there."
Criticised for his competitiveness, Baxter explained his juvenile delinquency had been a powerful motivator in his desire for success - a drive that could overwhelm him at times.
"It does get too much sometimes and I lose sleep but I do know where that line is."
He had no regrets sharing his secret past to a national audience, only relief.
"I love that it's finally out in the open. I had not told my clients but I'm proud of how far I've come and what I've managed to achieve."
A child psychologist helped him focus and redraw his life goals.
"I was addicted to many things...to doing the wrong thing. He showed me I could achieve anything I wanted to put my mind to."
Raised by a single mother, he was quick to stress he would seek out Sarah outside the house to again apologise over their break-dancing clash.
"When I was a teenager, those (dance-offs) did go like that but I realise it crossed her line and I tried to apologise for that. She was too upset to talk about it until the next day and the more you think about it the bigger it gets... if we'd taken a few minutes to talk about it, it wouldn't have blown up into what it became," he said.
He said: "I am very much against violence against women and having been brought up by a single mother, all I was worried about was 'I hope I haven't disappointed mum.' But I saw her after the show and she said I did her proud."
His next reunion is with his French bulldog Rufus, who he had hoped would have been waiting in the stage wings for him after eviction.
While he'd be keen to take on a TV vet role, he's returning to Brisbane to help his business partner with their fledgling Supervet service (a mobile vet business collecting sick pets and taking them for treatment or to a nearby animal hospital).
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