Tuesday, September 9, 2008
FRIDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER
CELEBRITY BB 2009
http://celebritybb2009.blogspot.com/
THE WINNERS
In 4th place ~ Rex
In 3rd place ~ Sara
In 2nd place ~ Mikey
The winner of BB9 ~ Rachel
I still can't believe Rachel won. Yes, she's a nice girl ~ but the winner? Not at all sure that was right but clearly she was very popular with the voters so fairs fair.
One thing I was happy to see was the way Darnell handled it all ~ he said that he had never felt as loved in his life and I am sure that when he reads the things on the internet written by those of us who loved him in the house, he will realise many people love him.
Friday, September 5, 2008
THINGS ARE GETTING TENSE!
But the good news, for Darnellites, is that he is now running neck and neck with Mikey for the BB9 winner's crown.
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
So today sees the end of life as we've known it for over 13 weeks. It is strange to think that after tonight we won't have to panic about catching the highlights programme, or seeing live feed, or any of the spin off BB programmes. Are we that will miss it sad or mad? Or maybe both! Who cares, lots of us have had good fun watching the hms come and go all summer and many of will miss at least some of the hms.
Of course within weeks most of us will have moved on and all but forgotten the majority of them. With the exception of our favourites no doubt. I think for me, Darnell will always be the best hm ever. I have really enjoyed him from about the second week onwards. Yes, he has his ups and downs ~ but he's human so why wouldn't he? But his intelligence and gentle understanding of others and his refusal to let people behave in a cruel way is what makes him so special.
I really hope Darnell leaves the BB house tonight as the winner, but even if he is not the actual winner of BB9, he will always be a winner to many of us.
So, who will win?
The bookies favourite is between Mikey and Rachel but this will fluctuate madly all day today I think. Many Mo fans are now backing Darnell which will do him nothing but good. I really can't see how Rachel can win. Yes, she is a nice girl but boy has she become tedious. Her babying of Mikey is driving lots of us mad! And I can't see how it is possible that Rachel could be more popular than ANY of the remaining hms.
Rex will more than likely leave in the last three and possibly one of the last two. For the most part I have enjoyed his wittiness, although the Rex we watched when Nicole was in the house was not a winner. Still, he has redeemed himself somewhat and can shine at times. Rex fans will mostly pass their votes to Darnell if Rex is evicted before him which is great for Darnell of course. Darnell fans will do likewise and pass their votes mostly to Rex. Their genuine friendship will benefit them both in ways they don't even realise!
Mikey has been funny at times and I would like to see him in the last 3 but the winner? No, not for me. He has been better since Mario and Lisa are no longer spewing spite into his ear, but that time spent with them put a lot of us off him. But you have to hand it to Mikey, he has no bones about shouting down louder hms such as Rex.
Sara should most definately not win. I'm put off by the way she wheelded around the male hms since she came into the house and her constant loving/hating Darnell thing wore very thin. She is all over him again like some toxic rash, knowing as she does that he was very popular as she entered the house weeks after the originals. Yes, she seems fun and a bit crazy but that does not make her the winner imo.
So, we BB addicts will spend today hoping (and voting for those in the UK) that our favourite in the final 5 will sail into the winner's enclosure tonight. Darnell for me.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
AS I PREDICTED!
Mo had 1.8% of the vote to save.
Kat had 4.8% of the vote to save.
BYE BYE KAT
Text from person at live eviction confirms Kat is the second hm to be evicted tonight.
That will shock some, if not all, of the hms for sure.
Now just got to watch the 'live' show at 10pm to see the actual evictions and the hms responses to them.
BYE BYE MO
Someone at the live eviction has texted to say Mo is indeed the first hm who will be evicted tonight (there's a 15 minute time lapse in what we see on tv and what's happening live). I know most people knew he would be, but it's a great pity all the same.
Who's next? Kat, nearly certainly.
TONIGHT'S EVICTION
I don't like what I'm hearing about tonight's eviction. Apparently BB are to give the hms a party where they will dress up like each other. That means that Mo, who is most likely to be leaving tonight, will exit the house dressed as a woman. If that is the case, then that is just low and dirty BB.
What else could we expect really? Davina, the BBLB presenters and the BBBM presenters have all been quite nasty about Mo all the way through. The camera people often focus on his belly, further pushing the Greedy Mo tag which has dogged Mo almost since the begining.
And now to publicly humiliate him in this way tonight is just downright nasty.
I really hope that fate plays Mo a kind hand and that he achieves lots of success from his stint on BB9.
Monday, September 1, 2008
UPDATE ON TUESDAY'S EVICTION
I think this first person will be Mo and the very fact of the surprise eviction will throw the hms into turmoil.
The second hm to be evicted will be told after the first hms interview with Davina and that they have 30 seconds to say their goodbyes. This more than likely will be Kat and that will send the other hms into a total tailspin as they all fully expect Kat to win.
But if it runs as above all the hms will be well shaken and we might see some interesting reactions and maybe some paranoia that others will be going too.
The worst of it is that we will lose Mo and I would have really like to see him in the final.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
HMS ~ MONDAY 1 SEPT 2008
He is still my favourite and the only one in there with a deep understanding of what is actually going on in that enclosed environment. He sees so much and is adept at assessing situations very quickly. He never holds back in his opinion when asked, and indeed at times, when not asked. I am cross with him though for being so absolutely stupid where Sara is concerned. She plays him like a fool and Darnell, for all his intelligence falls for it every time.
Or does he? It confuses me somewhat. He does seem to have her measure, then she gives him attention and he is like a love sick puppy. But maybe he is just taking comfort where he can? I hope the latter.
His chances of actually winning are slimmer now after he fought with Sara last week but I am still hopeful that the many Darnellites out there will pull together with one massive voting exercise and stand proudly to cheer our winner. Hope springs eternal ...
KAT
Kat has shown an extremely controlling side to her personality this week. When the hms had to nominate infront of each other, Rachel voted for Rex and this seemed to really annoy Kat. Rachel was annoying with her silly apologies and only made the whole thing look even worse, if that were possible. I still think she has qualities that would make her a friend in need, but I fear that she might quickly become cold to a friend if the friend decided not to take her advice. She has the persona and indeed looks of a cute baby doll type human but beneath all the cuteness lies a backbone of solid steel.
MIKEY
I've gone from seriously disliking Mikey to actually hoping he is second or third in the final. He is astute and will launch into his opinion, no holds barred, when pushed to so do. My only worry about Mikey is his choice of friends ~ Mario and Lisa.
I love the way he just throws out what he is thinking and makes no bones about disliking Rex, although his dislike of Rex is sometimes a bit over the top. But at least with the Mikey now, as opposed to an earlier Mikey when he was simply the person who spoke Mario's thoughts, he is at times funny to listen to.
MO
I feel rather sorry for Mo. I like him and don't see that he has done much to deserve the put downs and name calling he is receiving in media, Ch4 BB programmes and forums around the net. So he eats a lot ~ many young (and not so young) men like their food. But he is obviously well brought up and close to his family ~ he said he would buy his mum a house if he won and I'm sure, that though he will more than likely not win, he will take care of his mum financially with whatever earnings he manages to make out of his time in the BB house. I wish him well and I am just sorry that people didn't look further and see that he is a nice and decent person.
RACHEL
Oh dear, Rachel is slipping down my people to like list faster than any other hm. She is driving me (and many others) absolutely nuts with her constant baby talk and stupid act. Getting oneself into a froth of excitement over beans and grated cheese or a bunch of grapes is just a step too far imo. I know she is probably a very nice person and also genuine in her niceness but she really needs to borrow a bit of her best friend, Kat's, backbone. Her behaviour when nominating in front of the fellow hms was cringeworthy. She must have said sorry about 10 times. For goodness sake grow up girl!
And the worst of it all ~ she is now one of the hot favourites to win. Why?
REX
He was the most annoying PRAT during the time Nicole was in the house and there were times I absolutely loathed him. But when he is just Rex, he can be witty, entertaining and very funny. Yes, he can be rather sarcastic but his wit, though acebric at times, is imo very funny. His friendship with Darnell seems to be real and I think Darnell is actually the only one in the house he has respect for. He knows Darnell would not take his crap and acts accordingly. I found both Rex and Mo very funny during the public nominations last week ~ they were like naughty school boys and clearly really enjoyed themselves.
Much and all as I like him, I'm not sure I want to see the media hinted programme with him, Nicole and Rex's dad doing an Osbournes type show.
SARA
I like Sara sometimes but she can be so annoying with her constant AMAAAAAAAAZING yelling. Everything is flipping AMAAAAAAAAZING with Sara. Her choice of best friend (Lisa) is also slightly dodgy.
I think Sara might have some deep rooted problems. Her constant act of getting close to everyone, acting like a little cutie, smiling and flirting, while at the same time being able to drop them at a moment's notice (save Lisa) is strange. She is probably basically a nice person but I think she might be difficult to be friends with because of her neediness.
It looks like she will make it to the final 5.
VOTE TO SAVE
DARNELL ~ 090 16 16 16 03
KAT ~ 090 16 16 16 06
MIKEY ~ 090 16 16 16 10
MO ~ 090 16 16 16 11
RACHEL ~ 090 16 16 16 12
REX ~ 090 16 16 16 14
RACHEL ~ 090 16 16 16 20
I just hope lots of voters have Darnell on redial!!!
DOUBLE EVICTION ~ TUESDAY 2nd SEPT
I think we will be waving goodbye to Mo for definate and probably Kat. Losing Kat will be a major shock to the remaining hms as they seem to be under the constant impression that Kat will win. She was my favourite for the first week or so but then moved into 2nd place with me and since then I have fluctuated between wanting her in the final and not really caring. She was a good hm but this happy, happy house malarky could get a tad grating. Still, I feel sorry to see her being evicted so close to the final.
Friday, August 29, 2008
BYE BYE PLASTIC WOMAN!
LISA -V- SARA
So, Lisa and Sara are in a face off tonight. I had thought Sara was a cert to go but it seems it is not so clear cut. Polls on the internet give percentages along the lines of Lisa 60+ % and Sara 30+%.
I'm confused.
As are most of the viewers I'll bet.
We will just have to wait and see.
BACK FROM MY HOLS!
But now back to the savouring the last days of BB9 ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
THE WIZARD OF OZ?
And now the shopping task this week has the hms having to learn the dance to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'. Michael Jackson and Diana Ross appeared in the musical version of the Wizard of Oz, the Wiz.
What are BB aiming at?
MID WEEK EVICTIONS
There is another live show on Tuesday 2nd September and I suppose this will result in another eviction.
You have been warned!
LISA-v-NICOLE--v-SARA
I was nearly right with my guess of the hms facing the public vote, got the 3 females right but Mikey is not up so I was wrong there.
So, who will we see go on Friday? Nicole of course, almost 100% definately. It would be a great chance to get Lisa out but I reckon the voters will go for Nicole as she really has not endeared herself to many of the viewers. Rex is saying he is not happy that she is up but I think the man doth protest too much and he will be glad to see the back of her out of the house so leaving him free to do his best to win. I thought it was rather silly his saying that he would not be speaking to those who nominated Nicole once he got out of the house and discovered who nominated her. This is a ridiculous attitude given that a fundamental rule of BB is that they hms MUST nominate 2 people each week. The hms were obviously going to go for the newest (and most spoilt) hm ~ Nicole.
Nicole will be expecting Rex to walk with her if she is evicted but I can't see this happening and I think Nicole must know this. The chance of Nicole walking before Friday is very high ~ she's not stupid and knows she is the one who will go. I guess we will wait and see.
Monday, August 18, 2008
NOMINATIONS DAY ~ Monday, 18 August
Nominations day rolls around once again. Rex, being hoh is immune. You would think at this stage with so few hms (9), guessing who will vote for whom would get easier but I'm not so sure. Anyway, this is my effort for this week.
DARNELL: Lisa & Nicole (but could be Lisa and Sara)
KAT: Lisa & Nicole
LISA: Darnell & Kat (but it could be Kat and Rachel)
MIKEY: Nicole & Mo
MO: Nicole & Mikey
NICOLE: Mikey & Rachel
RACHEL: Nicole & Lisa
REX: Mikey & Lisa (although he may nominate Nicole in place of Lisa or it could be Mikey and Rachel).
SARA: Mo & Rachel (same 4 weeks running if she does)
That would leave it:
Lisa -v- Mikey -v- Nicole -v- Rachel.
If that were the case, of course Nicole would go but BB know this and may make it a double eviction which would probably see Nicole and Lisa going.
I guess we will have to wait and see either later today (if there are any insider leaks) or tomorrow on BBLB.
THE KING & HIS PRINCESS
Every day, without fail, and sometimes many times a day, Rex and his 'princess', Nicole fight. It all seems to stem from articles about Rex's escapades in Las Vegas which appeared in a red top paper. Nicole hasn't been able to say it to him because hms are not allowed to know what is going on in the outside world. At this stage though she has more or less spelled it out to him with her heavier and heavier hints. I think Rex now knows for certain what she is hinting at but then there is the other story which appeared in the press about Rex and his friendship with another girl in America. So it could be either of those and Rex being smart, will have to hedge his bets and say nothing until he knows for sure which story Nicole has.
But the constant (noisy) kissing, inevitably followed by (noisy) fighting is getting rather wearing and perhaps Nicole should indeed walk as she has threatened to do about 1,000,000 in the past fortnight.
Last night, Sunday, they slept not only in separate beds, but in separate rooms with Rex in bblock with Darnell, Kat and Rachel and Nicole in the luxury bedroom. They did go to bed together but once again a fight got up and Rex got out of bed and went off to the living room to moan to his fellow hms about Nicole. This moaning continued when they went to bed in bblock but Rex indicated that he would go back into Nicole's bed before she awakened in the morning. He did, in the early hours, go back to her bed but it seems trouble is off again this morning with Nicole moaning to Lisa (of all people!) and Mikey in the luxury bedroom (after Rex had brought her breakfast in bed on a tray with a flower on it). Silly, silly Nicole. Giving Lisa any fuel to burn about Rex when she already detests him.
Of course Rex is in the kitchen, still cooking and still moaning about Nicole.
KING REX
The task for hoh involved the eligible hms (Kat, Lisa, Mo, Nicole, Sara and Rex) dressing like famous statues and posing. The person who held the pose longest, won. And Rex, being one of the biggest posers, won. Only fitting really.
Of course, as hoh, Rex is immune from nominations this week and, all things being equal and BB not coming up with any twists, this means he now sails through to the final.
Friday, August 15, 2008
MOST MORTIFIYING EVICTION EVER?
Stuart, for some reason known only to himself, decided he would leap of the stage and crowd surf. Unfortunately you need:
a. To be a rock band member, playing to a rock fans who will be expecting such a leap.
b. Have a mosh pit to dive into where the crowd are so tightly squashed in they can't move.
Stuart had neither.
The crowd parted and Stuart landed with a splat.
The shame. Forever more he will be remembered as the hm who went splat.
WATCH IT HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82COQoAUiss
BYE BYE MASCARAMAN
I wonder if the penny will now drop with Lisa that all her gang, bar Mikey, are now gone? And more pertinantly, why. Because, Lisa, they were not nice and not popular with the public. With luck, her days are now numbered in the house and she can go and join her useless hunk, Mario/Shaun/Tango Man/Facilitator.
Or we might just see Lisa try to do a massive turn, cease bitching and try to be nice to people and behind their back too. But I doubt it.
EVICTION NIGHT ~ 15TH AUGUST
In the house just now (7.30pm), Rachel is already all dressed and ready to go should she be evicted tonight.
Stuart, on the other hand has been getting ready all day. He has been massaged by Sara, who also plucked his eyebrows. Lisa has now painted his nails and is now applying his eyeliner.
At this rate he'll still be looking for his flipping lip gloss when Davina says 'Stuart! I'm coming to get you!'.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
WEDNESDAY 27 AUG
From C4 Press:9:00pm BIG BROTHERDavina McCall hosts a special mid-week live show direct from the Big Brother house. The housemates will be in for a surprise, when Big Brother springs a shock live task on them. What will this mean for the house as the series final draws nearer? Plus highlights from the past 24 hours in the Big Brother house. Series Prod: Denis O'Connor; Exec Prod: Sharon Powers; Prod Co: Brighter Pictures (an Endemol company)
What are BB going to do? Let the hms pick 2 for eviction and the public have an hour to vote?
Let one of the hms take half the prize fund but they have to leave?
Guess we will just have to wait and see. I'll keep you updated as I learn more but from one BB insider 'someone is going to be evicted'.
RACHEL -V- STUART
The nominations went as follows:
Darnell: Stuart & Nicole
Kat: Lisa & Stuart
Lisa: Rachel & Rex
Mikey: Rex & Nicole
Mo: Stuart & Rachel
Nicole: Stuart & Rachel
Rachel: Lisa & Nicole
Rex: Stuart & Rachel
Sara: Mo & Rachel
Stuart: Rachel & Kat
That is about the third of fourth week running that Sara has nominated Mo & Rachel. Boy, she really dislikes those two, although you would never guess - she came directly out of the diary room after nominating to chat so nicely to Rachel.
Kat is absolutely furious at her very best friend being up on Friday and is very cross that so many must have nominated her. Rachel is taking it okay. They had a really lovely moment in the garden where they hugged for ages and Kat was very upset and then so too was Rachel and they cried for a bit. Silly, I know. No-one is about to be executed or anything but they are obviously upset at the thought of being parted. I think these two will be friends for life.
I think Kat is weeping in vain though, Stuart will more than likely be the one to go. And rightly so. No matter how boring Rachel can be from time to time with her chin up, jolly hockey sticks, girly baby talk, she is at least a decent person. Stuart is a trouble causing waste of space who has been falsley crying about missing his daughter for years now. Sorry, weeks. It just seems like years.
Bye Stuart!
Monday, August 11, 2008
NOMINATIONS DAY
So, who will be facing the public vote this week? Will there be a double eviction? Will BB allow all the hms to nominate? Lots of questions. But if BB allows them all to nominate and after much tooing and froing, I think the nominations will go like this:
DARNELL: Lisa & Nicole
KAT: Lisa & Sara
LISA: Kat & Rachel
MIKEY: Rex & Nicole
MO: Lisa & Stuart
NICOLE: Lisa & Stuart
RACHEL: Nicole & Rex
REX: Rachel & Lisa
SARA: Rex & Rachel
STUART: Darnell & Mo
That would mean it would be a fourway eviction competition:
Lisa -v- Rachel -v- Nicole -v- Rex.
If that were the case it will probably be Nicole to go, but Rex has endangered himself and is vulnerable this week. Lisa being up will give a lot of people a chance to vote her out for the first time (after week 1 that is) and that could see the end of Lisa in the house. In my opinion, Rachel is the only one of those four who would be safe this week.
But we will have to wait until we get BB insider info or confirmation tomorrow on BBLB.
HMS ~ Monday 11 August
Evicted, Friday 8th August. Good.
DARNELL
Darnell is so full of angst and pain and insecurities, but he is also intelligent and has his finger on the pulse of what is going on in the house. He is so loveable and engenders both a need to protect in many of us and a knowledge that he would be an A1 protector. He has very low self esteem and I sincerely hope that when he leaves the house, hopefully as the winner, he will realise he is such a worthy person and that knowledge will help him to feel much better.
This week he was once again lead on by Sara and stupidly fell for the sweet talk. He ended up following her around like a love sick puppy for a time. And then during a late night session of Rex pushing peoples' buttons in the luxury bedroom (while the divide was still up) Rex said to Sara to sleep in Darnell's bed to which she replied 'no, he would try to have sex with me'. Darnell was absolutely outraged at this and at last saw the underbelly of Sara. He was so insulted and hurt and made it known. Sara then denied she had said this, even though Stuart, Rex, Mo and Darnell all heard her and she eventually had to say she might have said it but she didn't mean it. Too late, Darnell was not for turning. And that's the thing about Darnell, he is honourable and though of course he fancied Sara, he would not want her to think that he would take advantage of her (or anyone).
KAT
Another week, another doubt. I so want to like Kat as I did in the earlier days but sometimes I wonder if she is indeed the Kat we see. Yes, she continues to talk sense to her friends and support them at all times but there is a niggle with me that she is actually quite mercenary. I hope I am wrong and she is just being transparent in her desire to be in the final.
She had the most dreadful week as a hell hm this week. Her hell hms were Mikey and Nicole and as hell hms have to do all the cooking and cleaning this meant that Kat carried the can for the week and as a result at the end of the week, ended up looking wane and not at all her former chirpy self. Mikey being blind, tried his best to help with duties but obviously some jobs are beyond him and even those he does, he doesn't do very well. This is not laziness but rather that he is unable to do certain things. Nicole on the other hand, though well able really did not want to be bothered with any cleaning or cooking, fully supported by Rex. Had I been Kat, I would have thrown the towel in and taken to my bed with the sore knee she had and left the whole lot to look after themselves. But in fairness to Kat she soldiered on and did the best she could. I suppose it is understandable that her best friend and hoh, Rachel, passed hell on the cake making task to allow Kat to get out of the kitchen and flower again.
LISA
Give Lisa an inch and she is off in full bitch mode again. She is a very bitter woman and starts the back biting in such a sneaky way. She will comment on some hm in such a way that can't be taken as a slight if the person to whom she is speaking does not take it as such, but if a hm has a gripe agains the person mentioned and happens to say something detrimental about said person, then Lisa's floodgates of bile spill forth. You try to cut Lisa some slack but time after time she reverts to form and shows that she wants nothing more than a good bitch practically about anyone.
She is just like her 'boyfriend' Mario too, she has done everything and is talented at everything ~ in her mind. The truth, just like Mario, is that she is basically crap at everything, save exercising. They are well matched and if Mario does propose as he has been trumpeting about any magazine or paper that will listen to him, then they will make a perfect couple and are well matched. They even look like a female and male version of some a plastic fantastic couple invented by some crazed body builder on anabolic steroids.
MIKEY
Mikey has gone up a bit in my estimation. He can be funny and he can cut through crap that is thrown at him and certainly since he came out from the shadow of Mario, he has come into his own. But the one thing that throws Mikey back to the bottom is his willingness to be sucked into Lisa's theories on hms and her backbiting, and he shows himself to be a willing and very able partner to these sessions it must be said. Mikey could be so much better if he could move on from this.
He doesn't put up with any carry on and is not afraid to speak out, Friday night, eviction night being a perfect example. Lisa was doing Nicole's hair over the barrier. Kat had peeled and mashed the spuds and put on the sausages for the hms dinner and then dashed off to wash and change before the evictions show. Mikey therefore was left in the kitchen trying to keep an eye on everything. He was giving the potatoes another mash and called to Nicole to come and check the sausauges (because obviously MIkey could not see if they were burning). Nicole said 'can't, getting my hair done, bring the pan over to me'. Bring the pan of boiling oil with sausages over to her? Asking a blind man to carry a pan of hot fat across a floor where he couldn't see any obstacles? Mikey rounded on her saying: bring them over to you! Get up of your arse and come and check them! (or words to that effect). Rex was most annoyed at MIkey speaking to his little princess in such a way but Mikey could have cared less. And fair play to him.
Mikey is the new head of house and absolutely relishing the power. He is very bossy and very verbal (at high volume) and as a result his week as hoh should be interesting and throw up some funny moments I think. If he would just stay away from Lisa and let his star shine. Mikey is favourite to win at the moment.
MO
Poor Mo really is getting a rough deal both in the house and as he is portrayed in the highlights programme each night. If you watch Mo on live feed he can be very funny, for instance this week before he got his suitcase back, he asked BB for sandals and socks as he considered it unhygenic to walk about the house and garden in his bare feet. BB asked what he would swap for these and he gave some belts and a pair of his underpants. Later, Mo was called to the diary room to collect his socks and sandals and BB presented him with a cute pair of pink socks (he had actually jokingly asked for baby pink when BB had enquired what colour) and a pair of ladies wedge healed silver sandals. BB told him he must wear them at all times and he took it in good part and watching him staggering around the house in his silver wedges was very funny.
NICOLE
Oh dear, what a spoilt little princess Nicole is showing herself to be. On one level I think she does want to throw herself into the house and house activities but on the other she is very lazy and does not want to do anything getting anywhere near work. In this she is ably supported by Rex who treats her as if she should be on a pedestal. She can be so sweet at times but then reverts to her petulant self if asked to do anything. Which is a pity because if she would just apply herself more I think she would be a popular hm.
RACHEL
Rachel is wearing me out. Her constant frown alternated with her twinkling dewy eyes look is driving me mad. She is such a worry wart and I can't believe this girl is going to take on the job of teaching secondary school children. They will tear her apart if she doesn't harden up a little. Yes, she can harden up if someone attacks Kat or Mikey but other than that she puts up with such crap from some of the hms, crap which would stop immediately if she rounded on them. But she doesn't and just gets herself upset about comments made. One other thing she is doing that annoys me is her treatement of Mikey. Honestly, if I hear her say Mikey Wikey one more time!!!
But fundamentally Rachel is a decent and nice girl and as I have said before, she would be a loyal and supportive friend. She just needs to be a friend to herself and stand up for herself much more.
REX
Rex has changed so much since girlfriend Nicole went into the house. He has just become a limpet constantly attached to Nicole, nuzzling and kissing her constantly. He is always bigging her up to others (except when they are having yet another tiff). Of course we still see flashes of the old, witty Rex, but currently he is so tied up in Nicole those times are getting fewer and fewer. And the funny thing about it is that I honestly believe Rex does not want Nicole in the house. To a degree she has stolen some of his thunder and Rex doesn't strike me as a person who gladly shares anything.
But he is right. Nicole being there has damaged his hope of being in the final ~ she is both his princess and his Achilie's heel ~ and there is a very real danger that should he be nomintated this week, he might indeed go on Friday. Which is a pity because I had thought he would make the final 4.
Rex, for all his bravado, is in my opinion very insecure underneath the veneer. I am lead to believe this because of the way he acts with Nicole. He is constantly saying how perfect she is, both to Nicole and to anyone else who will listen. This is all well and good but does he need to say it so often? It is like by making her appear perfect, he is a better person and someone to be envied because he is the 'owner' of this perfect princess.
He still retains his acebric wit but it is just buried under all that pink candyfloss at the moment and I hope it will cut through the stickiness and return in full force again.
SARA
Channel 4 is soon going to be the subject of thousands of law suits for deafness caused to the viewers by this NOISY Australian. She screeches and yells and screams at ear bursting decibels ~ and that is just saying she loves someone or something someone has done! She butters the hms up and everything, just everything, every hm does is cool and wonderful and clever and on and on and ON!
Sometimes I actually like her ~ she can be fun and funny ~ but what takes away from really liking her is that she refuses to express any opinions other than everyone is brilliant. This of course was a clever move earlier on as she sailed through nominations without ever being put up for eviction. But I have a feeling that the hms are at last seeing through her plan and she might see herself leaving the house in the next couple of weeks.
She is like a child who has overdosed on too many e numbers in cheap sweets and pop!
STUART
Bore No.1, Dale was evicted in the face off between himself and Stuart and so we are left with Bore No.2. He drones contantly about missing his daughter, how he will 'walk' so that he can be reuninted with her. After he was saved he went around clutching his hairy face with his painted nails hands, being careful not to smudge his eyeliner or mascarra, looking totally bereft whilst trying to supress a yell of 'YES!'. Who does he think he is fooling? Not the public anyway.
And then when he went back into the bedroom after his suitcase was returned (the hms facing the public vote must pack their stuff and give it to BB prior to eviction announcement). He opened the case sitting on the bedroom floor, took out the letter from his little daughter, paused to look wistfully at it (having made sure the cameras were on him), and then took out her picture and a little gift she had given him. A torn man, broken and sad and needing more than anything to see the love of his life, his daughter whom he has not seen in something like 10 weeks. And as our hearts bled for his plight, locked up as is ... he promptly turned around and got over his heartbreak in a nano second and put all his clothes away!
He is now THE most annoying hm in there. JUST GO STUART!
HAIR CUTTING TASK
BB set the hms a task today, the task being that one hm would cut the other hms hair and put the hair in a flask supplied. The object of the exercise was to fill the flask and they would win a party and a special surprise.
It was decided that Lisa would be the hairdresser as she has often bragged that she was a hairdresser years ago. So into the salon set up by BB goes Lisa. Her first client was Darnell who asked for a no.1 (close cut), Lisa gave him a zero ~ skinned him totally! I am sure Lisa did this with malice aforethought but as with most things Lisa does, it went wrong for her. Watching her do this to Darnell had many of us seething but when it was complete he actually looked very well. And the resultant shaved off hair filled the flask straight off!
Next in was Kat. Who it has to be said acted like a total idiot. I do like Kat but she really annoyed me during this task. She was pretending to be a child at the hairdressers, with Lisa going along with the whole thing fully. Following a little trim she then decided to cut a little off Lisa's hair ~ again with Lisa going along with it.
Turns out that this was a strict rule break as only the hairdresser could touch the equipment. After a telling off by BB and Mikey then announcing he would sit in the hairdressers for the entire task to keep an eye on things, BB made them start all over again ~ discarding all the hair that Darnell had given!
In comes Darnell in a groundhog day scenario. Of course he had nothing to offer this time but Lisa managed to get a few grains of stubble from his already well shaved head.
Darnell leaves and Mikey and Lisa revert to the poison talk that they had indulged in for weeks when they were together all the time. I was rather disappointed in Mikey at slipping back into it so readily, indeed willingly. Nicole, Rex, Kat, Rachel all got mud slung at them. And this pattern continued between clients to the salon for the rest of the task.
Next in is Kat, again, and this time she insists Lisa cuts lots of hair off in an attempt to make up for her causing Darnell's hair to be discounted. Kat ended up looking like she had been savaged but luckily a fair bit of hair was left to the front so it is really only from the back that you can see the mess made.
During Lisa's conversations with her clients, she said that it was 25 years since she had last done this. Let's see, Lisa is 40 so that would have made her 15. I think she once again exagerated her skills ~ 15 year olds generally only get to sweep the floor and make the tea. And looking at her cutting tecniques, I imagine I am totally right in that assumption.
All the hms had at least a trim, with Nicole being not one little bit pleased at having to subject her hair to Lisa's dubious talents!
Mikey had his hair entirely shaved off and surprisingly, he looks far better for it.
They passed the task and were awarded with a party and the special surprise was a box of dodgy looking wigs. Mikey walked about wearing a bo derek cornplaits affair. Unfortunately it was well back on his scalped head and he ended up looking like one of the rednecks from the film Wrong Turn. Scary!
They danced to the tunes supplied by BB for the party, with Lisa throwing the most amazing shapes as she leap and bounded around the room in a world of her own. Where Lisa gets her 1980s cut out clothing from or her dance moves is a mystery. Perhaps those little green men she sees told her she looked cool like that. She doesn't.
MIKEY ~ HEAD OF HOUSE
This competition involved the hms making and decorating a cake to look like St. Paul's Cathedral dome (heavenly hms) and the Millenium Dome (hell hms). And Rachel chose hell as the winners, which caused uproar because the heavenly hms had clearly done a much better job than the mess of sponge and icing sugar with sticks of rock stuck in it to represent the Millenium dome as presented by hell hms.
Following her announcement that hell had won the competition, BB immediately announced the the hell hms must decide between them the new hoh. Nicole wanted the position but Mikey said a loud 'NO!' giving the reason that she was only new to the house (Rex naturally wanted Nicole to be hoh so had his nose put out at this), Kat did not want the position, but Mikey so did. And so Rachel announced that her successor was to be Mikey.
And boy, has he taken to the role with relish. He is even louder than usual, does not allow sleeping during the day and anyone caught sleeping will be deluged with a beaker of water. I am only surprised he has not pulled out a whip!
In a surprise turn BB removed the divide between heaven and hell at 6am on Sunday morning, noticed first by Mo who had wandered sleepily into the kitchen, farted a few times and then noticed the divide gone and ran to announce to all that it had gone.
Rex leapt from his bed in hell and literally ran to Nicole's bed in heaven.
So now we have all the hms together again for the first time in 4 weeks and with Mikey as their hoh.
Friday, August 8, 2008
8TH EVICTEE ~ FRIDAY, 08.08.08
I think most BB fans really didn't care which of the two "hunks" went this week, but as it happens it was Dale. Not really much to say except bye bye Dale. Actually, there is ~ now we will have Stuart harping all week about wishing he had gone and how much he misses his daughter. Has he lost the use of his legs? No. So if he loves and misses his daughter so much why does he not just walk out the door? Oh wait, could it possibly be he wants the fame more than he wants to see his daughter.
But walk he might ... apparently he and Dale have made an agreement that Dale will try to call over the house wall on Sunday the name of the favourite to win and if it is not Stuart he will walk.
Just go tonight Stuart, save the viewers any more time listening to you and save yourself from the false hope that there is ANY possiblity of your winning. There isn't.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
BB ~ SOMETIMES YOU ARE JUST TOO TRANSPARENT
So after last night's carry on with Rex and Nicole and all that talk of leaving, BB have Rachel (head of house) buy back Mo, Kat, and most importantly, Nicole's suitcase. At £20 a pop from their £385 weekly shopping budget.
BB have not done this before and have clearly now done so because they know that without her suitcase Nicole will leave. They have kept Mo and Kat's suitcases for approximately 18 days now, for crossing the divide and stealing bananas! Obviously Nicole would not tollerate being without her case for that length of time and equally obviously they could not give her her case without giving Mo and Kat theirs and that would still leave the problem of the length of time each did without their case.
And so they decide to let Rachel buy them back, which of course she did. Unfair on BBs part in my opinion. Added to that, although the hms all said this was good when Rachel reported back to them, I forsee a lot of bitching later about Rachel having bought them back.
BB FINAL NIGHT PARTY
For food have lots of crudite (or nibbles), have a selection of drinks and buckets of ice. Have all this set up in the room with the tv you are going to watch ~ BB addicts won't want to miss much of the final night!
Make up little betting jars to make the night fun for those who haven't watched BB too. You can label one jar 'The Winner', the next 2nd, the next 3rd etc. Then cut out strips of paper and write the name of a remaining hm on each, fold them up and pop them in the jars. Everyone puts €1 or £1 into the jars, takes a name and that is their winner or 2nd or whatever. As the hms leave the house the person who has chosen that hm from that position jar wins the kitty. You can up the ante if you wish to make it even more exciting.
Guaranteed even those who didn't watch the show will have a riot.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
BIG TROUBLE IN PARADISE
It's all kicking off with Rex and Nicole. Apparently a story appeared in a red top rag saying Rex had had sex with a stripper in Las Vegas on a lads holiday while he was going out with Nicole. She is not allowed to tell him that this story has been in the papers and it has obviously played on her mind big time and tonight it has all kicked off.
Then the subject of hm Stephanie, to whom Rex was a little too attached, came up. Nicole is now in floods of tears on tv and Rex is trying to control her in between hugging her.
And she has ended up apologising!
She says she wants to go home. Rex says if she walks he will too. She doesn't want him to walk.
I think poor Nicole made a major mistake going into the BB house and this private stuff should have been left for them to discuss when he left the house and not on national tv.
LISA ~ LOSING THE PLOT!
HEAVEN, HELL & NOMINATIONS
Into hell went only 3 hms: Mikey, Kat and Nicole. Hell hms had to complete a task to earn the right to nominate, eating 300 brussels sprouts. What a task this was and they failed of course. Mikey made a huge, and somewhat disgusting, effort to eat as many sprouts as possible. He actually chewed sprouts and spat them into a bucket and mixed the churned up mess with tea and water thinking it would make the task easier. It was pretty horrible viewing but you'd have to hand it to him for his tenacity ~ he struggled on for HOURS in his efforts.
As the hell hms failed, only the heavenly hms nominated and they did so as follows:
Dale: Mo and Darnell
Lisa: Rex and Stuart
Mo: Stuart and Dale
Rachel: Lisa and Stuart
Sara: Mo and Dale
Stuart: Sara and Mikey
Rex: Dale and Stuart
Darnell lost his right to vote after BB punished him for crossing the divide into hell. He did this to escape sleeping in the luxury bedroom after he made a pass at Sara, after she had flirted like mad with him constantly all day. When he made his (verbal) pass, Sara went crazy and immediately leapt into Stuart's bed. Darnell then decided he would sleep on the sofas but of course BB punished him by not letting him nominate this week.
Strange that, given that they allowed Lisa to nominate after she lost the plot at the weekend and actually smashed her way out of the house, was allowed back in and suffered no punishment whatsoever and was even allowed into heaven, hence only 3 being in hell ~ she must have been last in the length of time it took to complete the alphabet task.
So the voting meant that Dale received 3 votes, Darnell 1, Lisa 1, Mo 2, Rachel was exempt as she was head of house, Sara 1, Stuart 4, Rex 1, Kat zero votes, Mikey 1 vote and Nicole was exempt for her first week. Dale and Stuart will now face the public vote.
8th EVICTION ~ FRIDAY 8 AUGUST
This Friday we will see either Dale or Stuart leave the house. And not one minute before time even if we were lucky enough to lose both, which of course we won't, so only one will go. These two have done nothing but whinge for weeks now about wanting to go.
Dale, I think, only says this to see how popular he is with the viewers and hopes to be nominated but not actually evicted. But at this stage of the game he realises that he will get more tv and magazine coverage by leaving before the end if he is not going to win.
Stuart's constant whining about wanting to go to be with his daughter, Mia, is driving me mad. He crys and weeps and is seen trying to squeeze a tear out, unsuccessfully, while lying on his bed, checking the camera is on him and gazing at a photo of his daughter. Stuart, reality check, if you are missing her so much there is a door through which you can walk, back to your daughter and off our screens.
They are two pumped up, attention seeking, empty vessels and really need to move away from the Big Brother show and back to the gyms from which they came. Neither will be a big loss, the only downside is that we will be stuck with one of them for at least another week.
TO EVICT:
Dale ~ 09016 16 16 02
Stuart ~ 09016 16 16 17
Calls from UK only. The Irish vote is cancelled for the rest of BB9.
ODDS: Wednesday, 6th Augusts, Paddy Power
Dale: 1/14
Stuart: 6/1
Looks like it's bye bye Dale.
Friday, August 1, 2008
DAY 59 ~ DARNELL FAVOURITE TO WIN!
GO DARNELL!
BEST BB EVER!
This must go down in BB history as the best BB eviction night EVER!
Davina is announcing to the house which of the 8 hms are NOT going to be evicted, two at a time. So far she has said Mo and Rachel (Dale and Luke are major peed off at this!), next she tells the house Darnell and Stuart are not going. Whew! Darnell is saved!
That leaves Rex, Luke, Dale and Kat. Of course the hms do not know who is popular and who is not and that is causing major tension in the house.
And on top of all that, Nicole, Rex's girlfriend is going in to the house to replace Maysoon. The hms do not know this as I write but I sincerely hope Davina tells that to the house just prior to Luke being evicted!
This is definately the best BB idea EVER!
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Now Davina announces that Kat and Dale are safe.
And, later, as expected:
LUKE EVICTED!
SOMEONE GOING BACK IN?
Gossip on the net says someone is entering the house tonight. And the most popular theory is that it is Rex's girlfriend Nicole. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
7th EVICTION ~ 1st August
So we reach our seventh eviction from the BB9 house. Who will go? They say we will decide but will we? For the first time ever in BB voting lines closed 10 hours early at 23:59 last night. This has caused a massive stir on BB forums across the net with conspiracy therories falling over themselves.
It could simply mean that BB don't want to have to accommodate 8 lots of family and friends. But that doesn't make sense on one level ~ it would mean that 3 hms f&f would know that their hm is one of the three who received the most votes to evict and in turn that would leak.
Betting has been suspended on all betting sites since midnight too to make sure that no insider who knows who is going is able to bet. The odds were suspended in the region of:
Luke 2/13
Dale 1/29
Mo 16/5
Rex 1/1
Rachel 6/4
Kat 1/29
Darnell 1/149
Stuart 1/199
It looks like Luke is a definate to go PROVIDING BB do not start messing around and for instance, let one or more of the other hms pick from the those polling top (Luke, Dale, Mo). Such a scenario wouls probably see Mo go as the only 3 not facing the public vote are Lisa, Sara and Mikey and they would never pick Luke.
BB have made this one of the best shows for years and a lot of that comes down to their not interferring with voting and nominations. They've sullied it a little with this weeks nominations but lets hope they don't go the whole hog and allow some twist they have not announced to the public.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
HMS ~ 31st July ~ DAY 57
DALE At last the hms have learned that what lies below his good looking facade is pretty rotten. BB showed the heavenly hms (Mikey, Rex, Stuart and Mo) his vt which shows Dale saying he would stab any hm to win the money (among other vile things). And they lost absolutely no time in telling their fellow hms when they returned to the main house.
Dale is also greedy and selfish. Last night after all the hms barr Kat had gone to bed, he opened the last tin of tuna and made himself a toasted tuna sandwich using the entire tin. He never even offered Kat some toast which I thought was incredibly bad manners given that he was making something for himself and there was only one other person there. But to use all the tuna was pure greed ~ he had one hell of a job packing it all on to the toast. He never stopped for one moment to consider that he should use a small bit of the can and leave the rest incase anyone wanted some in the morning. Dale is like a totally spoiled little brat and has a temper to match.
We continued to hear a constant cry of I want to go from both Dale and Stuart this week and last week and yet when they find they are facing the public vote, they backtrack ~ they don't want to go! For goodness sake make up your minds, or better still, tell the truth in the first place!
Sadly, he most probably will not go this Friday as so many want Luke out but with a bit of luck the hms will nominate him again next week and that should see the end of Dale in the BB house.
DARNELL Still my favourite. He is smart, caring and sensitive. He is too sensitive sometimes and I suppose I can see how his need for peer approval might annoy some people. But he is what he is and can't help his feelings. At least with Darnell he doesn't gossip behind peoples' back, if he has a problem he will say it directly to the person. His friendship with Kat is lovely to watch and they seem to genuinely like each other. Darnell is also the most perceptive hm in there. He quickly and logically sorts what is being said into fact and fiction and has no qualms in verbalising his thoughts.
I loved watching him try to get the safe open even with the hms screaming at him that BB was telling him to stop immediately. He just ignored it completely and carried on until he was ready to stop. Naughty, but funny.
KAT Still between loving her and worrying that maybe we are not seeing the real Kat and she is in fact a major game player. I hope she is as I thought, and genuine and good but sometimes when hms are telling her she will probably win she never says, no. She just sits accepting it as a fact. That said, she continues to be a good friend to Rachel, Rex and Darnell. She is the only one Rex is consistently kind to and he seems very close to her. She is also the only one who will take Rex aside and tell him when he is misbehaving. I hope she will make the final 3.
LISA Lisa continues to be a sneaky, nasty person. This week when she and Luke were sitting at the kitchen table she started saying to Kat that she (Kat) would learn lots of new words this week from Luke now that they were all in hell together. Then she said 'yes, Luke has a large volcablury (her pronunciation of words indicates her spelling might not be that hot), she continued saying yes, he will teach her 'shut up, shut up' and then continued sniggering about this with Luke. This was a dig at Kat's singing and Kat knew exactly what she meant, resulting in Rachel and Kat leaving the living room. Lisa is a bully, like her 'partner' Mario (really name Shaun). And in Luke she has found a perfect replacement for Mario in Luke who could bitch for England. This week she also tore into Belinda, telling the boys that she was only 3 years older than Belinda (in other words, look at me and how fabulous I am and then look how old Belinda looks). She then went on to say she would write a book (presumably with a ghost writer) on how to look good at 40. I had to laugh at Dale's retort, which was along the lines of 'yeah, look good at 40 but have lost all your marbles.'
Added to that, her 1980s clothes and her stupid stories, she is seriously losing the plot. She has likened herself to Jesus (meek) and continues with crazy stories about life and her sightings of aliens and so on. She thinks the other hms are laughing with her. They're not Lisa, they're laughing at you.
LUKE Possibly the most vile hms in the history of BB. He is like a disease in there and when he has the likes of Lisa and Mikey with him turns them into creatures as vile as himself. He constantly harps about the £100k prize and accuses all and sundry of wanting the money while he is probably the one who wants it most. He is like a very old minded person in a young man's body. I just cannot believe that a 21 year old boy has nothing else on his mind but bitching and being nasty. He spends his time analysing every move made by ever hm and every announcement made by BB. Hopefully he will go on Friday and I can't wait to see how he will compute the fact that out of the 8 people facing the public vote, he is the one that receives most votes. He will more than likely explode his brain.
MAYSOON The lovely Maysoon has left the house. I don't think she could stand another minute with some of the hms. In her usual way, she told some of her hms she was leaving and had ordered her suitcase in a calm way and without a major fuss. She was a lady and behaved that way during her entire time in the house. I wish her well.
MIKEY Mikey, away from the toxic twins (Luke and Lisa) becomes a much funnier hm. There were times this week when I actually liked him. He slipped back a little when he was back in touch with the toxic twins when Lisa was slagging Kat with her 'shut up, shut up' comments. Today he joined in the fun of the shopping task with Rex and Stuart and full agreed with ordering a few basics and wasting the rest on tokens and prizes. That redeemed him a bit too. I still don't want him in the final three, I'm afraid his nastiness when he was Mario's mouthpiece made me dislike him intensly and I don't think I could come back from that enough to wish him a final place.
BB will of course do their best to ensure he reaches that 3 ~ a point in question this week was the others being punished for nomination talk and his being let off even though on at least 2 occasions he openly discussed nominations.
MO For me, Mo provided the funniest moments in BB ever with his performance in the chilli task. It was BB tv at it's very best. I like Mo and don't mind if he was in the final 3, which I think is unlikely. He is farily good at holding his own without losing his temper and I think he is a decent person, if a little greedy at times.
RACHEL Rachel continues to be nicey nicey but at least this week she started addressing some of the comments Rex has made to her. She cans stand her ground at times, for instance in one of the first arguments in the house when Alex told Bex off for burning the chips, Rachel was one of the only hms who defended her. She does it quietly but she digs her heels in and won't be swayed. Still, although I know she is a nice girl, I continue to hope to see her coming out of her shell more.
REX Rex is hilarious at the moment (other than when he is nagging Rachel). Today in the shopping task he made me smile so much. He has ordered £20 worth of food and drinks (tea, coffee, sugar, etc) and spent the balance of £55 on mystery gifts/tokens. He knows this is going to cause a major shock to the hms not in on it (he did the shopping with Stuart and Mikey and with their full approval). He is in good form at the moment knowing his girlfriend is still there for him following the task where Lisa and Luke were called to the task room to pick his gf from a line up (along with Mo's brother). They got Mo's brother right but picked the wrong girl as Rex's gf, saying when they went back into the house that his actual girlfriend (whom they failed to recognise as such) that she was hard faced, cheap looking, mean looking mouth and so on. Which wasn't nice on any level and most hurtful to the girl. These comments haven't gone down well with Rex as he now knows they picked the wrong girl and messing the shopping task is a perfect revenge given that they are 2 of hms who most get themselves in a tizz about the shopping.
SARA Sara continues to be annoying. She has a voice like siren and never shuts up. Perhaps her best friend, Lisa, should have applied the shut up stab at her. She follows Lisa round like a pet dog and bigs her up continually. Her friendship with Lisa indicates just how shallow Sara is, and once again a friendship with one of the toxic twins is proving a detremental move by a hm. The other hms are starting to see through her too and I don't think she will make the final 3.
STUART This big lump really annoys my happiness. I had vague hopes for him earlier on that he might improve but he continues to be a sneaky idiot. During the pod task he agreed to nominate Luke and Dale as the majority wanted that. Then he goes into the diary room and nominates Darnell and Maysoon. Why didn't he just have the balls to say that he wasn't going to vote as agreed? Yes, he did say he didn't want to vote Dale (his best friend in the house) but did he have to go completely against his 3 heavenly hms? He is now boring me stiff too with his constant whining about wanting to leave to see his daughter, Mia. This is another load of tosh from Stuart ~ if he misses his daughter so badly, leave. No-one will miss him.
He won't be evicted this week but we should see the back of him by the week after next (next week will probably be Dale's turn).