HMS ~ MONDAY 1 SEPT 2008

DARNELL
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

The numbers for voting to SAVE your favourite housemate (from the UK only, Irish votes cannot be made because of some dispute between Endemol/Ch4 & the Irish supplier) are:

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

The voting lines are now open for viewers to vote to SAVE their favourtite housemates. This will have an evil twist for the hms who have moved into a comfort zone where they think they are all on the home run to the final. The hms who have polled lowest in this vote to SAVE, will be evicted, much to their surprise (and no doubt, horror) on Tuesday.

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.

BYE BYE PLASTIC WOMAN!

I am so delighted! Lisa is gone. No more. Bye Bye Lisa. I'm not sure if the universe called her, as she decided was the case when Mario was evicted, but who cares? I hope she and the tangoed man and the little green men all live very happily together ~ just well away from our tv screens. PLEASE!

LISA -V- SARA

FRIDAY 29th AUGUST 2008

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!

I've just spent a week away from both the internet and live feed of BB! I thought I'd be in turmoil but strangely enough it was actually good. Which bodes well for getting back to my life after BB9.

But now back to the savouring the last days of BB9 ...

THE WIZARD OF OZ?

What is BB doing? In last weeks shopping the special items were: a heart, a brain, a can of beer marked 'Courage' and a red shoe. So, that brings the first Wizard of Oz connection.

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

Prepare yourselves for 2 midweek evictions coming. Wednesday the 27th will see an eviction I think. There is a live show going out that night where we are told that hms will be surprised with a suprise live task. So we can figure the loser of the task will be waving goodbye to his or her fellow hms.

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

EVICTION: FRIDAY 22 AUGUST

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.

NOMINATIONS DAY ~ Monday, 18 August

MONDAY, 18th 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

Monday, 18 August, 2008

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

Rex is the new head of house and I'm sure Rex considers this position should have been his all along. I wonder what the week will bring with Rex as hoh. Probably a lot of fun in fairness. Although I imagine Lisa is not one bit happy about this but she had her chance to become hoh in the task too.

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.

MOST MORTIFIYING EVICTION EVER?

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

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

So with 59% of the vote we bid goodbye (and some us good ridance too) to the lady man that was Stuart.

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

AND THEY SAY GIRLS TAKE AGES TO GET READY!

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 27 AUG

What's this about?

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

This Friday, 15th August will see Rachel and Stuart facing the public vote. What a disappointment that it is only the two. I had thought the voting would have been more diverse and thrown up four hms to face the vote.

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!

NOMINATIONS DAY

Monday, 11th August, 2008

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

DALE
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

Sunday, 10th August 2008

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

Mikey has become the fifth head of house having been made head of house after Rachel, the then hoh controversially declared hell team (Mikey, Kat and Nicole) the winners in the London monument cake building competition.

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.

8TH EVICTEE ~ FRIDAY, 08.08.08

DALE OUT WITH 63% OF THE VOTE!

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.

BB ~ SOMETIMES YOU ARE JUST TOO TRANSPARENT

Thursday, 7th August

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

As we move into the last month of BB9, it's time to start planning our BB final night party. Just get a group of friends together, at least some of whom have watched BB ~ don't worry about the ones who haven't, they'll get into the fun as the night goes on.

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.

BIG TROUBLE IN PARADISE

After midnight, 7 August 2008 ~ Rex and Nicole

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.

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They continue the argument for another hour and Nicole wants to go to the diary room. Rex won't let her. She stomps off to her bedroom (which being on the hell side of the house is out of bounds to Rex). Rex goes to the garden and tells Mo and Rachel all about their fight. Wrong move Rex. In the house we see Nicole has now gone to the diary room. The plot thickens. Will she leave?

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AND A FART SAVES THE DAY

Nicole comes out of the diary room and the argument starts off again in the living area. They move to the garden where things are tense. All of a sudden Rex farts with Nicole saying it smelled like a brussel sprout fart. They start laughing and love is restored. Awww, romantic or what? P'raps not, but it worked for them.

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DAY 2 OF TROUBLE IN PARADISE

And it's off again. This time it kicked off over breast sizes of all things. Rex repeated some of the argumnet infront of the others, Nicole, naturally, got upset about this and cried off to the diary room. Rex then heads to the garden to tell his side of things to the hms there. Which was not a good thing to do.

I think Nicole is now in an untenable position. She stays, the fights will continue because of what she read in the papers (about his supposedly having a couple of nights with a stripper in Vegas), and of course she cannot tell this to Rex as it is news from the outside world. She goes and Rex says he will go too. If he goes he effectively moves their relationship into limbo that will be hard for either of them to live with ~ the knowledge he might have won BB9 had he stayed. I think in this instance BB would need to allow Nicole to have the full thing out with him (away from the other hms) and then they either iron it out or one of them leaves.

This constant kissy wissy lovey moments flashed with fighting in horrible viewing.

LISA ~ LOSING THE PLOT!

Lisa is disintigrating before our very eyes. Not only are the effects of the alleged botox wearing off taking it's toll on her face, but her mind is seriously moving off into another dimension. She talks of having seen little green men, she likens herself to Jesus, she thinks her 'boyfriend' Mario (real name Shaun) is intelligent and successful, and she really lost it at the weekend when she broke out of the house.

I think she did this in a fit of jealousy at Rex's girlfriend, Nicole, being brought into the house. She was positively seething about that and I reckon she thought Mario would actually re-enter. She took herself off to the loo and after a great victory flush was heard, she came out of the loo saying 'I'm off ... I'm going' ~ and was ignored totally by the hms in the bedroom at the time.

She then went off to the garden and smashed down an exit door and left. BB said to her that as she had not actually left the compound she could go back into the house, an offer she took up with embarassing haste. If she really wanted to go then BB should have let her and indeed not offered her the choice of going back in. Lisa is fast becoming car crash tv and even though I do not like the woman, I really don't want to watch another human being unravelling for entertainment.

Lisa leaves the house:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1pGPXrikMo

HEAVEN, HELL & NOMINATIONS

To earn their place in heaven this week hms had to recite the alphabet backwards. Darnell did this the quickest in 51 seconds but has he has already been head of house and therefore cannot be again, Rachel who did the task in 1 minute and 5 seconds took head of house. Into heaven also went Dale, Lisa, Mo, Stuart and Rex.

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

DALE -V- STUART

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.

DAY 59 ~ DARNELL FAVOURITE TO WIN!

Darnell, my favourite has today moved into pole position to win BB9 and rightly so. He is the only one who has shown intelligence, integrity, kindness and sensibility from day one. Ok, it took me a week or so to know he was the winner but I realised early on he was the man.

GO DARNELL!

BEST BB EVER!

Friday, 1st August 2008

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?

Friday 1st August

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

Friday, 1st August 2008

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.