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BB10: Day 27 Highlights

Freddie celebrates finally passing that motion while Karly explains how big it was.

Oh dear, I think the lack of cigs is getting to Karly; she’s very testy isn’t she? And she took out some of that anger and pent up nicotine withdrawal on Halfwit in last night’s Channel 4 highlights show...

It was a real battle of Who’s In Charge of This Task when Karly wanted to rehearse and Halfwit wanted to listen again to the song they had to sing. If there’d been any snow around, it would’ve turned into a potential p***ing contest!

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BB10: Day 26 Highlights

So Sree and – for a change – Halfwit are up for eviction this week and I think it’ll be Sree who goes; at least, I hope it is. I’ve been not digging Sree for a while now and his bad loser attitude after his race with Siavash that we saw in the Channel 4 highlights show last night just made my mind up for me that he should be outta there asap.

Apparently, Noirin needs something...

If there’s one thing guaranteed to irritate me it’s someone who reneges on a bet. In case you didn’t see it, Siavash and Sree had a running race in the garden with a can of lager or cider from the next booze delivery at stake. Here's a clip of their race.

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BB10: Day 25 Highlights

I’m beginning to think that this year’s BB tasks are becoming truly sadistic; running in a sack full of nettles? Rolling over plugs?? What’s next? Lorry catching on the M1? Juggling with hand grenades? Eek!

The Extreme Sports Day task certainly brought out the worst in many of them didn’t it? Karly it turns out is very competitive; she didn’t like it when Sree lost did she? Kris wasn’t overly chuffed either while Siavash I thought took it in the spirit of true gamesmanship and just wanted to have a laugh.

Sree’s attitude afterwards was yet more evidence of his annoyingness. He wasn’t sulking about losing I don’t think, it was, yet again, about Noirin’s closeness with his arch enemy Marcus who didn’t help when he said that “any team with Sree in it wouldn’t win.” True but a tad harsh.

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BB10: Weekend news round up

I was sooooooooo glad to see Angel go on Friday! No more weirdness and no more dribbling or doing that annoying ‘brrrrrrrrrrrrr’ thing she did which other housemates begged her to stop. No more stealing for her ‘art’… what a load of BS that was! And with a whopping 81% of us voting her out, Halfwit got to stay yet again.

Halfwit rehearses his role in Valkyrie

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BB10: Day 21 Highlights

"You should be thinner you heiffer. Should be ables to fit through ziz leedle gap..."

Well it’s official; I can’t stand Angel. Watching her stealing Siavash’s photo last night just showed what an unpleasant person she is, and it got worse when Noirin caught her nicking her hairbrush and yet worse again when Angel started insulting Noirin, telling her she looked “three months pregnant”.

And when she later asked Marcus why he thought she’d been nominated and he replied that one of the reasons was because of her stealing, she replied, “I’d kill for the art”. She was obviously implying that she wanted Siavash’s photo to add to the collage she was making but in my book, “art” isn’t an excuse for stealing.

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BB10: Day 20 Highlights and nominations live

What a total letdown last night’s live nominations was… they didn’t have to nominate in front of each other as I’d thought they would; all they did was speed-nominate live. I still don’t get what was so great about that that it required two live shows. It was a complete anti-climax for me… So we got to see them nominate live and at speed… so what?? If anyone can explain to me the big whoop about that, please do!

Anyway, it transpired that Angel and Freddie/Halfwit are up for eviction this week and I truly, truly hope Angel goes. That spitting/dribbling thing she did on last night’s highlights was one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen. She really is a total freak and a weirdo and add to that the fact that she’s stealing the other housemates things – even a photograph of Siavash’s – is just bizarre.

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BB10: Day 19 Highlights

"Look at ze arze on that..."

OMG!! What on earth is going on with Noirin?? Did the Big Brother bosses spray her with pheromones or something before she went in? She’s got Sree, Marcus and now Angel lusting after her and like the other two, I suspect Angel’s in for some heartache there…

Her diary room confession that she has “feelings in her heart” for the magnetic Irish lass – if true and not an attention grabbing thing – are sure to mean she’s hankering after someone she’ll never have. I can’t see Noirin starting to play for the other team, and if she did, I doubt she’d choose Angel. I know it’s a bit harsh but she’s not exactly drop dead gorgeous is she?

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BB10: Day 18 Highlights

Did any of you want to hurl and/or scrub yourself with bleach after you watched Angel and Halfwit kissing and dirty dancing? I certainly did. It was one of the ickiest things I’ve ever, ever seen! I truly believe Angel’s not playing with a full deck and has the potential to be seriously freaky-mental. She really is scarily weird and I’m very glad I’m not locked in a house with her!

However, in last night’s Channel 4 highlights show we saw the events of Halfwit’s birthday celebrations unfold and every bit as weird and cringe-making as his and Angel’s kissing was the ‘freeform’ performance the housemates came up with to pass their task…

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BB10: Weekend Round Up

Siavash has had trouble going to the loo all week...

I think it’s fair to say that all the housemates were shocked that Cairon left on Friday but what really shocked me was how he kept his jeans up given that they were actually almost round his knees! If that’s fashion, thank God I’m not remotely fashionable!

I couldn’t believe Siavash’s OTT reaction either; the way he wept, wailed and prostrated himself on the floor was ridiculous, but it’s not taken him long to get over it has it?? He hasn’t so much as mentioned Cairon since Friday that I’m aware of!

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Big Brother: Second Eviction Night

Friday, June 19 on 4

It's the second eviction night of Big Brother 10. Join Davina McCall as she announces the results LIVE and direct into the house. Plus highlights from the past 24 hours in the Big Brother house. Then, after 8 Out of 10 Cats , the evicted housemate leaves the house and returns to the outside world. Davina whisks them into the studio for a chat about their time in the Big Brother house and find out what they really think of the other housemates.

BB10: Day 14 Highlights

I can’t get that damned Ole Bamboo song out of my head… it’s driving me crazy. However, despite Charlie’s dancing resembling someone with a turtle head poking through in the line for the loos, they passed the dance task and celebrated like it was 1999.

Perhaps it’s just me but I don’t think I could get that worked up just because I’d won a shopping budget that BB say is luxury but which, at £5 a head per day, doesn’t seem all that luxurious to me, but hey ho. And it’s not like they’ve had to live on ‘rations’ yet either, other than the first few days when they ate a lot of stew and porridge.

"Hon-estly, me, I am shocked... truly, howeffer, please put your nipply bits away. This I am begging you"

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BB10: Day 13 Highlights

I must say, I’m finding it something of a trial to watch BB at the moment. It puts my blood pressure up every time it’s on… And I’ve decided who I’m going to vote for thanks to last night’s Channel 4 show… Freddie/Halfwit.

Like, yeah, I'm totally... nominated man

"yeah man, I'm like, totally nominated... again"

He really is a pillock and I don’t think I can tolerate his presence much longer. Did you see him bursting into song in Angel’s face?? I wanted to crawl up my own rectum and die and had I been Angel, I suspect I would’ve done. What an absolute tosspot he is. Not to mention his simpering, grinning agreement with Marcus that Sree’s “a fu**ing idiot” to which Freddie The Pratt replied, “mmm, mmm, I entirely agree”.

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BB10: Day 12 Highlights

Last night’s highlights show on Channel 4 had me wanting to punch someone by the end of it. They’re nearly all so damned annoying one way and another! In fact, the only people not bugging the bejesus out of me at the moment – and I’m sure it’s only temporary – are Sophie, Karly and Rodrigo, so expect a great deal of moaning in what’s to follow…

Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber

Anywho, nominations day came round again fast didn’t it? And unsurprisingly, Freddie/Halfwit’s up again but rather more surprising is that Cairon’s up… which gives me a dilemma; I can’t stand either of them so who am I going to vote out??

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BB10: Day 11 Highlights

"Ah jaysus... he's coming back..."

Poor Sree’s got it bad for Noirin hasn’t he? But although his declaration of love for her in last night’s highlights show was hideously cringe making, I did feel sorry for the guy. Noirin was very sweet in how she tried to let him know that she doesn’t want to be more than friends but I don’t think the message got through…

Here’s a clip of Sree trying to explain his feelings for Noirin to the other housemates while she all but squirmed as he kept on hugging her...

And as she told Lisa, he’s getting on her nerves, constantly hanging around her. It’d drive me insane so I think she’s being very kind and reserved in how she’s treating him.

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Big Brother 10 isn't cutting the mustard

Big Brother 10 is failing in the ratings. This weekend, on live eviction night, it came forth in the battle for bums-on-seats. Have I Got News For You trounced it, getting nearly double the viewers. Even a repeat of comedy Outnumbered fared better. So what's going on?

Apart from people tiring of the format, it seems that Big Brother is a show confused by what it is supposed to be. Once upon a time, back in the late nineties, it was a peculiar and intriguing look at how people functioned under the microscope. We watched Craig Phillips and Co. potter around, slowly going mad like listless laboratory rats. The only huge shift in the show occurred as a result of Nasty Nick Bateman overtly cheating, and even then, that was resolved with a reasonably placid discussion around a table.

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