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Nominationgate!

Over the years, there’ve been various ‘gates’ and the latest is Nominationgate.

After BB punished the HMs by removing their shopping budget and putting them on basic rations, a meeting was called by Steve.

He told the gathered HMs, “Let’s get serious, we f***ed up… we’re here as a team…

“We’ve got to kerb what we’re thinking… nobody gets any blame.”

Shabby, who’d been shaking her head as he spoke said, “I completely disagree with you.

“We weren’t talking about nominations, we were talking about people talking about nominations.”

They know you know, but they don’t know we know that they know… Yep, what Shabby said makes about as much sense as that.

She added that everyone had discussed nominations at some point, to which Dave said, “I don’t think I have.”

Shabby then yelled, “As if!”

Nathan decided a statement of the obvious was called for and said, “Rules are f***ing rules, aren’t they? You’re not allowed to do it, are you?”

Not one to be outdone, Shabby then referred to Ben’s ‘code’ speak when he let slip that he’d nominated Sunshine.

She said, “They have completely twisted what we said.”

Ben agreed, adding, “We were discussing an earlier discussion, that’s all it was.”

However, Sunshine was in a strop – again – after discovering that Ben had nominated her. Ben tried to explain that it was before he’d got to know her.

He said, “It was in the first few days of arriving,” and he added that she wasn’t his “close friend” at that time.

But given she’s a sulky moo and can’t let go of a grudge, she said, “You can’t admit that you’re wrong. You’ve broken my trust.

“All I can say is you’ve let me down.”

John then decided he was going to wade in and take Sunshine’s side, so he told Ben, “She was your sixth closest friend, and there’s 14 people in the house.”

Oh my god… he’ll be talking fractions next.

So in an attempt to apologise and explain – yet again – his reasons for nominating Sunshine, Ben kept on about it, to which eventually, John yelled, “Stop f***ing talking about nominations, we’ve just been warned about it!

“Just drop it!”

Nathan was also sick of hearing it and told Ben, “Can you stop talking about this, you’re starting to pi** me off.”

But as ever, Mario was firmly on Ben’s side and said, “I don’t care what people think of you, I’m your friend.

“I made the decision the first night I met you to be your friend, and I’m sticking by it.”

Awww bless! More BB news soon.

Shabby’s punished – via Caoimhe – and yelled at over the wall!

Yesterday we reported that Shabby had been challenged by the Chest of Drawers to pay Ben 20 compliments and hug him for a full minute…

All of which she did, but then she made the rookie error of telling bezzy mate Caoimhe why she was brown nosing Ben, which earned her a punishment.

But as it’s BB, nothing’s straightforward, and instead of punishing Shabby, they punished Caoimhe…

They locked the Irish housemate in a room and for three hours, they repeatedly played a recording of a conversation featuring Ben and Shabby.

When she was allowed back into the house, everyone gathered to hear what indignities she’d been put through. “They locked me in a room that was freezing” she said, before telling how she’d heard the conversation over and over.

“The whole conversation?” Shabby asked nervously, obviously trying desperately to remember what she’d said, to which Caoimhe replied, “Yep. It’s so nice to see you guys.”

But Shabby’s concern over what she might’ve said was overshadowed later when she someone calling abuse over the garden wall. BB hurriedly ordered everyone to go into the house, but by then, Dave, Govan and Nathan had heard what had been said, and about whom…

Ife immediately began mithering Dave to tell all, but he said, “I’d rather not say.”

However, Nathan wasn’t so backward at coming forward and told Shabby that the comments had been about her, which prompter her to ask Caoimhe, “Why do they always come and shout about me?”

She then began obsessing about it and eventually went to the Diary Room, emerging defiant and saying that “gobbing off is pathetic.”

Wonder why you do so much of it then Shabby?

Unfortunately, we don’t have details of what was said, but I hope it was something really unpleasant! Dang I’m nasty…

Mario’s up for eviction! And he’s got a secret!

As promised, BB challenged this week’s nominated four – Dave, Govan, Shabby and Ben – to a Save Yourself task, which was entitled, Scooter Slide.

Shabby won the task and immediately nominated Mario to take her place in this week’s eviction vote.

She claims that she nominated Mario because she thinks it’s unlikely he’ll be voted out by the public. However, though he was trying to put a brave face on it, Mario was upset by the nomination, so other HMs tried to comfort him.

Dave told him, “Yeah Mario, you’re not going anywhere.”

Ben added, “You’ll have a really good press, you’re kind, you get on with everyone, there is not one negative thing the public could think about you.

“If you want somebody who’s accident prone and got boos going in then you’d vote for me.”

Meanwhile, Shabby told Caoimhe, “I don’t feel that bad, because I honestly don’t think he will go.

“Govan won’t go; it’ll be between the other two.”

Never one to miss out on a bitching session or any whiff of gossip, Govan asked Shabby why she hadn’t chosen Sunshine, to which she replied, “I didn’t want to put her up again, I wanted a guy to go.”

So later on, after the dust had settled, Mario told the others that he has “a secret” which he’ll only reveal if he’s evicted on Friday.

“So you’re the housemate with the secret?” yelled Shabby, referring to a tabloid newspaper’s report that one of this year’s housemates would “reveal a shocking secret” in week six.

Everyone tried to prise his secret from him and took guesses as to what it could be, including that he was royalty.

Josie said, “I reckon its something to do with your parents ’cause everytime I ask you about them you go, ‘Yeah let’s not talk about that’,” she stated.

“Are they famous? They are aren’t they?”

“I’m not going to talk about that” said Mario, which Josie took as being a ‘yes’.

John James reckons Mario’s dad is The Sopranos actor James Gandolfini! After much more guessing, Mario began to get annoyed and said, “You guys are so bloody paranoid! Lets just pretend this was never brought up. I don’t have a secret.”

Ah but you do Mario….

More BB news soon

4 HMs up for eviction & Shabby’s kiss a** task!

This week, there are no less than 4 housemates up for eviction. They are, Govan, Ben, Dave and Shabby.

And the latest news from the BB camp is that the all seeing one is going to have them go through a task again, with the winner getting to choose someone else to face eviction in their place.

Oh the evil genius mwaaahahhaaness of it all!

However, Govan is the bookies favourite to go on Friday.

In other BB news, Shabby was given a task by COD – Chest of Drawers – which was to pay Ben 20 compliments. Omigod I love it.

And as well as paying compliments to someone she hates, she had to hug him for a whole minute!

Oh dear, did my back hurt your knife?

And here are those up-your-butt remarks, thanks to Channel 4…

17:15:37 You’re a legend

17:16:00 You’re really good at this hugging thing

17:16:04 Are you so shocked that I’m being nice to Ben because he’s wicked

17:16:54 You’re really good at hugging

17:17:34 You’d make an excellent gay

17:17:58 I think actually he is quite nice

17:18:02 You are quite nice despite everything, I guess

17:18:05 You’re good at the whole talking thing

17:18:08 I enjoy talking to you

17:23:31 You’re doing a wonderful job at cleaning babes

17:23:36 Do you want to take part in a competition with me? I did it last night with Caoimhe. I reckon you’d be quite good at it

17:24:07 You’re doing such a bloody good job of it

17:24:11 Excellent hair

17:24:40 I reckon you’ll be bang on it

17:25:12 You’re bloody good at sucking

17:25:28 You’re like the winning champion

17:25:37 I reckon you’ll beat Dave

17:25:55 I’m putting my money on Ben on this because I’m the sucking champion and he beat me

17:26:26 Ben you’re excellent at this

17:26:37 Ben you’re a legend

17:28:08 I could see you being a very good actor in the sort of stuff that I do

17:28:24 I wish in my film I had the part for the resident toff

17:29:19 Who’s the leader of the Famous Five? Julian? You’d make a good one

17:29:24 OK, then, you’d make an excellent dick

17:30:08 You’re very well read

17:30:49 I think OCD suits you

17:31:05 I think you’re a true good pure perfectionist

17:31:22 He’s better than us

17:32:02 Do you wear contact lenses because you have very bright blue eyes

17:32:49 And I really liked the outfit you wore – can I borrow that shirt at some point?

17:33:23 You’re very good at making me feel a bit grounded today which considering I detested you last night is quite unusual

17:33:58 You’re lovely

17:34:10 Want a marshmallow? No you’re sweet enough

17:34:46 You have such a wonderful way with words

17:35:14 Sensitive soul

17:35:19 You’re sensitive and hard and kind of… in the best kind of way

17:36:11 You’re a wonderfully complex person that is neither one nor the other

17:37:28 That’s very intuitive for a child

17:38:07 You don’t seem like you’d intentionally be horrible, you seem nice

17:38:35 From here on out, I’ll see you as a brother. You are my brother

17:38:52 I love this conversation

However, even as she was feeling smug for having passed, BB heard her telling Caiomhe what she’d had to do, despite COD telling her she must not tell anyone.

So what’s to be her punishment?? Watch this space

Ben and Shabby, Ben and Sunshine… BITCH FEST!!

Following on from John and Josie’s row earlier in the day, Ben and Shabby have gotten into a row of their own, which ultimately had everyone in the house at each other’s throats. Yay!

It started when Ben told John James that during his row with Josie, Shabby had “rubbed her hands together with glee.”

Shabby got to hear about it, and it all kicked off. During the row that ensued, Shabby told Ben she couldn’t stand him, and sides were firmly taken, making the house divide worse than ever.

Here’s a clip of the simmering tension and Ben and Shabby’s row.

In the meantime, the HMs were given another endurance task yesterday. They had to split into two groups, one of which would be the Humpty Dumpty’s, one would be the ‘soldiers’ who had to attempt to knock the Humpty’s off a wall.

They were told that whichever group passed would get a party. Sunshine was exempt from the task as she’s apparently allergic to eggs, so she was automatically given access to the party. So, during the task, feeling bored, Ben wrote ‘Hello’ in egg on the patio doors.

Sunshine whined that doing that “isn’t allowed” and made a beeline for Ben to tell him off. Ben responded by telling her to be “careful” because with nominations coming up, she could be providing people with reasons to nominate him.

Sunshine replied, “It’s exactly the same as you coming over to me yesterday and saying, ‘See, that’s why people don’t like you’.”

Ben then said, “You’re not a petty person, and I’m not a petty person, but some of these people are, and they’ll use things against me.”

Later, as Ben tried to apologise, again, Sunshine said, “I don’t know what to do with you any more, because you seem to have a go at me for everything.”

Ben then said that he didn’t mean to upset her but added, “If other people think that I’m going round vandalising things, then I’m going to get in trouble.”

To which Sunshine replied, “If you think people are going to nominate you for writing on the window, then don’t write things on the window.”

Oh dear, it’s all croquet mallets at dawn in there eh?

John James and Josie’s big fat BB row

Potential luvverrrs and – I thought – buddies, John James and Josie, have had a big falling out.

It all began when Josie, as is her wont, was teasing John about having bad breath and smelly feet. She joked often, “Is it nominations tomorrow?”

John did not take kindly to this banter, and having told her to stop it because he had a headache, he had a hissy fit when she carried on. He then told her that basically, she would be out before him, and the tone in which he said it gave Josie to understand that play time was over.

She replied by joking about his hair, to which John said, “At the end of the day, I can cut my hair, but you can’t do anything about that face.”

Oh dear…

After that, the pair went off into the garden where Josie told John, “It’s okay, John, because unlike Rachael I won’t beg for your friendship.

“I’ll just cut you out of my life.”

John, getting ever more irate said, “If you want to go hard, I’ll go hard.”

Guess that explains what he’s doing in the picture above then!

Josie told him, “You can dish it out, but you can’t take it.”

And then when John went off to summon a BB to the Diary Room, Josie said, “Off to have a moan about me in the Diary Room, are you?”

He studiously ignored her, and when he’d gone, Josie told Nathan, “It was Rachael’s turn, now it’s my turn.

“He’s off in to the Diary Room to have a little bitch. He’s a little bit of a drama queen, is our John.

“I’ve always stuck up for John. But I’ve just seen his true colours now. I think he knows that he picked on the wrong person now.”

However, some while later, John emerged from the Diary Room and began crying. Corin rushed to comfort him and he told her, “I don’t know why she kept going, I didn’t even do anything.”

Mario, Ben and Steve turned up and also tried to comfort JJ. Mario told him, “I think she sees you as a brother.”

John then explained that he felt bad for implying Josie was ugly. He said, “I never insult anyone about looks, ever, it takes a lot.”

As the HMs drifted off to leave JJ to it, one of them told Josie that John was giving thought to leaving the house. With that, she went into the bedroom and saw that John was packing. She told him not to be stupid, and explained that she felt bad over their row.

John said, “I feel really bad because I’d never snap like that, but you just kept going on and on.

“I’m just here to have a good time, I don’t care about the money or how long I stay.”

So will they ever get together or has that row put the kybosh on any relationship they might have had? And will John walk??

Let us know what you think!

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I love election night. I really do.

I’m invariably going to liveblog throughout the night tonight in a giddy fever mixed with a frustrated, aching boredom.

Election night is rolling news that only focuses on one story and with that, there’s a lot of air time to kill… and that’s when the show gets good.

Basically, coverage of an election night is a room full of people repeating themselves over and over… “We don’t know who has won yet… We don’t know who has won yet… We don’t know who has won yet… We don’t know who has won yet… We don’t know who has won yet…”, leaving huge gaping voids to fill with oddball graphics and mind-frying half-statistics.

Because the CGI department have to fill so much of an election night, they really get to go to town. However, since Chris Morris & Co lampooned it so well in The Day Today and BrassEye, TV’s been trying to play it a little safer (which no-one wants).

That’s not to say they don’t get it spectacularly wrong on the occasion, as Jeremy Vine’s slots at the last election showed so expertly. His Cowboy Meltdown is an image that will go to the grave with many TV viewers.

But that wasn’t the only headfuck. We also saw Vine in frozen tundras and in another segment set in an art gallery which saw Gordon Brown turning into Stalin and then, ultimately, to Mr Bean.

We can only hope that Vine isn’t disheartened from the laughing that met his skits and that the BBC have got some equally eye-popping stuff in store tonight.

If not, and they decide to be boring and play it safe, then we shouldn’t worry too much because there’s always a human being on hand to make things get really weird. If you stayed up with me for the US Presidential Elections last year, you’ll no doubt recall the amazing moment when Gore Vidal appeared on-screen with Dimbleby looking ill, drunk and bilious. It made for genuinely, rake-in-the-face funny television.

And so, with Channel 4 offering an alternative election night, we’ll no doubt be flicking back and forth between the channels, only to see most going to bed around 1am with the hardcore/simpletons staying up ’til 6am.

I’m going to ride it out hopefully and I’ll be dribbling with boredom, fear and enthusiasm through the night.

I hope you will too.

First there was a drumming gorilla. Then there were the eyebrows. Now Cadbury has screened its brand new ad featuring a cow tap dancing to Fred Astaire’s song Putting on the Ritz:

(More pictures and video after the jump)

Complete with weird close up shot of the cow’s udder:

The ad finishes with the cow pushing aside mirrors and pushing back a purple curtain to finish with an ensemble act:

Lyrics of Putting on the Ritz used in Cadbury’s TV ad:

Dressed up like a million dollar trouper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-Duper.

If you’re blue and you don’t where to go to
Why don’t you go where fashion sits?
Puttin’ on the ritz.

Watch the video below: