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Big Brother 2006

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11:48 / 09.08.06

Nicki's gold belt is actually her shorts, just to be really specific. I think she might have borrowed them from Kylie.

I am very cross that Grace is back in, because now she'll think that everyone likes her. I really don't want her to think that, I want her to suffer for her bad behaviour, not swan about in the house again.

Regarding the Nicki buses thing, if Grace had said that everyone would be very angry, but Nicki gets away with it. Why is that, other than that she's funny?

12:21 / 09.08.06

Besides - dude - his estranged father is coming back! Pete hasn't seen him for ten years!!! It's like Real Life Eastenders!!11!23!

It would be wonderful if Channel 4 could film that, wouldn't it? In real time, on say, an hour long BB special - William Hill could run a book on how long it would take Dad to hit Pete up for a share of the prize money, it would be gr8.

Basically, if Pete has any sense he'll get out of the country the minute he's done with his interview week; it's all too easy to picture his poor, tormented face staring soulfully out at the GBP from the front page of The News Of The World otherwise, for any number of reasons.

Then again, perhaps I'm just jealous of Pete.

miss wonderstarr

14:58 / 09.08.06

Why the hell did Grace go in?

Grace went in because people think she will kick up trouble, and I think also because she (like Nikki) has become a minor celebrity since her eviction, so there's this sense that she'll bring a "big persona" back into the house. You know... "there's gonna be fireworks now!" That kind of delusion. Trouble is, Grace is not Bette Davis and will probably do nothing in the house but sit in the garden bitching unimaginatively.

17:09 / 09.08.06

Also, there is shit-all chance she'll re-enter the main house, given one of her prospective two supporters therein (Imogen) is screaming odds-on fave for evictioni on Friday.

18:40 / 09.08.06

Why the hell did Grace go in?

Aren't the people who were voted back in the most famous ex-housemates and the ones who have received the most press coverage? I don't read the tabloids but as far as I know Nikki and Grace have been in the papers a lot. Mikey's back in because of Grace (see DS). And I'm sure Lea is perfect tabloid fodder because she's been in porn films and has massive boobs. So bloody predictable...

Happy Dave Has Left

20:57 / 09.08.06

Glyn's on the roof! Awesome!

20:58 / 09.08.06

Glyn joins Kitten and (Be Careful!) Sandy in some twat-on-a-roof action. Way to enhance your idiot j**rn*y, Titboy.

21:00 / 09.08.06

"Graayce! I missss yoou!"

21:03 / 09.08.06

I can't even remember Glyn liking Grace more than any other woman when they were both in the BB house -he seemed fairly indiscriminate in his 'affections', so the roof climbing and heated defence of her loveliness as a person seems a bit odd.

21:06 / 09.08.06

It's classic White Knight, innit? Except that he should be in service to the White Queen...

21:28 / 09.08.06

I thought Nicki had got over her dislike of Aisleyne, but it appears not. Now it's full on hatred.

If Imogen goes and Nicki gets back in the house Aisleyne won't have anyone to support her, because Dickie appears to be Nicki-drunk. I don't want that to happen. I might be forced into voting for Dickie, although it seems like a travesty of the right to vote when he's up against Imogen.

I really like Aisleyne. I think she's very funny and she's also reasonable and sensible. She entertains me; not in an 'Oh my goodness' way, like Nicki does but just as if it would be a funny evening down the pub with her. I don't understand why the people on Digital Spy dislike her so much, but I feel sad for her that when she comes out and types in her name into the internet that's the first thing she'll see.

I don't understand Nicki's hatred of her either, it's irrational and doesn't appear to be based on anything other than the fact that Aisleyne pulled her up on a couple of things in the week Aisleyne was up for eviction. I don't see how it can be jealousy; Nicki appears to be fairly confident in herself although I believe someone did say she was anorexic for a while. I really did think it was all ok now, do you think maybe it's because grace was so vocal about her dislike that Nicki felt she needed to align herself?

21:31 / 09.08.06

Yes, Nikki's really pissing on her chips, for me. Her hatred - particularly when juxtaposed with Aisleyne's insistence that Nikki ought to be voted into House v1.0 - is not only irrational and unfair but boring. Nikki, like Lisa, is diminished by this sort of insecurity; it saps her of entertainment value.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:01 / 09.08.06

If only she could be sapped, instead, of all the moisture in her body, and her dessicated husk sealed in a sarcophagus that was then shot into space. When I said that I thought that might be quite good, some people looked at me as if I were no better than acclaimed film director Anthony Mingella.

22:10 / 09.08.06

Yes, yes.

Nikki's not quite that bad, IMHO. She's still the one I'd most like to reenter the House - although that's not a huge accolade, because after letting this week's 'twist' percolate for a few days, I still think it stinks. Evil Horse-Face Grace thinks the GBP looove her despite/because of her crappo behaviour. Glyn thinks the same, and has gone all Barbelith love-thread. Dickie's being embarrassed by veiled hints (from Nikki) that she disapproves of his Diary Room bitching.

I'd rather this hadn't happened, frankly. And the icing on the shitcake is Grace and Mikey dipping tongues like a couple of tropical slugs entwining on their saliva-rope (but not as attractive).

22:20 / 09.08.06

Regarding the Nicki buses thing, if Grace had said that everyone would be very angry, but Nicki gets away with it. Why is that, other than that she's funny?

Speaking personally, I think I get less angry when Nikki comes out with that snobby stuff because a) it comes with a side-order of personal vulnerability/insecurity (I can't imagine Grace going all forehead-furrowy about having been raised "Council-house scum"), and b) she has flashes of self-insight, when awareness of her own ludicrousness makes her laugh out loud, and those flashes are a joy to watch.

Whisky Priestess

09:15 / 10.08.06

I love those bits too. They fuck with my head in a very interesting way - like when you discover the office twat spends his evenings running the canteen at the local orphanage. Although I do get the impression that, for Nikki, Selfawaria is a nice place to visit, but she wouldn't want to live there.

11:21 / 10.08.06

Grace went in because people think she will kick up trouble, and I think also because she (like Nikki) has become a minor celebrity since her eviction, so there's this sense that she'll bring a "big persona" back into the house. You know... "there's gonna be fireworks now!" That kind of delusion.

This is what's confusing me. In the past shows, when an annoying-yet-entertaining (AYE) housemate has been up for eviction against a nice-but-boring (NBB) housemate, the GBP always vote out the AYE. Now correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that Grace is the most hated housemate of this series. I would never have put money on the GBP phoning up to get Grace back in the house - giving her the possiblility to walk away with the £100,000 prize money.

If I was part of the Endemol production team, then yes, I can see that getting Grace back in is likely to cause some entertaining television. But having the GBP back her with their own precious telephone bills seems, I dunno, just unlikely.

I may be out of touch with the GBP on this one as I have actively shunned all subsequent media coverage of Grace after eviction. Maybe the GBP have warmed to her in the days following her eviction. Maybe if I bothered to read Grace's Story in Nuts magazine or Hello or whatever I might have changed my opinion on her.

12:00 / 10.08.06

Gawd, it's all turned a bit Across The Barricades, with Pete on one side talking in code with Aisleyne about His Feelings For Nikki (still haven't worked out the weirdness of the Ais/Pete/Nikki dynamic) and the Norwegian Blue herself in the House Next Door, not dead but apparently (and dramatically) pinin' for the Tourettes.

Hmmm.

12:15 / 10.08.06

Last night, twat-on-a-hot-tin-roof (copyright Ganesh), Glyn more than ever resembling the Hunchback of Notre Frère. Graaycee! Graaaayyycceee! I don't know howtu get dow-nn!

It was his face that did it for me on the roof and later in the Diary Room. Vacant, murderous eyes.

With Glyn's "from the darkest parts of Wales" origin, speaking in devil tongues with Imogen and, frankly, the shape of his head, I think we can say...

He has the Glynnsmouth Look.

Thank you and good night!

13:06 / 10.08.06

*tries the veal*

DS Post of the Week:

Pining Nikki is safe in the knowledge that this new situation allows her to ignore the usual makeup and slump, wearied and deflated. As people with normal worries and woes flit about chit-chatting she nods and smiles distractedly, for she is ailing. She is smitten and yet boundaries of a simple geographical nature stand between her and a perfect union.

Content to be doomed because she has at least known what it is to dream, Pining Nikki cannot eat or sleep. Maybe a water biscuit, possibly a drop of rain on my tongue, but no more than that, please. Save yourselves! Leaves me. Go, go, I insist. Let me sit here, the consummate tragedian.

And so she recreates 'Greyfriars Bobby' in her own lifetime, for while Pete is not dead, and there is no grave, her devotion is total. Nothing now can save her but love itself, and only Nation itself can give her that love.

Say what you like about Nikki but she certainly looks like a slack-jawed hillbilly.

Beautiful. Saltwater wells in my eye.

13:09 / 10.08.06

Oh, and this one could be close.

To evict IMOGEN

Text IMOGEN to 84444

Call 09011 32 33 06

13:36 / 10.08.06

Glyn's roofwalking was great. I love it when there's an air of genuine rebellion in the BB house. Housemates get institutionalised so quickly it's scary. For a housemate to do something like that this late in the game is akin to setting yourself on fire. One of the most entertaining moments for quite a while.

13:54 / 10.08.06

I found Glyn's roofwalking scary only in that he had, apparently at random, chosen to focus his teenage ardour on ferfucksake Grace, the Nicest Girl He's Ever Met. The roof stuff seemed, to me, less rebellious than melodramatic; like a lovestruck wildebeest or (too much pent-up) sperm whale howling for its mate across miles of sea/savannah. The fact that he's decided to fixate on someone who already has a partner adds extra Barbepoints.

14:57 / 10.08.06

the re-entry of the evictees seems to have thrown up a sezer style protective role in his head and he's determined to bag it.

15:09 / 10.08.06

Thing is, I can't think of anyone less worthy of White Knight attention...

15:17 / 10.08.06

If returning her to our screens weren't sufficient to communicate to Grace that, hey ho, chucking water over people is a fine way to behave and actually jolly entertaining, Big Brother plans to 'reward' her for turning 21.

Looks like we're going to see a moose loose aboot the Hoose.

15:25 / 10.08.06

Di di di di dir dir dir dir di di di di di, der der der der der der, der...ect

15:29 / 10.08.06

I think the GBP has become a lot more canny about its behaviour regarding votes on various reality-type programmes over the past couple of years, especially as series finales loom. The public seems ready to tolerate the 'plucky battler' who can't really deliver the required punch, right up to the final vote, and then turns around and says "you thought you were in with a shot? fuck you, you hapless incompetent. we want the person with the actual talent to win".

From that point of view, it seems perfectly reasonable to me that the public would have voted Grace back into the HND, as we are all selfish beasts who want our short term entertainment kicks but have no real 'brand' loyalty other than to the person that we reeeeeeaaaally want to win, which in the GBP's overall combined view is probably one of Pete/Nikki/Glyn with Aisleyne a trailing fourth (unfortunately). Voting for the three others that go into the HND would be fairly irrelevant as long as Nikki went in, as the other favourites are already in the House and in the final week.

It seems to me that Grace may well even make it into the main house if the current housemates are at all canny. Aisleyne seemed most clued up about this in her whispered tucked-up-in-bed conversation with Imogen on last night's highlights show, when she was theorising that Grace would cause the most fire and ruckus in the main house, but that Nikki might have a shot at winning. If housemates are thinking along those lines, purely from a selfish perspective they're bound to want a weaker contestant to be moved into the main house, and in the earlier eviction head-to-head between Grace and Nikki, Grace lost.

15:35 / 10.08.06

He has the Glynnsmouth Look.
Heh.

The longer I watch this show, the more san points I lose. Soon, I shall be utterly insane, and it will all start to make some kind of twisted sense...

15:43 / 10.08.06

One would've thought he'd get protective of his fishstress, Imodagon.

17:16 / 10.08.06

Johnny Nobody: I would never have put money on the GBP phoning up to get Grace back in the house - giving her the possiblility to walk away with the £100,000 prize money.

Like h1ppychick mentioned, I don't think many people who voted her back in the house would actually vote for her to win -unless they, like Glynn, have suddenly decided she's the nicest girl in the world -I think they just want to see cat fights. If there is a *real* fight, I hope Aisleyne wins.

Headline in The Sun today: ONE MILLION MORE VIEWERS TUNE IN TO WATCH BB LOVEBIRDS (presumably Grace & Mikey not Nikki & the Pete in her imagination). Only two days ago there was a TWO MILLION VIEWERS TURN OFF AS BB BECOMES DESPARATE TRAVESTY OF ITSELF. Surely it would be easier to analyse trends over, say, a week, and then have big, detailed investigative story with the headline SOMETIMES VIEWING FIGURES FLUCTUATE FROM DAY TO DAY.

19:53 / 10.08.06

Tonight's highlights show comes with a cringe warning from me:

From the post BBLB advertisement, it seems like it'll feature Nikki gesticulating wildly and in a very self-aware manner about how she deserves to be put back into the main house, while in the diary room.

It sort of looked like an impressionist doing their best version of Nikki and looks like it'll make painful viewing.

21:08 / 10.08.06

Didn't it just. Nicki, presumably, is now very au fait with how funny and kooky her diary roonm entries are. Cue; a lot of them, all the time.

As for the rest of the house next door bitching, it's extremely dull and even Dickie is backtracking. "Plastic? Plastic? Did I say that? Noooooo...."

They've no backbone, none I tell you.

21:15 / 10.08.06

But.

Presumably this kind of backtracking is to be expected when people are confronted directly with something they have previously said, but were never expecting to have to discuss face to face and in close confines. Presumably, all the housemates feel comfy bitching to BB and are comfortable with the knowledge that the other housemates will see it on the outside but that they won't have to face up to their comments on the inside. So then, the other house goes against all this and now everyone's busy feeling very uncofortable, especially Dickie because he did a lot of commenting. The old housemates are on the back foot and not looking their best, whilst the new ones are able to big their own parts up by responding to the comments made, a la Grace on Aisleyne in the diary room.

Oh and the prize for most aware comment goes to Leah for saying "We've been outside, in reality...well...you can't call it reality..." (drifts off pulling very perculiar shocked face).

21:26 / 10.08.06

I have a certain degree of sympathy for both Dickie and Imogen here, because I think onlookers underestimate the power of situation. Essentially, Dickie and Dimo have been placed in an incredibly weakened position: in terms of numbers and information, they're very much at a disadvantage. Nikki's "it's okay to be a plastic" jibe amply demonstrated to Richard that he has no privacy in terms of what he's said up until this point - and he's among four people who not only potentially know everything about him but everything about all the other Housemates. If he tried to take issue with them in a more serious way about water-chucking, etc., they could quite easily say, "Susie's fine with it all; she's gone on record as saying she couldn't stand you and pretended to like you all the time she was there, she bitched about you constantly in the Diary Room" and he'd have no comeback.

Also, he has no idea how the voting's going to be structured on Friday. For all he knows, the Plastics are going to be the ones deciding whether he or Imogen leaves.

Lea's the only one who seems to have changed for the better - and I think that's probably just because she's kept her mouth shut (relatively speaking) since re-entry to the House.

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