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Big Brother 2006

 
  

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Ganesh
12:41 / 27.05.06
This chap deserves to go in on the strength of his name alone...
 
 
Ganesh
15:08 / 27.05.06
I'm a bit pissed off that Bonner's gone because she was just, you know, a bit ordinary in a house full of show offs.

Yeah, she was sexeh and funneh and everything. And everything.

Seriously, though, I agree: she was endearingly ordinary; compared to many of the others, her audition video was amateur, unpolished. To be honest, I can't really see why Endemol selected her out of whoknowshowmany other sexeh funneh but essentially average interviewees; I can't see their angle. Someone suggested earlier in the thread that it might've been a slightly cruel attempt, as with Moonpig, to point up the gap between someone's presentation (nice enough but ordinary) and how they apparently think they come across (sexeh, funneh) by putting them in a House full of more classically attractive females. If so, it didn't really work. Bonneh didn't have the overcompensating tits-out pseudoconfidence of Moonpig - or the tacky fetish wardrobe. She just came across as an averagely nice girl with a moderately amusing regional accent, slightly out of her depth in a group of richer, more attractive, more extrovert people.

I'm glad no-one said anything notably unpleasant about her, and I genuinely hope she enjoys her fifteen minutes of post-BB partying. Possibly at a sexeh party or two.
 
 
Smoothly
15:56 / 27.05.06
An orgeh?

I'm with continuity announcer who introduced the exit interview as 'Now Bonnie gets her 15 minutes'. I think in her case that was meant literally.

I've not seen today's papers, but if the Davina interview is anything to go by, I think tabloids will struggle to get a full page out of her. She appeared to know less about the Big Brother house than even a casual viewer, so unless she has a Jade-esque background story, I can't see her mustering much of a media profile.
 
 
Ganesh
16:24 / 27.05.06
No. I imagine sexypartehs will be local, brief and quickly forgotten. She didn't seem to take things to heart too much, though, so I expect she'll be okay. No subsequent Moonpiggy meltdowns.
 
 
Smoothly
20:04 / 27.05.06
I miss Shahbaz.

I'm struggling to maintain any interest in about half of the house now. If it wasn't for Nikki and Richard The Gay, I don't know if I could continue to cancel my entire life to follow this programme. I'm even finding Pete's Jim Carey on a bit tiresome.
 
 
Ganesh
20:11 / 27.05.06
Agreed. I'm finding Nikki's transparent self-centredness really funny ("but why doesn't the world configure itself around me? it's not fair!" etc.) but the ongoing hetangst (males = relentless pursuers of sex; females = gatekeepers of sex who are "respected" for not being 'easy') is snoresome. I'm not quite at the stage of missing Shahbaz, but I'm majorly looking to Monday and the new Housemates to revive a boringly coupled-up situation.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:13 / 27.05.06
In agreement with Ganesh, apart from the fact that I dislike Richard.

Oh, and I'd quite like to take a strimmer to Sezer's face next time he uses "that" laugh.
 
 
Ganesh
20:24 / 27.05.06
I quite like Sezer, but the whole "I respect you for saying no" spiel to Imogen makes me distinctly queasy.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
20:49 / 27.05.06
Seriously though, did anyone see Nikki's 'I was born to have money, and spend it, but I don't, I'm just middle class, it's so frustrating.'

Gah.

Faceknives.

As an aside, I'm seriously digging this thread, wonderful commentary.
 
 
The Falcon
20:50 / 27.05.06
Shahbaz has apparently asked to 'go back in' (BBBM, last night) which would cause quite a stir. I dunno, it's holding pattern right now; they're waiting for new housemates, we're waiting for 'em... like I said, this has been an exceptionally explosive first week, the first couple are normally a snore. I do like the distinct potential of the pairings off going very wrong, very quickly.
 
 
Ganesh
20:56 / 27.05.06
Seriously though, did anyone see Nikki's 'I was born to have money, and spend it, but I don't, I'm just middle class, it's so frustrating.'

Yeah! Nikki's vehemence makes me laugh. There's something so Patsy Stone about her utterly shameless self-centredness.
 
 
Ganesh
20:58 / 27.05.06
Shahbaz has apparently asked to 'go back in' (BBBM, last night) which would cause quite a stir.

Not gonna happen - although colour me unsurprised that he's already missing the limelight.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
21:07 / 27.05.06
Another classic line, from Nikki, on George:

'Every time I speak to him he runs away, like, legs it across the house, he's completely ignoring me. I don't know what's wrong with him.'

Because you're a bizarre woman-child perchance?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:13 / 27.05.06
Ah, was about to quote that meself...

hands up who REALLY REALLY thought that was gonna end with "what's wrong with ME?"

I know I did. But that's me. A hopeless optimist.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
21:15 / 27.05.06
Hand is indeed up. Do you ever get the feeling that the various Endemol people who are the 'voices' of Big Brother are actually either a) pissing themselves laughing or b) having rather interesting discussions about what their responses should be during those interminable pauses before they reply to housemates?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:18 / 27.05.06
I wonder about that a lot. There has to be a team behind all those voices.
 
 
Ganesh
21:21 / 27.05.06
But there's something so delightfully... simple about Nikki's childish narcissism. She's as transparent as a toddler: want something, scream, get it. Reminds me of Freud's His Majesty the Baby. She genuinely cannot understand why the world is not as she wants it; it's clearly puzzling and frustrating to her that people won't simply behave as she'd like them to behave. Don't they get it?

She differs from Shahbaz, however, in that there's no hint of passivity to her aggression/frustration.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:43 / 27.05.06
Delightfully simple, yes. Likeable therefore, not so much.

I want more of her DR monologues. They are her justification for existence. They rule.
 
 
Ganesh
21:51 / 27.05.06
I guess it's a matter of taste. I don't think Nikki ought to win the damn thing, but I love the fact that she exists. She's a wonderful grotesque.
 
 
Ganesh
22:51 / 27.05.06
Glyn = sweet, in his thrilledness about getting a lap dance from Lea.

"It's like something that happens in your dream." Him not having left his teens, presumably one of those special dreams which makes your wee turn white.
 
 
Ganesh
00:26 / 28.05.06
"Wankyfucks!"
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
00:33 / 28.05.06
He don't half snore, does he?
 
 
Ganesh
00:37 / 28.05.06
That's not Pete snoring, is it? He just got up from sharing a bed with Lisa, presumably to go to the toilet or summat. Or maybe move to a separate bed, since proximity to The Cigarettastic One seems to be bringing out his tics.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
00:43 / 28.05.06
Come on Ganesh, stop watching them sleep and come and post in Lateshift.

Or, y'know, keep watching them sleep, that's the joy of multi-tasking...
 
 
Ganesh
00:46 / 28.05.06
Aw, but they're so peaceful when they're asleep. Even Vern and Grace look sweetly lovely dozing in each other's arms like that.
 
 
Lama glama
00:52 / 28.05.06
Where did they get that pink tricycle from? It just seems to be there the whole time and I don't think I saw its introduction.
 
 
Smoothly
00:53 / 28.05.06
The Housemates face a week without toilet rolls and shower gel after Imogen lost the lot in round two of Meal Or No Meal ... Imogen was ordered to sit on the toilet and told she was playing for 24 toilet rolls and a week's supply of lime shower gel.

I wonder if they realise quite how much losing that will limit their options.

The current odds on the winner are interesting. As it progresses, it'd be interesting to see how they track with opinion here, in a Wisdom Of Crowdsy way.
So, according to William Hill, Pete is way out in front at 5/6, but second favourite is just someone else. ie. a Golden Ticket winner (7/1). People banking on the Chantelle effect, I suppose.

Glyn and George (George!) joint 3rd at 10/1; Nikki and Lisa behind at 14/1. Dickie and Vernon paired at 16/1, with Sezer, Imogen and Grace trailing at 20/1 (Rah!).

Poor Lea though, 33/1.
Feeling quite sorry for her now. A bit like Richard, I expect she came into the house anticipating sex bomb status, only to be relegated to a parental supporting role. Right now she seems to be in greater need of strokes and reassurance than anyone else, and yet she's left having to dish it out.
Maybe Glyn will be her saviour here. If she's casting round for allies now that Dawn and Bonneh have gone, she should probably capitalise on that ability to turn Welsh wee white. Particularly as Glyn's stock seems to be rising.
 
 
Ganesh
00:53 / 28.05.06
Where did they get that pink tricycle from? It just seems to be there the whole time and I don't think I saw its introduction.

Perhaps Nikki decided the ground was too dirty for her feet?
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
00:56 / 28.05.06
Fascinating Pete/Lisa psychodrama going on right now. I mean RIGHT NOW. Lisa's jealous as hell, in a breathy, Mancunian way that's quite endearing actually.
 
 
Smoothly
00:58 / 28.05.06
I *love* Pete and Lisa's flirting. The others could learn something.
 
 
Lama glama
00:58 / 28.05.06
They're talking about cuddlywanks and Lisa really is peeved, isn't she?
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
00:59 / 28.05.06
In that classic 'jokey but put a foot wrong in this conversation and I'll murder you while you sleep' kind of way. Pete kind of muddies the waters by barking 'WANKERS' every now and again though.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
01:01 / 28.05.06
Did he really just say 'big luscious sweaty boobs'?
 
 
Ganesh
01:02 / 28.05.06
Fascinating Pete/Lisa psychodrama going on right now. I mean RIGHT NOW. Lisa's jealous as hell, in a breathy, Mancunian way that's quite endearing actually.

I'm not sure it's as strong as jealousy; more a kind of jokey-but-not-really-jokey what-wrong-with-me-then banter with Pete. Pete's obviously anxious sharing a bed - "wankers"ing all over the shop - but the two of seem more like gauche teens unsure whether they're doing grown-up cuddlysex stuff or having a giggly sleepover.

The fact that they've got an audience in the form of Richard's not helping. They're doing that self-conscious play-argument thing, where it risks nudging into real argument at any moment.
 
 
Lama glama
01:02 / 28.05.06
Who the hell is snoring like a bull? Look at that body language from Pete. He isn't welcoming any of Lisa's advances right now, is he? Richard's occasional comments in their direction are quite funny.
 
  

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