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Celebrity Big Brother 2007

 
  

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Ganesh
19:27 / 03.01.07
Starbuck-shaped whole

Stoatie's chocolate starbuck?
 
 
Spaniel
19:29 / 03.01.07
Biz, I too am disturbingly excited.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:29 / 03.01.07
Don't get me started on Dawkins. Unless they bring him in as a special CBB housemate. And have an angry bear in there.
 
 
Triplets
19:39 / 03.01.07
I think we all need to be on the lookout for George Peppard cunningly disguised as a cameraman. Or Dirk Benedict.
 
 
Ganesh
19:48 / 03.01.07
Here's the official C4 site.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
20:39 / 03.01.07
All in all better than expected, I thought. Having watched a lot of Towers Of London's car crash of a reality series on Bravo (basically, they go from town to provincial off-season English seaside town taking drugs on camera, getting into fights, not being paid and so on, in pursuit of their rock and roll dream - the thing about the Towers is they walk it like they talk it, they're the realest band in England etc,) I'm quite optimistic about Donny. I'd be surprised, for example, if he hasn't brought something to the house that he really shouldn't have done.

And God knows what Ken Russell's doing there, but it's good to see him all the same. And Jermaine Jackson's notoriously someone with issues ... that's enough to be getting on with to begin with anyway.

It's just a shame about Jade ...
 
 
Ganesh
20:49 / 03.01.07
Hmm, I wonder whose parents will be adopting a celeb...?
 
 
Twice
21:03 / 03.01.07
Zoe Phillips?
 
 
Whisky Priestess
22:28 / 03.01.07
I was manfully not watching this until a friend texted me with an OMG YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHO'S ON CELEB BB!!!

And I turned on to see Dirk walking into the house ... at last getting the recognition that, despite his three autobiographies and curing himself of cancer through diet, has lately eluded him.
 
 
Triplets
22:53 / 03.01.07
After watching the video for "80s Movie" I wondered when we'd be seeing you here, Whisktess.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
22:53 / 03.01.07
How many times has Donny changed his clothe already!!!?

OMFG, he is teh sexxxor!!
 
 
Whisky Priestess
23:16 / 03.01.07
Jermaine, STOP fondling yourself! I don't care if you're trying to get to sleep!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:42 / 04.01.07
Leo Sayer is having breakfast with Face off the A Team.

Truly this is the end of days.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
10:25 / 04.01.07
I think they're a lovely couple, so just you hush.
 
 
Smoothly
10:30 / 04.01.07
H is explaining to Danielle that there’s no point in acting, you’ve got to be yourself.
None so pious as the newly converted.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
10:36 / 04.01.07
Oh, hush. The poor wee lad. Had his thunder stolen by Stephen Gately and THEN by Will Young. No wonder he's waited so long. How can he get in the first four pages of HEAT magazine when EVERYONE'S coming out?

I am afeared of Mr Benedict's time in the CBB house. I never like seeing my heroes on reality TV... what if he turns out to be a shitbiscuit? Illusions... crushed... gnmph. I know so many people who visibly deflate when reminded how much respect (no pun intended) they used to have for Galloway. I don't want to be that guy. Not that guy.
 
 
Ganesh
11:00 / 04.01.07
H is explaining to Danielle that there’s no point in acting, you’ve got to be yourself.

Given that the vast majority of us have never featured on a reality television programme, I've no idea how the gay population ever manage to 'come out'.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
12:15 / 04.01.07
I am afeared of Mr Benedict's time in the CBB house.

He seems appealingly vulnerable so far though - certainly, his anxiety about his faded star status is easier on the brain than that reptile Sayer's clear conviction that in a few short weeks everyone's going to love him again
 
 
Sniv
12:20 / 04.01.07
Better to know he's a fool than to go through life having George Galloway as one of your personal heroes though, the utter fuckbean.

I'm rather disapointed with this years line-up. On other years, there's always a character than makes you totally flip when they announce who they are, this year... meh. It feels like they've got their second choices for a lot of the people - Jermaine should be Tito, Jo-S-Club should be Hannah, Ken Russell should be Michael winner (or, by the looks of him, in hospital...), Face should be Murdock. The rest are barely famous even in a used-to-be kinda way. Leo Sayer and Donny T need some serious face-smackage, right now. Donny irritates me immeasurably, which is very surprising seeing as I had no idea who the fuck he was until yesterday. All I want to do is punch his face repeatedly while screaming "It was a fucking comedy, you cunt!!".

So, not as much of the amazing joycore as last year, but still a reaction designed to engender searing hate and crippling addiction for the next few weeks. Sigh.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:32 / 04.01.07
Remember last year, though, some of the best bits were completely unexpected- Maggot and Traci's late-night drunken chats, for example. I think we'll just have to wait and see.
 
 
Sniv
12:51 / 04.01.07
Yeah, but the very fact that maggot was in there was a good thing for me. When his little Fagin-like face popped up on the TV, there was a cheer from my house. And Traci was a totaly sweetheart, although you're right, I didn't know if she'd be any good when she came in.

So here's hoping Danielle (??) is more fun (ie, has something interesting to say) than she looked last evening rather than being a bit like BB7's Imogen but without the hott accent and cute nose. Actually, her inclusion has me confused a little. Obviously she's there because she's an ex-Miss Britain and a 'WAG', but unlike Jodie Marsh from last year, she doesn't have much fame/notoriety outside of that circuit (I'd guess, because I've never heard of her, but like a lot of people, I knew of Jodie Marsh). It's a tricky thing to talk about, because I don't want to write her off just because she looks attractive and therefore presume she'll not be too bright. But on the other hand, what has she done to deserve her 'fame'? Surely if she was funny/interesting/charismatic she'd be on more TV already? Maybe that's the reson for her inclusion, to spark a debate about if WAGs et al are actually celebrities with any value or not - since when is having it off with a famous person a skill worthy of press attention and celebrity, outside of the usual kiss-and-tells? Hmmmm... perhaps we'll talk more about this later, if anyone's up for it.
 
 
Smoothly
13:11 / 04.01.07
Having it off with a famous person has always garnered press attention. And there is some skill to it. If you don’t think so, you try it and come back to tell us how you got on.

I agree that they didn’t look great on paper, but as they came into the house last night I began to see the potential. Jermaine’s OCDish fear of contamination coupled with his un-Nikki-like aloofness should play well; Jo has the potential to be lovely, I reckon; Ken seems like he could be cuckoo enough to bring some random strangeness to proceedings; Face is clearly on the shark and might well bite off more than he can chew with Cleo; Carole could easily do a Vanessa; Shilpa might form an interesting coalition-of-the-spoiled with Jermaine; H will have a meeting of minds with the topiary; and Donny’s posturing is going to seriously underwhelm what is a pleasingly mature and well-seasoned gang of showbiz pros, and the “Who are yer? Who are yer?” chanting added the perfect set-up for ego melt-down. I’m with Stoatie, I think it could be a good ‘un.
 
 
Sniv
13:31 / 04.01.07
RE: 'who are yer?' - was it me, as was that too friendly for what is essentially a big crowd of people telling a z-lister they don't know who he is. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek, and I worry that Donny Tit-face could take it as encouragement rather than disparigement (please note, my Firefox spellcheck doesn't exist on my IE work-computer, so apologies for the bad spells).

Is H the only gay person in there? That's a bit (read a LOT) odd. What about Ken? Is he gay, or just old and posh?
 
 
Smoothly
13:42 / 04.01.07
I dunno, the crowd seemed pretty hostile to me. At least they were mocking him pretty mercilessly. And several of them audibly thought him a ‘wanker’. He only had himself to blame though. He was getting cheers when he first emerged from the cars. If he’d just trotted into the house, he’d have been fine I think. It was quite a good insight into how celebrity works at that level. He seemed genuinely shaken up by how quickly the mood turned when the crowd decided he had got delusions of Gallagher.

I don’t think Ken is gay (he’s had about 4 marriages and a bunch of kids – not that that’s an infallible guide, obv). I think H is the only bona fide homosexual. And proud of it he is too.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:00 / 04.01.07
Do you think he could "turn" Face though, if the 61-year-old crashes and burns with the laydeez?
 
 
Smoothly
14:07 / 04.01.07
Maybe. Everybody like a bit of cheese, afterall.
 
 
Sniv
14:26 / 04.01.07
Awwww, dude! You had to go there... now all I can think of is H's smeg. Curse you!!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
14:56 / 04.01.07
Isn't the thing about Donny that he actively wants to be hated, though? Unlike Liam Gallagher, he seems like someone who's had to work at getting like that, (the accent, for example, is basically RP.) The sense I got from the 'Towers' series on Bravo was that if Donny was removed from a pub/coke/rock and roll environment for a couple of weeks he could quite easily be the kind of man who it's not hard to picture having a successful second career at a family law firm in Cheshire. And that he's fully aware of that, and consequently doing everything he can to prevent it.

Accordingly, a performance on this show that endears him to the GBP would be pretty much an unqualified personal disaster, as far as I can see.

I'd say it'll be interesting to see what happens when the drugs drain out of his system, but realistically, he's going to be sufficiently energised by Endemol booze for as long as he lasts that it's really not going to make any difference.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
15:04 / 04.01.07
What about Ken? Is he gay, or just old and posh?

Is it an either/or situation then? I didn't realise...
 
 
Smoothly
15:12 / 04.01.07
Isn't the thing about Donny that he actively wants to be hated, though?

Perhaps (although I never really believe people who claim they want to be hated). But am I the only one who thought he looked on the verge of tears after the jeering from the crowd?
"Fuck 'em!" he sneered, chin crumpling, snot bubbling...
 
 
Sniv
16:29 / 04.01.07

Is it an either/or situation then? I didn't realise...


Oops, didn't quite mean it that way. I meant is he old, posh and gay, or just old and posh? No offense meant, honest.
 
 
Lurid Archive
18:03 / 04.01.07
(from memory, a snippet of discussion on Ken...)

"And I said he made old films, but she thought I said he made *rude* films"

"Yeah, rudey, nudey films!"

Ken has got to win, right?
 
 
h1ppychick
19:46 / 04.01.07
I didn't watch this last night, but I'm watching the show tonight. This is utter car crash TV so far. I'm wondering what sort of medical they put Ken through beforehand.

Loving Jo, finding Cleo endearingly mumsy in a glamorous botoxed cut-glass tone way, Leo's a desperate has-been starfucker, Dirk has his tongue in his cheek.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:48 / 04.01.07
I'm liking Ken, I'm HATING postcard-punk-boy, and I'm LOVING Face and Cleo.

Apparently there are some other people on too, but I haven't noticed them.
 
 
neutral
19:52 / 04.01.07
im still in shock that H that used to be in steps is gay, never saw that one coming. i need to sit down.
 
  

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