Stop jumping ship

Posted by Julie Carson

So Maysoon has decided she's had enough and has evicted herself from the Big Brother house – and I'm angry.

Over the past month, she hasn't really added anything to proceedings – in fact, I'd go so far as to say that she's bored the pants off me. So why am I so bothered?

I'll tell you why. I think her actions are pretty selfish and that's why I'm annoyed. Thousands of BB hopefuls go through the audition process each year, only to be rejected. Lucky Maysoon makes it through to the final cut, and what does she do? She throws in the towel at the first sign of trouble, without a thought for any of those people who didn't make it.

The problem is, this isn't a one-off. There was Sandy and his impressive jumping over the fence, and Chanelle's pathetic attention-grabbing runner last year, and now Maysoon's exit.

Quite frankly I'm getting a little fed up with it. It's not like the housemates don't know what they're letting themselves in for when they audition – so what's going on? Are they starting to play a game with Big Brother, knowing that a couple of weeks in the house is all that's needed to give them the publicity deals and money they crave on the outside? Or is a stint on Big Brother a lot harder than it seems?

So, if you're planning on applying to be a housemate on the next series (if there is one), think very carefully. Will you be able to handle spending your summer cooped up in a claustrophobic house with a load of people who will no doubt have as big a personality, if not bigger, than yourself? Will you cope without seeing your friends and family for weeks at a time? And most important of all, how will you deal with the rejection of being booted out?

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Kat: "I want to be Jordan"

We asked you earlier which housemate wanted to become the next Jordan. Here's the answer: it's Kat.

She has told Rachel, Rex, Mo and Darnell that she wants to change everything about her body.

"I would reinvent myself as Jordan. I want massive, massive boobs like Jordan and have liposuction to make me really, really an extreme version of skinny."

She continued: "I serious. I'm not happy with who I am... I want to lose half of me."

Rex - who had earlier compared food lover Kat to a baked potato - was shocked by her admissions and kindly told her, "You're fine the way you are."

But Kat was not convinced. She replied: "Now I'm a baby potato. A baby organic potato. But I still want to be skinny."

"You have lost a lot of weight," assured Rex. "I was the first person to tell you that."

So, should the "baby organic potato" become a thin French fry? Have your say.

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Quote of the day

Actually, it's a question of the day. Which housemate has said the following:

"I would reinvent myself as Jordan. I want massive, massive boobs like Jordan and have liposuction to make me really, really an extreme version of skinny" ?

Go on, use your imagination and post your answers below. We'll reveal the author of the above quote before 5pm on this very blog.

Nine housemates face eviction

Ouch, ouch and ouch again. As you probably already know, Dale and Luke will face the next Big Brother eviction  on Friday. Dale received six nominations with Luke receiving five.

But late on Tuesday afternoon, Big Brother informed housemates that a number of them including Head of House Stuart, had broken the fundamental rule of talking about nominations several times. Housemates have been predicting who will face the public vote, as well as who they may have nominated. Many housemates have been talking about nominations in code.

Effective immediately was the loss of Stuart's title of Head of House. Big Brother has said that there will be further consequences.

As a result of the rule break Darnell, Rex, Kat, Maysoon, Mohamed, Rachel and Stuart will join Dale and Luke to face the public vote.

Lovely. Now, who do you think should go?

Stuart stripped of the honour

Stu is in Big Bother with Big Brother - and it's his fellow housemates' fault. He's been stripped of his status as Head of the House.

It all started when Stu was reprimanded by Big Brother on Tuesday after the housemates were caught discussing nominations. Stu was ordered to the Diary Room where he was informed that Big Brother had cracked the housemates' secret code.

"Big Brother's quite aware that when housemates talk about Arsenal, they're talking about Darnell. Big Brother has further realised that Luke is known as Wigan and Rachel is known as Cardiff," Big Brother told Stu. To which he replied: "It's nothing to do with me."

Well, it never is. But Big Brother also stated they could take "further action". What could that be? Any thoughts? (Oh, and by the way, do you think he deserved to be punished?)

LATE EVENING UPDATE

Oh, looks like we know now what "further action" meant. Stu is up for eviction along other rule-breaking housemates: Darnell, Kathreya, Maysoon, Mohamed, Rachael, Rex and - obviously - Luke and Dale (see link below). Shocked?

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Bex busts out of the house

Back-tracking on her promise to wear a bin bag to leave the house, evicted Bex instead emerged looking a little like Les Dawson dressed as Scary Spice.

If the speakers on your TV set managed to survive the onslaught of her final screaming fit without blowing, let us know the make and model of your set please?

Anyway, after some fine tuning with a screwdriver, we were able to make out one or two minor revelations in her interview with Davina.

She said she was a little shocked to have been booted out, since the other housemates are "as interesting as watching a slug crawl around the floor." No arguments there, Rebecca.

She also thought she'd be safe from eviction because she was "entertaining." Presumably that's if your definition of 'entertaining' is watching someone scream like a banshee while her knockers are out.

Speaking of those boobs, Bex reckons she "gets them out just as much on the outside." The people of Coventry must be so, so proud. Well, we guess it's where Lady Godiva used to strut her stuff.

But when Davina asked the question on everyone's lips - about her relationship with Luke, Bex's face was a picture. No, she doesn't fancy Luke. She just "cares about him a lot." Hmmm... perhaps she should've told him? Poor lad.

She was at her most animated when she found out that Kat isn't as popular outside the house as she'd imagined. "That's made me so happy!", she wailed, as a thousand wine glasses shattered into tiny pieces across the land.

Bye bye Bex... we'll miss you!

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Rebecca evicted!

As Davina herself said with typical understatement earlier, tonight Darnell, Mohamed and Bex faced "a monumental battle."

Even the boos from outside the Big Brother house this evening were pretty evenly distributed for once.

Here on Orange you predicted that there would be just a couple of percentage points in it, and in the end you were absolutely right that Bex would get the boot - but she actually got 65% of the vote.

Darnell was never really in it. The levels of annoyance generated by the other two were pretty even, but in the end the public plumped for the buxom Bex; the girl who just can't stop getting her boobs out.

So, instead of Mohamed breaking-up with the fridge we get Rebecca breaking-up with Luke. How will the poor boy cope without his "friend"?

Mohamed and Bex put on dismal displays today which gave us one more opportunity to see exactly why they've ended up so hideously unpopular. Mo spent most of the day trying to cadge a ciggie off various sources, and Bex - well, she just got her boobs out again.

When the two of them eventually ended up snogging as a forfeit in a drunken party game, it was the most gruesome alliance since Jordan first clapped eyes on Peter Andre.

As Rex said earlier when witnessing Mo and Bex's tongue sarnie, "Luke stands a shattered man, a husk of a man." What will become of him?

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Keep Rebecca in

Posted by Julie Carson

If Rebecca goes tonight I'm going to stop watching this year's Big Brother. Yes, I know it's a rather rash decision, but over the past however many weeks, Rebecca has been the star of the show.

She's had rows with most the housemates, her deafening screams make you want to smother her, her constant flashing should have earned her an honorary life membership to the Naturists Society of Great Britain (if there is such a  thing), she pretends she doesn't really fancy Luke, but we know she really does. But, most of all, she knows how to have fun.

I can understand why she's up for eviction. She'd have been on my hit list from day one, if I was stupid enough to want to locked in the Big Brother house with a gaggle of wannabes for the summer (thankfully my application got lost in the post). But if Rebecca leaves, who's going to entertain us?

Lisa appears to have been playing the "look how much fun I am" card over the past few days, but there's something not quite right about a 40-something, Amazonian woman playing the fool. And she's not a patch on Rebecca.

Much as she winds up the housemates, Rebecca gives them something to talk about, someone to unashamedly poke fun at, who takes it on the chin and most of all gives as good as she gets.

It's probably too late, she's no doubt sealed her fate with the majority of viewers, but if you don't want to be bored senseless but a bunch of personality-less contestants for the remaining weeks - vote for anyone else but Bex. Pllllllllllllease.

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Playing the game

Posted by Julie Carson

Start a romance and you're almost guaranteed a longer stay in the Big Brother house.  It's a tried a tested ploy that's been used by numerous housemates.

Think back to previous series and the list includes: Helen and Paul, Stu and bunny boiler Michelle, Maxwell and Saskia, Nikki and Pete, Mel and half the males in BB1, not forgetting love's young dream from last year, Chanelle and Ziggy...

But what about this year? After the short-lived will-they-won't-they? flirting of Jen and Dale, up popped the most unlikely couple in the world.. Bex and Luke - who'd have thought it? But is it for real or are they playing up for the cameras and just hoping their relationship will help Bex, (who renders you temporarily deaf with her screeching) avoid this week's eviction?

Yes they flirt endlessly, and yes they've had a few sneaky kisses - no doubt under the impression that because it's dark and they half-heartedly pulled the bed covers over them, no one will see - but I just don't see it being the real deal.

Is it just me, or does Rebecca always seems to stick her tongue down Luke's throat when the nominations are revealed and she's up for the chop? Or perhaps I'm just being cynical and this really is a match made in heaven (or hell).

Either way, it'll be interesting to see what happens in the outside world. As entertaining as she may be, I can't see Bex surviving another week. Luke's ex-girlfriend's probably got her eviction number on speed dial.

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Darnell's albino fears

Darnell has opened up about his anxieties about being albino. The U.K.-born, U.S.-raised songwriter has revealed to the others he has a troubled past, which saw him imprisoned in 2004 for allegedly dealing drugs. He was even deported from the U.S., where his family are located, after he was arrested with for violating his probation. And during a heart-to-heart with his fellow housemates, the 26-year-old confessed that his problems stem from his low self-esteem over his skin abnormality.

The conversation began when he pointed out Rachel had been unaware that he is black. "I can't be going round with people not knowing I'm black," he insisted, causing the Welsh teacher to repeatedly apologise for her error.

But Darnell reassured her she wasn't to blame. "It's not your problem, it's a problem," he explained, "It's not cool. Basically, if you didn't know I'm black, I'd be out with my parents and you wouldn't know they were my parents." The songwriter then said he often feels as though he doesn't fit in even among his own relatives: "I look at all my family pictures and see black people. I'm white, dude. It's like I don't belong." Kathreya attempted to cheer him up, describing him as "special" but he was still upset: "How can people get to know each other when the most obvious thing isn't there?"

"Colour doesn't matter," Rachel protested. "People look past that. I look past that."

Does Darnell have a point? Should he be worrying?