Big Brother 2011 - The Live Launch Recap

Last night was the live launch of Channel 5’s Big Brother 2011.  It was tipped to be the sexiest yet but I’m not so sure.  Anyway Pamela Anderson was in the house watching all the housemates go in.  At this point I had no idea what her part in this would be and I still only have a vague idea.  Anyway let’s get to the housemates.

The first housemate is Mark!  I couldn’t be bothered to remember their last names as it is unimportant.  Anyway Mark is an idiot or so say his friends.  He also says that he looks like a flamingo when naked.  How is that sexy?  He also loves animals.  He seems a bit meh to me and I feel he could easily become annoying.  He has zero concentration level and seems to have a hard time getting what Brian is saying.  Something that is a bit weird about him is that he has a phobia of egg whites.

The second housemate in is Maisy!  I didn’t know people called their kids Maisy anymore.  She wants to be an actress or TV presenter.  She seems a bit fickle because she said that she goes from guy to guy even if she is with someone.  Seems to be an attention whore to me.  When she came out the crowd was booing her.  She says that she lives for the moment, cliché much? She thought she was the first in but the Mark pops up and is all hi there’s an egg shaped bath.  They didn’t change the house much from the celebs.

Third into the house is Aaron!  Arrogant and single by his own admission.  He said he’s not a numbers guy when it comes to women which I doubt.  He says that his way is right and he becomes upset easily.  It’s a 50/50 thing about whether you like him or not.  When he came out I laughed because he had this funny walk/swagger thing going that looked ridiculous!  The crowd had a mixed reaction to him.

The fourth housemate is Heaven!  She’s a model, dancer, blah blah.  I have a feeling she may go early but that is just my first impression, she may become better.  She has a problem with fake people and noses.  She says that fake people have no substance and no soul.  She is honest to people and they should not mess with her food.  The girl eats 8 meals a day!  Is that healthy?  She also got a mixed reaction from the crowd.  She has the most annoying laugh ever and took way too long to get into the house.  Also I would like to state that she has fake hair extensions in and took some into the house with her.  Double standards with the fake thing then.

Housemate number 5 is Tom!  He is a sales assistant and kind of cute.  He doesn’t like fat girls and is bisexual.  He seems a bit weird that could be good.  I couldn’t help but wonder what the heck he was wearing when he came out.  It was like a mesh top with shorts.  When he got into the house he didn’t stop talking.  I just noticed that Mark hugs a lot.

 

The sixth housemate is Tashi!  She does belly dancing and thinks this is the best way to use the body.  She is loud, out there and a bit too much for me.  She peaks 5 languages and doesn’t drink alcohol.  Loves giving advice and is confident.  I’m not so sure about her but the crowd is cheering.  I’m doubting the 5 language thing because she had to think about what languages she speaks when Brian asked her.  Brian also said she was slippery, not sure what that means.

Housemate number 7 is Aden!  He sleeps with a teddy.  He says that he has the ability to realise who the true people are because he has a degree in psychology.  He seems to be a player and that annoys me but may be fun to watch.  He came out being very gangster and I don’t see why.  He wants a drink as soon as he got into the house.

Housemate number 8 is Alex!  She’s only 19 but I have to say she looks older.  She sees why people compare her to Barbie and so can I.  She says that she works at the front of the McDonalds where she takes orders and does nothing else.  So in other words she’s a cashier.  She would not describe herself as marmite but then I don’t know anyone who would.  She wants to proof that not all blondes are stupid but I have a hard time believing she’s up to the task.  When she came out I thought she is orange!  She also took too long to get into the house and was making weird noises when she got in.

The 9^th housemate is Harry!  He is so posh.  He believes that money makes the world go round and wants to be a millionaire by 25.  He lives in the country and goes fox hunting.  How horrible is that!  Poor foxes.  He’s bisexual but has a girlfriend and would not mind a romance.  The crowd booed him when he came out.  He runs a milkshake company and you know his parents helped him.  He also wants to be a gay icon but I always thought you had to be gay for that.  He also has no sense of smell and owns 15 horses.  He hugged Mark and asked what is your name sir?  Who speaks like that?

Housemate number 10 is Rebeckah!  Not sure what she does for a living but I think she’s an escort.  Anyway she runs a dance school for the under privileged.  The majority of her anger comes from men which should make being stuck with 7 men in a house for 2 months fun.  She wants to spice things up by teasing the boys.  She is very giggly and started crying when she got into the house.  It seems like Mark and Heaven have become the welcoming committee. 

The 11^th housemate is Anton!  He thinks he’s hunky but I’m not seeing it.  He said he was here for the people but he’s not going to do anything for the people if he wins.  He was part of the gang culture but went to private schools.  Says this allows him to talk to anyone from gang people to Stephen Fry.  He was the coolest coming out so far but did these uh huh noises that annoy me.  He took tobacco into the house even though he doesn’t smoke.  Bribe currency anyone?  He didn’t want the hug Mark gave him.  

Housemate number 12 is Faye!  She does not have a nice body no matter what she says.  Any girls that annoy her she will attack.  I’m wondering if this is going to lead to a cat fight in the house.  She looks a lot better when she is fully clothed.  She said that she was there to have fun.  Change her tune a bit there after facing the crowd.  Brian asked if she brought her alter ego and she said we’ll have to wait and see.  I have to admit that she is prettier than the other girls in the house so far.  The boys are checking her out.  I have to ask if she did say she’s from London, Midlands?

The 13^th housemate is Jay!  He is a plumber, barber and fitness instructor.  How does he do all those things?  Anyway he is a Geordie through and through.  I had a really hard time understanding him.  He also speaks Geordie lingo which I do not understand at all.  At least Brian didn’t understand either.  He says he wants to do Newcastle proud and that the eagle has landed.  Not sure what that means.  He actually creeps me out a bit.  I am starting to like Mark more with each housemate that goes in.

The last housemate and number 14 is Louise!  She is a model but says she is not your typical model.  She watches intellectual TV shows like Bargain Hunt.  No offense to Bargain Hunt but I don’t think it counts as intellectual TV.  She would rather marry a chef than a footballer.  Boys don’t come up to her but she is normal and will not bite.  She says a man wanted to marry her if she got elocution lessons but she wouldn’t.  I’m wondering if she knows what elocution lessons are.  She is so stupid and a bit slow.  She wanted to join the army but we don’t know why she didn’t.

So all the housemate are inside now and they still don’t know that Pamela is lurking around.  The gates blocking the garden start to open and everyone screams when they see Pamela out there.  I have to say that Pamela does a fair amount of screaming herself.  I can’t really make out what all the people are saying because they are all kind of talking at the same time.  That is where it ends.  Still don’t know why Pamela is there and what her point is.  

Well the first eviction will be next Friday.  Don’t know how nominations will be done and if they have anything to do with Pamela.  There’s no-one really good looking or exciting.  I was hoping to have another Bobby to look at since this was supposed to be the sexiest house ever.

Celebrity Big Brother - The Final

So last night was the Celebrity Big Brother finale.  I was actually looking forward to this not only because we get to find out who wins but because these housemates are a bit boring and I wasn’t the attention seeking public in the house.  Anyway the lines were open for a few minutes at the beginning of the show while we see highlights.

The highlights were of their last meal together as housemates.  It’s a nice set up but Big Brother gave them oysters.  Not everyone eats oysters in fact Jedward make a fuss about the fact that they have never had them before.  As you can tell I don’t like oysters.  Anyway Kerry was going on about how she was going to cry.  I couldn’t help but think: ‘How is this any different than any other time?’  I swear that woman cries about everything.  

Jedward were then given awards to give out to the other housemates.  I don’t know if we got to see all the awards or just a few.  The awards we did see were best couple (Amy and Lucien), funniest (Paddy), best housemate (Bobby) and most annoying (Jedward).

Well now it was time for the first person to leave the house.  When Brian spoke to the house the crowd wasn’t really on the ball at all.  They usually boo people but they made some half committed cheer boo thing or they were chanting.  

So the first person out of the house is Bobby!  Can’t say I’m that surprised.  No-one seemed to like him even though I was voting for him.  The phone lines were then reopened.  I thought that was a bit of a money making plot by Channel 5.  Oh well not much I can do about it.

Now it was Bobby’s interview.  I was looking forward to this because he was so cool when he came out.  On a side note the crowd was cheering for him then when they hated him all the time!  Fickle!  Bobby said it was good to be back in the real world and that he loved facing the crowd.  Brian said we all assumed he would have a romance in the house but Bobby said that he couldn’t compete with his mate Lucien for a girl (Amy).  Then we got onto sweat-gate.  Bobby said that Darryn was a bully and he didn’t like him during the first week but he did feel remorse about what he did.  On a side note Brian will not let the man speak!  Hello it’s an interview with him so let the man finish.  It’s not the Brian Dowling show!  Bobby wants Jedward or Paddy to win!

Now it was time for the next eviction.  The next evicted housemate is Darryn!  Boy, he did not seem impressed by this.  I honestly think he thought he could win this.  The crowd again is cheering even though they booed earlier for him.

Brian said he was excited about the interview with Darryn.  Why?  Anyway Darryn said his life is a rollercoaster.  He also said he didn’t see himself reaching the finale.  No one is going to say that they saw themselves there.  He also thinks that it was the fact that he has his own opinion that had him nominated so often.  He said that he was himself in the house.  If that’s what he’s usually like then I don’t want to know him.  He said that the house needs calm and peace which I thought was a bit rich coming from the main instigator of the house.  I kind of stopped listening to the interview after that.

The next person out of the house is Lucien!  Lucien annoyed the hell out of me in the house flitting from one girl to the next.  Everyone said he was good looking but I never say it.  

So Lucien said that he was scared of being booed by the crowd.  To me this says that he knew what he was doing in that house.  Brian asked if no lady was safe and that Lucien flitted from Pamela to Kerry to Amy to Kerry to Amy.  Lucien said it was a bit of fun and he was just having a good time.  When asked if he likes Amy he said he did at one point but has now come around.  This is a far cry from when he said he wanted to date her outside the house.  Kerry he called his big sister and Paddy was his best mate.  He learnt in the house that you shouldn’t follow the crowd and I couldn’t help but think that he is 19 and still giving into peer pressure.  He wants Paddy to win.

The next person to be evicted is Amy!  I kinda saw this coming.  No matter how popular she is she was never going to win.  I think she was quite upset about this.  I don’t think she would have stopped to say goodbye if Kerry hadn’t made a big fuss.  I have a feeling that Kerry or Paddy is going to win which is ridiculous since Kerry was annoying as hell and Paddy didn’t do anything.

She was asked if she fancied Lucien.  She of course said no.  Why would she change her mind now that she is out of the house?  She always said it was a bit of fun.  That’s really all I got out of that interview because Amy bores me.

Now in 3^rd place is Jedward!  Alright so I wanted them to win but I had little hope that they would.  This just cements in my mind that this could well have been a set up.  Everyone was all for Jedward to win but they don’t.  Some people seemed to boo them when they came out which is odd since it was all cheers earlier.  Does the crowd get prompts or something?

Brian is a bit concerned about the noise level when doing this interview.  Jedward say they are happy to have got this far.  They also only had 2 suitcases each but air packed their clothes.  The jackets they were wearing were signed by Paul McCartney!  I would never actually wear that jacket.  They think the reason why they never got a single nomination is that everyone in the house loved them.  They also could never have done this without each other.  They were asked which girl they fancied and Edward said John like Amy and Tara Reid.  They don’t say who they want to win which in my mind says that they want neither to win.

We now have the final two.  I sort of want Paddy to win just because it’s the less of two evils really.  At this point Kerry seems very calm and confident that she is going to win.  Did she know something we didn’t?  

The winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2011 is Paddy!

Kerry now had to exit the house and she was making these weird ooh ooh noises.  I don’t know if she is trying to laugh, cry or shout.  She doesn’t seem to be coping with the crowd too well.  If she was a celeb this would be a piece of cake for her.  Again she says it was for the kids.  Come off it already!  She seems really focused for someone who is emotional but then that may just be me.  She said that Lucien is like a little brother.  I hope she doesn’t treat her little brother like that because that would be border line incest.  

Now Paddy get’s to come out of the house.  He is so excited about winning this it’s actually quite ridiculous.  I couldn’t help but notice that the music was a bit off last night.  Anyway I would like to tell you what Paddy said in his interview but his accent became worse because of his excitement.  I did get that Paddy thought Jedward was going to win.  You’re not the only one Paddy.

We now got a bit of a spoiler for the normal Big Brother that starts tonight.  Pamela Anderson is going to be in the house!  Now I don’t know if this means she will be a proper housemate or if she is just going to be there for the first day or for a bit.  I guess they want us to watch and find out.

So that’s the end of Celebrity Big Brother 2011 where the man that no-one understands won.

Red or Black - A Review of the Show

So Saturday night was the first episode of Red or Black and I have to say I may be hooked.  At first I was a bit unsure about the whole thing but as the show went on and the tension rose I couldn’t look away.

So what is this show and how does it work?  We start off with 1000 contestants and get them down to one who gets to spin the wheel for 1 million pounds.  So how do they get rid of 999 people?  Well it’s all a question of red or black?

Through a range of scenarios the contestants have to decide whether it is red or black.  Some of the games they will be able to pick the colour while others they don’t have a choice at all.  The common thing through all of the games is that the answer will be red or black.

How when I first saw the ads for this show I thought they all the games would be where the contestants have to pick a colour.  That is not actually the case as the sometimes just have to pick an object that may turn out to be red or black and hope for the best.  This puts the show into that category of dumb luck for me because you have no real say in some of the games.

Anyway when the contestants are down to 8 they go into the studio to play for the 1 million pounds.  At this point I would like to state that I thought there would be a winner every night.  The fact is that there will be nights when no-one wins.  The reason for this is that the last contestant spins a giant roulette board and has a 50/50 chance of getting the money.  

While there were a few things done differently to what I thought I believe that the show is quite a good one.  Of course some of the contestants really annoy me.  Okay so some of the people on the show really need the money while others don’t need it at all.  

Just thinking about the first night we had Angel from Big Brother 2009 on and she wanted the money so she can make a movie with her in it.  There was also this lady who wanted the money to buy shoes.  Then you get the ones who need it like the woman who wants to buy a bigger house for her family.  It annoys me that people who don’t need the money go on shows like this.

Anyway all in all Red or Black is a good show that will run until the end of the week.  Seriously they can’t really run it for longer with the amount of money they could give away.  I would definitely recommend watching this show.  Plus Ant and Dec present it and I love them!

Celebrity Big Brother - The 3rd Live Eviction

So tonight was the 3^rd eviction on Celebrity Big Brother 2011.  Up for eviction were Bobby, Darryn, Lucien and Tara.  They got there because Pamela did not choose to give them immunity.  I personally was hoping that either Darryn or Lucien was going to go.  Unfortunately we don’t vote to evict but to save which is really stupid.

Anyway the show started with a recap of everything that happened in the last week.  Some of the things that stood out for me that they just had to bring up was the whole Kerry/Lucien romance.  I personally think it’s a bit of a show, particularly on Lucien’s part.  He never showed any interest in Kerry until a few days ago.  I think Channel 5 is pushing the romance thing to get those two in the limelight and get them more publicity.  Guess we know who the channel wants to win.

We then go a perfect Jedward moment.  The hot water had been turned back on after being off as punishment.  Jedward were in the diary room saying that you don’t understand how important hot water is until you don’t have it.  Then came the saying of the night for me.  John says: Cold water is just so cold.

We then got a recap of the task yesterday which was a shopping thing.  Darryn was disqualified in the first round and was being such a baby about it.  I saw his arms droop, everyone saw his arms droop!

It was then video time where all the potential evictees get to tell us why they should stay.  Let’s see what they said:

Bobby was first on and he said the he has come full circle and started on the back foot.  To me this means that he is now on the back foot again but anyway.  He also said that he is enjoying himself and is putting effort in.

Darryn was his usual annoying self and decided to use props.  He first thanked everyone (wanting to get brownie points much?) then shows a stuffed heart (from the bottom of his heart), at this point I booed at my TV.  

Lucien was next just saying that he was having a whirlwind experience and he doesn’t want it to end.  Why should we vote for him?  He didn’t really give a reason other than he was having an experience.

Tara said she wants to go all the way to the end.  A very in it to win it sort of thing going on here.  She also said that she’s having fun and wants us to go with her to the end so vote for her!  

Anyway we then went back to yesterday’s action and see that Lucien is admiring Amy.  So much for a Kerry/Lucien romance.  Darryn was also in the diary room complaining about being eliminated.  Is Channel 5 trying to make us hate him?  If they are then they are doing it really well.  After this Lines were closed!

Brian then said all the potential evictees names and the crowd doesn’t seem to know who they like and don’t.  They made these weird booing cheering noises.

We then got to see Jedward do their shopping task and it was hilarious.  I never thought 5 minutes of shopping could be so captivating.

Now it’s time for the eviction!  Finally!  So Brian will now tell us 2 housemates that are safe.  The first safe housemate is Darryn!  The next one is Lucien!  What is the world coming to?

So the housemate who was evicted was Tara!

This is just so wrong.  Anyway there was no twist like with Pamela and I wish there had been.  Tara would have been so much better for that.  Anyway during her interview Tara made Brian run away by stating that they (the channel) gets to choose what they show and can sway things.  I totally agree with you Tara.  Bring back the live feed!

So now with a ridiculous number of housemates still in we are voting for who we want to win.  Seriously they have 7 housemates still in there.  This is looking more and more like a money making ploy from Channel 5.

By the way I hate the crowd outside the house.  They boo Tara while she’s in the house but are all supportive when she is out.  Are they getting prompts or something?