CBB 2010: Day 12 and Live Shows

Davina actually used the phrase ‘corned beef-gate’, that I somewhat sarcastically used yesterday.  Ho hum.

Day 12:

Heidi tried to gauge the extent of Vinnie’s fame in England:  ’Vinnie would be as famous as OJ Simpson, but pretend he didn’t murder his wife.’

Dane had taken over the cooking duties in the house.  It was a very big deal.  It just shows quite how bored they are.

Sisqo and Dane discuss Stephanie.  Dane said that she’s the only ‘hot one’ in the house.  Dane seemed to feature more today than he has for the entire series so far.

Stephen:  ’It’s only a matter of time before Dane breaks down into a little foetal position on the floor, weeping, in his own confusion. OR. He rises up in a explosive display of alpha male machismo.’

Vinnie constantly picked at Dane’s running of the kitchen.  If you’re going to give up all responsibility for cooking duties then you need to stop interfering.

Vinnie then went on to needlessly pick at Nicola over whether she was a ‘WAG’ or not.  He seems to be in a bit of a mood.

Stephen gave Alex a moral dilemma in order to indoctrinate him further: would you prefer to kill your son or let a terrorist do it (I’m paraphrasing).  Alex said that he’d kill his son and Stephen said that’s what god did.  Alex looked genuinely upset.  The whole thing was painful to watch and was extremely disturbing.

Katia has decided to snuggle up to Jonas again.  Yawn.

Vinnie, Nicola and Stephanie discuss Alex and decide that he’s essentially a nice guy.  I think they’re right, he may be a bit of a prat, but he’s harmless.  You just wish that he could find an opinion of his own and stick to it.

Katia got jealous because Jonas gave Stephanie a foot massage.  It was going to take a  miracle for her not to be evicted first.

Vinnie challenged Stephen about what god is.  I was half-expecting the Alan Partridge answer of ‘god is a gas’.  Vinnie then completely dismisses Stephen’s angel story.  Well done, Vinnie.

Live Show:

So two of Katia, Sov and Heidi were going to get evicted.  Katia was nailed on, but I couldn’t decide between the other two.  The first to be evicted was Katia as expected.

Katia’s exit interview was extremely unrevealing.  Davina suggested that she should start thinking, which was pretty sound advice.  I think Davina realised that she wasn’t going to get anything out of her and was quite dismissive, which was fair enough.

The next to be evicted was Heidi.  It’s a bit of a shame as she was funnier stuff than Sov.  She seemed to have decided to wear pyjamas for her eviction, but she did give an entertaining interview.

How will the evictions affect the house?  I’ll see you tomorrow to find out.

CBB 2010: Day 10

The old folks task continued.  Their breakfast consisted of liquidised traditional English breakfast.  Yummy.

Am I weird for thinking that Nicola’s old woman dress quite suits her?

Stephanie put yesterday’s porridge down the toilet.  Why would you do that?

Stephen: ‘The bible says I can do anything I want to my wife.’  Nice.

Alex lost 6 fights in a row through ‘bad luck’.

The most Stephanie has ever been offered for sex is £40k.  Sounds like a bargain.

The first challenge of the day is for all residents to complete a pensioner’s assault course.  This involved drinking some sherry, riding a stairlift and bobbing for dumplings in cold stew.  This year’s tasks have been exemplary.

Sov finds prostitution ‘a bit degrading’.  She’s the new Germaine Greer.

Alex teases Katia about what she’d have to do to stay in the house (implying that he should have sex with Jonas).  It was too much like bullying for my liking.

Sov hid a tin of beans.  I was only half watching when they were discussing it, it was boring me a bit.

They had to do a special crossword where the clues were all insults that the housemates had called each other.  Yet another bizarre task designed purely to cause arguments.  It worked.

The old folks task finally came to an end.  The carers passed their part of the challenge, but the residents failed.  This meant that they were back on basic rations.

Katia and Jonas start flirting again.  Dane slagged her off when she was there, because he didn’t realise that she was there.  He had a point though.

Sorry for the slightly half-hearted nature of today’s post, I was trying to catch up.

CBB 2010: Day 9

The housemates were woken with Pulp’s Help The Aged and discovered that the house had been transformed into an old people’s home.  The group were split up into residents and carers: Stephanie and Ivana, already being ‘pensioners’, were chosen to be the carers.

Sov’s main concern was that she might have to wear a skirt.  She’s got issues.

They all had to dress as old people (including wigs and make up).  They had to wear this at all times.  Whoever thinks up the tasks has got a great job.

The residents had to complete an armchair exercise class that was given by Mr Motivator on the telly.  Vinnie hates Mr Motivator.

Sisqo looks amazing as an old bloke.  He should stick with the look.

The first challenge of the day involved 5 of the residents playing a game of Countdown against the 2009 champion.  They bizarrely had a live link-up with the Countdown studio, presented by Jeff Stelling (sporting a trendy new haircut).  It was quite bizarre.  Dane got ‘brisket’, but was beaten by ‘tribades’.   I think the Countdown champ is a cyborg.  They inevitably lost, it was an impossible task.

The results of the nominations were revealed.  Heidi seemed pissed off even though she wanted to go.  Sov was upset about it and had a teary moment.  Katia just thought that everyone was immature because she flirted with Jonas.  No, I didn’t understand her logic either.

Alex: ‘I’m Alex Reid, Alex fucking Reid.’  Thanks for that.

Stephen implied that Nicola is evil, after yesterday’s nominations punishment fiasco.  He’s being a cock about it and I hope that he is big enough to admit he is wrong when confronted with the facts.

The housemates are really irritated by Stephanie and Ivana.  I’m not entirely sure why.  A lot of bickering ensued, but I kind of tuned out because it was getting on my nerves.

I’m slightly disturbed that Nicola’s fake bags under her eyes look like the actual bags under my eyes.  Do cucumber slices really work?

Jonas bashfully asked Sov if Katia has said anything about him.  Bless.

And that was that.

CBB 2010: Day 8

The housemates were woken with the news that they are going to nominate (Ivana is exempt).  They go into the diary room in weight order, lightest first.

Nicola:
Sisqo – He makes it clear that he thinks she’s dumb.
Katia – She finds it hard to make conversation with her.

Sov:
Heidi – She sleeps more than she speaks.
Alex – She gets no response when she tries to speak to him.

Katia:
Nicola –  She’s acting dumber than she actually is.  And she sang Puppy Love at her.
Stephanie – She stifles their stupid conversations and is a fusspot.

Heidi:
She introduced her nominations as being ‘really mean’.
Swov (I assume she meant Sov) – She has two extra teeth.  No, really.
Stephanie – She’s obnoxious and is judgemental.

Stephanie:
Jonas – ‘The continual anal humour.’
Katia – ‘She is a beautiful orchid with no roots of her own.’  Perhaps the most poetic nomination in the history of BB.

Sisqo:
Heidi – She sleeps all day.
Dean (Dane) – He has a melancholy personality and is too neutral.

Jonas:
Heidi – She doesn’t do anything.
Sisqo – He keeps talking about his multi-million selling albums and the bragging is annoying.

Taking a break from nominations, Ivana reveals that she sings her dog a song every day: ‘Tiger tiger poopy doopy doo.’  It could be the new Insania.

Dane:
Katia – She doesn’t get involved.
Stephen – He pushes his beliefs too aggressively.

Alex:
Heidi – She doesn’t get involved.
Sov –  She seems unhappy.

Vinnie:
Heidi – He’s kept her here for a week, by looking after her, but she’s not doing anything.
Stephen – ‘He’s a lovely fella but he’s too much on the old ear lobe.’

Stephen:
Sov – She doesn’t participate in the chores.
Jonas – He’s done nothing but build a snowman.

And that was the nominations process completed.  Heidi (5 nominations), Sov (3) and Katia (3) will be up for eviction on Friday.  Two housemates will be evicted.  Is it meaningful that they’re all women?

Katia talked to Sov about being sexually frustrated but she wanted to dump Jonas.  She thought he was being immature.  She took him to one side and told him that they need to ‘stop it’.  I felt like I was watching some really cringey teen drama.  Jonas looked devastated.

Dane was in the middle of cooking some burgers for the group, when everyone was made to go into the bedroom.  When they were released, about half an hour later, all the food was gone.  As there had been several conversations about nominations, they were being punished.  They were given ’emergency rations’.

Stephen tried to blame Nicola for breaking the rules, and accused her of having selective memory about what was said.  Clearly upset, she went to the diary room to confirm whether she had broken the rules and what was actually said.  She hadn’t broken them and she confronted Stephen about it. His reply was that Big Brother was lying.  They beautiful forgiving and honest Christian morals at work.

Jonas and Alex decided to get naked and run around in the garden.  I’m guessing that Jonas was trying to put a brave face on being dumped by acting wacky.  Alex probably just jumped at the chance to show off.

The show ended with Katia discussing Jonas and she revealed that she ‘liked him properly’ for one or two days.  She came across like a twelve year-old.  I’d be stunned if she’s not evicted on Friday.

CBB 2010: Day 7

The day starts with Stephen being amazed by Ivana’s exercise ball. This is not a euphemism.

Jonas went to the diary room to talk about Katia.  He thinks that he’s met a soulmate.  Part of me thinks that he’s putting on a big elaborate act, but maybe I’m just too cynical.

Heidi started to talk about leaving, saying that she can’t take it any more.

Vinnie told Alex that he could hurt more people by singing at them than by fighting.

Incredibly, but necessarily, they actually put subtitles on screen when Ivana speaks.  It’s still a mystery why they chose her as a housemate.

Stephanie: ‘People judge you by your carrier bags.’  She’s just so right.

The housemates have saved the icing off a cake to use as sugar in their brews.  British ingenuity at its best.  Nothing comes in the way of having a perfect brew.

Heidi went to the diary room to say that she wants to leave.  Big Brother told her to go and talk to the other housemates about it.  I’m slightly baffled as to what has actually happened to Heidi’s face.

The tree of temptation struck again.  It offered Alex the chance to win an hour on his punch bag if he ‘kicked the shit out of the snowman’ and ‘smash it up, Bruce Lee stylee’.  If he didn’t do it then
everyone would be punished.  He also had to keep it all secret.

Jonas did an amazing Arnie impression.  I now want him to win purely for that.

Alex smashed the snowman up to the horrified screams of the others.  Then Jonas said that it was a secret task and Dane said that the tree told him to do it.  The tree is going to have to be a lot
sneakier if it wants to stir up some trouble.  When Alex came back into the house, Nicola asked him if his legs were bleeding.  Random.

Heidi went back to the diary room wearing what looked like an unfastened straight jacket.  She’s decided to stay.

Katia and Jonas had a vague smooch in the bedroom.  She seemed quite reluctant, but it’s not clear if it’s because she feels embarrassed or if she’s not interested.  Sov was sat on a bed watching them.  Then Stephen came along and felt Jonas’ bum.  Lovely.

Ivana walked in on Stephen in the toilet: ‘good position!’  The mind boggles as to what sort of position he was actually in.

Fact of the day: One hour on a punchbag makes you very sweaty.

Alex had to come up with an excuse for where he had been when on the punchbag, as he still had to keep it secret.  His master-plan was to say that he sang a song and danced for an hour as a punishment for smashing up the snowman.  Unsurprisingly, the others didn’t fall for it.

The housemates had a ‘pub night’ where they had to discuss given topics.  On discussing war, Alex revealed that he wants to use his ’celebrity’ to change the world by making life changing films.  I’m
not sure in which way these films would change your life.   Heidi revealed that she loves plastic surgery.  No comment.

Vinnie and Stephanie had a late night discussion in the kitchen.  Vinnie said that he’s come in the house so that people can see what he’s really like, whether they like him or not.

And that was about it.  It’s been a slightly strange, slightly boring CBB so far, and yet I’m still hooked.  I can’t really explain that.

CBB 2010: Day 6

Another day, another episode of Celebrity Big Brother to write about.

The day started with everyone staring at Kat and Jonas in bed together.  It’s quite difficult to be secretive when you’re sharing a bedroom with 10 other people.

Katia: ‘I don’t want to lead anyone on.’  It’s a bit late for that, love.

Vinnie gaves Alex a grilling about some of the things he’s said to the media.  It made him very nervous.  Vinnie seems to be constantly having digs at him.  Is it just banter or something more?  Vinnie also said that he blanks Katia.  What a nice man.

We got to see Dane and Alex practising Especially For You.  Painful.

Stephanie was given the task of performing a stand up routine in the variety show.  She invited Stephen into the lavatory to help her rehearse.  He’s now an expert on how to do stand up, as well as everything else.

Sov kicked off about having to wear a magician’s assistant outfit to be a magician’s assistant.  This seemed even more petulant than Sisqo’s ass-out tantrum.  She looked really upset when she went to complain about it in the diary room, apparently she has a phobia of dresses.

By the way, they did the variety show that we saw on yesterday’s live show.  I won’t go into any more details, it was completely rubbish.  Apart from Sisqo, who was hilarious as the magician.  Whether he was being intentionally funny or not I have no idea.

As I said yesterday, Ivana Trump appeared.  Jonas looked deeply disturbed, I don’t know why.

A few minutes later and Jonas still looked disturbed.  I still don’t know why.

Sov was kept in the diary room while Ivana ‘appeared’.  She amused herself by making cat noises.  You can’t blame her.

The whole Jonas and Katia scenario is getting really cringey.  He’s acting like he’s completely besotted with her, she acts all embarrassed and like she isn’t interested, and then she ends up cuddling him.  The show ended with them in bed together again and seemingly they were properly kissing.  I don’t think that it’s going to end well.

It was a bit of a dull episode really, but I still find myself totally fascinated by the goings on.

CBB 2010: Day 5 and Live Shows

The show started with Davina, who was wearing a weird outfit that seemed to be a cross between a  dress and pyjamas, announcing that there would be a new housemate entering later.  Would it be somebody exciting to really stir things up?  Don’t get your hopes up.

Day 5:

The day started abruptly and we didn’t learn how Jonas and Sov’s punishment ended.  Unless I just wasn’t listening.  We started with Sov and Nicola discussing Kat and Jonas in the diary room.  Nicola had to explain to Sov what tactile means.  Isn’t she supposed to be the dim one?

Over in ‘the snug’, Vinnie and Stephanie also discussed Kat and Jonas.  They are clearly trying to build up this romance for all its worth.

The men were told that they had to take part in a ‘hunk off’.  Part of the competition was a swimwear round and they were told that they had to wear mankinis.  Sisqo, seemingly oblivious to the irony, was mortified at the thought of wearing a thong.  He’s a very serious little man and was deeply disturbed by the concept of ‘ass out’.  He thought it might help if he changed the colour of the outfit, but I don’t see how that would help cover the ass.  If you’re going to get so angry about showing your bum you probably shouldn’t have recorded a track called ‘The Thong Song’.

Resigned to his fate, he went to shave.  Eww.

Dane and Stephen refused to wear the mankinis, so they get trunks instead.  They start laughing about the fact that they got away with it and Sisqo looked close to tears.

Vinnie commented on the meeting of minds that was Alex and Stephen: ‘If bullshit was music there’d be a brass band in the lounge right now.’

The hunk off began, hosted by Vinnie, with all the ladies as judges.

Round 1: Evening wear.  They picked the cheesiest music ever for this, which was very funny, but it soon got really annoying.

Round 2: Swimwear.  Stephen wore trunks and a vest – he should have just gone with the mankini.  Dane was also covered up, which kept the mankinis a surprise.  Jonas came out in his leopardskin mankini and ‘revealing’ really isn’t the word to describe it.  I’d probably go for ‘disturbing’.  Sisqo was out next and looked mental, but he has got a very peachy ass.  Unsurprisingly, Alex loved showing off in his pink costume and streaky tan.  Sov could barely breathe for laughing.  Sisqo finally looked relieved when he was told that he had a sexy booty.  All’s well that ends well.

Round 3: Talent Show.  Stephen read a poem, which was bonkers.  This is a polite way of saying that it was rubbish.  Dane did a ten second massage on all the ladies.  Jonas gave them all his ‘special kiss on the cheek’.  Luckily, this wasn’t a euphemism.  Sisqo sang, which actually made some kind of sense.  Alex did the splits over two chairs.

Vinnie is actually quite funny and did a good job of the presenting.  In case you’re curious, Sisqo won.

This half of the round-up ended with Katia and Jonas having a snuggle on the smokers’ bench.

Live Show:

The new housemate is Ivana Trump.  I have no opinion whatsoever, other than her name is a silly pun about farting.  Davina did a mini-interview with her before she went in and her English is barely comprehensible.  Great choice.

Day 5:

Kat talked to Sov about her flirting, which she then discussed with Jonas.  They’re surprisingly open for BB contestants.  Kat stressed the innocent nature of their flirting.  Those of you who can see what is coming can keep your mouths shut.

Sisqo finally realised the deeper meaning of the whole thong incident.  Well done him.

Jonas seems to actually really like Kat.  He’s refreshingly earnest and I can almost forgive him for his awful music.

Kat admitted that she feels awful about the innocent flirting.  She admitted this while she was hugging in bed with Jonas. He’s clearly smitten, so he started kissing her.  I don’t think her boyfriend’s going to be very happy.

Live Show:

As there was no eviction, we were ‘treated’ to a variety performance.

Vinnie did a ventriloquists act with Stephen as his dummy (a giant rabbit).  Yet another nightmarish image from this year’s CBB.

Dane and Alex did a duet of ‘Especially for You’.  Dane was dressed as Kylie.  It wasn’t funny.  They had a hard task as it was never going to live up to Ulrika and Verne’s Endless Love from last year.

Sisqo, dressed as a gay ringmaster, performed a magic act with Sov as his assistant.  He made her disappear with the magic words: ‘Dinga-linga-ling school bell ring, booyakka booyakka.’  Yeah, I think he’s mental too.

The illusion reached the point when Sov was supposed to reappear, but we actually got Ivana instead.  There wasn’t much of a reaction as no one seemed to know who she was.

What a disappointing way to end the show.

CBB 2010: Day 3

A few people have struggled to make an impression so far; Sov, Katia  and Dane weren’t even mentioned in my post yesterday.  Let’s see if they could finally be noticed.

It’s Vinnie’s 45th birthday and as a present he learns what an eviction is called.  It’s called ‘an eviction’.

Stephen was banging on about god again.  It seems that he actually believes in the devil.  And that he has a job.  The job is to be the devil.  It’s a very complex theory.

Sisqo sang some RnB style wailing song.  It made me wet with emotion.

Stephen started banging on about god, yet again.  He claims that if a man held a gun to his daughter’s head and demanded that she said ‘Jesus doesn’t exist’, he’d expect to ‘see her in heaven’.  What a loving father.   The true morality of the Christian.

In the bedroom, Heidi said that preaching is disgusting.  I’m liking her more and more.  Mainly because she doesn’t like Stephen.

Lollage.  Heidi described the tortures of 3 years of prison.  Jonas responded by revealing his masturbation problem.  He once did it 25 times in day.

Classic Stephanie quote: ‘Boy boys need to be told “Don’t you diss me.”‘

Jonas (the Basshunter) explained what it was like to have Tourettes: ‘Why do I say dick instead of saying pancakes?’

Tonight’s task was like a repressed abuse memory.  It featured:  Vinnie stuck in a phone box, Stephen in a room full of mousetraps and Sisqo and Stephanie sticking their hands up some frozen chickens.  Alex then had to go into a room wearing a mask with a long nose and pop balloons filled with brown sauce and mustard.  As a result they successfully passed the task, but they’ll never be the same again.

To celebrate, Basshunter invented ‘fart tennis’.  Then they had a boring party.

The show ended with lots of speculation with regards Katia and Jonas fancying each other.  It would be CBB if they didn’t invent a romance.

CBB 2010: Day 1

Due to the constraints of television and time required to blog, I’m only writing about day 1 of Celebrity Big Brother on day 3.  I’m sure you’ll all cope.

Last night’s programme was a recap of the usually quite boring entrances.  With no drama to comment on, I’ll just give you my first impressions.  The very first impression I had was that Stephen comes across as a potential serial killer.  Lovely stuff.

Nicola asked Alex, ‘Are you really that colour or have you had a spray tan?’  Nobody is that colour, love.

Stephanie Beacham surely must be acting up her old ‘I’m such an old-school Hollywood
superstar’ persona because surely nobody is actually like that.  She’s so preposterous that I quite like her.

Sisqo seems indeterminately weird.  This can only be a good thing.

Is Nicola really as thick as she is coming across?  She is surely putting it on for the whole Jade\Chantelle effect.

Bowers looked terrified when he first saw Alex.

I don’t really understand why they put Heidi Fleiss in there.  My only theory is that it’s because she looks like a slightly younger version of Jackie Stallone.  Her main selling point is that she looks wrecked and runs a launderette.  She also came out with the classic line: ‘Thank god for abortion.’ – nice.

Basshunter had allegedly just arrived in the house directly from a New Year’s party.  Whoop whoop.

Then some young girl turned up.  Oh, it’s Katia, the ex-girlfriend.  They’ve probably offered her a lot of money to appear, but it seems psychological suicide for her to be in there.

It’s worrying when Vinnie Jones seems to be the normal one.

Apparently Basshunter had to do a show for the president of Kazakhstan over Christmas.  This fact left me speechless.

Hmmm.  I’ve come to the conclusion that Nicola isn’t putting it on and really is that thick.  She asked the question: ‘Vinnie, do you like support a football team?’

Sov used to collect football stickers.  Fair play to her.

Stephanie is going to miss her special sheets.

And that concludes my comments for day 1.  We’re still at the stage where everyone is being polite, and it will take a few days before it all beds in and the interesting stuff happens.  I’m looking forward to it.

CBB 2010: In They Go

I thought it would be only right and proper for me to blog about Celebrity Big Brother.  It may be the most mental programme on TV, and so let’s all bask in this final series.  Unless we get bored.

I’ve heard the odd rumour about who is going in, but I don’t know any for sure.  I’m going to write about tonight’s first episode as I watch it, so please forgive any mistakes.  Let’s get on with the show.

Gosh, Davina had extremely tight pants on.

First into the house was Stephen Baldwin.  Who is one of the Baldwins: Alec, Daniel, Stephen and, err, Mike.  Oh great, he’s a right-wing Christian nut.  I want him out already.

There’s a lot of fast forwarding going on tonight, so I might miss something.

Next comes ‘Nicola T’ who is apparently some kind of glamour model.  I’ve never seen her before, but, of course, I never look at Page 3.  She is apparently releasing a single which features Coolio – exciting.  She managed to dressed both demurely and a bit slutty, which is really some achievement.  She looks a bit like Lucie out of the X Factor.

Hopefully someone will come in soon that I have an opinion on.

Alex Reid is next, who is a cross-dressing cage fighter.  He is most famous for going out with Jordan.  Do we really need to have more excuses to have her in the tabloids?  Slightly depressing.

Stephanie Beacham.  Well, at least I’ve heard of her.  And she had a fling with Ken Barlow, which is quite amusing.

Lady Sovereign is chavtastic.   Davina really built up how successful her career is, but it makes you question why she is coming on to Big Brother.  She seems to be a ridiculous little character and so is a potential winner.  She introduced herself to someone by saying, ‘what’s up, big man?’  Instant legend.

His name is Sisqo and he loves thongs.  Fair play to the lad.  Omg, he entered the house by performing The Thong Song.  He is already my favourite, the nutter.

Dane Bowers.  Lollage and roffles.  A comedy legend enters the house.

Heidi Fleiss, the ‘Hollywood Madam’.   Yawn.  She looks like Alice Cooper without the make-up.

Jonas Altberg aka Basshunter.  A Swede who has committed crime after crime against music.  He does have a comedy Hans Klaussner style accent though, which is fun.  He also went in to the house wearing a velvet dinner jacket, which means that he either has a sense of humour or is a tit.  Either way, it makes him a potentially great housemate.

Katia Ivanova is 21, from Kazakhstan and went out with ageing rocker Ronnie Wood.  How long is it before someone does a Borat impression to her?  She looks like she’s just been dragged in off the street to make up the numbers.  She doesn’t have a Borat-style accent, disappointingly.

Lollage and Roffles, the twin poodles of mirth, are in full effect as Vinnie ‘The Sphinx’ Jones enters the house.

‘Are you LA?’ asks Stephanie.  No comment.

And that’s all the housemates revealed.  I thought that they were saving a couple of good ones until the end.  Oh well.

They’re instantly given an ‘icebreaker’ task.  They have to play ‘how many celebrities can you fit in a mini?’  They had 5 minutes to get all of them in it.  Dane, Sisqo and Sov decided that sitting in the boot counted as being ‘in the car’.  They were obviously wrong and had to try and squeeze in.   They managed to do it really quickly, so the 5 minutes seemed a bit ridiculous.

And that was that.  Let the mayhem begin.

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