Week 5 ramblings (BBUK)

Off we go again, citizens, as the end gets a step closer....

Everywhere gets more feisty whether it is something production have done, or what the housemates have done

We get started with more crappy punishments which of course the housemates don't take seriously, as in hot water and hair appliances off and the hot tub out of bounds.... No wonder the housemates laugh all the time, when they know they can break a rule or two and can get some airtime with a puerile punishment

Time for another Elsa in Fantasy Land where she talked to Jenny about demons, needless to say it caused Jenny and others to be open mouthed. How did Elsa pass the psych test to get in there, answers on a postcard please.

Speaking of fantasy worlds, Sam got it into his head that Zelah had a crush on him. Oh please, not another manufactured nomance for this series. Moving swiftly on, and the mini mart was open for business, with a phone call from home and more importantly a Save and Replace up for grabs for the highest bidder.

After 2 weeks immune, Caroline was first to bid for the Save and Replace while the majority of them were only thinking about their stomachs, leaving the way open for Caroline to get a third week of immunity. In my opinion, she should have been ineligible to go for it as she's just had 2 weeks immunity. But hey ho, what does it matter as BB are happy to ignore the little things. Speaking of ignoring stuff, Jenny bought the phone call from home, and proceeded to ask her mum on who to be careful of.

Shame BB are ignoring the things that make this show important, and taking it down a very dark route which effectively killed the second era of the show

3 guesses to who her mum said, yep it was Caroline. That little thing called outside information, the bane of every series where it happens.

However, the pizza party that was bought was strewn with rule breaks when BB asked them to return the leftover pizza. Everyone except Richard and Cameron were punished, as in the previously mentioned hot water blah blah blah, and also everyone except the above two had to return their food bought from the mini mart, but Caroline got to keep her Save and Replace. What's up with that, seriously?

In case you missed it, it was face to face nominations for Week 5

Richard, Farida and Tate were originally on the chopping block, but Caroline used her Save and Replace

on Tate, choosing Zelah to replace him. Seems pretty straight forward to who will go. Oh and it's a Double Eviction. With only 3 up, doesn't make sense. Then again not much about this series has made sense production wise.

Nancy, Sam and Caroline then discussed who would win... One hint to you three, it won't be any of you.

ANOTHER rule break to report as Sam was a naughty boy in hiding some honey, and being made to douse himself in honey. Another puerile punishment for the books.

Farida was given a secret mission to make them believe she has had a string of jobs which included a zookeeper, hand model, martial arts instructor and lollipop lady. Needless to say she passed and it won the housemates a takeaway each. Guess they had to give her something to do in case she leaves in the double, but what about Richard and Zelah. Do they get to do something as well? Stay tuned....

On to the latest task, refuse to call it shopping task as the budget is irrelevant pass or fail, and Bad Brother have taken over. Apparently they have to pass 'tests' to win keys to free Big Brother from the crate in the garden.

Farida, Richard and Teja have been selected as Bad Brother's henchmen..... No Zelah as the third henchman? No? Shouldn't he be getting some airtime as he is on the block after all?

Anyway, lots of gunge, Emily's 'letter from home' getting shredded, and many menial tests later and shock horror, they find the right key to get Big Brother out of the crate and the luxury budget is theirs. £1000 no less, wish I had that much to spend on food.

They should know by now they will get their letters anyway if they are still there near to the end, so no big deal.

On to Halloween, and no marking it this year apart from the task previously mentioned and the party they received. 13 about to become 11, and once again this Sam and Zelah nonsense takes up most of the show, along with 'bowlgate' where Sam didn't clean up his bowl of beans, which in turn set Tate off. More airtime for Sam, even though he does not deserve it.

On to said party, they got ANOTHER takeaway along with the party. Like a hotel for this lot. Outside information on tap, parties without earning them. Of course it wouldn't be the UK version without some shit stirring thrown in, and they didn't disappoint but it didn't affect the party too much.

To finish things off, Tate put the dampeners on a last minute showmance with Emily with the no chemistry. One showmance is enough and THAT needs to be knocked on the head. 11 left with 2 weeks to go, almost certainly a few flash evictions coming up I would think to get those numbers down.

Eviction time, and it's Farida and Zelah as expected who are shown the door, Richard lives to fight another week and is another step closer to possibly being the new oldest civilian winner in the UK version. 

Still sad there have been no Welsh housemates this year, fingers crossed for next year. Hopefully all those rumours about the live feed being chopped are just that. But just lately it does feel the feed is being phased out with all the unnecessary birdsong. Not allowed to hear anything with the excuse of saving it for the highlights, or the usual excuse of it being too expensive? Answers on a postcard, please

Into the penultimate week we go, bang average series but it is flying by, and nearly time to say g'day to the next coming of BB Australia... Original voice, 24/7 feed, all the bells and whistles that made it great back in the day. May write about it, watch this space.

Anyway, that is enough rambling for Week 5.... Hope you enjoyed reading this current effort, and pass it on to others if you wish, and as always enjoy, complain or both. YOU decide.

'Nuff said, and keep on rocking

Until next time...

Week 4 ramblings (BBUK)

Greetings fellow Big Brother citizens, another week done and what a week depending on your point of view

Time travelling a bit, and the crowd had to stay really quiet so nothing was blown. Would have loved someone to go rogue and shout 'Get Emily/Farida out' just to have seen what may have happened

Time to welcome back Farida and Emily, whether some like it or not. A whole 36 hours in that secret house, hardly seemed worth it really. Then again they got as much feed as us out here did, as in very little.

Small difference though, at least they didn't have endure the birdsong and stock footage that we have had to every night. 

Of course it wouldn't be BB in this era, without some shit stirring and they didn't disappoint, with a ChatBBT, which basically entailed the 3 secret people to make judgments on the main housemates disguised as AI, and it was one of those line up from most to least tasks. Remember those days when they could have fun with these tasks and laugh at themselves, rather than be miserable and divided.

Anyway, the secret 3 returned to the main house eventually, with Farida and Emily immune from week 4 nominations unlike Sam, and couldn't shut up about the outside world, no punishment either, nothing, zilch, zero, nada.... It took the housemates to tell them to shut up, as BB must have fallen asleep at the wheel. One of the fundamental rules of this show is NO outside contact, yet like Five are happy to let it go. So later that night, it's party time for them with a Welcome Back party.

Farida of course her usual delusional fame hungry self, so no change there. Emily just went off the boil and is just there now, don't know what's happening with her and Tate whether she's still pursuing him, or is that done. Answers on a postcard please.

By this point, it is the Farida show as she just won't stop butting in where she's not wanted, and getting up a lot of people's noses as she wanders about questioning the showmance, causing Marcus to lose his cool. The showmance is looking precarious at the moment, but no doubt they will be back yet again.

Lo and behold 24 hours later, they have cleared the air yet again. Have to question how many more hits this dratted showmance will take, hopefully one of them will go soon and we can see how one will cope without the other. Next up, those two dreaded words, namely house meeting, are called, where Farida is all but trying to take over. She really hasn't learnt her lesson from her first stint, as this is exactly what caused her first week exit. She has to go as soon as possible, sooner rather than later. There's only so much they will take of her, just a shame she is immune for Week 4

On to nominations then, and it was Fey, Tate, Teja and Nancy on the chopping block. Thankfully all reasons were accepted this time. Reminder, 56 going on 21 (Caroline), Farida and Emily were all immune, but are all viable targets from Week 5. 

Brace yourselves, rule break alert yet again. This time the guilty party was Elsa, and in a highly original punishment, the jail came clinking and clunking out again and in went Elsa. Thankfully no serenading from her. A shame really these punishments are so puerile and the housemates don't take them seriously anymore. They know they can break the rules and get some airtime whatever the punishment is. Come on BB, you are seriously slacking. You're the boss and they are walking all over you every time. 

Jenny and Nancy then decided to pull a prank, thought these two weren't seeing eye to eye, and they executed it over dinner. Kind of a mixed reaction, as Elsa thought it was real and got overwhelmed while others laughed it off. Felt like pointless filler to me, but hey ho on we go....

Shopping task time, and may I say what a bunch of spineless wimps. I mean they spend hours on end sitting around doing nothing, and when it came to toughing it out on that plane set.... Just seriously, most of the tasks these days are spent doing bugger all for some anyway, and they couldn't even manage a few hours. Tell you something though, 56 going on 21 is really skating on thin ice with her antics trying to 'fit in'. Hopefully up and out in Week 5 now she doesn't have that immunity to hide behind.

Oh look another shit stirring task looms as more eyes are dished out to who wants them, depending who is unanimously voted for by the housemates. After much mucking about, it came down to Zelah and Jenny. Jenny is eventually picked, and she then has to give eyes to 3 housemates. Surprisingly, she doesn't pick Cameron, who is a bit put out by the situation.

Perhaps to no shock when it came to chucking out time, Fey was shown the door and it was refreshing to see how much she embraced the experience when she was interviewed. Either you loved her or you hated her, YOU decided

So on to Week 5 we go, and it was announced there will be a Save and Replace token available to the highest bidder in the mini mart, think of it like the Power of Veto in the North American version. God help us if Caroline or Ferida get that, they will be intolerable. Will be interesting to see what order BB will send them into the mini mart.

Anyway, think that's about everything covered for Week 4, and Happy Halloween to everyone who celebrates....

RT or like or both, and indeed enjoy, complain or both. YOU decide

'Nuff said and keep on rocking

Week 3 ramblings

When last time we left our current housemates, Cameron B's ongoing audition for Baywatch and Love Island ended when he was shown the door. 

To be frank, it was basically lose lose whoever went last time:

• Richard - Biggest loss, 'nuff said
• Elsa - If she had gone then, Cameron B and Nancy's brief dalliance would have taken centre stage and shoved down our throats

As it stands, the original showmance continues for now, lucky us eh?....

Anyway onto more recent matters with the weekly round up...

We pick up with the usual Saturday stirring task, where it was Caroline, or 56 going on 21 as I like to call her, bankrupting Richard and feeling very smug about it. She never leaves that guy alone, she's such a try hard with her silly outfits and hats like she's off to a hen party in a nightclub. What I really want to see is BB challenge her to hand over some of those hats and she can get them back in some sort of secret challenge, and if she fails the challenge the hats get burnt, remember Chicken Stu from BB5 and when BB burnt his hat to a crisp because of the silent protest? Something like that, but the hats will be facsimilies of course.

Now, of course the housemates won varying amounts of eyes, but during this task Nancy and Sam were called out by BB for talking in code and were made to stand up and explain themselves, when they explained let's just say it didn't go down well with Jenny, and boy did she go on and on like Ariston, even the live feed wasn't safe. But it's ok for her and whoever she has in her little gang to talk about everyone behind their backs, well yeah she's the show favourite right now and gets a free pass.... But all that can change at anytime, just wait.....

As a punishment, Nancy and Sam had their eyes taken away and along with Richard were now bankrupt

On to the weekly mini mart nonsense, and there's an immunity card for the highest bidder, and the usual face to face nominations card, and plenty of other goodies. Why do they bother with the shopping task then, if they are handing out these treats every week anyway. Just call it simply a task and have done with it? While we're at it, what's coming in the next few weeks, pass to the final perhaps? Wouldn't put it past them for that to appear with one or two weeks to go....

Anyway it was:

Caroline - Immunity for 2 weeks

Marcus - Meal for two (Wonder who he'll choose for that), and chose Tate for face to face nominations

Elsa - Cuddly toy

Tate - Go directly to jail card, and he chose Marcus

Someone else bought the music playlist as it was Nancy's birthday, so IIRC their first party of the series

Then, lucky us, Elsa and Marcus had their meal on opposite sides of the bars, and get this Elsa has to get someone to cut her food at home, and Marcus had to do it. Meanwhile the music blared from the house, and even Richard was joining it. Good egg that guy, I just don't understand why Caroline has it in for him

On to nominations, and as expected, a sort of sheep mentality this week with quite a few of them nominating Nancy and Sam for the previously mentioned code talking, and indeed it ended up with Nancy and Sam on the chopping block.... 

The moment it was announced in the house, you could not keep that smile off Jenny's face and shortly afterwards she was gloating in the Diary Room doing a little air guitar. What's that old saying, pride comes before a fall? Her face is going to be a picture when Nancy or Sam come back from the secret room, and from the official sources it's not going to be long. So enjoy it while you can, Jenny....

Would also like to point out about Tate's face to face nominations, and one of them for Teja being rejected because it was apparently invalid. But they were happy to accept Sam's reason last week for Marcus 'being hot'? Get real, BB, and stop making the rules up as you go along. 

Anyway, later in that episode, yet more political talk with 56 going on 21losing her big pile of poo with Teja, and she has the temerity to go whining to BB about being outsmarted by an 18 year old. Can't wait for her to be gone, she's like the second coming of you know who from series 8.

Less said about the task to win the irrelevant budget the better, yet another one that only lasted a few hours. What? Oh well if we must....

BB General Hospital, rules clear as mud as usual. They had to reach a certain rating, in other words, a fixed result in an envelope which BB could change at any time according to the storylines. Another task where most of them just sit on their arses and do bugger all, where are those days gone where EVERYONE has to contribute and not just a small few, and also *yawn* there was more stirring. For the days when they could laugh at themselves and have fun without constant division and stirring from BB

To cut a long story short they passed their first task of this series, and a budget of £1,000 was given. You know who tried to take over the shopping list in the guise of her trying to fit in. Problem is with this immunity, she knows she can do what she wants until this immunity is up and that's the frustrating thing. She already has Richard living rent free in her head, and it's eating her up that she can't get him to really bite. Is she really angling to get nominations all over the board once her immunity

On a side note, whoever told Elsa she could sing, your card is marked whoever it turns out to be, and you will be ousted along with her if there is another chance of getting rid of her and it's a double 😉

And now we come to the night where two unwanted presences went back in, one wants a showmance with Tate and the other is just so fame hungry. Get this, eligible to win when they go back, seriously why? Can't they just be guests, they've had their crack at this show and blew it? Don't take us back to that flop series, Timebomb, and make the current lot extras in their own series.

Not so warm welcome back to Emily and Farida, probably armed to the teeth with outside information about how the not rights in the main house are being perceived out here. How long before they start blabbing said info? Probably 5 minutes after they have gone back into the main house, and BB will probably do nothing or dish out one of the more puerile punishments at their disposal

Sam was the lucky person to go to the secret house, but jeez that crowd was dead all evening. They couldn't even muster up a loud woop woop, ok they had to be quiet for Emily and Farida being put in there, but not even a whisper for Sam going to the secret house. Was secretly wishing someone from the crowd would have gone rogue and shouted 'Get Emily out'

Both returnees immune for the coming week, while Sam could be in trouble again as he is not immune, and will probably be up again when he's back in the main house.

That's about it to be honest, sorry to be a negative nelly but this series is a tad bit frustrating. I know the tag line is 'the game is changing', but BB never know when to stop causing division and let things develop organically, or what the word spoiler means as they actually spoiled Emily and Ferida's return mere hours before they went back in, granted the complaining would not have been any different, but it did seem predictable it would be those two. Think back to launch night and THAT twist that got rid of Emily the first time..... what did most say? Exactly, she was all but certain to go back in at some point and be eligible to win.

A loooooong week 4 ahead, and the secret people will be back in there by the time this is published

Again apologies for being a negative nelly, hopefully things will get a little better but we know the drill as in stirring, stirring, with a little more stirring thrown for good measure

'nuff said, and keep on rocking. Until next time.

Lights, Cameron, Eviction (BBUK)

Yes it's been another while, citizens, but here we go again

Welcome in as we catch up with this current series, and what a few episodes it has been, with so many twists, turns, comings, goings, expulsions.

So let's go back to where we left off with some of the key points of these last few episodes

Emily's exit - All I can say is good riddance as she left out the back door, but my gut feeling is we haven't seen the last of her with what is planned for the next eviction. More on that later....

This is Big Brother, not Love Island - You know where I said in the last post, Marcus had showmance written all over him, well I don't like to say I told you so, but..... Ok so I got the other half wrong, nobody's perfect 😉. Him and Elsa on and off more times than a light switch, right now it's currently ON, lucky us eh? What the show think we want to see apparently....

Four new arrivals - Now this is where things get more annoying, as yes it's more meddling with nominations as the new arrivals Feysiola, Richard, George and Love Island wannabe Cameron B come in and had to choose to give Evil Eyes to two of the current housemates to go on the chopping block, and they went for Zelah and Gani

Jenny's prison sentence - Yes, the jail returned, massive yawn. Just more airtime for whoever is in there. 'nuff said. The way they scoff and laugh at these 'punishments' is very frustrating. More like a reward really, what happened to the harder BB of old who would waste no time taking nominations away from the guilty party or something else meaningful that they wouldn't laugh at.

George and Caroline's warnings - It wouldn't be BB without one or two yellow cards issued, and boy did these two deserve it. Won't repeat on here what either of them said, let's just say a big thumbs down to their comments.

Gani is evicted - No real surprise, and another one out a different way, but this time it was understandable due to Storm Amy sweeping the country. So the wait went on for the first front door eviction.....

Normal(ish) nominations - Hallelujah(ish), let me explain. Earlier in this week, BB brought out a box and Caroline chose to open it to reveal a 'cursed' eye which automatically put her on the chopping block and she would have to do face to face nominations, or would she? Hell no, she immediately chose to use 1 of  her BB eyes to buy her way out of trouble, and gave the cursed eye to Richard. He chose not to give it to anyone else, and would wear it until it expired on that week's eviction night. He would be joined by Elsa and Cameron B on the chopping block, but it was originally four with George there as well, but we all saw what happened. More in a little bit on that.

Two failed shopping tasks - Less said the better. I don't know about anyone else but remember when the shopping tasks were fun and lasted much longer than a few hours, and without BB chiming in and deploying their wooden spoon with the usual 'Name the most lazy/biggest gameplayer'.

Bye bye New Cameron - Yes, we finally had a front door eviction. He only went in for a showmance, but just think of the scenarios. We could crush one showmance, but get stuck with the other as in Marcus and Elsa or the the showmance in the making had Elsa gone with New Cameron and Nancy, or worst case we would have lost Richard. But thankfully losing Richard wasn't an option, but less thankfully we got stuck with Marcus and Elsap laying out their Love Island audition, at least for now

Now for the real elephant in the room, which has caused quite a stir on forums and social media alike....

George's expulsion - The dope was warned, and just about everyone knew how it was going to end. In or around the time of the second shopping task, he was summoned to the Diary Room and didn't even take his expulsion seriously when BB spelled it out to him, The dope got exactly what he deserved, he had every chance to learn, but blew it. Good riddance to bad rubbish, especially someone with his narrow minded views.

And speaking of elephants in rooms, brings things nicely to the latest news which has gone down like a lead balloon everywhere. Is everybody paying attention? Those at the back as well?

Right, basically another 'original' idea. Not happy with a launch eviction, now we are going to get a fake eviction with 2 former housemates and the next evictee going into a secret room complete with secret missions and god knows what else. Just hoping whoever comes back in, doesn't reveal outside information, as many know one of my biggest bugbears of this show in recent years. Remember in the dark era of Five when friends and family were going in there and passing on everything about how the not rights were being perceived on the outside? Celebrities taking over a civilian series along with former housemates? 

Thankfully some problems were solved with this latest attempt as AJ said on the sideshow 'no celebrities or past winners allowed' so that rules out another possible return for she who was/is banned, as in the winner of Power Trip, as I dread to think what the reaction would have been had she been unveiled as one of the two.

Me personally, I would like to find who is actually going in in terms of the former housemates, and then whoever is on the block vote accordingly so there's a good mesh or this could fall flat on its face. I just don't know who can be trusted to keep quiet though, as there are some loud screamers in this current group, who may give things away quite quickly, and also who from the former housemates would cause the most carnage depending on what the secret missions will be. Lots of thinking to do before.

So there we have it, all caught up I hope.... Some enjoying the series, some not. Judging so far, no real clear winners but a definite plus point I would like to point out is the really good Friday and Saturday live feeds we are getting so far, minimal interruptions from birds and what I like to call the IKEA catalogue footage. If only the rest of the week was like that, instead of near maximum silence post nominations, because they don't want to spoil who is on the chopping block, or indeed panic when something kicks off, or they want to save particular conversations for the highlights, which is really frustrating.

Anyway, onwards and upwards as we fast approach this fake eviction malarkey..... A rating of 6.5 from me for this series so far. Still a long way to go, if we can dispose of that showmance very soon then it would be nice, but not much chance of that this week I know. Maybe the week after, and with any luck the two former housemates will only be passing through and not be eligible to win the cash.

Here's to hoping eh? 

Anyway, that's enough for today with the next episode on the horizon, and as I say on the forum:

Enjoy, complain or both. YOU decide

Keep on rocking ;)

Could and should have been a lot better (BBUK)

Good day, citizens, the day after the night before is upon us, and welcome in as the bones of Launch Night are picked through

Well, what can one say really?

Some housemates with massive social media followings already, and more or less known by many, a launch not fit for purpose, or just plain misleading

• Gani - 39 years old, and works as a night manager in a pizza parlour. Seems like a humble gentleman for now
• Cameron - Posh farmer from Somerset, probably the most normal one in there right now but could get lost amongst the louder housemates
• Nancy - Pentalingual, and a keen gamer. A hobby close to my heart.
• Caroline - The so far only 40+ housemate, but trying too hard to please already
• Zelah - 25 years old, claims to get compared to a spaniel, and lived as a woman for 23 years of his life, could be one to watch
• Teja - Doesn't like being told what to do, so she claims. The journey housemate if she gets to the end, as she's only 18
• Emily - Joined the Conservative Party at the age of 16, went for drinks at Boris Johnson's house, and hungry for a showmance.... Enough said about her I think
• Marcus - Jack the lad, serious showmance contender I reckon. Question is, who with?
• Tate - Self confessed naked butler, how long before he's in the rudie nudies in there. I dread to think
• Elsa - From the planet Dippy, claims she became Christian when she saw dead people
• Sam - Don't mean to be rude, but jeez they love the sound of their own voice
• Jenny - Irish misfit who claims she loves rule breaking, could be trouble if she stays in for very long

Housemates rating - 6.5 out of 10 so far. 

Too many influencers for my liking, some of this cast stink of being scouted/recruited. Who needs agents when you have so many followers on the various social media platforms

Where are the brunettes, redheads and Welshies, answers on a postcard please

Some breaking news from Supertv on X (formerly known as Twitter), and I'm just quoting this so please don't swing out at me if this doesn't happen 😉

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MORE HOUSEMATES ARE COMING

The Sun are reporting that MULTIPLE new housemates will enter the Big Brother House TONIGHT! They might be teased at the end of the show, BUT we won’t actually see them enter the house until tomorrow nights episode! #BBUK

As they all filed in, they were given an eye each which was vastly cut down, as the first few waited for their eye to drop from the chute on the stage, while the others had their eye waiting when they arrived on the stage, while AJ told them to hold onto their provided eye.

Then this is where things go a bit to worms, as once they were all in, and this is bearing in mind we hardly know them at all, the lines opened as we had to vote for who to put on the first chopping block which would be narrowed down to three for something else shortly afterwards 

The 5 not rights were:

Emily

Nancy

Sam 

Caroline

Cameron

If the light turned red on their podium they were in danger, everybody following this so far?

Anyway, the lights turned red for Emily, Sam and Caroline and they went off to the exit room, where the three of them will decide who will be the first evictee. HOWEVER WE won't find out the result until the next night's show, as BB in their infinite wisdom have decided to introduce the Love Island type cliffhanger, so immediately the opening night feed was in doubt. 

To say it didn't go down too well anywhere, whether it be forums or social media was a massive understatement. I mean they could have had that done and dusted straight away, but nooooooo they had to find some way to drag it out to get people to tune in the next day. It is frustrating and not a good start. They claimed it was a 'first', but I think Showbiz Simon would thoroughly disagree and he was put back in, which probably happen to whoever the evictee will. Remember we're not paying to vote someone out, so they can turn round and say 'But you didn't pay, so we can do what we like'

Who goes, THEY decide

Launch twisr rating - 3 out of 10, and that's being generous. Just a complete mess.

By the way, the feed wasn't in doubt after all and DID come on despite AJ and Will saying it was cut, although we only got about an hour of actual footage before they switched on their version of an IKEA catalogue for the rest of the feed

So overall a very frustrating and confusing opening night, where most that could go wrong did go wrong leaving the punteroonies very unhappy....

Got to do better, much much better, we have 7 weeks, surely it can't get any worse.....

Keep on rocking,'nuff said

Nearly time now..... Time to welcome in new housemates (BBUK)

It's been 4 years away in regards to this place, I know, but it's time to give another ITV series a whirl

Who will follow in Jordan and Ali's footsteps as we welcome in at least 14 new mint fresh housemates for our viewing pleasure on ITV2, the edit decides 😉

Oh boy, what a ride so far in the ITV era, winners liked and disliked in celebrity and civilian alike

Sorry for the absence, my heart went out of the North American version and felt that this place wasn't taking off as well as I hoped so I stopped until now, but I hear the VIP series from Australia wasn't all that good anyway. In that time Canada's version has been cancelled, and the call goes on on social media to reinstate it, while down under Australia's has been reinstated with all it's bells and whistles that made it great when it was in it's pomp. Hopefully I will be writing about that, but have been keeping busy with social activities in the meantime, and other things.....

To say 2024 and 2025 have been busy would be a bit of an understatement. March 2024 saw my old gran pass away, and then almost immediately in April of the same year it was her funeral and cremation, and was a long journey to scatter her ashes but finally it got done in August of this year and she got her wish of being scattered at sea. That first Christmas without her was difficult, I still miss her to this day.

As for the social stuff, have been getting out a lot more than I have with various autism groups in regards to advice in Cardiff, and social activities. Wellbeing walks, social drop ins, attending poetry and music open mic nights... That sort of thing. I am struggling with communication though, and this coming week I do start an intensive course of meetings in terms of my hoarding issues. It's been a long time coming, and I hate using the word intensive, as I get enough of that when I go for work search reviews with Universal Credit, but as the old saying goes, 'for lack of a better word'

Anyway, back to BBUK, and we have the house pics in, and must say not bad and final look at the tidy house and garden before the inmates get in there and everything is strewn about the place

Pictures here and here, with thanks to Supertv and Big Blagger. Oh yes, there is a spoiler warning in place for those who want to wait for this Sunday's launch.

Thankfully some live feed in the ITV era, and not the paltry 30 minutes we would get in the dark second era. A whole 3 hours after the spin off, and 5 hours on a Saturday and yes for those that know me on the Digital Spy forum, more specifically the Big Brother section, there will be WHATM threads (What's Happening At the Moment). WHATM has been going since the early days of that forum, still fun to this day, but I just wish the birdsong and stock footage was less in this third era so we can at least get to know them properly, and form our own opinions without being told who to like or dislike by the edit and sideshow with what we can watch and listen to live when two certain buttons are not being pushed.

I know they have to switch the birds and SF on to protect their friends and loved ones outside, and in all due respect there is less outside contact apart from letting the crowd shout to get someone out on eviction nights which is comforting, when Five would be chucking in their F and F and celebrities who would be telling them everything about the outside. Let's not forget that irritating WOOP WOOP as well, which has been a staple of the show since the dark second era unfortunately. I know it's not hurting anyone, but personally I would love to see the back of it.

I hear AJ it will be really twisty this series or WTTE. but PLEASE can we actually get to know them, as we used to in the early days before throwing them into the meat grinder with these never ending twists. I get there HAS to be an opening night twist otherwise the launch would be seen as 'boring' to some, just let us form some impressions here and there without the bird song or catalogues and just letting them breathe, but then again there is the usual pointless task a day for the highlights.

Anyway, fingers crossed this upcoming series is talked about for the right reasons, mega twists or not, and we get some long awaited LOL or WTF moments (for the right reasons of course) in the ITV era

Will see how this series goes, as it is going to be clashing with MAFS and Celebrity Traitors, hopefully lots of writing to come when there is time...

Shout out to BB on Blast, who will be doing their usual sterling work when it comes to english speaking Big Brother, listen right here as they cover this series of BBUS and then BBUK

In the meantime, enjoy what time there is before launch with Strictly Come Dancing proper starting this Saturday if you watch that, and as always keep on rocking.....