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 ;)