So, curtain down for another year, and the neeeeeew champion and indeed the new oldest civilian winner goes to Richard, but boy did that final week was a long slog to get to that point.
Pointless task after pointless task, with the usual tedious shit stirring thrown in for good measure. When was the last time we have had a happy final week, and why are Big Brother determined to make the finalists go home miserable. Answers on a postcard please
Right, let's get this flat final week done before some down tools, and I'm A Celebrity takes over the airwaves....
The fallout from the double eviction began with Emily saying she really liked Nancy and Caroline, she must have been the minority, although there are some pretty loyal Caroline fans right up to her demise.
Back to Emily, who's basically done NOTHING since she's been back apart from talk about the outside world to them. Just sitting there fading into the wallpaper is not a good look at all, all in all bringing back her and Farida felt like a big waste of everyone's time.
Back to the boring showmance where Elsa is constantly in fantasy land, and nauseatingly says she's never cooked a breakfast with a man before to put alongside the ridiculous notion she can't cut her own food. Elusive Emily then put some stupid idea in her head, about the L word. Dear god, Emily, don't encourage that girl, she's only known Marcus for 7 weeks.
Then a pointless task for letters from home, yes we are at that point with letters from people they will see anyway in the next few days anyway. Basically another one in involving those eyes and this is thankfully the final one for this series, thank eff for that.
Cameron - Had to catch the eyes being thrown over the wall, however many he caught would be added to his final total
Marcus - Involved stirring as he was asked who was the most jarring housemate with the prize being 20 eyes, big sigh as BB just can't help themselves, even in the final week
Teja - More stirring as she was asked to identify who nominated her the most this series, prize being 20 eyes....
And so it went on, adding absolutely nothing apart from that little bit more tension, do we really care how many eyes they have left to play with? Hell no.....
The mini mart opened for the final time, as everyone got their letter anyway including Emily, to which Richard sellotaped her shredded letter back together, and this episode just went on and on and on and on..... Think you get the picture with this one. Just feels by now this series has run out of ideas and we all want it to be over, always the case with the final week, it just drags as the housemates have mentally checked out and out here is no different, and the constant stirring to send them home miserable just drags everything down.
Oh boy, it just gets better....not. More stirring as they now face more decisions as that one thing nobody wanted, as in the pass to the final. 3 days before the end, and they roll this out. So to cut a long story short, the housemates competed in several challenges and the last two standing would be eligible for the pass. Unfortunately the dominoes didn't fall right and Jenny and Cameron were the last two standing on this occasion. Complete waste of time in whoever got it, as both were locked in finalists anyway and were going nowhere in the backdoor double eviction planned for the week, to get it down to 6.
Anyway, the housemates decided to award the pass to Cameron. Yawn, next.....
Oh dear, just put us and them out of their misery as we now head into a completely pointless task involving 'King Cameron', basically another pointless exercise to fill out the whole episode. Think this goes into the 'less said the better' file.
Oh, must we? Last task of the series and some very subtle Wicked For Good promotion as the house is transformed into the Emerald City, and the housemates take on the role of Ozians, while BB becomes the Wizard. What they don't know is two of them will be turfed out at the end of the task when two will receive their marching orders in the shape of gifts.
Yes, some more stirring, BB being so original as usual. Just let them leave happy for a change. It isn't that difficult. Anyway, on to the gifts and it's Marcus and Teja getting the dubious honour of leaving via the backdoor. This inevitably sets off Elsa, who has a bit of a OTT meltdown and threatens to leave. I will say if this had been a normal eviction, she would have probably legged it out of the door with him. Remember when Imran left and Sukhvinder decided to run out after him? Something like that....
You'll be seeing him in 24 hours, you silly girl. Pull yourself together, 'nuff said....
Now the moment we have all been waiting for, crowning Richard. As predicted for most weeks now....
But first, the Last Supper nonsense with all the usual tears and speeches, so moving swiftly on.....
6th place went to Tate, and 5th to Emily. No surprises there really, although Tate did slightly more than Emily. As said earlier, waste of time putting her back in. Some will say she can now walk out to a crowd, something which she was denied in fairness but she did NOTHING on returning.
4th went to Cameron.... Didn't really need the money to be honest, so moving swiftly on
Bronze medal went to Jenny.... Bit of a surprise, as most were expecting her and Richard in the final 2
Silver medal to Elsa.... Guess she could give thanks to the demons, dragons, unicorns and Santa Claus for helping her to get this far
And of course, Richard is crowned winner. An all round good egg even if he was in bed really early. Took all of Caroline's barbs on the chin, and won the war when she was booted.
Less said of the final sideshow the better, nothing but stirring and bitterness right to the end. Let's leave it there. Speaking of the sideshow, strong rumours it has now been cancelled. ITV will announce future plans in due course, hopefully those plans will include the live feed which is also rumoured for the chop. I am just worried, will it be total Love Island type control in 2026 with no sideshow and possibly no live feed?
Anyway, a just above average series, with way too much stirring for my liking which bought the general mood down. No qualms about the cast, the right winner although it was a toss up between Richard and Jenny right to finale night and very nervy the longer Jenny stayed in.
So it was a long slog, so I'm going to go about 6.5 for this series, maybe not a series that will be largely talked about in 10 years when we look back. 'nuff said....
Won't be commenting on BBAU, as I will be focusing on I'm A Celebrity for the duration, but will watch BBAU back at my own pace, due to real life commitments. My name is Richard, and yes I am a hoarder, the clean up with Hoarding UK is continuing as I write this. Can't thank them enough for helping me, and a shout out to Helen who is my case worker.
Speaking of shout outs, a big one to BB on Blast for everything they do and continue to do for the Big Brother community in general, with their great pods for UK and now Australia. Click right here
The door closes on the 2025 run, and hopefully I will be back in 2026 as we welcome in new celebrities and new civilians....
Until then, thank you everyone who has read these recaps and ramblings, and leave a comment if you wish. See everyone in 2026.....
Keep on rocking.....
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