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Heavens above, what a weekend in the BB house. Glastonbury might have been brilliant and the footie might have been drawing to a close, but there was a lot going on in the House. On Thursday, vicious dwarf Dennis showed his true colours and spat in Mo's face. That apparently wasn't as bad as Rex defacing princess Jennifer's painting. That little harridan shrieked and whined like a spoilt child and whipped up the tension between the luxury bedroom gang and the B-Block posse. As a side point, is it possible for Jennifer to eat with her mouth closed? It's not nice and surely as a mother, she should know better. Mind you, she seems to have forgotten the fact that she's got a child, at least for the summer anyway.
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It's been on for what seems like months and yet Big Brother still has a gaggle of housemates. Thankfully, Alex was escorted off the premises last week and hopefully this week poisonous show-off Sylvia will be out on her ear. I can't imagine the reception Alex would have got if there was a crowd outside. Her limbs would have been ripped from her body and there would have been world record boos from a crowd not normally known for its charity. As we edge towards this week's nominations I have one, burning question: Sylvia or dullard Mo are welcome evictees but seriously, why aren't they nominating Mikey?
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It's been on for what seems like months and yet Big Brother still has a gaggle of housemates. Thankfully, Alex was escorted off the premises last week and hopefully this week poisonous show-off Sylvia will be out on her ear. I can't imagine the reception Alex would have got if there was a crowd outside. Her limbs would have been ripped from her body and there would have been world record boos from a crowd not normally known for its charity. As we edge towards this week's nominations I have one, burning question: Sylvia or dullard Mo are welcome evictees but seriously, why aren't they nominating Mikey?
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I've said that this series was make-or-break for Big Brother. However, after covering the opening night, the one that sees BB setting out its stall, it's clear that no lessons have been learned from previous series. To only further the case, Alexandra De-Gale has been removed from the result of her repeated intimidating and horrendous behaviour. This could hardly have been a surprise for the producers. I'd only seen her for 10 seconds on the opening night and said "Alexandra... comes a horribly misguided sense of self-worth. I imagine she's going to be argumentative and begin sentences with 'I'm not being funny yeah? But...'".
It seems that Channel 4 are intent on causing forced furore or, weirdly, that Alexandra was some kind of sacrificial lamb so that the producers could show everyone that they're doing right this year. Either way, I can't take it seriously as it's the producers who caused this to happen in the first place. It reminds me of that tale when someone throws a gun at someone's feet and tells them to pick it up and when they do, they shoot 'em saying "you saw it everybody, he had a gun...".
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I am fully aware that not everyone on this site is a keen Big Brother fan, and I'm also guessing that not many people who read TV Scoop are into the venerable reality show either. But it's a fact that Big Brother is still watched by millions and is, along with some football tournament or other, dominating the schedules at the moment. BB has already hit the headlines thanks to fake weddings and an unhealthy portion of extreme bitchiness, bu has it actually been any good this year (so far)? Everyone says that last year's was the dullest series in living memory (it really was), so how is it panning this year? And what is it with this Alex woman?
[Image: Rex Features]
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I'm not sure what I think of John Cleese. I mean, he's done a load of stuff that's made me weep with shuddering laughter. However, he's also done a load of dross (namely rubbish commercials). Either way, I've got time for anyone who was one of the Monty Python crew, and as such, I'm pretty cheery about this latest rant from the gangliest man in comedy.
In his blog, Cleese ranted about Big Brother, saying that; "It's not widely known that the producers of Celebrity Big Brother have attempted to recruit yours truly for every UK series so far. In fact, they have frequently resorted to quite ludicrous levels of bribery, sending in the post entirely shameless blandishments of a most extravagant nature, all of which of course have had to be returned with a kind refusal note." Want more? Read over...
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Seriously. Stick a hand up if you like seeing people suffer. Now, I'm not talking about some gritty Jimmy McGovern drama, but rather, real people, really being made to suffer. We're not talking about stealing someone's fags either... more like the kind of suffering you can imagine if you got a heroin addict, took away their gear and stuck them in a clear plastic hutch on the corner of Oxford Street with a series of magnifying glasses concentrating the heat of the sun on to their naked flash. That kind of suffering. Am I right in assuming that no-one really wants anyone to suffer that much?
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