Im only 2 eps in and I LOVE it! Not sure of anyone’s name yet outside Chantelle and her husband, but they seem to be a great group to watch. Oh my days how revolting is that overweight old man who picks his nose and ears it?! He was in a recent celebrity version.
One thing I am having trouble with, I am struggling to find a YouTube link. The one I am watching has lagging audio.
Do you know, as vile as he is, I REALLY enjoyed watching him.John is vile... I don't really know why they put him in there outside of the tree of temptation task... I mean it's not like they were short on pot stirrers for this series...
As for links I think the best channel is TheBBCouchPotatoes which is the link I posted above... I'm actually shocked that pretty much every other series has been posted in full episodes and in high quality and UBB is stuck in 2010...
Hey King, been so busy lately my watching has been spasmodic to say the least...
Still loving it though. A funny for you, I uploaded an episode and I am thinking “oh my God I swear I don’t remember any of these housemates... my drug fucked brain is REALLY getting worse... Charlotte from Geordie is in it!” Then the penny dropped, my watching the wrong ep!
Hey I remember there was some angst with a poster who adored Nikki Graham, refresh my memory on the back story. My least favourite for today is Nadia. Could change tomorrow.[DOUBLEPOST=1528927265][/DOUBLEPOST]
Do you know, as vile as he is, I REALLY enjoyed watching him.
It’s all good I need to get back on the train as well... I have four jobs at the moment and the last few weeks have left me completely wiped to the point where I keep forgetting to watch...
The Nikki drama was with @bluegroper... He’s been obsessed with her since she was on BB7 and would literally find every opportunity to post about her... To the point where he’d build shrines (entire threads) in her honour... It all got a little too much (after 4+ years of repetitive posts) and borderline creepy as he has kids her age... He once flew from Sydney to London for her birthday party...
He went in to a self imposed exile after he got sick of me calling him out on it and he flipped his shit when the mods put a censor on the word Nikki... This was probably around the same time you joined and it was literally Kingston against everyone else...
He started posting again when she was on BBCAN so to ensure things didn’t get out of control again instigated a little spat and wound up with a week or two vacation... I think he went back in exile when he realized people were more interested in Tim...
As for UBB I actually feel sorry for Nadia... Her confidence is just a facade as underneath she’s exremely insecure... You can tell by the way she lashes out and has a meltdown anytime she gets in to a tough situation... It’s her crutch... I can’t imagine she’s had an easy go at life either... I can’t imagine what it would have been like to transition in the early 2000’s... Just being gay at that time was still reletively taboo... Trans people in the media at that time were still very much a joke... That show that tried to trick straight men in to dating a trans woman named Miriam aired at the same time that Nadia’s series did...
I’m not really a big fan of Coolio and his ultra macho ego... He literally picked out Nadia because she was clearly the weakest out of the group...
So of course the series wouldn’t have existed without the gimmick… I just think it looked better on paper than it was executed. It doesn’t feel like BB.Oh, I loved Celebrity Hijack and without the gimmick the series wouldn't have existed so of course it was centre stage.
And of course BBUSA effectively tried to replicated it about a decade later with their "BB Takeover" twist but it was poorly executed and dropped within 3 weeks under the guise that it was getting in the way of the game.
Perhaps a rewatch is in order if all you remember is Matt Lucas. I definitely give the series credit for having tried and I agree it was an interesting take on the CBB format but it just didn't work. Some of the hijackers had clearly never watched the show, others were extremely unprofessional (Janet Street-Porter swore at HM's on several occasions, Chris Moyles, John McCririck, and Russell Brand's behaviour with some female HM's bordered on sexual harassment), and most were a complete mess.(Kelly Osborne and "Trash Pussies").Matt Lucas is pretty much the only hijacker I remember, but remember a few of the HMs. It was a very strong cast so I get where you're coming from that it perhaps didn't need the hijackers, but I thought it was a fairly original twist on the concept of Celebrity Big Brother.
I agree. I have spent years reading about BBUK so I have a lot spoilt for me already, I know every winner which does kinda suck. But that does not worry me, I watched all 40 seasons of Survivor US and knew the winner of about 30+ but still enjoyed them. I know all of the twists and who are the legends of the series as well. But I have never sat down and watched more than one or two series in full. I think 2006 is the only one I have actually watched from start to finish without a break in-between. I definitely aim to attempt this sometime in the future. I may even write my thoughts on the housemates and series like I have with Australia (with spoiler tags). Or maybe that's a bit much? I'll decide after I take a break from binging BB and actually enjoy the outside world.I think though you'd appreciate the quieter classic era of BB1-4 given your recent rewatch of the early Aussie seasons.