another last thoughts on BB12. Both the Palmer sisters seemed to have speculation about what their actual age was as well, I remember Faye's intro VT had her at 20, then after a few would refer to her being 'only 19... is she 19?' and then The BB Eye Art judging segment on BOTS had her as '19-20-21?' and now I see wikipedia lists her as 22 at the time. Jem on the other hand appeared to be caught out during the Icemates task iirc revealing her real age as 28 and not 25 she presented as initially (She has her own wiki page with more info about her appearance on Gladiators, with her birth date).
Also I knew Aaron was the winner beforehand but every time he was up it wasn't a H2H (except the Aaron V Jem week initially) so there was still some mystery there for me who would go. It was interesting watching though as well becuase I was trying to figure out how he pulled it off being on the outs of the house from practically the outset at times there, He was fortunate to have had a good support from the public I suppose all those times he was up and through to the Finale.
CBB9 (Jan 2012) Begins Week 1 Part a (Launch to Day 7 Eviction):
Launch: The house has been given a bit of a spruce up, bit of a cozy brown and Red kinda decor happening in the lounge, kinda reminded me a little of CBB7 also with a bit more Wooden style flooring in the garden it seems, the heated lounge area off to the side with a fireplace motif plus the Suana has been replaced with a Hotub in the corner there. The Bath has been moved to the corner of the bathroom, and The Bedroom has a cool teal kindof feel with dark carpet and a hint of some purple maybe, It reminds me a little of BB7’s Bedroom in some ways. The Diary room chair is kinda like a tree branch without leaves. The Eye logo has a purple storm cloud theme in it.
First housemate in is Natalie Cassidy, who is an Actress that has been on Eastenders. Opening night twist seems to be a revisit of the BB in your earpiece secret task like in Celeb Hijack, only this time if Natalie fails any instructions, a housemate loses their suitcase until further notice. Next in is American Actor Michael Madsen who was in Reservoir Dogs. We got some familiar faces like Andrew Stone and Nicola MacClean who we have seen on the show or on the side shows before, Plus some archetypal kinda casting of Kirk Norwood from TOWIE, an X Factor Contestant in Frankie Cocozza (had an ejection scandal from the season just played) Natasha Giggs, a ‘celeb by proxy’ who’s backstory is her 8 year affair with her BIL, a football player Ryan Giggs, and theres another set of Twins, this time its Karissa & Kristina Shannon, who have been in the Playboy mansion.
Rounding out the cast we have Gareth Thomas, a Welsh rugby player who recently came out, Georgia Salpa, and Irish model who kinda looks similar to Kim Kardashian, Romeo (from So Solid Crew), and Denise Welch (From Loose Women and Corrie).
Natalie does well with her task, including kissing Frankie at several points, Constantly telling Nicola she’s ok with her being in the house after they’ve apparently had some Twitter wars; and trying to do an emotional speech and crying. She only gets one fail which when revealed to the others, Romeo puts himself forward to give up his suitcase for now.
Friday: Mini task to win back Romeo’s suitcase is to find out which of them fit in the ‘connection point’ between two statements to light up the circuit to the light bulb at the end. They each tell their stories including Andrew Stone Auditioned for X Factor in the early seasons. They succeed in finding the connections. Later Kirk gets a Diary room task played to the others to win an Essex themed party by locating same named places around the world on a world map, however he gets everything quite wrong except for of corse, Essex. Geography not his strong suit clearly. Afterwards he seems to be trying to flirt with Georgia.
Saturday: Jodie Marsh is the special guest in the house today setting a task based around bodybuilding competitions. The Housemates are divided into red and Blue teams with team captains Romeo and Gareth and are set some mini challenges. Natalie and Michael have an egg eating face off, Natalie wins as Michael left one part of his egg on the floor off the table. Next they all get fake tanned up like bodybuilders and pose for Jodie. She gives Blue team some extra seconds head start for the final in that one.
Next K & K face off in a Bleep test in large task room which is based around walking down a catwalk and posing for the camera flash at the end. Final Task is team captains to climb to the top of a 50 ft(?) ladder rope picking up letters of ‘Celebrity’ along way, Gareth gets 5 second head start but Romeo overtakes and wins a dinner for Red team. Later The Twins are joking with Kirk and Frankie, earlier they said Kirk talks too much and may be trying to hard to get with them in diary room, Then Frankie asking about Playboy mansion again, they offend him for a moment calling him Justin Bieber. Nicola and Kirk have chat in the bath to end the episode.
Sunday: Nominations: Andrew 7, Georgia 5. Andrew cops a lot for making them too aware of the Cameras. He seems to get in a mood about it but insists he’s fine and he’s just feeling judged but if he goes out he has his head held high that he’s being himself. Nicola asks Georgia about her boobs and the girls all flock to the bathroom to compare. K&K and Georgia compare nominations so it looks like they are still letting them talk about noms freely as there was no pull up by BB.
Monday: Jedward return to the house to small task room as Heavenly Cherubs that have a little statue out in the garden lounge area that they use to secretly talk to Denise and Natalie and give them secret tasks. First to take Michaels cowboy hat and deliver it to their hatch, Make Karissa a sandwich and deliver it after she’s taken a bite, and get a lock of Frankie’s Hair (which Denise gets doing some type of pre stage get together thing she says she did). They win a secret wine and dinner in Diary room. Andrew was in a mood still earlier and Natalie said she felt the atmosphere but he’s improved and leading the house in a dance routine with some group choreography.
Tuesday: Shopping task is themed around Fairytale land, with Marcus Bentley narrating whilst reading it like a storybook kinda thing. Karissa comes to Diary room first and is cast as Goldilocks picking the other roles. The other characters will all face tasks in order to keep 100 of the 600 coins in the chest in the garden for the shopping budget.
First task is Prince (Gareth) trying to climb across a wobbly sting ladder to rescue Rapunzel (Georgia) by unlocking her padlock. He flips over during it but manages to stay on and pass. When ‘Big Bad Wolf’ is played, Nicola (Wolf which she wasn’t that amused by being given by Karissa) and Red Riding Hood (Natalie) must scramble to bed put on rest of costume and Natalie to say the lines Oh My What big ‘’ you have. However the music cuts before Natalie can say her lines so they fail that one.
Kristina (Beauty) and the rest of the housemates must match so many of Andrews (The Beast) rankings in the diary room.of if he thinks he’s less or more attractive than pictured housemate. They fail 5 times so thats a fail. Meanwhile a continual task for the 3 pigs (Kirk, Romeo and Frankie) is when the huff puff line is played, to run outside don their googles and hold their straw house in the circle from being blown away by the wolf that comes in to turn on the giant fan in the garden.
Wednesday: 2nd half of Fairytale task. in the morning The 3 Pigs successfully hold the house down again, Goldilocks and the three bears (just Denise) have to come to the diary room and Goldilocks tastes each of a large medium and small bowl. Big is Spicy, Middle is fishy, and small seems ok to Karissa until BB reveals its Cow urine, to which she freaks out a bit. She opts for the large bowl of just right whilst Denise has to also finish the other two to pass the task but Karissa isn’t having it so they quit.
Finally Gepetto and Pinocchio (Michael and Natasha) must guess between two identical statements, who said it. Which they manage to get all 5 right. Although Nicola feels her chat with Kirk the other night about how Georgia is pretty but not much about her going on is slightly taken out of context. The housemates come off £300 up on budget. Frankie talking about how Miley Cyrus has gone ‘Naughty’ with her music. Just you wait until BANGERZ! I’m thinking lol.
Fairytale ball party, during which clock strikes ‘midnight’ and Andrew evicted in a pumpkin carriage pulled by a pony from the garden around to the stage. Georgia then in the diary room played to the others has to choose Fridays 2 nominees. She squirms around for a bit then gives Natasha and Nicola as names. They tell her everyone understands. Later Denise gets a bit snippy with Michael asking him what he goes to BB Diary room so long to talk about (as a joke) and tells him to piss off cause she feels he’s starting to come across aggressive about her asking him.
Thursday: Jedward Cherubs are back, they tell the Twins to take Michael hat from the Hatch and hide it in Denise’s bed (Michaels already cross with Denise after last nights tiff.) Then They tell them to throw Frankie’s clothes in the pool, he’s not very happy with them. Although the housemates are told it was for a secret task, and also Michael tells Denise he knew someone was trying to set her up, the housemates win a playboy themed party that night. Kirk and Georgia have still been chatting, he jumps into bed with her for a cuddle later on but then seems to suddenly have second thoughts and goes back to his bed.
Friday: Frankie and Romeo get a secret task for Romeo to coach Frankie’s dating game with both Karissa and Kristina in the small task room. He drinks from champagne bottle and burps during Karissa’s date, so gets a 0 rating from her, whilst he improves after a talk with Romeo on the 2nd date and gets a 10, earning the house drinks as announced later that evening. Michael and Denise clash again as He refuses to play into her fun hypothetical at the lunch table about last supper requests on death row and stuff, then later asks him to let her finish speaking when she’s trying to sort something out with him in the bedroom.
Just before Natasha is evicted (at a surprise to Nicola and some viewers as she was getting some boos and it was a close eviction apparently), Natasha and Kirk joke that they should kiss if she stays or something, Nicola is a bit put off by that and likes her but also conflicted thinking she’s a serial flirt (Kirk and Natasha were also joking around during the playboy party cuddling and she had somewhat of a wardrobe nip moment). Later on the housemates get a bit drunk in the hot tub playing truth or dare and it looks like Nicola getting dangerously close to Frankies face as if she would kiss him, Romeo comes to get her to take her off to bed as the Twins point it out she’s looking like she’s acting messy.
BOTS: The Sunday Quiz episode now has Jamie as a regular team captain, and a rotating guest team captain each week. This week it was Amy Childs, with Mark Little and Jodie Marsh on Jamie’s team. Mark BB12 was the scorer, nude (as usual) wearing a BBEye headdress and the scoreboard over himself. He also was the subject of this weeks Carole distraction which was a homage to the Stuck in the Middle with you Ear scene reference of Michael in Reservoir Dogs. Mark Little andJamie did an Egg eating challenge as a round with the eggs having flavours representing each housemate, and theres a new caption game where they draw what they think is missing from the screenshot. Pick the headline was also different it was guess which housemate these online comments are about.
Saturday’s episode is hosted by Alice, but its got a theme now too - a chat show with a couch full of the guests instead of a panel desk, Theres a food van outside fora segment (had Nancy Lamb on , and Rustie Lee). The Musical Outros this week included guest Cheryl Baker and the others in Bucks Fizz doing their 1981 Eurovision song, Andrew Stone doing Moves Like Jagger, and Ben Ofeudo covering Phats & Small ‘Turn around’. There was also a Frankie impersonator as an intro doing ‘I Gotta Feeling’.
Jamie has a recurring segment playing six degrees of separation between a housemate and another celebrity, also a Phone room segment where he takes viewers calling in about some various top discussion topics of the night. The digital segment guys Henry and Ian also have a bit of a segment and Victor has a VT skit about viewing the house from inside a suitcase. Emma also had a chat to Hugh Hefner on video link.
Some of the other guests Included Aaron BB12, Aisleyne BB7 (She knows Georgia apparently), Pete Burns, 2 Shoes and Craig Colton from X Factor, Ulrika, Dom Jolly (playing a did they say they’d ... match up game segment), etc.
Haha it’s been alright so far, I do notice he gets a bit animated calling the challenge task segments sometimes.
There’s a little bit of use of flashbacks he narrates as well but usually at the start of the ep. Sometimes they will be stuff they couldn’t/didn’t fit into the end of the daily show before for context here and there.
Thinking back Marcus also had a few moments kinda borderline like that during 11 as well (remember the come dine with me task, and his appearance during ignore the obvious lol)
