The reboots are only six weeks long so suffer from that with too many housemates and backdoor evictions but otherwise the first two are watchable enough with enough stories going on. Didn't watch the third myself - they put too many right wing political knobheads in there who were just not watchable.
If you want to try something shorter to test the water the second Celeb BB revival series is perhaps a better bet than the first.
The reboots are only six weeks long so suffer from that with too many housemates and backdoor evictions but otherwise the first two are watchable enough with enough stories going on. Didn't watch the third myself - they put too many right wing political knobheads in there who were just not watchable.
If you want to try something shorter to test the water the second Celeb BB revival series is perhaps a better bet than the first.
The show itself also focused way too much on political stuff rather than just showcasing fun or dramatic moments that are based from their time in the house. Because the show itself only focuses on two things apparently: political talk and tasks.
I haven't watched the third revival series because of that and the reasons mentioned as well. I heard that there's an episode in the finale where a task took the majority of the episode, as described here: (I hate this wikipedia page with a passion - they put way too much detail on each summary that's not a summary anymore)
Ended up deciding to watch Season 14 / 2013 as I had thought it was one I had not watched (I may have started it and dropped it) before we eventually make our way to 2020s BBUK as a safer choice - thanks both!
Ended up deciding to watch Season 14 / 2013 as I had thought it was one I had not watched (I may have started it and dropped it) before we eventually make our way to 2020s BBUK as a safer choice - thanks both!
I just finished 14, It had a lot of characters and they really played well with the theme of Secrets & Lies (my season cap off posts coming shortly). Also nearly up to the first eviction of CBB12.
Saturday: Mini task Marcus Bentley announces actions to the house including a big Food fight + Gina cleaning it up, Pillow fight, Sam and Jack holding hands and walking around the garden, and Charlie & Dexter in the treehouse telling each other how they feel about each other plus a kiss from Charlie to Dexter - Twice.
Later they get a Caribbean beach bbq party and limbo game with special celeb guest Levi Roots (who was on one of the recent two CBBs on ITV). Charlie and Dexter are still trying to work each other out and whatever the status of their ârelationshipâ is, with both in the diary room Dexter saying they might see if theyâll remain friends on the outside as far as he concerned in the house itâs not going any further, hampered by the love triangle thing perhaps, but Charlie reiterating to BB she doesnât like him in that way.
Sunday: Sophie gets a word association diary room task for sweets. Thereâs a pas to the final up for grabs, but only if the housemates vote unanimously. Dexter puts on a bit of an impassioned case, however the votes come in and nearly all of them are different, including no one voting for Charlie, which has her having a teary moment in the bathroom after speaking with Dexter.
Monday: The housemates speculate that there might be a twist with the last noms like Everyone is up but because Charlie was the only one that didnât get a vote in the pass to the final vote, she is the one that will get it.
Mini Task for Sam to win more treats the less Housemates laugh at his Stand up comedy show Samâs LOL Fest. He must try to be unfunny but the housemates laugh at a few so he only gets one Cupcake.
Face to Face Noms puts everyone except Gina and Sophie up. Gina and the others question how much time Charlie and Dexter are spending with each other and Charlie following him around now Hazels left, Gina also questions and reflects on Charlieâs time in the house.
Tuesday: Rescue Squad HQ shopping task begins, they answer the flash phone for different emergency tasks such as catching dropping food out of the town hall building on fire, etc. Gina and Sam go to the Sewer (large task room) and have to press buttons simultaneously after breaking apart taped together on a chair to save the food items from a Laser, which they complete.
Later Charlie and Dexter must unscrew plates to 3 quotes from BOTS guests Vanessa Feltz, Terry Christian and Joe Swash and answer them by cutting the wire of the face of the housemate to a bomb of food items plus Tweets from fans in 5 minutes which they also complete and get to read the fans tweets on the TV later.
Charlie brings up to Dexter she hopes heâs been genuine and its not a game plan Dexter gets a bit taken aback and Charlie says forget it just lets get on with the last few days in the house.
Wednesday: Finale of shopping task, Dexter and Joe must move and manoeuvre their cuffed piece along a pipe track in the sewer to other side of room and press the steamroller switch off before it steamrolls all the food items theyâve collected thus far outside. They make it with a lot of items.
Next the housemates are all called to the lounge area where theres some podiums for the nominees and the lighting goes dark. Theyâre told they will each go one by one to the task room to select the lowest amount they would walk for out of the prize fund. Dexter and Charlie rock off for going last, which Dexter wins. Also playing into it was the amounts on the wall in a 10x10 ish grid were not in any apparent order or increments except the obvious ones like highest being ÂŁ100K and lowest being just ÂŁ1. Once selected, they put it inside their briefcase to reveal at the end, kinda Deal or No Deal style, so the next one coming in mightâve found it hard to deduce what the highest amount left actually was.
Sam takes the 100K, The Twins dither a bit over the mid 90âs amounts and go for the 96,850 over the 95K, Charlie takes the 99K, and lastly Dexter was revealed to have taken the ÂŁ88,800. BB then reveals no one is going anywhere and this exercise was yet another lie. I thought it was pretty well done twist actually as a variation on last seasons White Room twist to get them talking about their motivations heading into the finale. The sting in the tail is Dexter for being the âleast selfishâ (in a twisted kinda way as was later discussed) has bought himself a place in the final, but now must replace himself with either Gina or Sophie to face eviction this Friday. He reluctantly chooses Sophie, which she understands having a close friendship with Gina.
This conundrum of a twist of course sets the house discussing it for the rest of the night, with Sam calling Dexter out for coming across like a game player for his explanation to Charlie at first being he, as a gambler, sussed out all the remaining figures, however somehow failed to see that there was both a 90K and 95K figure remaining above 88K, but also he wanted to stay and not leave, and didnât want to leave with the ultimate lowball of just ÂŁ1 leaving the eventual winner with the bulk of the remainder, which wouldâve surely meant guaranteed eviction if it werenât a lie or perhaps something else to the twist maybe.
Looking back there wasnât actually that many figures though in the 90-100K range iirc, so anyone going last wouldâve had a slightly difficult time figuring out if 90 or 95 wasnât the highest lowest iykwim figure left anyway, or Dexter couldâve also softened it more perhaps by lowballing it below half, taking a ÂŁ30K or 40K amount still leaving the winner with the bulk of the remainder if he had left with it, instead of the 11,200 it would have been. I dunno it was a good twist on the twist, a lot of conflicting ways and angles to think about what would have been a good way to play it to still come out of it with your image in the game in the best light possible, especially the person going last.
Thursday: Gina gets a secret task to be Big Brothers Best Friend with an earpiece giving style advice to Sam, saying to Charlie she thinks she should go on Friday, and causing a strop, she has it out with the Twins gossiping about her. BB reveals all later on.
Friday: Applause by Lady Gaga is the soundtrack of the wake up montage, you can tell itâs August 2013, and they used it quite a bit over the week as ill mention in the CBB12 opening, haha. Gina and Dexter get a mini task to be genies for the others, doing things for them like a makeover for Sophie, Massage for Charlie, Playing football with Sam and they sing Karaoke to I Will Survive for the twins (BOTS also shows them asking them to act like seals in the pool).
Twins are saved first in the Eviction, Sophie is evicted much to Charlieâs shock she thought she was going (and apparently it was a close one under 2% of the evict vote). Charlie and Dexter still at odds over what they are, Charlie still saying part of her thinks hes genuine and the other unsure if sheâs being mugged off. Dexter doesnât know how he can make it any clearer to her and says he loves her even if nothings gonna happen and wants her to know that. The others are also discussing it as usual.
Saturday and Sunday: The Final 5 have a press conference style set up where they answer viewer questions, video questions from Vanessa Feltz, John McCririck and Judi James, and see some video messages from the diary room from some of the ex housemates like Dan, Callum and Hazel. Afterwards they have a dinner making toasts and hearing some messages from home, Jackie comes on for Charlie. Sam tells Gina he admires her and would want a gf like her haha. Everyone makes their final thoughts on the Season.
Finale night, the order is Charlie, Jack & Joe, Gina, Dexter, and Sam winning.
BOTS: Some guests this week included TOWIEâs Bobby Norris, BB8âs Liam back and having a go at doing Emmaâs Autocue, Will Best was on the âLast Thursday of Civilianâ party themed episode. Matt Johnson filled in for Iain Lee on BOTP this week as he was abroad, with Sophieâs nan Iris also joining her on the panel. Dr Pam Spurrâs segment was about who of the last 5 CBB winners the housemates compared themselves to, and Diane Youdale led Hazel and AJ in some aerobics in a VT.
Quite a few musical guests this week, there was Tich with her song âObsessionâ, BB12âs Jay McKray with âDanceâ, a 1D tribute act (âOne Direction Adventureâ) for the party ep singing âKiss Youâ, The Vamps with âCan We Danceâ, and in the post finale ep, Jemima, Wolfy, Jackie, Dan, Callum, Hazel and Sophie appeared in a music video set to Will Youngâs âJealousyâ to cap off the season.
