🇬🇧 BB/CBB UK - Rewatch discussions

[Brekkie]

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.

 

[Duechayapol]

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)

 

[Wormow]

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 want him to experience a long series haha

 

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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 want him to experience a long series haha

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.

 

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BBUK14 Week 9/Finale:

• 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 ‘relationship’ is, with both in the diary room Dexter saying they might see if they’ll remain friends on the outside as far as he concerned in the house it’s not going any further, hampered by the love triangle thing perhaps, but Charlie reiterating to BB she doesn’t like him in that way.
  
  
• Sunday: Sophie gets a word association diary room task for sweets. There’s 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 didn’t 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 Sam’s 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 Charlie’s 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 he’s 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 they’ve 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. They’re 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 £100K and lowest being just £1. 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 might’ve found it hard to deduce what the highest amount left actually was.
• Sam takes the 100K, The Twins dither a bit over the mid 90’s amounts and go for the 96,850 over the 95K, Charlie takes the 99K, and lastly Dexter was revealed to have taken the £88,800. 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 ‘least selfish’ (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 didn’t want to leave with the ultimate lowball of just £1 leaving the eventual winner with the bulk of the remainder, which would’ve surely meant guaranteed eviction if it weren’t a lie or perhaps something else to the twist maybe.
• Looking back there wasn’t actually that many figures though in the 90-100K range iirc, so anyone going last would’ve had a slightly difficult time figuring out if 90 or 95 wasn’t the highest lowest iykwim figure left anyway, or Dexter could’ve also softened it more perhaps by lowballing it below half, taking a £30K 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 it’s 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 Charlie’s 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 she’s being mugged off. Dexter doesn’t 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 TOWIE”s Bobby Norris, BB8’s Liam back and having a go at doing Emma’s Autocue, Will Best was on the ‘Last Thursday of Civilian’ party themed episode. Matt Johnson filled in for Iain Lee on BOTP this week as he was abroad, with Sophie’s nan Iris also joining her on the panel. Dr Pam Spurr’s 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 ‘Obsession’, BB12’s Jay McKray with ‘Dance’, a 1D tribute act (‘One Direction Adventure’) for the party ep singing ‘Kiss You’, The Vamps with ‘Can We Dance’, and in the post finale ep, Jemima, Wolfy, Jackie, Dan, Callum, Hazel and Sophie appeared in a music video set to Will Young’s ‘Jealousy’ to cap off the season.

 

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BBUK14 Overall Season thoughts:

I thought this season was pretty well done, the way the theme of Secrets and Lies was woven in. Emma did a good job at hosting and doing double duty mid week on BOTS, and the addition of Rylan and AJ was good. Other stuff I’ve already mentioned throughout ,it was also interesting to see them go back to Vote to Evict. Having 3 minimum nominees and the changing ways of the save and or replace from week to week was well done also, as well as using the Safe house a few different ways past that initial fake eviction a few weeks more was also interesting.

Bit on the Psych was ok, although it was more a concentrated version of some of the segments they already still had during the week. Rylan’s Sunday was probably the closest thing we’ve had in a while since maybe OkTV to the BBLB afternoon/evening feel and there were some good musical guests.

I think this season could be split into perhaps about 3 acts, I’d probably put the first as Peoples Puppet to the Safe House double fake eviction/Wolfy’s Eviction in Week’s 3 and 4, Then Week 5 with Daley’s Ejection to Week 6 with Dan’s exit brought another bit of a shift, Weeks 7-9 the home run.

Housemates Part A

• Sallie: she was chaotic, in a way it was a very tough combo of choices who was up first , otherwise we would’ve had Gina or Dexter out first, although would Sallie have ended up having a similar arc to Gina or she perhaps would’ve been out still in the following few weeks. After the show she’s had some further wacky appearances such on the plastic surgery show botched and had to pay back an overpayment of benefits or something. She had some funny one liner moments such as her attempted takedown of Dexter and the spat with Gina (Primark shoes).
  
  
• Michael: did a good job with that first twist, on one hand like I mentioned it perhaps could have gone a little further, but on the other it was good also for it to have done its job for instant effect in the opening week and then left the house to develop a bit more organically from there. They were pretty much onto him anyway and I did see an article from 2019 where he said he declined to extend his stay because he’s had enough and the house dynamic was starting to get to him a little bit as well. Looks like he continued acting in theatre roles.
  
  
• Jemima: She started out alright but got a little sidelined with the assumption she was creeping on Sam and then Jackie Travers coming in and kinda stealing her thunder as an older parental/big sister role in the house. And then of course she had a few arguments that spiralled a bit like the big blow up with Dan and Jackie that went against her a bit. Since she left she had a bit of a twitter war with Sallie, and has continued doing work for animal charity.
  
  
• Wolfy: Also had a bit of a rollercoaster run with the public where she started out appreciated for her kookiness but then she got emotional and bowled over by the Michael task and also Dan’s interrogations which she felt were on the bullying side, that made her flip to the ‘im gonna win this’ mode which came off as overconfidence to the outside.
  
  A big branching moment was her eviction, and indeed the safe house vote, she could’ve been gone then potentially if that had been a normal eviction, or how would she and Dan have got on if they were voted into the safe house. Then the following week if Dexter and Gina had played the long game they could’ve saved her, or she may have gotten through by the skin of her teeth over Hazel, which would have most likely meant the Daley ejection wouldn’t have happened since he and Hazel wouldn’t have then been voted into the safe house. Anyway, after the show she was trying to get into stand up comedy apparently but otherwise went back to uni to finish her degree it seems.
  
  
• Daley: He clearly had brought some of his baggage from the outside into the house, it was a little hard to follow at first what was going on with him keeping to himself a little bit, and then it started going down the road with Hazel seemingly out of nowhere which just spiralled with a bit of game manipulation into the recipe that culminated in the Safe house incident debacle. It would’ve been interesting to see if he was able to pull it back in the later weeks if Hazel went before him or they weren’t forced together in that safe house vote but thats the way it all came to a head. After the show he went back to boxing and became a personal trainer.
  
  
• Jackie Travers: She was fun, Rylan certainly got a lot of mileage out of her dancing VT. Her turning point seemed to be protecting Charlie and cleaning up her faux pas, also the wrist injury dampened her for a little bit, and She seemed to get hung up on the Audition footage of Callum and his Mother/Daughter story (which I think she got the wrong impression of even if it were true, the way he said it was as if he only found out after the fact they were related and didn’t purposely set out to do both of them for the bragging of it kinda thing but anyways). She also thought he came off angry or something.
  
  Anyhow after the show it looks like she continued doing her dancing thing as well as being a property manager and tour manager, even releasing a single called ‘St Tropez a few years ago in 2022 (which kinda gives me vibes of ABBA’s ‘Dance (while the music still goes on) in its melody).
  
  
• Dan: He was one of the most paranoid housemates when it came to the Secrets and Lies, using his detective background to try and work things out. The Unsafe house week was his undoing, Sam and Sophie may have also benefitted in that vote from it flipping back to being a vote to evict season until the finale at that point. Dan leaving kindof cascaded the seniority role in the house down to Callum who then left the week after and it kindof felt like it kicked off the home stretch of the season.
  
  He seemed to have some issues with being viewed as stereotypically bitchy, and in a bit of a surprise pairing not long after the season, he began dating none other than Rylan, breaking up with his bf and He and Rylan got married in November 2015, lasting six years before they had a bit of a messy parting of ways it seems. Some may say Dan was a bit of a fame chaser in that regard maybe? The two of them even did a co-host segment of This Morning in 2016.
  
  
• Callum: He was kinda a peripheral character towards the beginning but then got on the outer especially with Jackie and Charlie when the audition packages were revealed, which then led to the triangle that wasn’t with Dexter involved as well as copping it for coming across as try hard and too awkwardly nice. I do think he benefitted from the number of nominees being expanded in Week 5 whether that was partly due to Daley’s ejection meaning no save and replace for Hazel that week and it may have been him going instead of Jackie in a lineup against Gina and Dexter. He also was one of the ones who were close with Sam in the bromance dept. The Sun where are they now article mentions he did become a teacher after all not long after the show in 2014.

 

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BBUK14 Housemates Part B:

• Hazel: She was another one like Callum that seemed to cop the bad end of the Audition tapes being viewed. She opened pretty well, and was forming a power team it seemed with Dan in the house, then she moved away from him once he was nominated for the fake double eviction and Daley opened up a can of worms by giving her mixed signals about his relationship status and that went south of course with the safe house incident in week 5. She kinda bounced back from that but again some of the public still side eyed her through Week 6 and 7, culminating in not giving a shit anymore by week 8 and having the tit for tat with Gina (in which Gina also regressed a little bit). She handled herself well though in the post interviews, and after the show later became a WAG with 2 kids.
  
  
• Sophie: She was a little bit background at first as well, but came up by the end a bit more to the forefront, by her involvement with whatever the rivalry with Sam she had was, her friendship with the twins, and several tasks and twists like the body cam, the safe house twist and the last of which was Dexter swapping with her which saw her evicted just before the finale. She kindof reminded me also with her accent and cadence of like a female Chris from last season a little bit. After the show she returned to her work and kept a low profile it seems but has also done some charity stuff.
  
  
• Charlie: She seemed to have a habit of saying the wrong thing and causing a stir, also not having much self confidence in herself at times, especially with the triangle dross with Callum and Dexter, and even after Jackie left (although initially she let her hair down with the Nutella and Hazel). After the show she did continue seeing Dexter but it fizzled out after a few months apparently and she went to LA and became a presenter and also has a podcast.
  
  
• Jack & Joe: Another set of twins makes the finale, although they had their fair share more bickering between them than some of the sets of twins we’ve seen so far. They also had a little bit more distinct personalities in some ways, and some different interpersonal relationships, friendships and dialogue with some of the others. Afterwards, they ran the London Marathon in 2019 and did a BB podcast for the 2023 Season BBUK20.
  
  
• Gina: Gina was another iconic housemate who could have gone the first week, but also made quite the public perception turnaround after having a stoush on her first night with Sallie, to giving the tasks a good crack and learning about the other housemates backgrounds and such. She did kinda regress a little with the whole bickering session with Hazel and her rivalry with her in Week 8, however, she provided many other funny moments and in a way reminded some a little of like a shade of Nikki Grahame in BB7 in her own way.
  
  After the show she split with EckSell, and is now a philanthropist, designer and Vlogger, also having appeared on Channel 5’s series about The Savoy Hotel. She also has taught fashion.
  
  
• Dexter: Was another very interesting character, he had a bit of a redemption arc happening in the beginning with his wanting to be liked and turn public perception of him around a bit. The stuff with Charlie got a bit stale by the end though, going from trying to butter up Hazel and when that didn’t work out, declaring his feelings for Charlie after Callum was starting to come on the bad side of Jackie just came off a bit bizarre, especially with having a supposed gf on the outside.
  
  He contrasted that to Daley’s predicament by saying it was only a new relationship and he had a hall pass, however after appearing on the show very early on, His gf wasn’t talked about by the end. Although it did suck up some of his airtime and story focus by the end in the back half and it might’ve been interesting for Charlie to go earlier, but the triangle at least gave us a bit of conflict with Callum, and he otherwise had some fun moments with Gina in the Safe house and some of the tasks and twists.
  
  Afterwards it seems he had a bit of a tough time but later married and had a son with a fan (Maybe a bit like that fake letter Gina wrote him hey). And also seems to be in business and tech.
  
  
• Sam: He got not much visibility in the edit near the beginning, his main storyline seemed to be if Jemima was gonna make a move on him or not, then once she left, he became a sounding board for some of the others gossip sessions about the tensions in the house. He felt Daley’s sudden departure, and also had a bit of a rivalry with Sophie where for some reason they just didn’t gel (although for a brief moment they looked like they were amicable in the safe house, which really thrust them into the spotlight by way of the twist.
  
  Coming off that, he stuck with Callum as a close mate, and had a few moments of standing up and having a go at expressing his opinions (even though he felt fear of doing so if he hadn’t heard the full story or misread the situation). Dexter and Gina carried the season at the forefront yes (I had heard of their names being thrown around before I watched this season and knew that Sam won) and He may have been more under the radar, but on the other hand he was a lovable cheeky chap and it was nice to see him get the win at the same time.
  
  Speaking currently of Vinnie in BBAU being on Deal or No Deal, Sam was also on the UK show the year before he was on BB. Afterwards he apparently launched a dating website for deaf people, taught celebrities the Welsh language and done a lot of charity work.

That’ll do for now on BB14, up next an opening post for CBB12.

 

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CBB12 (Aug-Sep 2013) Begins

CBBUK12 Launch + Week 1 part a

• Launch: some aesthetic changes to the house, some of the main area and diary room walls are a deeper purple/blue kinda colour but of gold there too also with the eye logo kinda updated to suit the colour scheme. A lot of the items and wall units in the bedroom have been removed and it’s a bit of a lighter colour scheme.
• Diary room chair is now gold with pink wire frame. Safe house is now the bathroom with a bit more lime green colour streaks through it. Some interior colour scheme update to the inside of treehouse and the vegetable garden area now has a bench.
• This season’s opening twist is the ‘Cult of Celebrity’. The first three housemates (pineapple dance’s Louie Spence, they finally let Lauren Harries on this time, and model Sophie Anderton) live in the cult room the first night and will assess the entrances of the others for nominations over the coming days.
  
  
• Among the rest of the housemates we have Vicki Entwistle and Bruce Jones from Corrie (I suppose it might be kinda like the equivalent of putting the actors of Karl & Susan from Neighbours or Dave & Julie Rafter in there), Abz from Five, Charlotte Crosby from Geordie shore, (some of her mannerisms accent kinda reminds me of Mel C from Spice Girls actually), another TOWIE housemate in Mario Falcone, Danielle Marr from Dublin Wives which seems to be not that well known in the UK.
• The Americans are Courtney Stoddard, who married a 50 year old when she was 16 and has very large assets, and Dustin Diamond (was Screech on Saved By The Bell).
• Bringing up the rear was a seemingly tipsy Carol McGiffen off Loose Women and former Man Utd football manager Ron Atkinson.
• They also as I mentioned love using Gaga’s then new song Applause as backing music for the outro recap, they used it for the ex housemates entrances on BB14 finale, again on BOTS, etc.
  
  
• The housemates must choose who is the most famous, they pick Vicki and Bruce, who are then told they have won a special sleeping arrangement on their own for the night - a bed in the garden with a canopy.
• Courtney’s stuffed rabbit has gotten soapy in transit, so they put him through the mangle and she pops it on top of Bruce and Vicky’s bed top to dry out.
• In the first secret cult ceremony, Ron, Courtney and Carol are shortlisted for potential nomination.
  
  
• Friday: general getting to know each other conversations whilst the cult members watch on from the secret room. The final decision for the first nomination of the cult of celebrity is Ron, and later Louie confirms this to the audience as the 3 make their entrances with gifts one by one and Louie hands Ron a bottle of champagne.
• Afterwards the housemates are gathered and told that the public nominated Ron, however Mario seemed pretty clued on and thinks the 3 new housemates didn’t arrive tonight. Charlotte is not happy about Ron being up and puts her fist into the cake the cult members brought in.
• Carol gets a warning from BB after she was relating something Ron apparently said off camera about a player that got him in hot water to Louie. That it could be offensive even if she’s simply repeating it. At first I thought it might’ve been the F-slur as to why Carol was telling Louie and it was bleeped, but then BB repeating it in the Diary room wasn’t and it’s the N-word.
  
  
• Saturday: mini task is for everyone to guess which of 3 facts with stories each housemate revealed about themselves was voted most interesting. The next 3 housemates shortlisted by the Cult are between Abz, Danielle and Courtney, with Danielle chosen and then announced.
• Another warning is given, to Ron after he comments on Daniele wearing a jumper over her head like a headscarf ‘don’t have a bomb on you do you?’.
• Sophie annoys Carol by attempting to dissuade her talking about thinking of getting some work done cosmetically; whilst Abz revealed in the following episode to BB he’s Asperger’s, so Sophie telling him he should come of of his shell more, he would rather people let him do so in his own time.
  
  
• Sunday: Lauren gets Danielle’s fringe tangled in a roller brush and needs Courtney’s help getting it out. Mini task is each housemate busking to win the coins of the others. Charlotte wins with 10 tips for her typical Geordie night out impression and gets a beer chips and burger platter in the diary room.
• The final Cult of Celebrity nomination is between Bruce, Courtney or Vicky, with Vicky being chosen. Afterwards the cult is revealed to the others along with the last nomination. Courtney is initially peeved with Lauren over her ‘slutty dress’ comment about her but they make up, while Danielle tries to question Sophie further about her ‘why is she here’ comment.
• Vicky isn’t too impressed with Louie and does an impression of his Ott dancing while a drunk Carol has to be helped into bed by the others. It’s reverted to a vote to save.

 

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getting rolling again, just getting into week 2 of CBB12 will have the other part of Week 1 recap up soonish.

 

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CBBUK12 Week 1 part b

• Monday: Shopping task is centred round a cuckoo clock in the treehouse, a sand timer in the garden and a phone in the house for housemates to answer with the time when it rings. Along with various challenges that will win them time for the last challenge.
• For the Cuckoo clock, Louie is the cuckoo whilst two other housemates take shifts on being the bell ringers who must act out the cuckoo clock when the alarm sounds.
• Other challenges for time were some most to least rankings before the garden timer elapsed; and a weird food plate relay down the line. BOTS also showed another one where they had to in pairs try and stay in a bathtub full of various different weird stuff to earn time and also Sophie refusing to spend time banked to view convos from the house.
• Afterwards Danielle is still on Louie and Sophie’s case about why they nominated her, and Charlotte gets drunk and has to be carried to bed by Mario and Sophie, falling out of it several times.
  
  
• Tuesday: Charlotte is hungover and has also wet the bed. Lauren plays hairdresser again frizzing up Vicky’s hair. The last part of the shop task is Carol and Mario in the task room watched by the housemates try and open the safe containing the Shopping tablet and £650 budget by deciphering the answers to who said what clues with A & B answers on a clock face with housemates pictures that gives them the time codes to try.
• They have the 5 mins 30 seconds they’ve banked to complete it and finish in time. Afterwards Danielle decides to start stirring the pot by antagonising Carol trying to sort out the shopping list.
  
  
• Wednesday: Danielle annoys Louie by asking him what he does to earn money and hamming it up at Lauren’s little mini task to antiques roadshow the housemates items. Lauren gives Dustin’s ring the win as one of 3 most valued items she graded.
• Danielle is the first to be evicted, followed by Ron and Vicky being asked in the Diary room to choose the next guaranteed nominee, Ron wants to put up Lauren to gauge a public reaction to her (which Lauren has words with him about after), but Vicky persuades him to put up Louie. who seems unfazed (‘Don’t give a shit’ LOL).
• Straight after that its the first round of nominations. Lauren is out in front anyway, followed by Courtney, then Ron and Charlotte on 3 pts rounding out the set. Charlotte is a bit upset at being up. Some of them have also casually broken noms talk rules by trying to get others to vote for them (Bruce to Dustin), or if they would/wouldn’t ever nominate them (Lauren/Courtney).
  
  
• Thursday: BB punishes the whole house for the noms talk by shutting off the hot water and electrical hair appliances, as well as removing the luxury shopping and going back to rationing. Lauren gets crabby at Sophie telling her to clean up (a few of them have been nominating both Lauren and Courtney for their messiness).
• Random Task machine task for Courtney’s BDay: Courtney sings the US Anthem whilst fake crying; Bruce recites his life story while slapping himself with a fish, Abz reads a Shakespearian Sonnet in a Bonnet while eating Scotch Bonnets, and Mario dances with Courtney whilst wearing a mankini. Courtney wins a party for two in the bathroom, and Lauren gets a bit put out when Courtney chooses Dustin to join her instead, although they clear the air about it later.
• After the party, Courtney is a bit poorly due to overeating, and refuses Lauren’s attempt to give her some stomach ease medication to take, which Sophie and the others tell her off for (it might have been personalised or not good with alcohol or something like that) as well as getting a talking to by BB. Lauren uses this an an opportunity to stand up to Sophie telling her that she thinks she’s a know it all, later locking herself in the toilet for a while feeling judged, which annoys Bruce who gets up and hollers at her which startles the others. Louie catches her on the end of her subsequent diary room visit and gives her a bit of encouragement at the top of the stairs.
  
  
• Friday: Dustin gets a secret task to promote a vitamin drink ‘V. I. POP’ BB has mocked up for him as if its his own celebrity endorsed thing, to win some food or meal for the house. However Mario and Ron suss it out (Dustin didn’t know what the acronym was Vitamin Infused something as opposed to a play on the VIP wording - it was written on the bottle that Ron picked up on).
• Lauren and Charlotte are saved first in the Eviction, and Ron is evicted. Mario notices Bruce seems lost without Ron, but also his outburst last night may have shown the public a different side to him than maybe he wanted to portray. Carol is annoyed by Sophie again and Lauren tries to clean up so she mightn’t be nominated for the same reason next time.
  
  
• BOTS: Set has been given a similar spruce up to match the house as usual, with the Blue and Gold and some statue kinda motifs in the wall design. Speidi Appeared on a live cross call to Rylan (Heidi brings up the idea of a CBB All Stars… its coming a few years later!).
• The BB14 Finalists all made a few appearances as guests as usual, Dexter had an army themed strategy VT with AJ. Some other guests included Jaymi Hensley from Union J (on X Factor in Rylan’s year), Kerry Ellis (theater actress), Bobby Norris from TOWIE and Holly Hagan from Geordie Shore, etc.
• AJ and Rylan had an opening gag referencing Miley’s twerking at the 2013 VMA’s moment, They also had a phone caller from Penrith! (Theres a Penrith in England). Quiz VT they do most seasons with the celebs the one about the Chancellor of the Exchequer came up again along with an interesting one about the Eiffel Tower growing 6 inches in the Summer.
• Sunday outro musical guest was Chloe Howl with ‘No Strings’, whilst Friday nights post eviction ep brought back Karaoke outros with Rustie Lee and Shaun Williamson dueting on a choreographed singalong to Corona’s ‘Rhythm Of The Night’.

 

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CBBUK12 Week 2

• Saturday: Hot water is turned off again as punishment for Sophie and Courtney discussing they’ve already nominated each other and are sent to Jail. Bruce is a bit Pissed and thinks the punishment isn’t humiliating enough.
• Mario and Charlotte draw on some of the light boxes and have to draw glasses and mo on each other until further notice.
• Dancing task: Louie gets them trained up in a session before hand then judges them in pairs, choosing Abz, Courtney, Mario, Bruce and Carol to join him in an Ibiza Ministry of Sound themed party with a DJ and champagne dancers and cage dancing.
• Carol tells Courtney if she’s homesick and wants to go home put some clothes on and be boring.
  
  
• Sunday: Bruce and Charlotte have a bit of an argument over Charlotte and Courtney keeping him awake last night shouting ‘Buzzin!’ at all hours. After Charlotte calms down in the diary room they make up.
• Nominations are next. Afterwards the nominees are announced with snippets of the noms played to the house. 5 Up, Bruce in front on 5 followed by Sophie, Louie, Lauren and Courtney on 3.
• Afterwards Sophie gets annoyed with how bitchy Louie and Carol are being towards her and wants to leave on Wednesday.
  
  
• Monday: New Shopping task: 'Mr Big’ kidnaps Mario, Carol and Lauren to a secret room, but it’s a joke on the others. It’s half a dungeon set and half luxury (where they get to watch the others do Mr Big’s tasks). The housemates must do different tasks delivered by Mr Big through the phone (its later revealed on BOTS that they had Mario in a mask and voice changer to do the crosses as ‘Mr Big’ in the Diary room).
• They give up all the food in the house for some boiled chicken feet and seaweed slop, Courtney gives up all her clothes for exchange of seeing her husband in the task room and has to wear a boilersuit; Dustin dresses up like Screech and performs Saved by the bell, and Louie Dances on Glass (its just sugar glass). BOTS shows another one for Bruce and Vicky playing a Corrie skit? Lauren meanwhile keeps spilling full glasses of drink, and didn’t flush the toilet that Carol walks in on and asks her to go and flush.
  
  
• Tuesday: Courtney refuses to keep wearing the boilersuit until the others urge her to see it out not only for the task, but also it makes her look bad for dropping it straight after she’s seen her husband kinda thing. Housemates are informed they failed the task and must choose between Mario and Carol to be evicted in a face to face vote (As Lauren is already up for the vote) that they were warned about could be a consequence. Everyone except Charlotte votes to evict Carol and she leaves, but returns to the room after Mario and Lauren re enter, as surprise as its a fake eviction and she will continue watching the house and return the next night.
• Btw this seemed as little bit slightly manipulated to veer it towards Carol as Speidi’s task last CBB perhaps IMO (as its also revealed Carol will have a Killer nomination power on her return). If Lauren could not have been voted for, why not maybe have the 3 in the room be from the non-nominees to add a bit of ‘authenticity’ iykwim (even though the housemates seemed to buy it that Carol was indeed backdoor evicted).
• It would have also removed Louie and Sophie from the mix as they along with Lauren already had the secret task with the cult, but anyway if it was, the housemates played right into it as expected you could say, Majority thought highly of Mario so wouldn’t have been likely to vote him out in that match up.
  
  
• Wednesday: Dustin is feeling deflated about the result of the task and considering going on hunger strike the rest of the time. Mini task is Boys vs Girls in 3 ‘Muscle Stations’. #1 is Bruce Vs Vicki standing on a vibrator machine with platters of protein shakes trying not to spill them, Vicki Wins. 2nd is Mario Vs Lauren having to be the first to punch their way out of paper bag, Mario wins. Last is Dustin Vs Charlotte endurance task holding themselves over a gunge pool the longest. Charlotte wins.
• The Girls win a burger and fries lunch. Eviction time, Lauren saved first, Sophie Evicted. Carol returns to the house and nominates Courtney, before F2F Noms take place. Everyone is up except Carol, Mario and Charlotte. It’ll be a Double Eviction on Friday.
  
  
• Thursday: Charlotte and Louie Show everyone how to do the Slut Drop. Louie is given a secret task to get drunk on fake Rose Bottle of champagne later and flirt with Mario, have a big strop and a cry. He throws some food platters out of the fridge and puts on an Oscar worthy performance that wins them some music. Mario is getting uncomfortable with Courtney dancing on him.
• Friday: Courtney and Lauren tell Dustin about Courtney sprinkling some cereal milk in his bed last night as a joke. Mini Task, Mario and Charlotte prep Dustin and Courtney in attire and lingo for a TOWIE/Geordie Skit in the treehouse with Lauren as the bartender. Afterwards Dustin and Bruce are evicted. Charlotte tells the diary room she’s wary of Abz being so to himself that she feels she can’t have a conversation with him and its affecting her enjoyment of the house.
  
  
• BOTS: Some of the guests this week included Scott from 5ive, Alison Hammond, Cheryl Fergison, Sophie now being a Lauren fan, John McCririck and Courtney’s husband Doug Hutchison etc.
• Dexter and Charlie from BB14 were on and had a chat with Emma about their status as a couple or just ‘dating’, which turned into a bit of a Jeremy Kyle style segment bringing Callum out to discuss their twitter activity between Dexter and himself lol.
• There was another Lauren soundbites remix VT, Rylan did some slut dropping, and Bruce seemed to be much more of a joker on BOTS and Bit on the Psych than he was for a lot of his time in the house.
• Musical guest on Sunday was Charlie Brown with ‘Bones’, whilst Friday saw another Karaoke outro with Rustie Lee & Shaun Williamson doing Meatloaf and Cher - ‘Dead Ringer for Love’. lol.

 

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CBBUK12 Week 3 + Finale

• Saturday: Carol apologises to Lauren over mentioning she had a ‘boyish figure’ (In a non pc nice way though)the night before. BBFM mini task Vanessa Feltz interviews the housemates for radio show ‘BBFM’ Charlotte and Mario take some of the viewers comments to heart about them for a bit. Abz shows Lauren and Courtney some bugs and makes a Swan carving sculpture out of an Apple. Carol talks to Courtney questioning why some viewers think she’s spoilt.
  
  
• Sunday: New task: Bonded together, slightly different to chained together as its both hands back to back. Pairs are Vicki/Louie, Carol/Lauren, Mario/Courtney & Charlotte/Abz (They get along well now). Mario and Courtney appear to be bored. and stroking each other’s hands sitting in a chair which raises eyebrows on BOTS. Nominations are also done in pairs with each pair having to nominate 2 individuals from any other of the pairs. Next the Pairs decide in the task room in secret which of the letters to shed and which to keep of another pair. Vicki, Abz, Mario and Carol get their letters.
• Afterwards Louie is talking about the deduction process for deciding who’s letter they would shred, some like himself would be able to take it but at the same time seeing some of the others already having contact like Courtney (plus they took something Lauren said about her visit to the diary room for counselling purposes last week as them allowing her to see her mother which wasn’t the case) does have a bit of a sting to it.
• Nevertheless it causes an argument between Vicki and Charlotte as they both try and explain their POV about everyones experience in the house being different vs getting perceived ‘special treatment’ kinda thing, which ends with Charlotte walking off crying and Vicki taking offence at being referred to as ‘She’ by Charlotte, and goes outside muttering about Charlotte’s Geordie antics and being salty at not getting her letter. I think though Charlotte may have come out of that looking a bit more sympathetic to the some of the public YMMV.
  
  
• Monday: Lauren Clarifies to Vicki and Charlotte that she didn’t in fact see her mother everyone just assumed, they only told Lauren her mother was at the eviction and everything was fine. Sophie and Danielle return with Rylan to the house for ‘Big Brothers Bitch fest’. Things get a bit snipey between Danielle still trying to stir things up and Louie.
• Afterwards Mario Charlotte and Carol discuss if Laurens changed now she’s made the final and maybe chose to stay quiet during Vicky and Charlottes argument? Carol mentions to Courtney how to use a stock cube but she ends up popping it in the kettle to dissolve instead of the other way around and the others find it later. Meanwhile Charlotte and Vicki have cooled down and made some amends.
  
  
• Tuesday: Vicky is a bit drunk on wine and seems to be itching for a reason to have a go at Carol, Carol doesn’t want to take the bait though and make it uncomfortable. However, Carol later appears to be sleeptalking in the bedroom about BB asking them to vote someone out and it should be Vicky. Vicky rolls her eyes and goes to bed.
• Wednesday: Louie tells Carol about her sleeptalking. Carol apologises to Vicki, and BB sends her to jail anyway for it lol. Mini Task to make a song up and perform it as a pop group. Abz’s Group ‘MALV 4 (Mario Lauren, Vicki) Vs ‘The Jumbles fronted by Louie (Charlotte, Courtney, Carol). BB Names The Jumbles the winner. Double Eviction is Courtney, then Louie, After which Celeb BB awards 2013 takes place with speeches.
• The Following day theres a last dinner, and then the Finale which this time had a short countdown special on the Eviction stage Emma interviewing the evictees, then order was Vicky & Mario, Carol, Lauren, Abz as runner up and Charlotte winning. The steam/smoke machine went a bit hazy on her exit, plus it was a bit rainy, so the stairs chaperone guy did a good job getting them down those stairs!.
  
  
• BOTS: Sunday had Rylan cut his usual intro song (this time with choir) for a bit of a karaoke of Adam Rickitt ‘I Beathe Again’. Jason Derulo was the outro with ‘Talk Dirty’.
• Dance Psychologist Peter Lovatt was back on the dancefloor with Emma, They had a marching band in for the penultimate episode, and some of the other guests this week included Christopher Biggins, Su Pollard, Ollie Locke & Lucy Watson from Made in Chelsea (MiC), Tom Fletcher (from McFly, Mario is is BIL through Mario’s sister) Luisa Zissman (from UK Apprentice), Matt Johnston etc.
• The Finale episode had another switch up of the set decor with some brightly coloured panels and cube seats. Iain Lee, did an in the house cross where Sam and Dexter were in the treehouse and Emma in the kitchen. Rustie Lee did some various Karaoke intros including Prodigy’s ‘Breathe’, M People ‘Movin On Up’ etc, and The end of season singalong (ft the other members of Big Reunion lineup of 5ive) Five’s ‘Keep On Movin’’ as the outro.
  
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CBBUK12 Overall Season and Housemates wrap ups:

Overall Season recap: I thought this one had another varied and interesting cast that bounced off each other. One thing thats also interesting is how well they’ve been sprucing up the house in a short turnaround between regular season and Summer CBB in a few areas. Over on the BOTS side, it’s the last we’ll see of AJ hosting until her return in the ITV era, we didn’t quite get there having Will on the same night she was there but ah well. Sunday Afternoon BOTS is not on in CBB13 so I hope they continue with Karaoke/Musical guests elsewhere, I quite enjoy those plus Rylan doing his thing it was probably the closest thing we’ve had to kindof a BBLB format in a while (maybe since the OKTV shorts maybe).

Anyway some last housemate recaps:

Danielle Marr: She could’ve lasted a bit longer I thought, she was just getting started stirring the pot when she was the first evicted, maybe could’ve swapped with Ron, but at least she got a bit of a comeback in the BB Bitchfest panel task. Apparently she went to LA and recently does standup comedy and hosts a podcast.

Ron Atkinson: He seemed a little out of his depth at times, when it came to characters like Charlotte and clocking Lauren might be popular with the public etc, otoh, would his mouth get him into trouble after his comments about Danielle and thre jumper on head. He was a good bounce around with Bruce and kindof took the wind out of his sails a bit when he left. He looks to have done some recent broadcasting and commentary work.

Sophie Anderton: I thought she came across quite rational at times, but it seemed once she got the bitchy end of Carol and Louie, the crowd seemed to side with them (and also seeming to stick her nose in with everyone from Lauren to Abz) and it was over for her. Before this she was on Im A Celeb, and also I see here BB Efourum during 2004-05 so I may go back and see some retroactive recognition there at some point) and a few other shows.

Dustin Diamond: I thought he was fun, also one of those American housemates that kindof get a bit bewildered at first at what they’ve gotten into kinda like The Situation, he had a few moments and friendships such as with Abz, and they certainly got their mileage out of the Saved By The Bell gags and puns. Sadly no longer with us, I was reminded he had passed a few years ago when I looked things up , iirc I may recall hearing about that at the time. I think some also thought he may have had another side of him based on some previous appearances on US Reality TV, or be more than just the nice guy behind the zany Screech character.

Bruce Jones: As mentioned above, I think he started to get somewhere with the bromance with Ron, cracking each other up with the fish in the face bit, and also Vicki, however felt Ron’s absence at first and also had some temper moments with Lauren and Charlotte. He did start to lighten up a bit again in the second week (making sure all the food was given to Mr Big, even the bread tin etc lol) but also his appearances on the side shows were pretty whacky. He’s done some more films since and even last year a bit of professional wrestling it seems.

Courtney Stodden: It was interesting hearing about her backstory, I think I had heard of the name before but it seemed like she found the chance to gain a bit more independence and find herself a little bit whilst in the house, and she had a fun friendship with Lauren. It looks like the marriage to Doug didnt last and was already going through some patches before at the time and afterwards. They divorced by 2020, Courtney has since had the breast implants removed, changed her pronouns to non-binary or she/them, released some music, gone on some other reality shows, and gotten married again last year.

Louie Spence: He was hilariously OTT at times. I’d checked out a snippet of Pineapple Dance Studios before. He had some LOL one liners, even if some came off pretty bitchy. I thought it was a bit of a shock he was evicted just before the final, He did bring a lot to the season I thought as one of the main players. Like Andrew Stone as well, it was interesting to see how much of his persona was put on vs just being his personality. He went on to appear in some more shows after this.

Vicky Entwistle: At first didn’t take too well to Louie putting her up for eviction, doing impressions of him. Once Bruce left she got more of a focus however a similar thing happened where she came out on a wobbly end of arguments with Charlotte and Carol, yet made it into the final, being first out along with Mario. After it seems she acted in some other shows.

Mario Falcone: Another TOWIE star, its been a little while. He seemed pretty switched on to the game, whilst for the most part managing to keep himself out of bitching. The stuff with Courtney making things look a bit awkward (with some hand stroking on his half also) did wobble him a little towards the end of the season, but also people seemed to enjoy his sibling like mateship with Charlotte as well. It looks like he has also continued to appear sporadically in TOWIE.

Carol McGiffin: She was a bit of a loose cannon at times, with her and Louie’s bitching sessions, she also benefitted from the mid season fake eviction twist to settle as one of the main characters this season. She was married to Chris Evans (no not that one) before, and seems to be still with her younger husband (She was talking about getting married ‘soon’, but it looks like they went another few years until 2018). She also returned to Loose Women panel for a couple years.

Lauren Harries: heyyy they finally let her on. She had a journey of sorts, the aforementioned friendship with Courtney, and standing up for herself a bit more. The BOTS soundbite remixes they did were funny, and The public seemed to get behind her the multiple times she was up for eviction. Afterwards she even released a few songs and appeared on some other shows.

Abz Love: It was a bit of a surprise he became runner up tbh, I thought though he had a few moments, his more chilled and zen side saw him sometimes get overshadowed by some of the other OTT and louder personalities in the house at times that I thought he my have ended up more of the Romeo or Harvey/Ashley of the series, but it looked like his nice guy shone through and he had the support to pull him to the podium positions so well done.

He of course did a bit of reunion with Five around that time and again most recently this year with the full lineup back together. He also was part of the Dane Bowers supergroup a few years ago, as well as appearing on shows such as Celebs go dating, and his own farm doco in 2015.

Charlotte Crosby: I thought she also went through a journey and showed a bit of down to earth personality behind the Geordie character most knew her for. I did think that argument with Vicki may have also helped cap off her season run to the finale. I thought her name was familiar, connecting the dots when I looked up the afters that its the same Charlotte that was in Season 6 in 2020 of I’m A Celeb AU, she had kindof a showmance with the guy from MAFS and was Blonde there. She’s also continued in Geordie Shore and a whole host of other shows such as Just Tattoo Of Us, Celeb Masterchef UK, Ex On The Beach, etc.

So that’ll do on CBB12 for now, I’ve started CBB13, opening post for that up soon.

 

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CBB13 (January 2014) Begins

CBBUK13 Launch + Week 1 part a

• Another different kinda Eye design for the Winter CBB series, bit of a gold and diamond eye with a blue/pink background, Opening titles also have lots of gold frames. The House has a kindof Russian regal palace kinda aesthetic going on (the treehouse has a marble sortof makeover, some whites, statues and things, bedroom is a reddish hue with a shoe wall, The Jail is where the vegetable/flower garden was with its own toilet. Bathroom has a big bathtub smack in the middle.The Living area and Kitchen have swapped positions, the Portrait wall is now picture frames, also with a hatch. Theres two chandeliers on the stage, and the Diary room chair is double winged and gold with Lion arm rests.
• An interesting mix of housemates, another TOWIE cast (Sam Faiers), and Ollie Locke from Made in Chelsea, who has also been a recent BOTS Guest, as has Lionel Blair, and Luisa Zissman from UK The Apprentice. Casey Batchelor is the token Model, theres also Dappy from NDubz’, Lee Ryan from Blue, Liz Jones is the controversial columnist, and our 2 Americans this time are Jasmine Waltz (US Actress who has had drama with Courtney Cox and Lindsay Lohan), and former Boxer, Evander Holyfield (Who was in the infamous ear nibbling fight with Mike Tyson in the 90’s).
  
  
• First two housemates in are Comedian/former game show host Jim Davidson and Linda Nolan (From the Nolan’s we saw her on BOTS in CBB10 when Coleen was on). They know of each other and Linda isn’t too fond of Jim’s attitudes around women and all that jazz. But guess what, the opening twist is: Handcuffed together! They quickly find out from BB their secret mission is to choose which of the following handcuffed housemates get to be unlocked, or choose themselves at the end. The pairs are Dappy & Liz, Sam & Jasmine, Lee & Casey, Ollie & Lionel, or Luisa & Evander.
• They end up choosing Dappy and Liz to be separated, as they looked nervous at the prospect of being chained together. However, that means they will be the first two up for the first eviction, with two other couples yet to join them.
• The Cuffs have an extendable strap so housemates can toilet and diary room with a bit of privacy. Dappy appears to be flirting with Jasmine, who appears a bit tipsy rolling around on the floor, riding Sam as a joke when they get to the bedroom, and shocking Lionel talking about fingerbanging openly. The housemates get a 10 min break from the cuffs to get dressed for bed.
  
  
• Saturday: The other nominees will be the 2 pairs left over after a series of tasks. First is building blocks in the living area followed by telling a story about the block, such as ‘Famous Feud’ etc. Jim shares a story about overcoming his drug addiction which I think appeals to many of them so they vote Jim and Linda to be uncuffed and be immune from the vote. Liz tells her stories and are questioned what she feels about the ones she writes about and about the housemates in general.
• 2nd task is in the diary room one of them must answer what they think the other will whilst they are blindfolded and in headphones. Best of 3, Sam and Jasmine get 3/3 and are uncuffed. Evander gets a warning after making comments that could be considered offensive in a discussion with Luisa about if being gay was a choice as he came across comparing it to a handicap that can be ‘fixed’. Ollie tells Jasmine about Dappy’s dick pic story and later he gets himself hard in the dark to ‘show’ her as they share a bed together. Lee and Casey also seem to be spooning.
  
  
• Sunday: Last task is between the last 3 couples Luisa and Evander, Ollie & Lionel and Lee/Casey, to unravel a big rope containing the keys to their handcuffs in the garden. Ollie & Lionel do it first and win immunity. Ollie gets a bit emotional after in the diary room. The handcuffs are no more as the task is over.
• Luisa is discussing with Jasmine if Lee will try and play up a showmance with Casey to stay in the house now that they are up for eviction. She also says as a joke maybe if they started a Lesbian fling they could maybe win the show (Later they get a bit kissy with each other infront of Dappy in the bath in a game of dares, Luisa and Ollie have also discussed their Bisexuality before). Sure enough it appears later on before the lights are even out, Lee is wanting to take his pants off and ‘spoon’ with Casey while she tells him. to go sort himself out in the toilet, LOL, blatant.
• It’s revealed to the audience that Wednesday’s vote will be a fake double eviction, with the evicted housemates staying in BB’s ‘Bolt Hole’ (which I think is in the small task room maybe?). So not exactly following what it looks like BBAU2014 adapted from the whole ‘Playing in pairs’ thing at first later that year.
  
  
• Monday: Shopping task involves an Alien Spaceship landing in the garden with two Aliens enlisting the housemates in a series of tasks inside it to observe ‘Celebrity’.
• Lee and Liz are first, with Lee enduring a bit of plucking from an epilator, meanwhile discussing celebrities getting political which I thought was interesting for its time compared to now and also Lee discussing his talking about animal causes as coming off goofy and not too overly serious so he doesn’t get as much blowback kinda thing iykwim? (there was that whole thing where he put foot in mouth about 9/11 being oversensationalised and the Whales were not getting attention or something or other wasn’t there?) - anyways interesting aside chat.
• Lee also tells Liz he realised he really fancies Jasmine, but has been plonked in a difficult position now starting off with Casey and now it looks like he’s being a player despite not wanting a relationship in the house and all that. Messy. He later brings it up with Casey, but doesn’t do a very good job at taking it back to the friendzone, giving her a kiss (on the lips), a cuddle and saying he ‘really likes her’ (but as a friend).
  
  
• Some of the other Alien tasks involved Lionel trying to match the spaceship tones on a flute, Jim sampling some Alien head food, and Jasmine & Luisa guessing if twitter comments were about themselves or the other. BOTS Showed the Aliens getting Jim and Luisa to confiscate some items like Dappy’s Hat and Ollie’s boots.
• Later the House is given a party wth some Alien/space themed songs such as Year 3000 and Men In Black, which Evander and Lionel do some moves to.Jim upsets Linda again making her bed and making jokes about it looking like she threw his pillow on the floor? and later pulls him up on it whilst the girls are around her listening to her talk about it. At the end of the night, Liz, Jim, Luisa, Lee and Jasmine all sleep under foil blankets in the spaceship, whilst it looks like Lee cant help himself and takes Jasmine off to the toilet for erm… something as Jim watches on in the dark. Drama!
• Continued in part B.