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BBUK15 Week 6

• This week is ‘Armageddon week’. To start with, the garden has been transformed into a bit of a jungle kinda apocalyptic wasteland with dirt and rubble everywhere (also the BOTS set follows the theme as well). for the days task, the housemates have been split into a red and blue team captained by Ashleigh and Danielle respectively. Who compete in various tasks over the day including catching fish flying out of a water pipe in relay (red team keeps blocking Danielle), Ashleigh choosing herself, Helen and Steven to gain access to a shower after winning that one.
• Next is Ashleigh and Danielle trying to get the best materials for their team to build a raft for testing on the pool in a minute. Ashleigh’s team gets the big barrel so theirs is pretty buoyant whilst Danielle’s pretty much sinks straightaway (like a similar task in BB13, somewhat comically scored in the edit by My Heart Will Go On). The red team therefore have won today and get a special meal prize and screening of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes I think Marcus said.
  
  
• Afterwards they get a break from the task inside and get some music played and drinks. Everyones pleased the task seems to have brought them back together a bit after last week (even Helen and Ashleigh are getting along), and later Christopher and Mark share a kiss in a blind corner of the storeroom! later Ash and Steven notice they’ve got closer and also let Helen in on their kiss (they later had another under the covers as well).
• Later in the week they discuss having spoken about it and thinking about going on a date and see what happens on the outside, if not just friends. Steven questions Helen if she and Ash might get together, by the end of the week they too have a little kiss under the sheets.
• Armageddon week continues on the Monday by the food being removed and replaced with canned surprise (much to Danielle’s non amusement with bb in the diary room), and the shower, bath and parts of the kitchen out of order and taped off. The interior has also been decked out with slabs for seats and the housemates have shabby clothes to wear (BOTS set also had some rubble and stuff too). The housemates keep amused with one of the shopping carts in the garden.
  
  
• Later the results of the previous days nominations are read out, but as part of the twist Marlon, Ash and Ashleigh stand up and Marlon is announced as snap evicted as he got the most votes. The others think maybe it’s a fake eviction or Marlon’s got the power this week, but then they are surprised with seeing the 3 new housemates have moved in to a secret room and watch their VTs.
• There’s Zoe, who was on Pop Idol in the early 2000’s, Pav, and Biannca, who is a stripper and cracks right onto Winston asking if she will ride his cock. (It is brought up on BOTS how it’s a bit of a double standard if that was the other way around how it would look).
• Before they entered they were told in the diary room it’s them who will have the power this week to evict one of the housemates except Helen, who all think they’re up for the public vote. But actually, it’s the 3 intruders who are up for a vote to save this Friday unbeknownst to them.
  
  
• The weeks ’shopping task’ is a series of tasks of the newbies vs the OG’s. If the OG’s win they win back sections of the house/kitchen appliances whilst the newbie win more luxuries for their bedroom ‘pad’. This includes the OG’s guessing whether some statements/info from the outside is True or False, which brings up Danielle’s role in a recent Channel 5 documentary about ‘Webcam Girls’ which she defends as she only appears in it interviewed for her beliefs and how that aligns with what she does, which she insists is nothing explicit. It’s a bit reminiscent of Danica’s arc in CBB10.
• Later in the week, during Steven’s ‘chat show’ mini task ‘Open Up to Steven’ (tee hee) Biannca still thinks Danielle might be not presenting herself truthfully to herself on the outside, which upsets Danielle thinking Dexter (BB14) has sold a story on her or something, until She and Biannca have a chat about it and she talks about how they had a media tit for tat about his ‘designer penis’ however they never had sex or anything which people are assuming.
  
  
• The other tasks had The OG’s guessing who the newbies said what about in their pre interview, (which leads to another Steven/Kimberly temporary tiff going over the same things as they explain to Pav what Kimberly saying she was ‘dating’ on her website profile means she wasn’t necessarily in a relationship but it was complicated.
• The new housemates have a mini secret task to choose a mole for them to watch ask the others questions. They pick Christopher whom Winston admits to that he’s not really into Biannca, and Chris gets pulled up by Biannca misinterpreting him saying he’s seen Biannca go off and chat with Helen about other housemates as if they’re bitching about them, but they clarify with each other. They win a lunch near the pool with Christopher for it.
  
  
• Helen and Ash also have a bit of a thing when she feels he’s being snappy at her asking who’s had more to drink him and Winston or her or something. They clear it up the following day.
• Biannca got a bit wild giving Helen a stripshow lapdance with her boobs out, and agin she was baring all after the end of Armageddon week party during a game of strip catch, whilst Christopher and Zoe tried to shield her with at least a small bit of coverage.
• Eviction Day: the housemates are informed that Kimberly had left the house for medical reasons and is staying in hospital this means she is conveniently exempt from tonight’s eviction. This throws off the 3 newbies vote as they were thinking either her or Steven, however their sights are now on Ashleigh or Danielle.
• The intruders eviction is up first with Zoe saved first, and Biannca evicted. She could’ve stayed a bit longer imo but otoh she did make a big impression. Pav and Zoe then appear to flip on their Ashleigh decision and pick Danielle for the eviction.
• The house is a bit shocked, also the crowd have a new chant for Steven ‘2 second Steven’ lol. Zoe’s a bit overwhelmed at being saved first and Armageddon week is declared over.
  
  
• BOTS: Toya and Marlon were a bit dismissive of each other at the evicted questions section (plus the friend caller confirmed he’s 22 and not 30 apparently), BBNews showed a task where the OG housemates were on a retracting ledge while the newbies tried to knock them off.
• Some more guests this week included Will Best, Sara from BB13, Luke Marsden had a story about Mark being on some boat party an ex-housemate hosted, alongside Liam McGough from BB8 (I thought they would’ve had a comparison to Biannca trying to get with Winston, Stimberly doing their thing, and giving Helen a striptease by drawing parallel to him and Amy and the ‘Wings of steel’ bit or whatever and also Shannessa putting on a show in his year but they didn’t go there). Dexter was on the Friday show when Danielle came out, Vanessa Feltz filled in for Luisa on Saturday’s BOTP.

 

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So just a bit of an aside having also finished week 7 (update coming soon) now I can understand more especially with the Armageddon week, what some were saying about the production. I could think of a few ways they maybe could’ve played that out to give the public a bit more of an input than just the Intruder eviction, furthermore Kimberly’s conveniently timed leave of absence through the eviction night also threw a spanner in the works.

Like for example those 3 that were nominated initially could’ve had a competing secret power with the 3 newbies to save/evict one of them from either side, whilst the public voted on the remainder (idk if two separate votes would’ve been perhaps confusing to the GP or not maybe, or pool the remaining 4 together or something) and reveal it all at the end of the week.

Or perhaps had everyone up as the nominations didn’t matter and let them pick out of the bottom 3-5 (if they still wanted a double from the OG’s) kinda like that week in BB6. I dunno, just a few ideas to twist it that could’ve been received a bit better than what they had. May recap it a bit more later in the end of season wrap up but I think even with the season theme (which also was a factor with last season Secrets and Lies) I think sometimes they overdo it a bit rather than try and strike more of a balance and let some things play out without too much nudging/perceived manipulation iykwim. Like earlier seasons still had a bit of that, but tended to be a bit less heavy handed and more towards the back half of the season before they started revealing each others nominations, VT's or things coming to light in messages from home etc.

Theres also the blatant outside information being used as a driver in some respects, contrast to the earlier days where the Intruders wouldn’t have been allowed to go on nearly as much as they did in this week about what they’d seen on the outside to ‘expose’ Danielle or Kimberly’s situation on the outside, they would’ve been clamped down on. Theres a bit more of it in week 7 with some former housemates giving the power housemate influence via video call, which in turn makes them all ultra paranoid and second guessing the others in particular the remaining newbies. Anyways more on that later.

One bit of a prediction guess I’d like to make and have been thinking about before I continue the last 3 weeks of the season, is week 8 apparently the power is with the public (hurrah some might say), but I think Week 9 will be the last power housemate as a solo perhaps, and I think it could be Helen to bookend by calling back to Pauline’s original power, something maybe like a white room twist to do with the prize money.

I’m thinking maybe she gets the choice to give up her pass to the final and/or transfer it to another housemate or one of the nominees (She even discussed this hypothetical in week 7). In exchange maybe they are told the evictee will be awarded some part of the prize money, so that could be tempting if she puts herself willingly into that position or something. Hmm but lets see what they do with it.

Onto the next few episodes!

 

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Ok I've finished out BB15 now and Started CBB14, just gotta do a bit of clean up and loopback through some BOTS and stuff and polish up the write ups.

 

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BBUK15 Week 7

• This week began with BB formally announcing to the house that Kimberly has officially left house and decided not to return. Steven packs her stuff but gets a phone call with her in the diary room a bit later.
• Mini task is Team A vs B in ‘copy that’ with Christopher as the referee, opponents must follow on the first person did and try and one up it. Team A wins 2 out of the three matches shown.
• During Steven vs Winston, Steven shaves a bit off the side of his hair, which Helen attempts to fix up after but then Steven decides to shave it all. Another one for the bingo card guys, haha. He seems to have gonna bit loopy now Kimberly’s gone, later seen with the others in white beauty masks and also loads of pillows in his bed with the robot one.
• Team B (Winston, Pav, Mark and Chris) get put on the naughty step for eating some of Team A’s Burgers winners meal, with Mark going for a second round from the fridge and darting around trying to hide from the cameras later on.
• Meanwhile Helen is asked about her relationship with Ash in the diary room and Winston teases that the next chant may be ‘Quick smash Ash’ from the crowd. That night theres a bit more rustling under the duvet between them.
  
  
• Another mini task for a party has 2 groups lead by Mark and Zoe performing at festival ‘Bruvstock’. Zoe, Ashleigh, Ash Pav and Christopher are ‘1BV - One Big Voice’ and sing Florence + The Machine ‘You’ve Got the Love’ whilst Mark, Helen, Winston, Steven and Chris are ‘The Bitch & The Boys’ singing The Killers’ ‘Mr Brightside’ (“how does it go?” Really Winston? Unless he didn’t recognise it by name at first or something lol).
• Mark’s team wins and gets to pick 2 from the losing team for the afterparty. Ashleigh is annoyed by overhearing Helen telling Mark that she goes to everything don’t pick her, whilst Christopher is also put out a little by Mark not picking him choosing Zoe and Ash.
  
  
• The party music is cut mid song for an announcement from BB that the power has returned. Secretly Ashleigh already knows she was picked by the public being told in the diary room before this as the others speculate on who it could be or what it is again.
• Ashleigh is told in the control room that this week it’s the ‘Power Alliance’ who will choose the nominees. She recruits Chris and they agree to put Steven up first. Next they must choose another to join the alliance and agree on Mark. The next housemate to be nominated is Ash, which Mark is nervous about things kicking off if they find out who nominated, but lets it go as Ashleigh and Chris want to give Christopher a week off.
  
  
• The following day the Alliance are asked to give 2 final nominations, so with the help of video calls in the diary room from ex housemates Biannca Danielle and Matthew, they nominated Pav and Zoe based on the ex-hmm comments making them paranoid about if they have an agenda still or whatever. Also Christopher or Winston being the only alternatives left.
• The last two nominees are revealed to the house along with the power alliance. There’s a twist though like in the Toya/Matthew week - the four nominees decide which to save and who of the power alliance to put up in place (despite this not being told to the audience like with the previous time, and Ashleigh being told she or the alliance would be immune from nomination). They swap Ash for Ashleigh.
• Mark is quick to gather Helen, Steven etc in the bedroom to explain himself that Stephen had already been nominated and he raised objections to putting Ash up. Chris and Ashleigh have a sit down with Stephen that it was game based reasons for him, and Helen asks Chris Ashleigh and Mark to keep what they heard from the ex housemates to them from Christopher as he might overanalyse it or something. Meanwhile Chris says in the Diary room they all handled it pretty well compared to earlier in the series.
  
  
• The shopping task is another team based one (as this weeks seem to have been leading to) with Reds (Helen, Mark, Winston, Ash and Ashleigh) vs Blues (Christopher, Zoe, Steven, Pav and Chris). In a series of challenges, however reds are told that all rounds except the last are rigged and the task is to have the blues so annoyed by the last round that the reds must win to pass.
• First is assembling a water pipe contraption in the years whilst the other team is locked inside. Reds is already complete whilst blues is not possible to assemble, so all Reds have to do is fake struggling to finish theirs.
• After that there’s a task to assemble themselves in the correct coloured numbered shirt + tutu + animal head for each word whilst it’s all nonsense the blues are left scratching their heads whilst reds breeze through after only a few tries.
  
  
• Next is Christopher and Ashleigh in the diary room guessing quotes from the others, but Ashleigh has an earpiece and is directed when to let Christopher answer. However it also brings to light several things out of context Helen thinks she hasn’t said about Steven and Kimberly which upsets her but Steven consoles her and tells her don’t worry about it and BB assures her the quotes were things she actually said.
• There’s a party for Pav's bday with a singalong to Mariah’s Fantasy, the housemates are still a bit paranoid about Pav and Zoe.
• The next task challenge is to try and Scare, Arouse and insult their opponent to make their heart rate monitor peak first. The last task (and the only one not to be rigged in Red’s favour) is an endurance challenge each team individually holding a flap up with their arm on a bucket of gunge. It gets down to Winston and Pav and Pav gives up meaning the Red’s have won and won the luxury budget for the house.
  
  
• Ash gets a secret task to start a few arguments/get pissed off with the others. He attempts to get in a mood about Winston wearing his clothes and Helen’s pasta, but they all think he’s suss. He still wins them a Pizza though. Mark puts his suspicions of Zoe aside and they get along again, doing up Christopher in drag.
• We haven’t had a nominations talk punishment in a bit this season (probably because so much of the nominations has been out in the open and/or taken by the Power housemates lately also), but Steven has to write lines for discussing hypotheticals about if he had to evict someone right now it would be Chris and Ashleigh and if he stays he’d nominate them next week.
• In the eviction its Zoe saved first, then Steven is evicted. Helen’s a bit upset at him going and missing him already, they give Pav encouragement though to be himself kinda thing and that they aren’t upset at him staying over Steven. Chris is again saying in Diary room Helen appears to to have come through a bit of a journey in the house of handling her temper from the beginning. They all have another singalong of Mr Brightside in the bedroom in the end of the episode. Emma announced at the eviction next week the Power is with the public and first vote is to have a housemate be immune from nominations.
  
  
• BOTS: Dish on the Side VT is back for this season with Matthew, Toya, Marlon and Jale first, then Danielle joins and Pauline. Rylan gave Steven a ring to propose to Kimberly with but he said to her he’d propose in private and gave it back, He also did an opening gag reading Iain Lee’s bit whilst Matt Johnson filled in for Rylan on the Saturday BOTP. Some of the Guests this week included Glyn (BB7), Denise Welch, Kimberly had a more debrief interview with Emma, Adam Rickitt (with Lauren Harries entry music being I Breathe Again, and others.