I’m curious to know if only having HM’s nomination one person is going to stick around for the entire series or whether it was to simplify the process in the first week?
Overall I think this was a decent first week and inevitably the right person left. I think had she stayed it very easily could have become the Farida show given how much she’s been dominating the highlights over the past few days. Less conflict around her would allow for more variety in the continuing story thread and for different conflicts to brew amongst the group. It’s also not as if Olivia isn’t eventually going to rub someone the wrong way.
Agree - and Olivia had already rubbed a few people up the wrong way on the live feed last night.
Apparently it's back to two next week. Kerry a contender again but based on the first nominations and feeling in the house we could have Paul v Olivia. Glad though a character went in the first eviction - it made it a real event and this first week didn't deserve the eviction being some kind of anticlimax.
I also question the decision to bring back the "You are live on channel, please do not swear" line. Given during the highlights in the same episode they aired housemates swearing... Is there some sort of demented rule in the UK that you can't swear on live footage broadcasts or something?
I'd give them a pass on the nostalgia fix, but I hated that line even back in the C4 days. I think they started it at the end of BB2 when they had a pre-watershed surprise eviction, and then as they began BB3 similarly they used it again and then it seemed to stick.
It was never actually accurate though - if the eviction announcement was pre-watershed it was on a delay, so they were not "live on C4". And if after the watershed, as virtually every announcement from BB5 onwards was, the highlights had been packed full of swearing, so the HMs could swear all they like.
It was the same with "I'm Coming to Get You" - made sense in the early series when Davina was in the studio and had to walk through the crowd to the house. Never made any sense when she was hosting from a stage right outside the front door. I always thought (the late) Caroline Flack would have made a good host so they could use the catchphrase "It's time to face the Flack"!
Talking of catchphrases pretty much the only thing I hated about the show last night was the attempt to make "Who Goes? You Decide!" a callback catchphrase with the crowd - especially as the crowd is supposed to represent us fans, so should be shouting back "We Decide!" really.
