Best of the Blogs

In just three short weeks over 50 BBBA members have begun blogging for the site, with nearly 175 blog entries posted already.  The Userblogs have quickly established themselves as one of the key parts of this site, so thanks to everyone who’s been sharing their thoughts. (MA15+)

So here, in no particular order, is another round up of the best of the blogs.

Arneldo: The Good, the Bad and the Corey

This past week I have been looking and reading at peoples reactions to Corey. It seems a lot of people on this, and other, forums dislike him. But why? I cannot see anything he has done inside of the house that would make people dislike him so much. And outside of the house – when will people realise that it was the public that created this image of him. All he did was throw a party – and it became a big deal – why? Continue…

Clairebbbear: The beatification of Corey Worthington

Channel Ten has refrained from advertising any “world firsts” for BB this year.

But if it had, the copy would have written itself; “BB08 is the first series to allow the Big Brother show to be used as a vessel for the public rehabilitation of a public enemy”.

Corey Worthington has earned that title ever since a combination of a thoughtless myspace post, 500 drunk teenagers, a slow news day and a scapegoat-hunting fcukable journalist turned him into simultaneously a symbol of all that is wrong with the “young people of today”, and a hero to the same young people who feel themselves somehow repressed by concepts of responsibility and respect. Continue…

Mooseherder: The Bullhorn Recap

God makes his displeasure known by summoning the power of the heavenly kingdom and eliminating Corey in the first round. Ryan takes this as an open declaration of war, and the battle for the souls of humanity and control of the universe begins. It’s going to be a long millennium, folks. More…

Toiletduck: Public votes for top 3 for what?

Can someone please explain to me why there was the chance for the public to vote for the top 3 auditionees on the website, only for 3 of them to enter and two of them to be booted out? Continue…

GrahamUK: Around the World in 7 days

It’s been a fairly quiet scandal-free week, so this will likely be a short entry. More…

The Daily Gibberer: Disaster

But the Coomerese ruling junta has closed its borders to outsiders, refusing all but one offer of aid while allowing its citizens to be racked by unspeakable pestilence.

And the junta’s leader, Senior General Virginia Hodgson, has been criticised for pressing ahead with the weekend’s referendum while some of her countrymen had lost everything, even the clothes on their back. Continue…

Letterbox: Here’s something else I pulled out of my arse

Please BB… I just wanna watch the HMs for a bit…. and have some aspects of the show I can expect each week and look forward to…. rather than this stream of random sh*t that has been presented to us. More…

bb-06: My epiphany – why BB08 fails to capture us

Today while I was watching part of the eviction show, it suddenly hit me why BB08 – despite many changes (which are mostly positive) – has simply failed to grab me like every other BB season, no matter how bad they were.

BB08 is the absolute coldest, most impersonal reality show I have ever watched. Continue…

purringcat: Brace yourselves – I LIKE the new format

With everyone poo-pooing the new eviction/nomination format, I thought it was about time someone spoke up for it.

I really do like it, and I think it has really thrown the housemates for a six, which is fantastic. I love the way they’re really pushing the game aspect this time round – but that’s probably since I like to view BB as more of a social psychology experiment than a TV program. More…

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Best of the Blogs

It can’t have escaped your attention that BBBA 2008 has now launched – and one of the main new features this year are the BBBA Userblogs – allowing every member of BBBA to have their own place to blog.

A few members are already setting up home there and in the last few days alone over 30 blog entries have been posted – and here are extracts from a few of the best, according to the BBBA blogging community. (NOTE: MA15+)

bb-06 questions whether this year’s housemates have been “cast” rather than auditioned:

I suspect that the producers got spooked during the auditions process. After all, they now had ALL of their auditionees online, actively viewing eachothers videos. So, they compiled a list of the most liked housemates, wrote down their characteristics and went shopping.

That’s right, I’m alleging that BB08 is a ‘cast’ show. Afterall, with three housemates unveiled fully and six more unveiled in interviews, how many do you recognise from the OS?

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tiptop highlights that this season is make or break for Big Brother:

This year Big Brother has come to us very fast indeed, and there have been some huge changes since the departure of noble.

First off, internet youtube style auditions which made things very interesting however had a huge drop in auditionees with around 1500 people. 10 times less than previous years.

Now we have the promotions going on, which in my honest opinion are the best we have seen since Big Brother 2005. These ones dont hype it up to much and promise only one thing…dynamic housemates.

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toiletduck asks whether BB08 will be watchable:

I remember watching BB01 and BB02, never missing a show. BB03 I watched bits of it at the start and then eventually watched the rest of it until the end.

However from BB04-07 I have not been able to watch it. The house mates have been cringe worthy to say the least. I guess if you are 12-14yrs old at the time then they have been the best years, but for the older teenagers and 20 somethings its not really compulsive viewing.

So this season I think it might actually be watchable if we simply go by what sort of house mates have been revealed so far. I don’t care what the house looks like, I don’t care if there is a swimming pool or not. I do care that there are house mates that are worthy of watching.

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getluv remembers Gretel Killeen:

Gretel touched us in more ways than one. Getting spanked on BB Uncut, playing backdoorsies with Saxon, eye-fucking Merlin at his eviction, battled the shit that came from Michael’s mouth on that memorable nominations night in 06 and forcing Danielle & Dino to consummate their friendship in front of Australia.

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and finally…

doublethink gives an exclusive insight into what could be going on during lockdown:

Last minute waxing and anal bleaching that’s what!

By tomorrow morning 3 heavy duty sized rubbish bin bags of pubic, anal, chest, leg and back hair will be placed in a dumpster out back of their hotel.

If you are an obsessive fan of BB and know the address of the hotel, it’ll be fairly easy to get yourself a treasured momento?

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So for more blogs from the BBBA community, just visit the Userblogs section of BBBA, where you can view, rate and comment on existing blogs, and also start up one of your own by clicking on “Post to Your Blog“. For more information see here.

And if you’re not yet a member, sign up via our forums to get full access to all blogging features.

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