So, how are things going in the Big Brother house ?

Well if you haven’t been watching lately, for one thing BB has now revealed the ’secret couple’ (Andrew & Hayley) to the other HM’s, along with ‘Mr.X’ (Billy). I have to say, I’m really happy for the former pair - not only did they successfully manage to keep their relationship secret for the nominated time period, therefore securing both their places in the house, but it also appears (at least at this stage), that the necessary ‘deception’ required to achieve this task hasn’t ‘rubbed’ the other HM’s ‘the wrong way’, and no one appears to bear them any ill-will in the aftermath of BB’s revelation.

On the contrary - the majority of the other HM’s laughed and cheered when the relationship was revealed to them, and only Kate (no surprises there), Joel (not sure what the story is with him), and Rebecca (again, no surprise, since both her faith and personality imply she’s not big on deception as a general rule) showed any apparent ‘discomfort’ in the initial minutes after the true ’state of play’ was revealed. Even Thomas, who had been flirting with Hayley extensively during the first week in the house, appeared to be experiencing no discomfort from the revelation - but then, he’s struck me as a genuinly “nice” and “mature” guy from the get-go.

‘T would also seem I may have been wrong about Billy. He’s still got a creepy smile, but it would appear from the footage shown during the ‘BB Full House’ special, and his interactions with both Andrew + Hayley, that he honestly doesn’t bear them any malice. Possibly the fact that his sexual identity is now “gay” (something which he briefly mentioned during the ‘reveal’ night, but I don’t think has been discussed since) had something to do with it - obviously given this fact, he’s not going to want to get back in relationship with Hayley :-) Thankfully, Billy’s status as Hayley’s ex also doesn’t seem to have created any apparent traumas for Andrew.

With their relationship revealed, it’s obvious the two love-birds have felt a big weight lifted, and it’s been great to see them finally able to enjoy each other’s company, and be open in their mutual affection. “I’m so going to marry you” was a great line from Hayley which summed up the night.

OK, the next bit of BB news is the first lot of eviction nominations. Kate, Bodie & Emma were the original HM’s put up on the chopping block by the others. Then Emma exercised her ‘twist’, and wisely removed herself from the eviction pool, substituting poor Jamie instead. Unlike previous years, the ‘twist’ doesn’t work on a points system anymore, instead allowing the HM with the twist’s ‘powers’ to directly name their choices for both ’saving’ and ‘damning’ purposes. Therefore, the ultimate choices we have for eviction this week are amongst Kate, Bodie & Jamie.

Unsurprisingly, my vote to evict goes to Kate. She is annoying as f*ck, and this week’s tearful ‘admissions’ of insecurity aside (for feck’s sake people, isn’t it blatantly obvious she’s trying to carefully orchestrate a ‘public sympathy’ vote to save herself ?), her head is so far up her own arse, she’s like a big, fat, Bavarian pretzel ! Sure, as some people have pointed out, she creates ‘conflict’ in the house … but the BB house will inevitably have conflict with or without her (it’s engineered that way - extended 24/7 confinement with strangers in a close environment will ALWAYS generate clashes), and keeping this whining twat of a woman in the house simply for the sake of generating tension is simply too high a price to pay ! I don’t have any time or patience to listen to her crap, ergo her presence in the house simply makes me want to watch less Big Brother (in fact, I haven’t been bothering with most of the daily shows). So for sod’s sake people, PLEASE VOTE TO EVICT KATE, AND SAVE US ALL FROM THE PAIN !!!

Failing that, vote to evict Bodie, because he’s a conceited, Gen-Y, bogan - a perfect example of the kind of thing that makes us Gen-X’ers write off the majority of ‘fekking 20-somethings’ and their teenage siblings as lost causes. Whatever you do though gang, DON’T EVICT JAMIE !!! Granted, it would appear he’s said some stupid, sexist things to the girls this week (obviously the result of too much ‘net porn, and not enough social interraction with women outside in the ‘real world’), but I think with the right advice from some of the older HM’s like Thomas or Sussana, this can be quickly remedied. Also - we need a geek in the house, to offset the ‘plastic fantastic’ Hitler-Jugend brigade for as long as possible :)

The final BB news this week was the evacutation of the ‘White Room’, and the eventual triumph of Demet as the ‘wildcard’ chosen to go into the house. The ‘official’ HM’s voted on whom they would like to see joining them, after the White Room crew competed in a series of FNL-like challenges. My only comment on that is “good on ya Demet”, and it will be interesting to see if there is any conflict between Rebecca and Demet given their respective religious backgrounds.

Thas it for the BB update !