| Just my thoughts...Rula Lenska | | | | For me the best times in the house were when the |
| This was all so, so unfair for poor Rula. Many will | | | | Pete and Michael show hit the road, late at night or |
| now probably remember her career for two things; | | | | early in the morning over coffee and cigarettes when |
| Rock Follies and this TV Folly. Rock Follies was | | | | the rest of the house was asleep. Funny funny |
| arguably the start of her career in the public eye and | | | | funny.Who was it pleaded with George to go and |
| this TV Folly looks like being the end of it. Pray for a | | | | speak with Rula because she was feeling so bad as a |
| cat-food commercial, Rula! In fairness, though what a | | | | woman? Pete.Who was it spoke up so volubly for |
| nightmare she must have found herself in - a | | | | Barrymore after being evicted, saying how much he |
| 57-year-old, clearly past her physical best, finding | | | | needed to be rehabbed back into this country? Pete. |
| herself in the company of a Mata Hari (Faria), a Daisy | | | | Not quite such the monster then, eh?Traci Bingham |
| Duke (Chantelle), Britain's Primo Slapper (Jodie) and, | | | | The delightful, the truly gorgeous Traci Bingham. |
| to cap it all, Baywatch Babe Traci! Most woman well | | | | Every man should have a Bingham of his own. |
| past a certain age would bridle at the thought of | | | | starting with me. The rest of you can get your own, |
| competing with any of them, poor Rula had to take | | | | though, I want that one. See how she went straight |
| on the lot and she lost, in spades. I thought George | | | | into a series of classic brilliantly executed girlie poses |
| Galloway was right in his comments after she did | | | | for the photographers as she left the house? An |
| that ludicrous striptease - she was, indeed, trying too | | | | absolute professional, a master of her craft. And how |
| hard. Who wouldn't have their confidence rocked? | | | | beautiful in her red devil costume! Cheap to run too, |
| The brave face she put on arguably wasn't the best | | | | (once you've bought the mansion), give her alcohol |
| one either. Go to bed with a countess, wake up with | | | | and she wanders around making small, happy sounds |
| a count. I choose my words very carefully here! Gee, | | | | all day (whether you want her too or not). Does the |
| I'd rather go to bed with Pete - at least he looks the | | | | guy she's engaged to realise he's marrying one of the |
| same in the mornings as he does last thing at | | | | Clangers? "Oh my Gah-had, it's the Soup-Drag-gen..."I |
| night!Chantelle Houghton | | | | don't think Traci understood the show, which goes a |
| A (not quite) singing version of Jade Goody. | | | | long way to explaining why she was so devastated |
| She is so very self-possessed, the producers must | | | | by being nominated. Observe when she was talking |
| have been thrilled beyond belief by the way she | | | | to Davina at the end, she said how hard she'd tried |
| stood up to Dennis Rodman. Enough is being written | | | | to be a good housemate. I suspect she thought you |
| about her at the moment; I have no further | | | | had to win by proving how pleasant you were to live |
| comment other than to observer she seems areal-life | | | | with and dutifully went out of her way to be just |
| version of Billie Piper's character Rose in the current | | | | that. I don't think she had to go far our of her way |
| Dr. Who.Dennis Rodman | | | | at all, either, I think she really is that nice a person. |
| Everyone knew Pete Burns had a hard time deciding | | | | that's why she was so upset at being nominated, she |
| what to wear for the day but what about poor | | | | thought she was doing something wrong on a |
| Dennis, eh? Let's (hypothetically) listen in...."Uhm it's | | | | personal level to the other housemates. Hence her |
| time to get up, what kind of look shall I wear today? | | | | shock and surprise. You get the feeling that to a |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy? Nope, did that the other day. | | | | certain extent, once you reach a certain level of |
| Geisha? No, Pete'll do that any minute" (and he did). "I | | | | stardom your life is run to a large extent by your |
| got it - lemme see now, just give the ol' tattoos a | | | | agent; Traci and Dennis both gave the impression |
| burnish....get them pointy studs all in...adjust the | | | | that they simply went where they were signed to |
| baseball cap just so...and there it is - third circle of Hell! | | | | go and did their best when they were there.George |
| Yay, me, not that I give a shit..."Did anyone note that | | | | Galloway |
| while Pete Burns got awful raggeddy when he ran | | | | What a clear-cut warning to us all of how politicians |
| short of booze and cigarettes, both Dennis Rodman | | | | plan to use us. We seem to be no more than |
| and the adorable Traci Bingham got grouchy when | | | | stepping stones to their own self-serving ends. How |
| the food got low? They being the two pro athletes | | | | did he serve his constituency in the BB house? His |
| it wasn't at all surprising. I noticed Dennis complaining | | | | blustering complaints about censorship left me |
| that training without proper food wasn't too much | | | | unimpressed.I noticed too that when there was the |
| fun. Probably the first time he's ever had to do it.And | | | | first a major disagreement in the house - I believe |
| did you see how he balanced on the exercise ball | | | | over a misunderstanding about racism - George it |
| with one foot while he did push ups? Have you ever | | | | was who suggested that a round table discussion be |
| tried that? Do you know how HARD that is? And he | | | | held which George, seemingly thoughtfully, offered to |
| made it look so simple! No wonder this guy is major | | | | chair.Thus, it begins. How long before, in order that |
| league.Jodie Marsh | | | | George may the better to fulfil his post as arbiter of |
| Poor, poor Jodie. How sad and muddled she appears | | | | the house decisions, not be made to suffer the |
| to be. I gather, though, that there's a very upbeat | | | | distractions of, say, hunger; shouldn't he be given a |
| enthusiastic and likeable girl in there somewhere. She | | | | bigger share of the food than the others, so that his |
| seems to be gathering acolytes rather than making | | | | thinking may be clearer and not distracted by |
| friendships, confusing fans with friends. I noted when | | | | hunger? It's in the best interests of the group as a |
| Pete Burns and Michael Barrymore were trying to get | | | | whole, after all; he's the decision maker.In the same |
| through to her late one night, Michael suggested to | | | | vein, we might conjecture, how long before George's |
| her that she try and envisage a certain scenario just | | | | sexual needs/desires must similarly be given priority |
| for the sake of argument. Oh no I couldn't agree to | | | | over the others, the women of the tribe, sorry, |
| that, says our Jodie, that would be immoral and I | | | | house, should be encouraged to offer themselves |
| don't tell lies. Something similar seemed to be | | | | freely and regularly to George over and above the |
| happening when she was talking to Davina McCall | | | | others. All in the best interests of the group, of |
| after her eviction, Davina gently suggesting that the | | | | course. Politicians, eh? They never close.Maggot |
| other housemates had been trying to act in Jodie's | | | | Maggot, the common man - the voice of reason, as |
| best interests and Jodie went immediately off on a | | | | he said. A straightforward decent guy. Good to see |
| complete tangent in her reply.I think myself that | | | | he got over his initial reserve about Barrymore. Why |
| there's a great big rock sitting in the head of Jodie | | | | was he concerned about his image, I wondered? |
| Marsh, never referred to, never to be admitted to. | | | | How genuine can he be if that's a concern? |
| What lies under it? Something that Jodie finds so | | | | Subsequently, though, he proved himself a steadying |
| terrifying that she visibly flees from considering the | | | | influence on the rest of the household.Faria Alam |
| rock's very existence.One suspects that | | | | The Big Brother experience must have been very |
| self-contemplation is not a regular pastime for Miss | | | | difficult for Faria. I thought she behaved throughout |
| Marsh. A shame, as rarely does one encounter a light | | | | as I imagine she was brought up to be, dignified and |
| bulb that really, really does need to change. | | | | reserved. I never thought she was a slapper, or in |
| Poor, poor Jodie.(Sam) Preston | | | | any way cheap, when her sex life got her in the |
| Just like Dennis Rodman, I had no idea who Preston | | | | news. Her business, I would have thought. I was |
| actually was. I gathered he was in a band called the | | | | subsequently a bit disappointed to hear quite how |
| Ordinary Boys, and going from his appearance in | | | | promptly she was hawking her BB story round Fleet |
| general, I'd have put them somewhere between the | | | | Street but, I suppose, a girl has to be practical and |
| Jam and and number of ska bands, say, The | | | | topical if she's going to make money that way. For |
| Selector? Later in the show we were treated to | | | | me, the most interesting thing about Faria was her |
| some Ordinary Boys tunes and it looks as though I | | | | apparent inability to express the emotions she was |
| wasn't too far off the money. | | | | claiming to feel. I put this down to her upbringing to |
| Apart from that, I knew nothing before about Le | | | | and there may be a lesson there for all of us. |
| Preston and I know little else now, other than that | | | | Imagine a girl bought up in strict circumstances in old |
| he seems to be a perfectly decent sort of geezer | | | | established traditions, then abruptly cast out of that |
| with, I rather imagine, considerable woman trouble on | | | | culture into a new and different one. She'll know how |
| his plate. | | | | to function emotionally in the old culture, her |
| All quite ordinary, in fact.Michael Barrymore | | | | appropriate upbringing will have prepared her for that, |
| What a piece of work is this man! How infinite in | | | | but in this new (by which I mean, 'Western') culture, |
| frailty, his new personna suggests, and I have no | | | | one where the world has moved on from the time |
| reason to believe anything other than that the face | | | | that birthed the culture she was raised in, she |
| we saw was the real one. He seemed a perfectly | | | | struggles to express emotions that she has no name |
| decent being, flawed, ragged round the edges, and | | | | for. We're probably all a bit that way at times as the |
| while he and Pete Burns together both displayed an | | | | world turns faster. Our childhood upbringing can less |
| ability to provoke gales of genuine laughter (from | | | | and less prepare us for adulthood as effectively the |
| me) it's Barrymore who has the touch of genius | | | | two happen in different worlds. Poor Faria. I liked |
| about him, the air of one driven to perform yet | | | | her.Big Brother grew up and found its feet here, this |
| denied his stage. I hope the UK does what Pete said | | | | was ground-breaking TV. It still seems the fashion in |
| it should and opens its arms to welcome Barrymore | | | | newspapers that somehow, inexplicably, appear to |
| back. He's a tonic for the nation. We probably need | | | | consider themselves and their readers above Big |
| him more than he needs us.Pete Burns | | | | Brother viewers. It's only for the oiks is the subtext |
| Twisted embittered genius. Youngsters will probably | | | | of the copy in pretty much all the |
| be too young to realise this but in the genre of | | | | nationals.Synchronise watches, tv kids; only a matter |
| movies known as noir, in small, run-down and seedy | | | | of time before they change their tune and accept |
| clubs in the boonies of Anytown, USA, the kind a | | | | that here are observations made on life in the raw, |
| Private Dick would inevitably find their way to when | | | | that the spat between Dennis and Chantelle, the |
| they were looking for clues or following leads they'd | | | | spats between everybody and George, everybody |
| find the Heroine of the movie. She'd be seated, alone | | | | and the confused unfortunate Jodie Marsh, weren't |
| at the bar, she'd have a cool drink that she hadn't | | | | far more riveting viewing than anything scriptwriters |
| paid for in a tall glass in front of her and she'd always | | | | could have dreamed up. It's been an age in coming, |
| be smoking. Whatever happened, even if it happened | | | | but Big Brother seems to be coming of age."Big" Bill |
| right in front of her, her face would be frozen into a | | | | Kruse probably watches far too much tv. Also, he |
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