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