Sweet, nourishing Big Brother gruel.

Big Brother.

Corey is a bigger moron than I thought. A condition of Terri's return to the house as a housemate is that she keeps Corey into line, and since a good portion of the housemates don't really want her back, what do they do? They convince Corey to act like a shit. At one point he was actually hiding from her, and when Travis asked him why he was doing it, he said - and I quote - 'I dunno, they told me to do it.' More than being a complete moron, he's allowed himself to be a pawn. Well done Corey, you obviously couldn't cultivate an original thought if your life depended on it.

I suppose my exasperation at this is that I have come to like Terri. I really feel sorry for her, especially when I saw Nobbi do his spectacularly immature tantrum on the announcement of her return to the house. It was like an episode of Jerry Springer - that beep lasted about two straight minutes last night. Seriously Nobbi, she HAD to pick one person, and you happened to be one of the people who voted to evict her, so be a grown-up and suck it the fuck UP. Crybaby.

And anyway, despite her wayward political views (which, honestly, we haven't even heard about once) I think she's a good person. When the new housemates and Corey stood up to introduce themselves, I immediately hated all of them. One guy, who I believe is the hardcore rocker guy, stood up and said "I've been clean for eleven years, I don't drink or smoke". Uh huh. And this is the most interesting thing that you could come up with to introduce yourself? Not doing drugs doesn't make you a loser, but acting like it's in any way interesting DOES make you a loser. But no, Terri actually said something about her upbringing and her family and some of her relationships, and I liked her for it. So I think that it's vastly unfair of Nobbi and others to a) actively encourage Corey to act up; and b) to just stand back and watch her flounder in her mission. It's cowardly and it's mean, and it doesn't make for good television.

Jacob no like. Baaaad medicine.

PS. Corey? Your hair SUCKS. You look like every faggot blonde twink I have ever met. Just bone your boyfriend already.

Big Mouth

Pissed me off. Too much talking, not enough raw footage from the house. I would have preferred to see the lead-up to, and the fallout from, Rory's confrontation with Travis about his sexuality. Instead we had to listen to Rebecca Wilson making an embarrassment of herself and Tony Squires desperately trying to revive his television credentials. The former seemed very uncomfortable, and her observations on the house bordered on the total obvious at some points, and completely inaccurate on other points. As for it being rated MA15+, well, I think that if you count Nobbi's stereotype-enforcing dick (and gross pubes!) or brief talk of anal sex as MA15+ material, then you... need to go outside a bit more. The first half was pretty much the panel gasbagging, and a slightly shorter recap of everything we had already seen in the daily show.

But talk about too many cooks spoiling the broth! Uncut doesn't work as a panel show, and with FIVE people all trying to butt in it gets awesomely tedious. Rebecca Wilson does not need to be there, Tony Squires could potentially be replaced with Mike Goldman just for a little bit of consistency with the rest of the BB franchise, and maybe get rid of the other three. I didn't actually mind Chrissie, Paul and Tim's input, but as I said already, too much blah blah-ing and not enough of what we really want to see and hear. Dirty smut and gratuitous nudity, blessed be.

Tim Brunero, you have commented on my blog once after I mentioned you, which suggests that you take on board what petty bloggers like myself say, so please can you address some of the issues enumerated above with your producers?

PS. Ben was SO lying when he said he'd had sex with six different people. The uuummmmm was a dead giveaway. Going by the theory expounded in some teen movie that I can't quite remember what it was called, women always divide by three the number of sex partners they have actually had, and guys always multiply by three the number of sex partners. Which means he's had two sex partners, which, at his age, isn't bad to just come out and admit.