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