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Big Brother 8 UK…don’t bother!

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Version 8 of UK Big Brother is well under way, and so is the discontent of the viewers. Going by public feedback in the British newspaper forums what on earth possessed the producers of this program when they selected this years bunch of losers?. From my perspective this years BB house has the atmosphere of nothing more than a turkey coop. With a predominately female household, the conversations(?) take on a sound something similar to a bunch of turkeys prior to feeding time. GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!. Can anyone really make out what any of them are actually saying?.

This year the producers took a brave step by introducing on opening night: a) a house consisting of all females, b) 2 females over the age of 50 and, c) twin sisters…the less said about them the better.

Of course, after only 1 week one contestant has decided to walk and has done. One of the ‘over 50’s’ women who was bored, intellectually(well, of course) and physically, and because she was obviously out of her depth. Lesley is what society classes as a ‘lady’. She is from a time when parents actually raised their baby girls to be ‘ladies’.  There are no ‘ladies’ in this years house, or any previous years houses. ‘Ladies’ within the 18-35 age bracket these days just do not exist. Nowadays it is all get drunk, swear your head off, smoke like a chimney and bonk the nearest available bloke that takes your fancy. Which pretty much describes the goings on in this years UK BB house.

Lots of four-letter words (too many in fact); the now-expected-romance between one male(who no-one else wants, and this year for good reason…he has no lips!) and one female( desperate to be the next ’Helen’, ‘Jade’ or ‘Posh’). We won’t include Mikey and whats-her-name because no-one really gives a shit about those two except fanatical ‘OK’ magazine buyers.

There is Carole, the so-called ‘fiesty’ activist who was going to liven up the house, but she has proven to be a wet blanket who cries too much and just eats. The twins…inarticulate and incomprehensible. Nicky, an out and out pain in the arse.  Emily…gone thank god. Lesley, too old, too conservative, too boring. Shabnam, vain, vain, vain, and wears a permanently ’surprised’ expression. The fat-one-from-Wales who is always chewing something and desperately envies Chanelle. Chanelle(?)…a Mrs Beckham wannabe(so no originality at all)  desperate for publicity and just as incomprehensible as The Twins when she gets going. Tracey, delightfully ‘offbeat’, not an exhibitionist, sensible, grounded.  Ziggy…what can one say?. A totally ineffectual male, thin lipped, getting to be as bitchy as the girls, and latching onto Chanelle in more ways than one. No wonder he still lives at home with his parents!. Gerry and Seany…what is it with BB and gay men these days? (not that there’s anything wrong with it!’). Last, but not least, CHARLEY. Does this female own a piece of clothing that bypasses her crotch?. Can she not utter one syllable without baring her entire upper and lower set of teeth?. How many words can she string together without coming up for air??. A more nasty, insecure and unattractive piece of work I have never seen. She was a lap-dancer…it suits her.

My opinion is that if the producers of this years UK BB do not bring in some more ‘people-friendly’ contestants this years BB will go down in history as the most irritating episode of all. God knows, we don’t want another Jade Goody (god forbid!) but at least give the viewers someone that is at the very least ‘likeable’!

Apart from Tracey, the current bunch stink.

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