Celebrity Big Brother 2009: I have a steve strange fondness for these painful show-offs except Terry Christian

Full line-up revealed

I think I will be watching this.

what's up with mutya's tooth?

It's 2009! I failed at the first hurdle. Mods please?

Thank you.

Christ's teeth, that's actually just about tempting. I've spent the entire week going: "There's no way Tommy Sheridan's really going in there," too. The world doesn't really need a Happy Shopper George Galloway, but it does need more Steve Strange.

What time does it start?

(9pm, if anyone gives a shit. The more I think about it, I'm not even sure I do. Still.)

I'm in. Strange being the deciding factor, although Terry's going to be pretty good as well. As long as C4 dust off those "I'll do anything to get on telly, me" clips from The Word.

Here it comes...

Bugger. I'm up to my eyes with reading (and I should have made much more headway already) so I'm not going to watch them go in. ILX, I'm relying on YOU.

#1 - La Toya Jackson

She looks like Zelda from Terrahawks after a trip to the botox clinic...

Although to be fair, in her intro VT she seems quiet normal. Lots of booing from the crowd though.

She looks more like Michael than ever.

She's just dumped her bag in the private single bedroom. Oh this is going to be a clash of egos. Especially as...
#2 - Mutya

Mutya looks like an old Hello! magazine glamour puss before her time. I kind of like it.

#3 - Vern Troyer

^^^ bookies' favourite, BTW

Crowd not booing Verne Troyer.

(patronising cunts)

La Toya is mates with Verne.

stupid bloody "Rude Tube" programme

#4 - Tommy Sheridan

TBH the housemate I'm least interested in.

You won't be saying that when he ends up in a four-in-a-bed romp with La Toya, Mutyah and Verne.

Verne knew Tommy before he introduced himself... mmm...

"such is life"

"I'll need to go for the humility"

#5 - Lucy Pinder

just capped this from the more4 live stream
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TOP TORY ACTION.

Crowd are chanting "Tory! Tory!" (oh, xposted)

Ahhh, Lucy talks to Verne like a baby.

Oh, that explains how Verne knows Tommy - he's seen the leaks in the paper. Which is different from the civilian version of the show where they're kept away from the media.

#6 - Ben somebody-or-other, who I don't give a shit about...

Fancies himself a bit, doesn't he?

Just a bit.

pull down your snickers and I'll give you a boost?

^^^bluergh

#7 - Tina Malone

I can confirm that she is not the last person on Earth I would expect to do this.

4 stone in 2 days

o_O

must say, pretty stellar cast so far (w/the exception of ben)

#8 - Coolio

Coolio should be the new Doctor Who.

major o_O at coolio

... over 18

"young girls, er... over 18"

Did his intro VT just get badly edited, or is he really a cock?

I thought he came across well.

OK, I've stopped working and switched this on. Fuck me, it's Coolio!

Oh, that explains how Verne knows Tommy - he's seen the leaks in the paper. Which is different from the civilian version of the show where they're kept away from the media.

They've done this before - last time round it was all "when's Jade getting here then?"

Am relying on you guys, I have darts to watch.

#9 - Michelle Heaton, ex Liberty X, me ZZZZZZZZZ...

Christ, Tommy looks old and haggard. I fear he is going to make a TOTAL COCK of himself.

Michelle Heaton was on Celebrity Come Dine With Me once. She was shit. I expect no difference here.

Excepting some alpha male bullshit between Tommy and Coolio.

#10 - Terry "I'll Do Anything To Get On Television" Christian

I was chatting to a former workmate the other week who was at school with Terry Christian. He said he was "basically a fucking idiot" and expressed some admiration that he'd managed to land any kind of career that didn't involve shovelling shit for a living.

I'm sure shovelling shit featured on The Word at some point.

Every week as I recall...

I quite like his chat-up line.

#11 - Ulrikakakakakakakakakakaka

How I love Ulrika.

"There was a time where everyone would go Ulrikakakakaka"

"There was a time when I was famous"

Wasn't the idea here that they were going to get Nancy Dell'Ollio in the house as well?

OK, who put Bowie's "Queen Bitch" on Ulrika's VT?

I'm glad she's got rid of that awful crimped hair she had on the new Shooting Stars.

Aw, bless Tommy not getting the Continental kiss right.

Cunt couldn't get a fucking Continental breakfast right. Or a Glasgow kiss.

Oh please, not this Head of House nonsense again...

Wot no Steve Strange? Or is he going to be the head of house?

Hahaha old Word runners are basically in charge of C4 entertainment commissioning. How time flies...

Yeh, hang on: what happened to Steve?

Hmm. I'm going to go and watch PROG fucking ROCK on BBC4.

Can't wait for intelligent Tory tits bird to start saying loads of really stupid things.

Er, and I don't think I can be bothered watching it regularly this year. Tired of it.

not a big loss really

Free money!

^^^ Oh great, another fuck up...

(xxpost) I'm going to restrict myself to watching the daily one hour summary show and the live eviction shows. There's a T4 CBB programme on in about five minutes, but I'm not going to bother to watch that.

Er, and I don't think I can be bothered watching it regularly this year. Tired of it.

Er, I lied.

I love how Coolio is switching between "laid back non-celebrity" and "I'm the first person in my family to earn $1 million dollars!".

Lisa Malone is one of those hateful completely unsufferable types who ONLY talk about themselves. 'I this, I that, you should see me blah, you should have seen me do that' etc etc. SHE DOESN'T TALK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.

There's one sequence in which she's talking to Latoya: they're both talking about themselves and nothing else. So really it's just duelling monologues.

Coolio blurts out racist slur
Rapper gets away with saying n****r on show

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Coolio lands CBB in hot water again
By Dan Wootton, 04/01/2009

CELEBRITY Big Brother was embroiled in yet another race row last night after gangster rapper Coolio used the racist term n****r - but was NOT disciplined by Channel 4 bosses.
The 45-year-old, well known for his hate-filled song lyrics, had been warned by show chiefs not to use inappropriate language before entering the TV house on Friday night.

But he still used the highly offensive N-word at 9.20am yesterday morning during a conversation with ex-pop star Ben Adams.

Despite insisting they'd be tough on contestants after the last CBB race debacle involving Jade Goody, show makers Endemol took no action against Coolio.

However, aware of the likely public outcry over the use of the word, they chose not to broadcast the offending conversation.

Last night a TV insider said: "It's as if Channel 4 and Endemol have learnt no lessons from all the previous incidents of racism and appalling behaviour on Big Brother.

"If he's allowed to use that word without any sort of reprimand, what's next? It's absolutely disgusting. What if another housemate uses this kind of language."

A Channel 4 source said that as no housemates had been offended by the use of the word and given that Coolio was an African American no action was taken.

Vivid
After enquiries from the News of the World a spokeswoman last night confirmed Coolio had said the offending word and it had not been broadcast.

She said: "At around 9.20am today, Coolio recounted a vivid dream he experienced overnight in which he had been involved in a fight.

"Coolio used the N-word in his descriptive retelling to Ben. Coolio described how his imaginary adversary called Coolio 'Oh n****r'.

"This was again immediately flagged to senior production staff at Endemol and C4.

"After reviewing the footage, where Ben clearly took no offensive from the use of the word, no other housemates heard the word, the footage was not broadcast to cause offence to viewers and the context that Coolio used the word, no further action was taken.

"As always constant monitoring of any unacceptable language by any housemate is on going and Big Brother is always prepared to remind all housemates of these rules."

Big Brother chiefs were well aware that Coolio has a habit of offensive lyrics, having used the N-word in a number of his songs.

In one track, That's Hot It Is, he raps: "I'm fed up with this s***. N****R set trippin', I ain't even banging."

Action
In another, Geto Highlites, he says: "To the n****r who smokin' indo chocolate tired of stress. N****r who got warrants out for their arrest."

Big Brother has previously taken serious action when the N-word has been used.

Blonde student Emily Parr was thrown out for using the racially offensive term to fellow housemate Charley Uchea in June 2007.

The pair were together when Emily said: "Are you pushing it out, you n*****r."

The next morning, at 3am, she was woken and called into the Diary Room. She later insisted she hadn't used it in an "offensive way".

Two years ago Jade Goody was evicted from Celebrity Big Brother in January 2007 after a row over alleged racism and bullying against Indian Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.

The public outcry that resulted saw the show off air until Friday night.

She called her "Shilpa Poppadom'", asked whether she lived in a "house or a shack'" and told to "go back to the slums."

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Your comments
another example of inside racism and discrimination, white people cant say n***** but a black man can, what the **** has britain came to.

By dave. Posted enero 4 2009 at 9:37 AM.

It is always the same,when a black person uses this disgusting word and all the others then it is ok,but heavens forbid when a white person happens to say it. Why would anyone want to use this vile word is beyond me

By Ann Chambers. Posted enero 4 2009 at 9:36 AM.

There seems to be one rule for one and one for another. They are all Has-beens. Who watches this rubbish?

By David. Posted enero 4 2009 at 9:30 AM.

AS THERE IS NO LIVE FEED THEY CAN SAY WHAT THEY LIKE.WATCHED IT AT 12 O CLOCK LAST NIGHT ALL IN BED EXCEPT COOLIO UNPACKING HIS SUIT CASE.HOW CAN C4 EXPECT TO GET VIEWERS BACK WATCHING?

By merryl. Posted enero 4 2009 at 9:28 AM.

if this n***** word was said but not aired, who was the person responsible to spill the beans to the papers in the first place, if it was from BB or Endemol themselves then OBVIOUSLY they are only after the bad publicity to get more viewers as i bet the ratings are down after last years CBB. need i say more!!!!!!!

By wendy. Posted enero 4 2009 at 9:43 AM.

Same old, 1 rule for 1 Channel 4 get a grip.

By Ally. Posted enero 4 2009 at 9:52 AM.

Here we go again, look at the context people, he was repeating a dream, durrr!!!!

By Syl. Posted enero 4 2009 at 8:58 AM.

So BB and Endemol have let this incident pass because they claim 'no one has been offended'. If I remember rightly, no on was offended when Emily said it and she was still thrown out of the house!
Emily said the 'N' word as part of conversation, she didn't call Charley it and at the time Charley didn't even bat an eyelid cos that's the language she uses and is used to!
Charley only pretended to be offended once she realised it was becoming an issue and that she was going to be in the middle of something, lets face it after the way Charley behaved in the house and after the way she spoke to others, I think it's fair to say that not an awful lot would upset her!

It will be interesting to see how BB handle any other issues regarding racism and offensive language for the remainder of programme and if double standards will apply to them!

By Janine Chivers. Posted enero 4 2009 at 8:51 AM.

why is it racist when a white person say's n****r but whena black person uses the same word its not racist.. bout time everyone is allowed to use the word if its not racist for a black person to use the word

By Rick. Posted enero 4 2009 at 8:06 AM.

From the way the story reads, it sounds like Coolio was describing an insult toward him.....thats what the word is...An insulting Profanity!
Its similar to the use of the F word, no one even notices if someone says F*** Me, but the whole context of the word changes if you change it to F""" you!
I think what black people have done with this word is brilliant!! They have turned it on its head and now use it in a general term to dilute its a mening little but havent lost the meaning entirely!

Also, Its a reality show....whats the point in a reality show where people are restricted from showing how they live in real life???? It may as well be scripted!!

By Gareth. Posted enero 4 2009 at 8:03 AM.

Oh thats ok, as long as a white person does not say it, then it isnt racist!!!!!!!!!!!

By shani. Posted enero 4 2009 at 8:02 AM.

All this PC attitude is making our country the s**t hole it is. People need to grow up.

He was talking about a dream he had about himself.

Me thinks the comments on here are more racist. Just coz he's black, if he was white 99% of you wouldnt care.

By paul. Posted enero 4 2009 at 8:11 AM.

Get over it, he didn't offend anyone, I bet the legal action they would face and the backlash for kicking him out over that would be much much worse than telling him off. Some perspective is needed here.

By clueless. Posted enero 4 2009 at 6:53 AM.

So what? It was a one off and in
context. grow up the lot of you.

By John Chambers. Posted enero 4 2009 at 5:17 AM.

It's only racist if it is intentionally said with malice.... in the course of normal conversation amongst SOME black people it is not offensive.

In addition, Emily should perhaps have been reprimanded but not removed.... at the time she said it, it was totally innocent.

By Jels. Posted enero 4 2009 at 4:54 AM.

This word is racist and offensive and he should be disciplined celebrity or not.
You can't have one rule for him and rule for everyone else.
Or are C4 practicing reverse racism?
They kicked out someone before for saying that word they should do it again this year

By hobnob. Posted enero 4 2009 at 4:38 AM.

double standards again,,he shouldhave been removed from the house,,they ruined stephs experience in big brother when they overeacted,but at the same time they set the standard...they clearly said that there could never be any acceptable excuse for using this word..
its has offended me very badly.

By jamesd. Posted enero 4 2009 at 3:49 AM.

Double standards, So are they saying only black people are 'allowed' to be offended by the term? Are they saying white people would not be offended just because they are white??

Its 'normally' white pc do-gooders that get offended 'for' black people anyway!

Sickening.

By Lee. Posted enero 4 2009 at 3:35 AM.

Ben didnt take offense that is a brilliant line a black man using the N word about himself and they were worried a white man would take offense brilliant channel 4 just brilliant

By magic_fingers. Posted enero 4 2009 at 2:22 AM.

Plus do not compare the Shilpa Shetty incident to to what Coolio said ..they are two very different scenarios..

By Kimora Lee. Posted enero 4 2009 at 1:02 AM.

How can they tell him off for talking about himself? He wasn't saying it at anyone....

By Clint. Posted enero 4 2009 at 1:02 AM.

He is not a gangsta rapper but african american both rappers and non rappers in general do use that word very loosely...As a people we use that word to each other and we do not find it offensive. H e's music he's positive go you tube some of his video you will see what i mean...Please dont think that every rapper is a gangsta rapper...i mean Will Smith is a rapper too, so he's he a gangsta as well? come on give me a break!!

By Kimora Lee . Posted enero 4 2009 at 1:01 AM.

WHY HAS HE NOT BEEN REPRIMANDED OR THROWN OF THE SHOW, IT AINT FAIR BIG BROTHER.

By weemadnorrie. Posted enero 4 2009 at 12:55 AM.

What did they expect. The guy's a gangster rapper and that's the language he uses most of the time. He isn't exactly Harvard educated. It's like having someone with Tourettes in the house and asking them to not swear!!!

God Tina Malone is irritating. Michelle Heaton looks very odd. Rest of them, meh.

Is Steve Strange in there, then? I've not watched a second of it since the first night.

Nope.

This is the first I've watched of it.

Nope

Fuck that, then. Has Tommy made a cunt of himself yet?

hi.

Lisa Malone's talking about herself at Latoya (because that's all she does obv), Latoya mentions the fact that an ex physically beat her sesnseless, Lisa responds by TALKING ABOUT HERSELF. WITHOUT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGING LATOYA'S HORRIFIC STORY.

I fucking hate that woman.

That's the only bits I've seen so far.

Lisa talking to TChris "I never had a gastric band, bloody press! It were a baloon!"...

and onto Lato without a pause of breath...

Just (coincidentally) finished TChris' book, "My Word"

I was chatting to a former workmate the other week who was at school with Terry Christian. He said he was "basically a fucking idiot" and expressed some admiration that he'd managed to land any kind of career that didn't involve shovelling shit for a living.

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Hmm, not the Grammar school? people b lookin' down on the lad with the working class accent? Hmm?

Just askin'

Hmm, not the Grammar school? people b lookin' down on the lad with the working class accent? Hmm?

Just askin'

I have absolutely no idea what this means.

Christian made his first nomination after filming his fellow celebrities with a video camera for a task to create closing credits for Sunday's programme.

When asked to conclude which housemate had the most inflated ego, Christian told Big Brother: "No-one I filmed today showed any part of an ego, only me as I go on about being head of house.

"We all have big egos and low self-esteem. That's why we're in the business," he said.

Pushed for an answer, he chose Jonsson saying: "Everything seems to get on her nerves about me and the situation.

"I may be wrong and I'll suffer the consequences."

Monday's show will see Christian secretly choose a second celebrity to face the public vote by deciding which housemate has the least talent.

Biggest challenge of the season will be finding a housemate with the least talent amongst that lot.

I can't imagine Terry picking anyone other than Lucy Pinder for that.

Terry seems like a basically sound guy to me. Him, Latoya, Verne, Mutya and maybe Ben will be the goodies. Coolio a bit early to call.

Coolio was v. funny on Never mind the Buzzocks, a few years ago.

terry the most interesting guy in there but that's not really about him

latoya just mental and weird and brainless

tina just fucking horrible

Nah, reckon Latoya might be decent underneath the Jackson loopiness. Plenty of time to be proved wrong though.

don't think she's indecent just totally thoughtless and vapid

Thoughtless? The bit I saw she seemed to be quite caring towards Tina.

Vapid? Jury's out.

didn't mean careless. meant thoughtless like I meant brainless - obviously she has a thought and a brain but they are both rubbish

Anyone else notice that Coolio totally lied about his age on Gangsta's Paradise?

I'm 23 now, will I live to see 24...

Initial Betting:

Verne Troyer 11 - 8
Coolio 9 - 2
Ben Adams 6 - 1
Terry Christian 6 - 1
La Toya Jackson 9 - 1
Tina Malone 13 - 1
Michelle Heaton 20 - 1
Lucy Pinder 20 - 1
Ulrika Jonsson 25 - 1
Mutya Buena 28 - 1
Tommy Sheridan 33 - 1

does Verne have more talent than Lucy? he's fascinating and well liked but i've only seen him in Austin Powers which wasn't even a speaking part.

Lucy professed to be intelligent AND a rabid Tory in her bio package, so I'm saying yes.

Verne wasn't very good at the acting today.

Lucy's big chance to justify her opinions consisted of 'Yeah, I don't like the Labour Party because, er, they're rubbish.'

I continue to not mind Latoya, her self-analysis in the diary room was a hell of a lot more accurate and less cringeworthy than you'd expect. Still not brimming with insight, but far from awful. I think Mutya might be actively nice, but she's been a bit too quiet to tell for sure.

caught a bit of this. Lucy and Terry fighting for the most terrible although at least terry is a politician and i kinda expected polemic from him.

latoya is a michael jackson tribute act. who knew?

Terry? Do you mean Tommy?

Ulrika's use of the interjection "pissflaps!" before she went up to do her spiel has endeared her to me somewhat.

I'd like to see Ulrika and Terry in a "creative swearing" competition...

"Arsebiscuits!"
"Shiteburgers!"

...while LaToya looks on with a bemused expression on her face.

Daily Star getting behind their girl.
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Basically argues that Pinder must stay otherwise nobody will watch. But unless she actually gets on with the girl-on-girl action SHE PROMISED I'm bored with her already. Bosoms are not that exciting.

I love the way they refer to the programme as "B BRO". But not quite as much as how their main selling point is how cheap the paper is. They could reduce the price to 10p and say something like "NOW EVEN CHEAPER THAN BOGROLL!!!"

Tonight, LIVE on Channel 4, Davina McCall will return to the Big Brother house to surprise the housemates as the Celebrity Head of House mission comes to its conclusion.

All will be revealed and our celebrities will be enlightened live on air about Terry's secret nominations.

So far, Terry has nominated Ulrika, having deemed her the housemate with the most inflated ego, and Lucy for being the least talented housemate, based on her performance in talent showcase task.

As always Big Brother will have an extra twist up its sleeve, and the housemates will have to make a difficult decision...LIVE on air...

Tune in at 9pm Tuesday 6th January and join Davina for the surprise live show. The show continues at 11.05pm till 11.40pm.

> As always Big Brother will have an extra twist up its sleeve

but if everything has a twist then the only real twist would be no twist.

Bosoms are not that exciting.

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you've obviously never interacted with dan perry.

The twist is that you think the twist is going to be shit, but you watch on the off chance that the twist isn't shit, then the twist on the twist is that the twist twist turns out to be shit.

I have no idea what it'll be, but since the whole point - from C4's point of view - is to increase viewing figures for the slack mid week period, it doesn't really matter. It can be a shit twist, but if it gets all the housemates jumping around shouting "aarrgh you're two faced!!!" "aaargh no you're two faced!!!" "aaaarrrgggh!!!" then C4 will be happy.

14.54: Michelle is teaching Verne some Geordie terminology. Verne especially likes 'Haway man', which means 'going home'.

No, that's incorrect.

The phrase is "Gan Yem"

We shall see, tonight.

When they make a biopic about diminutive Geordies Ant & Dec, he can audition.

Terry Christian fails to annoy again. What is going on?

Mutya is my new favourite after her silencing Coolio with her lack of interest in money.

They were all pretty game at the impersonations. I seem to remember when ILE did that, it didn't end so happily.

Lucy is a surprise, seems quite the old "down to earth" etc.

Still with her first boyfriend, the one she 'lost' it with. And can do a fairly decent Geordie accent (although it's more an 'impersonation of Cheryl Cole' to be fair)...

Still, 'nice enough' ain't gonna win it.

SHE'S A TORY

yeah, but even Terry has forgiven her in a 'she doesn't know owt about it really' which might seem condescending but actually seems fair (she seems less dim overall)

Tina has got a lot of people going "good for her", so we'll see...

The positives at the moment seem to be Terry, Tina, Verne, Ben and Mutya.

There arent' any negatives as such.

Oh, and the live relay (00:00 to about 01:30) was funydammit...

Tommy makes gigantic penis of self, #1 in what will probably be a mercifully short series.

The bit about "Rangers fans sing it" is a whole new level of WTF. Seriously, he's fucking mad.

It's not very well explained. As I understand it, Sheridan and Christian were having a talk about their Irish roots. I assume the "Rangers fans sing it" refers to them singing it with ... different lyrics.

C4 muting it out isn't much of a story - the live feed has to play safe and mutes things all the time. You can't expect them to be experts on what's judged a sectarian song and what isn't.

I assume the "Rangers fans sing it" refers to them singing it with ... different lyrics

As far as I understand (and really: my understanding of all things Old Firm-related, especially the fucking songs, is minimal), there's a completely different set of words sung to the same tune, but that's not really the same thing at all. I genuinely don't think Tommeh knows what the fuck he's on about.

The point is, pretty simply: a Scottish politician should know rather better than to go on national TV and sing a song that could be linked in any way to sectarianism -- especially one that's just been in the fucking news (that was before they went in to the house, so no excuses there). And if he is going to do it, then he needs a rather more eloquent and well-thought-out justification.

I think it was fine.

Yeh, but you're not a crazy-ass mentalist looking for any excuse to kick off yet another tedious fight about football-related bigotry.

(And I am. No, sorry: an awful lot of people on his home turf are, and this just seems to be playing into their hands.)

Look - it can't be a nasty. The man who wrote it also pens anti-drink-driving songs!

I take it back. Just checked the lyrics. They go "Don't drink and drive ... unless you're Protestant and driving in a Protestant area with lots of kids about".

Haha - I thought you were serious there. I will believe anything.

Tina has told the group that both men and women try to flirt with her and that she attributes her allure to her ample size.

The housemate told Ulrika that she receives much fan mail of a sexual nature from both men and women.

She explained: "I look dirty, and that’s why men flirt with me. That’s why men and women flirt with me."

She then added: "Everyone else wants to fuck me."

Hmm, men and women flirt with her, everyone else ? Cats? Dogs? Infants?

re. Fields of Athenry - I presume the Glasgow University dude is similarly critical of God Save The Queen and Flower of Scotland and their neighbour-bashing sentiments, each aimed at alienating a section of the UK. And that people were similarly up in arms at Bruce Forsyth singing the Hokey Cokey on a prime-time Christmas Day light entertainment show.

Load of old bollocks, the lot of it. Sheridan's still a tit, mind.

Oh, yeh, it's absolute and utter pish. But, regardless of history/authorial intent/etc, some songs, at certain points in history, take on significances which you'd have to be a total fucking anus not to consider if, say, you were going to sing them on national TV.

He's a total and utter dobber, basically.

I love Tommy S.

Favourite Tommy S./SSP anecdotes:

The father of a friend of mine and Tommy are good pals. If Tommy ever drops round he likes a game of Pro Evo on the Xbox. But will only play it against children, and then acts like he's brilliant when he wins 4-0 or whatever.

Rosie Kane or whatever her name was explaining that she wasn't overly concerned with Marxist theory in the Herald - "I don't know what Marx said in the Kremlin".

Two of my friends went to a talk Tommy Sheridan was doing on some issue at their university, at the start a register was handed round, just with a list of spots to put in names and details, no explanation. Later they found that they had became members of the SSP. One of them has a Labour councillor for a dad and members of the local SSP would shout at him taunting him that his son had turned.

Tommy Sheridan's mum on the tv telling how when Tommy was a young lad his favourite night-time reading was the book about "the little boy who had no shoes" - Keir Hardie.

Singing Fields of Athenry on national telly without realising it would cause controversy.

If Tommy ever drops round he likes a game of Pro Evo on the Xbox. But will only play it against children, and then acts like he's brilliant when he wins 4-0 or whatever

HAAHAHAHAHAH fuck I wonder if I can sneak that into the Diary? No, I won't. BUT STILL.

The posh guy in the pink house on the children's TV show Balamory has a picture of Tommy hanging up in his house.

Tina has told the group that both men and women try to flirt with her and that she attributes her allure to her ample size.

The housemate told Ulrika that she receives much fan mail of a sexual nature from both men and women.

She explained: "I look dirty, and that’s why men flirt with me. That’s why men and women flirt with me."

She then added: "Everyone else wants to fuck me."

Hmm, men and women flirt with her, everyone else ? Cats? Dogs? Infants?

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Lisa is despite her claim to the contrary more like her Shameless character than I thought humanly possible.

do you mean nuts

yes that's it exactly

Lucy's friend and fellow glamour model Michelle Marsh was lifted into the Big Brother compound in an industrial cherry picker today.

As part of today's task, Tina, Lucy and Coolio have been acting as members of the paparazzi and staking out the garden to photograph any appearances from non-housemate celebrities.

Tina suprised Lucy by admitting that she did not realise that Michelle was famous and didn't have a clue who she was.

The actress, who had been given a camera as part of the task, said: "I don’t know who she is but I’ll take her photo anyway."

Michelle was quickly whisked away from the Big Brother compound without setting foot in the house.

The Daily Star are having a massive bonk about this, thee truth is somewhat less 'exciting'

Michelle Marsh lives the exciting and glamorous life of being married to a bloke that plays for St Mirren. I'm not sure I could pick her out of a line-up, to be fair to Tina.

I don't think it makes me sound like a crusty old fuck to say I've never heard of her and wouldn't recognise her if she was pissing in my cornflakes.

Lisa and Coolio the two biggest attention whores in the house. Latoya the big surprise for not being a wanker and actually quite pleasant. Ben is incredibly cute when he's not singing.

Loving the various accents say 'Coolio' btw.

Oh and Terry Christian is also likeable somehow.

OMG People with perspective!

Lucy in no "Actually, there is a lot of talent and skill involved in what I do" attitude.

Terry in "I don't want to upset people, but... It's only a game, so... hey."

Ulrika not getting involved in the 'measure your ego' comp is just like how my dad would never play TrivPurs with the rest of the family but would shout PSHH! OF COURSE IT'S AUSTRIA type rejoinders from the other room, um, fish.

No outstanding personalities this year. Boring.

verne ferrying king terry around on his mobility scooter last night warmed the cockles of my heart, somehow.

Aye, that was lovely. Coolio persistently/desperately stealing attention from fucking everyone in the house all the time less so.

I'm quite enjoying the general pleasantness of it, it makes a change. No behaviour worse than a bit annoying yet.

what happened to this:

Er, and I don't think I can be bothered watching it regularly this year. Tired of it.

― if some1 could fills me in i would like it (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:17 (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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More importantly: what happened to Steve Strange?

No idea what happened to Strange. Maybe he dropped out at the last minute and one of the others is the reserve housemate? At the beginning I was a bit peeved about him not being there, but Terry's taken over the role that I was expecting him to play anyway (reasonable guy without an overblown celebrity ego).

(xxpost) I think the problem* is that the person the producers put in to stir things up - Terry - hasn't done so.

*I don't think it's a problem, presumably C4/Endemol do, because to them no arguments = low ratings. There's a story in the Telegraph about how Nancy Dell'Olio is going to enter the house, but I think that's just a wild rumour. In the longer term, this "calm" house might make the housemates in the summer series behave more reasonably. On the other hand, the producers might deliberately pick more people with attichoods/entitlement issues in some attempt to make things spicier.

wasn't steve strange cutting people's hair in some other reality thing recently? non-compete contract?

That was a while ago, if I recall correctly.

Celebrity Scissorhands
In November 2006, Strange took part in, and went on to win, the BBC reality series for Children in Need Celebrity Scissorhands (featuring top celebrity hairdresser Lee Stafford). He has returned to the show for the subsequent two series (2007 and 2008)[2] as Assistant Manager/Image Consultant. In that role, he is in charge of the catwalk, showing all of the best haircuts of the series and also people dressed in 80's style clothing and make-up.

I do recall correctly...

It was a while ago, yes, but, Jade Goody apart, have any CBB contestants done other reality shows beforehand, or are they always new to the reality TV circuit?

xpost

Celebrity Scissorhands, first series, end of 2006 I think? And it was produced by Endemol as well. Also I don't think that they make the celebrities sign the same restrictive contract as they do the the main summer BB series. The celebs weren't cooped up in a hotel and prevented from reading the papers, for example.

Actually, Michelle Heaton had her own series, so just ignore me.

Many of the US contestants of the UK celeb BB have done other reality shows...

.. oh sorry I forgot to ignore you there.

> That was a while ago

"He has returned to the show for the subsequent two series (2007 and 2008)"

and that was quite recently 8)

ulrika did that Art School thing with keith allen, one fat lady, humphries and nihal from radio 1. was short lived BBC2 arty version of a reality show but i enjoyed it.

http://uk.imdb.de/title/tt0843171/

Before this year, I think they were all reality virgins though - I know some have gone on to do more, but at the time, they were all new to the genre.

Brigitte Nielson did etc.....

celebrity scissorhands >>>> celeb bb

it's great

The world is running out of reality virgins.

re. Nielsen - BRITISH REALITY TV SHOWS. What menks watch reality shows from overseas? (hi dere Autumn Almanac, lol)

why do you keep typing Lisa im burt_stanton btw and well done for typing Ben is incredibly cute when he's not singing and Oh and Terry Christian is also likeable somehow

oh he's a menk

ailsa, you didn't specify British shows...

Oh sorry.

cozwn I retracted that statement with 24hrs from memory.

terry christian was in ch5's the farm wasnt he? had a big ruckus with vanilla ice if i recall rightly

missing barrymore was pretty funny

http://www.katescelebrityportraits.co.uk/Images/Models/lucy.jpg

how did they miss her?

All right, I'll say HURRAH then.

orribl

rescu

Verne Troyer 1 - 2
Ben Adams 6 - 1
Terry Christian 7 - 1
La Toya Jackson 10 - 1
Ulrika Jonsson 16 - 1
Coolio 20 - 1
Mutya Buena 25 - 1
Michelle Heaton 25 - 1
Tina Malone 66 - 1
Tommy Sheridan 100 - 1

You know what I reckons?

I reckons Tina is way underpriced here.

Worth a bet on being Top Female, almost definitely.

You reckon?

I'd probably move Ulrika down the list a bit. Below Coolio maybe.

Ulrika certainly below Coolio, but he has "third place" written all over him. If La Toya starts going "RAR RAR RAR SEE THE WAR IN MY EYES" then she could beat him and come second. Def still Verne to win though.

Oh, sure.

And now it's Tina, Mutya, Michelle and Ulrika for the out.

And Michelle is showing Ulrika how to get yourself voted out PROPERLY!!!

Just when things are going perfectly well for Terry (no nominations at all)...

Michael Barrymore is recording a tribute Madchester song:

The song is not a recognisable cover, and some of the tune's original lyrics include: "He's the opinionated type of guy. Won't be too long till he makes Ulrika-ka-ka cry. He's just not fooled by those kind of birds. He'll speak his mind, he is the man of The Word.

"You know what, I think La Toya is horny. I reckon she's a freak, dude," Coolio whispered to Terry.

"Don't be like that. Be a gentleman," Terry replied.

"I'll find out when I get back to LA," the rapper said, before adding: "I think she likes me. If I could get her to fall in love with me I'd never have to work again."

Terry simply shook his head, saying: "I'm not even going to laugh."

...

That's right, we're all stopped watching.

the evening show is on too early, the morning show on too late. i guess there are about 100 repeats on various other channels but...

besides, i have 141 unwatched buffy episodes...

ooh man, this is rough

tina out, mutya walks.

good

eviction tonight.

Michelle went.

and now it's between Coolio, Terry, Tommy, Ben, Verne, Ulrika, Latoya, and um.... oh whats her name? OH YEAH, ANJELINA JOLIE!!

'twas quite funny yesterday.

Two will be evicted tonight.

my god, the line-up this year...

Left: Ben, Terry, Coolio, Latoya, Ulrika, Verne and Tommy.

To go tonight? Tommy and Ben, I reckons.

Leaving Terry, Coolio, Latoya, Ulrika and Verne.

Hmm...

In order of out:
Latoya
Ulrika
Terry
Coolio

leaving Verne as the winner.

(xpost) in terms of "anticipation of FITES, etc." vs what's actually happened, it's been disappointing. What concerns me is that the producers will see this and think "for the summer we have to get some really REALLY wacky outrageous people who will clash angrily with each other because of their attitchoods". And then we'll have an unwatchable 100 days of aggro to sit through.

There is one BIG difference between this series and the Regular one.

In the regular one (and, indeed, past Celeb ones), people wanted to stay on and win.

This one might as well be called "I'm a Celebrity (with kids), get me out of here!"

i think they were hoping for mildness given that the last celeb thing got them into trouble (so much so that they skipped a year)

> In order of out:
> Latoya
> Ulrika
> Terry
> Coolio
> Verne

terry talking about the thickos that watch this program might've cost him.

no, he was talking about the thickos that actually vote.

oh, wait...

Has anyone here ever actually phone voted for BigBrother, ever?

(this does not make you a thicko, OK?)

that said, given that they are voting for rather than against people he might get away with the (the dissenting votes spread out amongst the others rather than targeted at him)

have voted twice in the past, can't remember who though.

yeah, but it might actually stop people voting *for* him. I guess.

I used to vote from time to time, but not since the 2006 final (when I voted for Aisleyne).

maxwell

i cant see many people voting for verne after the way he was lipsing up that baby last night. Who could know that there was something more disturbing than seeing him on a full size lady?

The Verne boosterism just tells me that the UK didn't see him on The Surreal Life, a train wreck matched only in its unwatchability by Celebrity Rehab.

I think that was what Michelle was referring to when she said she saw him on something, and was expecting more drunken-ness mentalism from him.

(in fairness I can't watch CBB so it's possible he isn't as completely tragic on this as he was on TSL)

Latest Odds:

Verne Troyer 8/11
Terry Christian 13/5
Ulrika Jonsson 14
Ben Adams 20
Coolio 28
La Toya Jackson 40
Tommy Sheridan 200
Any Other 999

verne's annoying

coolio's annoying

ulrika's a bit annoying

la toya's annoying

tommy's annoying

ben's boring

terry's OK!

he was well funny doing tina

I have to say, Tommy was far, far, far less of a bell-end than I expected.

I believe that he can make up for it in the Davina interview

Good point. Let's see ...

tommy boring and crawling

Ach. He's being OK here, too.

he's rubbish

Compared to what I feared and expected, he's been a godhead.

Objectively ... yeh, he's a bit rubbish, I guess.

Anyone know why Terry's wrist is in a bandage?

he hurt it.

lol, and I thought it was a tribute to Kirk in the new Trek movie...

Did you know, this is the only ILX thread with steve strange in the title?

Terry, evens.
Coolio, five to one.
Ulrika, five to one.
Verne, six to one
Ben, sixteen to one.

That's to come second, that is.
If you want to bet on the winner, Verne is evens and it's free money, innit?

Verne, six to one

Verne is evens

uh?

oh, right, for second.

Verne didn't take a hit with the papers going for the simulated baby fucking scandal?

One went with a rep from a Child Protection league saying "C4 broadcasting that shows how little importance they place in protecting babies" or somesuch.

Another comment had it "now I know what's weirder than Verne kissing a fully grown woman"...

wtg.

Who could know that there was something more disturbing than seeing him on a full size lady?

― straightola, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:52 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh, it was here. ahem....

Daily Star went with BIG BRO SICKEST STUNT EVER (thusly erasing Kinga from history, if not from my memory).

(on that note: can anyone find that excellent gobsmacked picture of Anthony from the bottle episode?)

http://shinymedia.headshift.com/images/images/oh_dear.jpg

awesome, thanks snoball - there's a bigger closer up version which is maybe my favourite BB thing ever.

So, today, this thread ends.

You reckon that they gonna do one next year? I mean, all that "I don't wanna win, I wannaget out early with my fee" nonsense...

Surely it's in their contracts that they forfeit some of the fee if they leave before being evicted?

I mean, when they are sitting on the sofa come eviction timegoing "Pleeeezz!ME!!! "

Oh I see - because maybe they all get paid a flat fee regardless of how long they're in the house?
Final on now...

oh fuck excellent Bird's Eye are making Arctic Roll again!

5th - Ben
4th - Verne

3rd - Coolio

given that it's only 3 weeks and they have obligations beyond being in the house (bblb, magazines, the final) it's hardly money for nothing even if they leave at end of week 1.

(actually, the mags are extras)

2nd - Terry?!
1st - Ulrika?!

WTF WTF WTF?!

Verne shouldn't have licked the fake baby.

Seems a bit odd that no-one seemed to like Ulrika yet she got 57% of the vote.

I LIKED HER.

How the fuck did Coolio come third?? Admittedly I've not been watching but he was an insufferable penis in at least the first week.

Glad I didn't believe a bet on Verne at evens was free money then. We were looking at this in the pub last night to a whole chorus of WTFs.

Fucking fix, I swear.

yeah, sorry about that ailsa.

This coming from the person that reckoned Tina was a good outside bet!