Big Brother 2009 (UK) Thread 1: Waiting for the Sirens Call?

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.. you tell me.

So, last week was the bombshell that "Davina sez the show will end in 2011", and that as BB10 will start on June 4th, and the Daily Star reckons that the show will have a "new Jade" in the "loveable Geordie" etc, and so on..

So, I thought I'd start this thread early, just to see how close the "early list" is, and so on. Past years had the lists a closely guarded secret, with the collusion of the papers who'd have embargoed lists ahead of time. Thesedays, it's more like an open secret.

Vile people, all of them?

can i just

IS THIS STILL GOING?

Ten years. Christ.

Mark I think you're probably the only person who still cares enough to start a thread months in advance.

(Okay weeks in advance)

Oh I still end up watching it, otherwise I don't see Mrs V for three months.

Well, this is only the second time I've started one more than a week ahead. Granted, the other time was immediately after the previous one had ended, as a funny (although I revived it the year after). The first "painful showoffs" thread...

you watch big brother

Oh I still end up watching it, otherwise I don't see Mrs V for three months.

Is she a contestant?

"Davina sez the show will end in 2011",

I was under the impression that she only said this because her contract expires after BB 2010?

so, she either gets a one-year 'golden watch' style payout contract

or, someone else gets the gig for 2011?

Yeah, she's now saying that she was misquoted. I'm amazed it's still going - what were the ratings like for the last season?

It's in the Sun link. Summary: Low.

Is she a contestant?

Dear god it feels like it sometimes.

(xpost) OTOH, probably higher than what C4/E4 would get broadcasting anything else during the summer.

They should try a series featuring E4 presenters finding out about medieval torture methods at first hand. That'd be a winner.

"Rack of (George) Lamb"

Right, it starts tomorrow.

Time to state if you're on it, off it,or 'I know I'm going to end up on it despite resisting...'

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Stanley Kubrick by way of Bhs home furnishings.

a lesson i have learnt : if i watch one episode i get hooked and end up losing hours of my life.
last year i resisted the temptation and got through the whole series without any need to see it, lets hope this year i can repeat this.

I'm on it. My wife's due to give birth round about the end of July but that'll be a minor inconvenience.

Right, it starts tomorrow.

Really? I'm off it, I think. I just can't be arsed.

I'm so on this. That house pic looks boss. It's like the space station in NOLF.

ON IT. For about the first couple of weeks, then vague disinterest until the last two or three weeks when I realise I'm still judging people on their start and have totally missed their "journey". Which I fucking hate as a concept for 'worthy winner' status.

Another former Miss Wales contestant? YAWN.

Big Brother 10 prepares to launch

The 16 contestants taking part in the 10th series of reality TV show Big Brother will be revealed later.

But the eight men and eight women will be in for a shock, as they will spend their first days living in one room and eating cold porridge.

The contestants will have to earn the right to become official housemates and compete for the £100,000 prize - with the failures evicted on Sunday.

The show, hosted by Davina McCall, kicks off at 2100 BST on Channel 4.

Housemates will spend the first few days sleeping on the floor of the living room and will have no access to the kitchen or bathroom.

Big Brother will give them cold porridge to eat each day and if they want to wash, they will have to fill a bathtub in the garden from a cold tap, using a bucket with a hole in it.

'Diverse and cosmopolitan'

Once the hopefuls become official housemates, they will be given access to the rest of the house, with one bedroom for the boys, one for the girls and a bathroom.

Sharon Power, one of the show's executive producers, said the 16 had been in hiding for weeks and had no idea what was in store for them.

"Everybody is expecting to walk into a normal Big Brother house with lots of rooms and furniture and places to go, and they will actually have this one living room and the garden," she said.

No detail has been revealed about the identities of this year's contestants, but show bosses have said the youngest contestant is 18 and the oldest is 40.

Producers have also promised the "most diverse and cosmopolitan" group ever, with contestants drawn from "the four corners of the world".

the earth is round

... you try telling that to a Big Brother contestant. Is East Angular to be represented this year?

I have a prior engagement this evening so I'll be missing the opening night - maybe this year I'll finally be able to kick the habit (not likely if I want to be in the same room as my wife over the next few weeks)

I'm in. I'm loving the spaceship house design, the chair not so much.

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wtf, why did they steal the 6th Doctor's loveseat

Shit, I just found out I'm friends with one of this year's housemates, and I'm not in the country to watch it...

^ you can tell us stuff though, right?

On now. Devina has just explained ShiteTwist(tm) #1

Contestant #1 - Freddie - imagine an upper class twit version of PUA Mystery.

#2 - Lisa, skinhead lesbian (her own description)

only found out this was starting at 8.59

Urge to kill has risen in me already

And I haven't watched it on at least 5 years

doubt I'll get past this ep

Painful conversation between the first two.

#3 - Sophie, model, promotions girl

Things are looking up up up.

"push them round like a double buggy"

Knocking off the requisite stereotypes quite quickly this year.

oh fuck me i forgot about this. friends who have gfs now horrible to be around for the next 3 months cause fucking big brother has to be on the telly , or if not on the telly it has to be one of the main topics of conversation. Fuck my life.

#4 - Kris, wanker. Kind of like Russel Brand but not funny in the slightest. Makes Freddie seem almost normal. Heavy booing.

Looks like a thesp.

off it

FLANGIGA

#5 - Noirin - really heavy booing.
I am on the verge of being off this whole thing. So far Lisa is the only halfway normal one there.

#6 - Cairon

Classic ass quote.

Siavash has nobbled his chances of winning, mostly with all this not nomming business, but I think he can still make second. Roddy's knocked the drama queen thing on the head, but it's probably not enough. Sophie's the winner by a clear margin though.

All the voting girlies love Rod. Like they love Sophie, and 'last years winner' (check the name, subs?)

Rachel?

ta.

The finalists have been tweeting this lunchtime: http://twitter.com/OfficialBB

Also, Marcus is now on Twitter: http://twitter.com/IrrepressibleDH

DH = dickhead?

I have watched this week after not seeing it probably since the last batch of people came in, and have been surprised how much I simultaneously like and can't stand David.

Siavash's twitter: written in fluent Prince, but as if Prince were scared of his dad and psycho ex.

Sophie: Cannot wait to go out parting with the lovely Miss Muglestone! Miss you lots! London here we come! Hell yeah! Love ya lots xx

It's not really BB if they can chat online to people, is it?

They got to write their messages on a blackboard in the diary room, and the tweets were tweeted for them.

From Digital Spy; Marcus has been released into the wild there too, and is posting:

The air was crisp as a light rain fell... The thunder boomed so malevolently that it threatened to crack the very earth asunder. The ground trembled at his mighty footfall. The mingebags fell to their knees, crying their sanity away in the hope of salvation. For where once the Irrepressible Dark Horse has passed, no one who lives forgets!! The church loomed as the enigmatic and menacing figure drew closer. The heavy door swung open in obedience to the Dark Horse's will as he addressed his fellows in the manner to which they are accustomed -

"Hello you bastards! I'm that c**t from the telly."

He's the new Dominic Diamond!

During his exit interview Grace Dent said something like "you could present Robot Wars", so that's not far fetched.

I was freaked out by that; they had Andi Peters there who agreed he had a future in TV and unlike Grace Dent, he could make that happen due to C4 job.

Andi Peters could get Marcus to present a show in return for a custom Andu Peters action figure...

And here we go. Davina sporting an interesting haircut...

Yes, she's the bastard offspring of La Roux and Martin Fry.

This is my friend, who is Beth Ditto's stylist and a ringer for Siavash:

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oh dear Sree...

first mention of digital spy ever on BB?

davina's hair is dooooooope

so hot

5th place: Roddy

Looking like a cross between Kraftwerk and teh guy out of Same Difference

rodrigo looking great too

And at last, proper psyche analysis

4th place: Charlie

3rd place: David

when charlie joked about being sectioned the camera cut momentarily for a reaction from sree

That was evil, poor Sree. Noirin is single now, BTW.

yeah, it seemed like a really unfunny joke.

i laughed muchly upon hearing isaac had gone back to america though.

rodrigo was awesome btw. stunned, STUNNED that he came 5th. esp when charlie has been such a psycho throughout.

two weeks ago i would have said siavash should have won, but even though i think he has every right to feel depressed and fucked over, he's been a drag to watch this week.

I think he's caught a bad cold from running around in a Playboy outfit all week. Also did anyone notice him SHAKING after David was called 3rd?

...and david hanging around the room like a bad fart after his eviction...

It's always awkward when they do that "I'm coming to get you... in 30 mins after Kevin Bishop!"

Actually worked this time because David had time to compose himself.

Poor guy's been burgled and vandalized at home in Britain's scummiest town and as far as I can see, he hasn't got a nasty bone in his body.

david's so sweet

not a nasty bone in his body at all

*joke re: proposed date with Charlie goes here*

2nd place: Siavash
1st place: Sophie

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Actually happy with how this has panned out. Sophie IS properly funny.

yeah, she is sweet and funny and not silly like siavash but silly in the good way

i've realised i hate davina. in all of those interviews - every single one - she was like your friend who's not really your friend, who likes to remind you and everyone of the embarrassing thing you did one time, whenever you're out in public. she's like the human embodiment of a copy of Heat magazine.

and the hairstyle was straight out of King Kurt!

Davina can never seem to keep up with the teleprompter or her earpiece or whatever else is going on. She never really seems to know what she's saying. The producers could probably do a slightly better job of managing her but she is neither entertaining nor a steadying influence on the live component of the show.

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