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23.08 That's it, it's all over for another year.
23.05 They have stuck to their guns: Big Brother is only giving Sophie the £71,321 the housemates won back after losing the prize for bad behaviour and not the full £100,000. The rest is going to charity.
22.51 It's montage time. It all seems a bit more poignant this year, post-cancellation announcement.
The shots of Marcus and Noirin have just brought to mind Sara and Darnell from BB9. It was much the same scenario: girl flirts then says no, boy refuses to accept the rejection and behaves poorly.
Great clips of Bea. She really did behave terribly.
Even second time around Rodrigo's meeting with "the Queen" has me in hysterics. Ditto the Beyonce dance routines.
22.47 She really is winning me over.
"I feel so accepted!" Aw.
22.43 She looks genuinely touched and not a little teary. I'm warming to the girl now even though she robbed my Siavash of his win.
Am I a sucker or is Kris's longing look convincing you too? Of course, he could just be looking for a leg up to a magazine spread.
22.37 Sophie has officially reverted to her glamour model persona. The skirt is just covering her butt, the top is riding low and she's squealing "Oh no! I forgot my make-up bag!"
She's out and here come the fireworks! They do do a good sky rocket, those Big Brother folk.
22.35 I wish they'd do more pans to the old contestants. I want to see what happens when Siavash sees Noirin and how Marcus is coping with having her near. And how Sree is dealing with seeing her.
22.27 Oh bless! Siavash is so excited that he is grinding his ludicrously large heels into the studio floor. He is also struggling to speak with a horribly hoarse voice. I wonder if he'll lose it entirely when the subject of Noirin comes up.
Oh look, here comes that very subject right now. He really is still terribly wounded by the whole saga. He can't cope with the old clips of them snogging, he's wiggling about in his seat. Now he's standing. He looks utterly humiliated.
An apology to his girlfriend and a defence of Noirin - what a gentleman.
22. 20 Sophie is the winner!
She looks stunned. Siavash looks genuinely pleased for her. Goodness knows how he is managing to look pleased about anything seeing as he is about to face a thronging crowd dressed in lycra and high heels. The straighteners have stretched as far as his beard though so he has that to be thankful for.
He's out with the crowd now and I feel overwhelming pity for him. He looks utterly ridiculous. Every file shot of him forever more will involve peach lycra, a bow tie and patent heels.
10.12 Enough of the "Nanu nanus", David. Let's get on with the interview, although I'm not entirely sure there's anything I'm desperate to know about him.
Why is he yelling when he has a microphone? Robbie Williams wouldn't mind, apparently. Can't believe a pop star voted to keep David in. What with Viv and a onetime Take That member, David's building himself quite a crew. I feel a whole lot of 'David with famous mates at Mahiki' picture captions coming on. Sigh. He's one housemate I hoped would fade from public view swiftly and without incident.
10.06 Poor old David having to wait this long to leave the house only to find his big moment tarnished by Siavash's insistence on using the toilet. He memories of his exit will forever include Sophie banging madly on the loo door yelling "Siavash's in the toilet!" and "Come on Siavash, David's leaving!"
10.00 We're back and Davina is still sporting a large Christmas decoration moulded into the shape of a jacket.
Judy is also back with another monotone voice-over and still a disappointing lack of fighter jets. But I agree with her analysis that Siavash is the "most multi-faceted housemate" and that Sophie has shown a surprising lack of vanity for a glamour model.
21. 27 Siavash's hair is looking very sleek. Must have spent a whole lot of tokens on the hair straighteners this evening. Sophie's locks, meanwhile, are in need of some desperate attention. On that hairy note (see what I did there), we come to the end of the first show. The next one starts at 10pm, so see you back here shortly.
21.25 Finally! David is out! Well, in half-an-hour anyway. They're making him sit there through The Kevin Bishop Show until the second installment.
21.23 Those cheers for Sophie are very loud. I think we might be looking at a glamour model winning Big Brother. Dear me.
21.15 Charlie is insisting he never thought he'd win. Meanwhile, his eyes are shifting about furtively, desperately trying to figure out how the hell he's outside the house when he was sure he'd be the last man standing.
Rodrigo on Charlie: "We're just friends". And now, Charlie on Rodrigo: "We're just friends". I'm not buying it. Wouldn't they make a lovely looking couple (if not a particularly calm one)?
May or may not be a bit teary listening to Charlie talk about his ill mother.
21.09 Shock number two: Charlie's out!
That means David is in the final three. How can this be? Maybe Vivienne Westwood has spent some of her millions employing a shed load of men, women and children with especially dexterous digits to repeat dial the Big Bro hotline and keep her boy David in.
21.05 Have finished the sushi and there's still hours to go. Never was very good at pacing myself. Always ate all my Easter eggs as soon as I got them and then stared jealously at my sister's stash for the next month.
21.03 I was hoping they would bring out Rodrigo's family in the flesh. No such luck. Lovely video message though. I'm glad dear Rodrigo has a supportive family who like to chant. A lot.
8.57 Rodrigo is looking so well-groomed for his interview. Bless. As for the Union Jack belt - only he could pull that off.
I don't know about the psychologist moving from live interviews to the role of correspondent. I keep expecting to see fighter jets flying behind her or at least some sort of minor explosion.
Davina, I beg you, get the truth about Rodrigo and Charlie's relationship now. Do it!
"We are friends"? Don't accept that answer, Davina!
Well played: they've wheeled out the psychologist (still no fighter jets) to tell him what we all know: he lurves Charlie.
8.50 Rodrigo's out first! Didn't see that coming. Thought David was a goner for sure. Rodrigo looks shocked, but seems to have tamed the pesky curls at the back of his head that have vexed him so.
Batten the hatches: goodness only knows where this final is going to go now.
8. 49 Oh dear me! For a moment there I thought Marcus had cut off his mullet. Thank goodness we got a better angle of it before I passed out with the shock of it all.
8.48 Look away from the screen! Noirin will cast her spell on you. You'll be forced to buy every copy of Nuts that she's in forever more!
8.46 Oh er, Kris has turned up to greet Sophie. I look forward to seeing how that reunion goes
Karly is still with Kenneth - how disappointing.
8.45 Well, I think we can safely say that Angel is still barking mad.
8.44 Can anyone remember who Benazir was? What did she do/say?
8.41 Sushi is working out better than I expected. Getting the salt factor I was concerned about missing from the Miso soup (don't worry, haven't gone too upmarket - it's in a paper cup).
8.38 A Michael Jackson song and the end of Big Brother? Can we take this much poignancy?
8.37 Sophie made a joke! And it was funny!
8.35 Ah Siavash, give it a rest. We don't need to see more of your threats at this late stage. You're trying my patience, boy. The lines are still open, for goodness sakes! They'll be voting you out if you keep this up.
8.30 Oh Davina! What have you got on, dear? Sparklier than a Christmas tree. I suppose we just have to be thankful there's no leather in sight... only spandex.
8.20pm Ten minutes until launch and I'm worried. Have I gone too upmarket on my snacks of choice this year? I have sushi and a bottle of 2008 white left over from a Bank Holiday BBQ. Having perused your very informative snack disclosures on the previous post, I'm beginning to think I should have gone for something saltier or, at the very least, sweeter.
I'm also having serious last-minute loyalty wobbles: I'm concerned that I've backed the wrong man. Until last night I was a signed-up member of Team Siavash, but after his threat to quit (stay or walk but don't make hollow threats, boy!) on last night's show, I'm tempted to jump ship to Team Rodrigo. Does this make me infinitely sensible or the worst type of fairweather friend? Luckily, for once I don't despise any of the finalists so shan't begrudge any of them a win. Even David has grown on me since he trussed himself up in a leotard and Beyonced his butt off. Still, I'd be fibbing if I said I wanted to see him triumph. It's Siavash or Rodrigo for me, then Charlie and Sophie, then Viv's boy.
