Fake Week

Look, I really will watch anything but last night, eating the new Pringles rice crisp I was struck with the same thought about said crisp and Fake Week. Namely, why? The Pringle original is fine, it doesn't need additional gravelly roughness on top. And similarly Fake Week. I know I have yet to see the chaos, confusion and all-round hilarity Pauline (Pauline? Pauline?) will bring to the house (and isn't Tyler a boy's name?). But beyond all that what does it bring to the house if she's only staying in a week? And it all seems a little dumb to a) tell us she's a fake and b) evict someone on Friday and then put them back into the house. The housemates have all showed themselves to be loudly honest in their opinions of each other. There's hardly any bitching or revleation that stays secret or unspoken. So, they'll bitch to Davina, the others will see, but who's going to be that surprised? And after all that hooha over us paying to evict people only for them to go back into the house last year, why try and make us do the same this year - at least they're being honest this time I guess? And Charley and Carole have already rumbled Pauline's a con anyway. It all seems like too much palaver without a purpose.

I very much liked Carole's sage nodding as the pairs of housemates told her about the (totally invented) foods they had to eat.

Comments

[damian barr]

ah yes, the best being the possum brains versus crocodile semen paste!

As for all this meta-fakeness...

[The Stoat]

Charley's 'Armadillo...woss armadillo?', uttered half way through the sampling process and accompanied by a sudden souring of the face, was enough to reduce me to tears. Of laughter, mostly.

Speaking of Carole: did anyone else notice that she was wearing a (colossal) bikini top over a (equally colossal) bra? WHY??? It's things like this that torment me...

[bondy]

Carole has to be a ringer, how could she mis-identify tofu when one of the twins sneaked a bit out of the diary room? Greenham alum, my arse.

As for Thalia, hats off for agreeing to do it, but it all seems woefully ill prepared.

I suspect that BB has put an actress in there to try to convince the viewer that it impossible not to be 'real' in the BB house. Sigh.

Gerry and his Haircut to win.

[monkeychops]

Re: Carole; can't wait for her to get out and have a "heat" stylee make over - surely that is the only reason she went on BB? Perhaps she couldn't manage to get Trinny & Susanna to take her on? That hair!!!!