Ceci n'est pas une proper BB
Yes, she said it. Art bird believes she's an 'ENDURANCE ART PIECE'. She thinks her experience in the house is going to win her the Turner Prize. She's right about endurance. But art? And I can only imagine what Brian Sewell will give her a piece of. (The S in Sewell is a Sueeeeeeeeeeeeeee--to be purred or hissed, depending on your mood. I so can't wait till he hijacks). She cleaned a used condom and called it art. I call it mucky. She cleans obsessively. She needs Kim & Aggie. She needs an intervention. Her A Level results were in UK Top 5 but she couldn't find the door to the BB house.
EmoGeek's voice hasn't broken yet and he reminds me of Tarantino (he's writing his biog now and I am instructing my agent to drop me so she can focus on *his* literary career). Everyone hates the Potter-a-like driver. Jay (with rising intonation): 'I first fell in love with fashion when I was 13. I don't know what it was. I think it was my Mum. You can change your life through fashion.' Does he know yet? Shall we tell him?
So far this show has all the ease and excitement of freshers meeting for the first time in their shared kitchen in halls. I want to break necks--not ice.
Will we endure?
Well, maybe getting paid to sit next to a computer and write a blog about watching TV is a bigger achievement than what these guys have done.
Posted by: F | 3 Jan 2008 23:53:07
Ha ha way to go Damien, you tell them.
Posted by: Josee D | 4 Jan 2008 00:14:07
Damian, I am SO with you there - after all, you know what you're talking about, what with those cows you pickle (what brand of vinegar do you use? Do you add the odd bay leaf and a few peppercorns?) ... yeah, that 'artist' - I never realised that every time I scrub out the cat's litter tray (she has bowel issues) I am actually creating 'art'.
Now, sorry to criticise a National Treasure, but frankly, Matt Lucas got on my nerves and I VERY NEARLY SWITCHED OFF about half an hour into the programme, as the joke of getting the Scottish politician to say/do puerile thing wore VERY thin. And while I'm on the subject, since when was being a politician synonymous with being talented? I mean, look at that load of deadbeats we've got ... OK, OK, keep politics out of it. Mind you, that Scottish guy seemed very amiable, a good sport and a walking advertisement for the efficacy of the deep fried Mars Bars diet, though not the sort of hunk that has me wondering what's under his black kilt. Black kilt? Is he a Scotch Goth (try saying that fast)?
Now, that boxer ... mmmmm > what a gorgeous, tasty lad. If I were ten years ... OK, forty-five years younger! Anyway, I predict him to win.
As for the rest - I'd like to have given a good slap to the 'entrepreneur' with that funny hairdo usually seen on people trying to diguise creeping baldness. I quite warmed to the guy who danced and the brother and sister who do maniacal things on roller skates and dangling on the ends of ropes ... but you know what, I've forgotten the rest already.
I can't see huge rows and ructions in the BB House with that lot - but please, pretty please, prove me wrong, BB!
Posted by: Gabrielle de P | 4 Jan 2008 04:57:45
Gab am so with you! Am mortified for my nation by John's McAntics. I actually felt stressed watching it.
Posted by: damian barr | 4 Jan 2008 10:21:56
I enjoyed the fact that the boxer's main ambition was that girls he knew would see him in the house and think he was "fit an' that innit".
And the entrepen ok I can't even spell it, the guy who floated his first company on the stockmarket shortly after leaving the maternity ward with his Baby Born laptop, he bothers me. Nobody can have that much raw ambition without something cracking. And how is his business surviving without him?
Posted by: Jessica | 4 Jan 2008 11:09:12
I agree with you Gabrielle, I nearly turned off too (actually did not need to as I had neglected to Sky+ the part that was on E4). I speed-watched the first part, whizzing over all the step climbing and gantry waving. It was horrible all that massage his shoulders, invade his body space stuff. Also, I am hating the new logo with the ghastly splodgy purple stuff. Liked Dermot's coat though.
Posted by: Jacynth | 4 Jan 2008 11:33:30
Gabrielle - I DID switch off.
This isn't REAL BB. If it was, Hans Gruber would be back.
Hans is missing - this isn't BB. QED.
Posted by: Magneto | 14 Jan 2008 21:34:43