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It really should not have come as quite such a shock, but Gerry Sterigopoulos falling on his own sword was pretty revealing. The 31 year old Greek gallery researcher, art historian and worldwide Bronze Age expert sealed his own fate on Friday night by railroading the week’s “gurus” into choosing to evict him over house supermum, 53 year old Londoner Carole.
Having secured their guru status through the week by improving their mind, body or soul, Ziggy, Tracey and the adorable twins Sam and Amanda were called upon by Big Brother to make the final choice for eviction. Because of their non-guru status, the remaining six housemates were automatically up for the public vote. With the two highest percentages, Gerry and Carole were the potential evictees. The voting public had little doubt over who to evict, with Carole gaining twice the votes Gerry did. However, the gurus had the ultimate say, or at least that’s what we expected. Once Big Brother had announced the plot, the gallant Greek (some might say geek) immediately insisted they choose him over mother superior. In turn the twins, Tracey and Ziggy all went with the flow and opted to keep the cook and evict the expert. Unlike her political activism in real life, Carole staged no protest, though she was visibly moved. I think BB should have staged the choice inside the diary room to avoid it being influenced by the nominees, like they did with Liam’s £100,000 gift.

There’s a lot we on the outside can’t tell about the machinations inside the house, even watching the live feed. Gerry and Carole have been at each other’s throats this week, or rather Carole’s been at Gerry’s. Yet Gerry becomes the umpteenth evictee to state that Carole “needs the money” in some weird kind of mantra. In his interview with Davina, Gerry explained that Carole carved her own niche in the house, as ‘domestic goddess’. Living with Carole, he understood what baggage Carole was lugging into the house with her. She blew up at him during the week because he had complained about not having enough food. His question – quite rightly – back to her was “Why do you take it so personally when I say I haven’t had enough?” It was Gerry’s gentle way of trying to highlight a situation without actually rubbing her nose in it.
Gerry the gentleman. Back to real life with his head held high.

These satellite TV programmes like “America’s Dumbest Criminals” show people in the stupidest circumstances. And normally you think things couldn’t get much worse, or much more idiotic. But Orkney’s managed. Or at least some lout has. 5000 year old Skara Brae, one of the recently named “Icons of Scotland” and part of the Orkney World Heritage Site has been vandalised by graffiti. It’s only the second instance of wilful damage to the monument since it was uncovered by a storm over 150 years ago. Marker pen was used to inscribe “Scouse Celts” on a dresser and “Brian Finlay slept here” on a bedpost, both made of stone. How stupid can you get?



I had a green Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta once. A Matchbox one, but it was cool all the same. Film legend Steve McQueen’s full-sized version has just sold for a cool £1.1 million at a Christie’s sale in California. It’s reputed to be the best-preserved example of the car in the world. I wish I’d looked after mine a bit better.


Congratulations to the lady who won £35 million in the Euro lottery! I wonder if she’ll be offered a five million limit on her credit card, like Posh Spice Victoria Beckham has been over in the states. I think it’s a bit daft though – they could have split it into seven lots of £5m, or better still made thirty five millionaires.


One of the nicest celebs I’ve ever met is Jason Orange who used to be a member of Take That. We were both involved in a charity football event in Leeds a couple of years ago. He and his former band-mate Robbie Williams both feature in the recent Cosmo poll for Britain’s most eligible bachelor. Orlando Bloom topped the rankings.

Thanks for that Cameron

The main bit unfortunately isn't on the website but it is basically saying about Tracey and Kara-Louise getting evicted. He says about Tracey and not really knowing more about her now than the day she entered the house with all her phrases and the like. Says he thought Kara-Louise "got a very raw deal" with coming in late etc with viewers seemingly not taking too kindly to them mixing it up with new housemates etc throughout the series. Mentions the rank the housemates task last week with the questions like nastiest and worst housemate where he says it felt nearly like Kara-Louise was the one BB were aiming the task at. Small mention at the bottom about the Celebrity series getting chucked for next year and how he is glad about this hoping they'll put all their efforts etc into the proper one.

Speaks about a recent poll about the nation's "most hated road-related annoyances". Other people's inadequate and reckless driving skills came top, followed by speed cameras, congestion and fuel prices (his personal "bugbear").

Surprised about Princess Diana's dress not getting sold in an online auction as the reserve price was £65,000 and too high for potential buyers.

Going to a talk by people from South Africa who informed that there are 18,000 murders a year there and only about 2% of crimes actually get solved.

Being glad to hear about the winners from the Mr & Mrs competition getting married, aww! See a thread just a couple down for the news story about it.

Main bit on Big Brother - click HERE to read.

Being "reassured" that the Aberdeenshire councillor is calling for a reduction on packaging of fruit and vegetables. He'd been reading shortly before that each person in the UK uses 134 plastic bags a year!

Eating brown crab for the first time and thinking it was lovely.

Cher hobbling about after having an accident a couple of weeks ago and breaking the middle toes on her left foot!

Speaking about Aberdeen seeming more and more congested every time he comes down and mentions a 3rd crossing that they're planning to put over the River Don? Also says they should try and sort out the Haudagain Roundabout (funnily enough there is something *once again* about plans to try and sort that out earlier on in the paper).

ps 134 poly bags each per year amounts to 8 billion or so...

8 BILLION.

re scara brae vandalism;i was there the day after it happened , the staff and visitors were saddened and horrified by it , we were told it was going to be so difficult to remove off the stone without damaging it and removing a layer of history , it makes me sick that someone could do such a thing , lets hope they find the person , they had a lead on the car and they cant leave the island without checking in at the airport or the ferry.

In Ireland, the customer must pay 22c for every plastic bag they receive in a shop. Consequently, when this levy was introduced in March 2002, we embraced the idea of re-usable cloth shopping bags!

Other stores hand out paper bags, which, as I mentioned before, is all very well until it starts to rain, and the bags tear. So once again, it's wise to bring along the cloth bag when shopping.

I had an unfortunate incident in Dublin with torrential rain, cold medicine and tablets, a paper bag and a pavement - I was NOT happy.

Apart from that I think it's a great idea. I bought a funky orange wicker shopping basket when I was in France, it replaces the plastic a treat.

See gg - being an old bag is cool

Had he written, I was here, 1765 it would've been considered archaeology though!!

LOL You get a perspective on history don't you.

In my parents church in the bell tower there is such graffiti etched on the walls by the choir boys. Their names appear later in the list of men that died in the first world war. My dad readily admits that he finds it fascinating to see that from choir boys 100+ years ago but if caught lads doing it now he'd want to give 'em a skelp

Thanks for that encouraging comment TD.

The main bit is mainly a wee summary of what the housemates have been up to since they got out. Speaks about Brian not being able to believe he has won, the twins doing lots of photoshoots, Liam being overawed by a free mobile phone despite the £100k (best way to be I think, what a sweetheart ) and apparently the rest have been like they were in the house. Mentions speaking to Carole on the phone. He says this year all the housemates were "what you see is what you get".

Waving goodbye to his faithful Range Rover to get a more economical car in the form of a diesel hatchback.

Mentions the search for a Jasmine for HMT's panto this year. This Saturday in the Music Hall for girls 16 or over if you're interested!!

Speaks about those croc shoes ( sorry!) and how everyone who has them "swears by their comfiness".

Ant and Dec filming an American gameshow where they are the hosts but whenever their accents become too broad a buzzer is pressed and filming stops. As it only happened twice in 6 shows it wasn't too bad.

thought id already posted this but , they have managed to remove the graffiti off the stone with no damage at all , great news
[saw it on bbc scotland yesterday]