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31 May 2006
BIG BROTHER HAS BEEN EVICTED FROM MY HOUSE
Tam Cowan

DAY 183 in the Big Brother house (or at least that's what it bloody well feels like) and I'm delighted to say I still haven't watched a single nanosecond of this tortuous cack.

Yep, even though the lure of a bloke with Tourette's Syndrome obviously appeals to my schoolboy sense of humour, I'm proud to say I have given it a complete bodyswerve.

I couldn't name a single one of the housemates (a bit like the rest of you in a couple of weeks no doubt) and The Shouty Woman, who clearly has some brass-neck to appear in front of a camera just weeks after presenting the worst chat show in television history, is a stranger in my home.

Big Brother's Little Brother, Big Brother's Wicked Stepmother, Big Brother's Strange Uncle Harry Who Likes To Be Called Margaret and all the other tedious spin-offs have been totally blanked.

Mainly because they're presented by that bearded balloon Russell Brand, the former junkie who now gives unsuspecting TV viewers the needle.

I'll tell you just how much I'm out of touch with BB7.
At a pub quiz I attended last week, one of the questions was: "Which Scot has just enjoyed a tearful reunion with his family after being evicted?"

My answer? Lord Mike Watson.

Actually, there's an interesting point. What about LordWatson for the next series of Big Brother?

I'd certainly watch it if he was taking part in it.

They do have curtains in the house, don't they?

To be perfectly honest, though, it's not just Big Brother that I ignore. I rarely watch anything on the telly these days and I'll tell you why.

It's all down to Sky Plus. Forget the wheel, the telephone or the Wonderbra - Sky Plus is the greatest invention of all-time.

Hands up any subscribers who disagree?

You can pause, rewind and fast-forward programmes while you're watching them' the hard drive (whatever that means) can store about 3000 hours of telly' and I'm sure you can even watch stuff that you forgot to record about four weeks ago.

Makes a change from the four-channel council telly days of the Eighties, eh?

Can you imagine anyone on a Saturday night nowadays sitting through an entire, turgid episode of Juliet Bravo? But that's my point.

With Sky Plus and something in the region of 500 TV channels, I now have the attention span of a gnat and I can't remember the last time I sat through an entire episode of anything.

Even if I'm watching one of my favourite programmes - Only Fools and Horses, Have I Got News For You or the 10-minute free view on Red Hot Wives - the fingers start twitching and I'm rattling through the shopping channels before you can say: "Jack La Lannes Power Juicer."

I think the only answer for myself and other sufferers is to put Big Brother on every single TV channel that's available.

Then I'll just put my telly on eBay.

Problem solved.

The Shouty Woman has some brass-neck to appear in front of a camera just weeks after presenting the worst chat show in television history'

DailyRecord

31 May 2006
GEORGE THE 3RD

Shock as another housemate walks out
By Nicola Methven, Tv Editor
Mirror

POSH layabout George Askew gave himsel f the PUSH yesterday and became the third housemate to walk out of the Big Brother house.

The snooty student from Chelsea - who went to prep school with Prince Harry - followed Shahbaz Chauhdry and Dawn Blake by quitting the Channel 4 show out of the blue.

Wannabe photographer George, 19, told Big Brother he knew becoming famous would be "too much for him".

He sneaked out of the diary room after packing his case and saying his goodbyes at 2.30pm - leaving Imogen and Grace in tears over his departure.

He confided in the diary room: "My reason for leaving the Big Brother house is the thought of fame and how I would like to continue my private life. Fame is too much for me."

But he claimed his time in the show was not a waste - because he'd smashed myths about upper-class boys.

He explained: "I wanted to break the stereotypical public school view."

George, a drop-out who lives on an allowance and enjoys hunting, shooting and fishing, said: "It was for me to interact with new people and get out of my normal way of life."

He insisted he'd enjoyed himself, saying: "I thought it would be fun and entertaining. I've enjoyed every minute of it, it's been really, really fun getting to meet everyone." And in a bid to leave on a high note, he added:

"I love everyone here and everything in the house. It's all been a highlight."

In an earlier chat with Big Brother he had admitted: "I love being in here but the whole fame thing has really got to my head over the past few days and I feel if I get out now I won't be as big as if I stay longer.

"I don't want to increase the fame I might have by staying longer."

He told best friend Grace of his decision and she tried in vain to make him to stay.

But one person who won't miss him is Glyn Wise. The Welsh teenager moaned: "George is boring, we're just so different. I'm from Wales, from the mountains, he's from London, he's been to boarding school - he's everything I'm not."

Last night a show spokeswoman said: "It's been the most exhilarating start to a Big Brother series ever."

George was one of the favourites to win the seventh series and is the fourth contestant to leave, after Bonnie Holt was voted out by the public.

Yesterday George's father Henry said: "It's his decision to leave the house and I say good luck to him."

Meanwhile, Sezer and Imogen were barred from nominations yesterday after they were caught discussing giving Richard the boot.

How did he smash myths about upper class boys? I hardly noticed him

Tourette's man thanks Big Brother star Pete

man whose life has been blighted by Tourette's syndrome has praised Big Brother star Pete Stephenson for helping millions understand the condition.

Christopher May, 41, who runs Sussex support group Tourette's In Crisis, said the 24-year-old was helping sufferers by breaking down taboos and misconceptions about the disorder.

Pete, who fronts Brighton band Daddy Fantastic, has been popular inside the Big Brother house and is now firm favourite to win.

Television critics agree he is by far the most likeable contestant in the show's history and social networking website Myspace had to build a new page for Daddy Fantastic after 172,000 people tried to join their official site and crashed it.

Full article TheArgus

Soap Flakes

31 May 2006
Anorak

Big Brother is not a soap opera. If only it were, the actors could be easily replaced.
Dawn Blake would go into an upstairs room to do her homework in the manner of Coronation Street’s Tracey Baldwin.

Tracey emerged some time later, better looking, sexier and blessed with a character.

Dawn was simply shown the back door. If Big Brother were soap, we could have had another, better smelling Dawn.

The Big Brother plot would hinge on an improbable deus ex machine. For Bobby Ewing emerging from the shower a year after his death, we could have a revamped and wet Shahbaz climbing from the pool.

Shahbaz, newly buffed and ready for action, strides manfully up to an aghast and strangely aroused Richard and... Well, he does whatever the part demands.

But none of this can be. These are real people – what we call reaple – they are not manufactured acts. Really, they are not.

So when one goes, a new character must arrive. And last night we met not one but two new housemates.

So we have Aisleyne. She’s an assisted blonde, a mod-el and promoter from London. Her favourite TV show is Footballers’ Wives, that fly-on-the-wall docu-soap of how the other halves live.

And we have Sam. Sam looks like a girl but is really a boy. Sam hails from North Ayreshire and is just 18 years old. He’s an unemployed nail technician.

It has to be hoped that they will not break the rules or break down in the manner of Dawn and Shahbaz, respectively.

But if they do, and the show descends into farce as more and more housemates leave early (George has already said he wants to go), then Big Brother is in trouble.

And because Big Brother is not a soap opera, the scriptwriters can’t chuck the entire cast over the balcony (Dallas), crash a plane on top of them (Emmerdale) or send them all to their rooms…

Wed, May 31, 2006

Another one bites the dust

MegaStar says: ‘They’re dropping like flies!’

Boring toff George walked out of the BB House yesterday, claiming that he “just can’t cope with the fame”.

Don’t worry, mate, it won’t last long.

If you add this latest walk-out to Celebrity X Factor and the impending World Cup matches about to give Channel 4 a run for their money, it doesn’t look like the housemates’ antics are dominating the headlines anywhere but in the Daily Star.

While we’re busy waiting for nominations to be announced, BB has thrown the little critters a new Geek Task.

Housemates will have to do a spot of trainspotting, thanks to the railway that’s been installed in the garden. They will also be divided into three groups to learn maths, a language or science skills.

Even though we know the majority of them are thick, BB is prepared to go that extra humiliating mile for us, its lovely audience. Hurrah!

Meanwhile, busty Lea and sleazy Sezer had some sort of bust-up over something the Greek lad apparently said about Lisa and Pete, but he says that Richard and Lea actually said it. Er, you follow?

By all accounts Lisa got wind of the fact people have been calling her a “bunny boiler” because of her behaviour towards Pete. And she wasn’t a happy bunny about it.

After a lot of hot air, they finally all made-up, thanks to Action Man Richard and his fabulous hugging power.

The two new housemates appear to be settling in nicely, with Sam telling BB that she likes Mikey’s “hairy legs” and Aisleyne stripped off in the shower and made all Glyn’s adolescent fantasies come true.

Big Brother outcasts hit town

LOSERS are winners in Blackpool this weekend when the first Big Brother evictees help celebrate Club Sanuk's first birthday.

The North Promenade venue has scooped the first clubland personal appearances of the country's newest reality TV "celebrities".
Bonnie was the first housemate to enter the house for the seventh series of Big Brother – and the first to be evicted.
Last week's dumped contestant Shahbaz has also been invited to join the party and as more contestants are evicted they will be in the club's studio over the next few weeks.

"Resident DJ Lee Hirst will have his hands full – although we hear he is desperate to meet Bonnie," said Club Sanuk marketing manager Zoe Clifford.
"Our first year has been phenomenal and we want to celebrate in style this weekend," said Dominic Herdman, Club Sanuk general manager.
"We've established ourselves as the locals' favourite club by bringing the best DJs and hottest PAs to the club – we know what Blackpool clubbers like and you can't get any hotter than Big Brother at the moment.
"In addition we will continue to bring big names like Hed Kandi – the dance brand that absolutely rammed the club last weekend – and we will be making things even better over the next 12 months."

For more details check out http://www.clubsanuk.com or give us a call on (01253) 292900.

31 May 2006
Blackpooltoday

Amazing transformation of BB’s Sezer the Geezer: college mates claimed they poked fun at Big Brother contestant


It could be an interesting summer for reality TV fans in the borough as a city slicker from Winchmore Hill enjoys 15 minutes of fame on Channel 4's Big Brother.

Sezer Yurtseven, 26, claims to have worked his way up from the lowly rank of tea boy in the City to become the youngest stockbroker on the floor at the age of 18.

The former boxer, who lives with his mother, has his own trading company and claims to have once spent £5,000 on alcohol in one night.

Despite his rapid ascent of the corporate ladder, Sezer still managed to fit in a period of study at Enfield College.
One former classmate claimed on an internet messageboard he was not always the well-oiled ladies man he appears on the show.

They said: "Sezer was a complete turn-off at that time for personality and looks. He was a loner who used to say the utmost random things. We all used to take the mickey out of Sezer but I am surprised and amazed by his supposed transformation."

Sezer was one of 14 contestants who originally entered the Big Brother house on May 18.

He did not wait long to make his mark, flirting constantly with both Welsh beauty queen Imogen Thomas and gay barman Richard Newman.

Sezer's antics have seen him labelled vain, sleazy and sexist and it is unlikely he will have the same wholesome appeal as family man Andy Abraham, who became Enfield's reality TV hero last year when he was an X-Factor runner-up.

Despite this, the lothario could end up winning if contestants continue to drop out at the current rate, with three walking out since the show started.

Housemates were stunned earlier in the week when two surprise new contestants, Aisleyne and Sam, joined the fun but Sezer wasted no time in questioning their motives.

The Enfieldian charmer has overcomeheartache on his way to the Big Brother house, his father Salim was sent to prison for ten years at Wood Green Crown Court in 2001 for his part in a £4 million heroin smuggling ring.

4:13pm today
HarrowTimes

Big Brother accused of exploiting trans housemate

31-May-2006
PinkNews

Channel 4’s reality show Big Brother has been criticised by mental health organisations for exploiting vulnerable people for entertainment.

Health groups are concerned that contestants such as Shahbaz, and George, who left the house citing emotional issues, and Tourette’s sufferer Pete along with pre op transsexual Sam, are being put under unfair stress by being in the house.

Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of Sane, told The Sun, “Housemates with vulnerable mental conditions are being used for entertainment.

"A trigger for suicide is putting these kind of people under stress. It is very dangerous."

A Channel 4 spokeswoman for Big Brother told PinkNews.co.uk: “As always, the welfare of all the housemates is of utmost importance to us. Housemates are intensively screened by professionals to ensure they are psychologically strong enough to cope with their experiences.

“During their time in the house, housemates are monitored 24 hours a day and psychologists are also on hand to talk through any concerns they may have. Big Brother also encourages housemates to try and resolve any issues between them, should that be possible.“