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Big Brother 3

Broadcast daily on Channel 4 and E4

July 27th :

Kate wins Big Brother 3 Last night Kate won BB3 with over 3 million votes, Jonny was second with 2.25 million, Alex third with 2 million and Jade fourth with 1.4 million. Kate was interviewed in the house and was shown on the plasma screen the reason for the kitchen bin leaking with a liquid - Sandy pissed in it on the morning he left. When asked who she fancied most in the house, she said for looks it was Spencer, but for personality it was Jonny. Outside it was clear her affections were more for Jonny. When Jonny came out of the house, he was played the clip of Sandy proclaiming, "Actually, I didn't like you", and if given the chance to reply freely Jonny would've said, "Fuck off, you Scottish boring bastard!". Sandy wasn't there last night. Apparently it's because he wanted to be "enigmatic". On a more positive note, his face was a picture when showed the clip of Dustin Hoffman impesonating him when appearing on "V Graham Norton" on Thursday night. Both Alex and Jade laughed at their best moments clips, while Jade's face said it all when she found out that her biggest celebrity fan was Graham Norton, plus even Johnny Depp was rooting for her! Tonight at 10pm on Channel 4 is a highlights show of the past week's events with "unseen footage" and on Sunday is a final "Big Brother's Little Brother" where all the housemates are reunited again (presumably, still without Sandy) and awards are handed out for the best moments in the house. It's on E4 at 7pm, repeated on Channel 4 at 10pm.

July 26th :

Who will win Big Brother 3 tonight? It's going to be a close call, but I'm predicting that Alex will win, Kate will be second, Jonny third and Jade last. Big Brother's Little Brother is on tonight at 7pm on E4, followed by the first Big Brother final on Channel 4 at 8.30pm when the fourth-placed housemate will leave. Then at 10pm comes the 90-minute second part of the final in which the last three will be decided.

July 21st :

An eggsciting task... Last night, in their final live task, the housemates had to take it in turns to complete a short obstacle course whilst blindfolded and guided by the rest. They would begin with a shopping budget of £25, then would have to negotiate the course of a tunnel, small steps and a bench, before picking up an egg and bringing it back to the table at the other end, then placing it in an egg-cup. Each egg successfully retrieved would get them an extra £25. They got 9 eggs across, so plus the £25 brought them £250. Then came the second part of the task... The housemates had to bet on an egg-and-spoon race with the ex-housemates PJ, Spencer, Sophie and Lee, running a length outside the BB house. They bet £50 on Sophie being the winner and prepared to watch the race on the plasma screen. Lee dropped his egg early on, PJ and Spencer dropped theirs just before crossing the line so only Sophie crossed still with the egg, so at odds of 3-1 they added £150 to their shopping budget, making a total of £400. With just four people left in the house, the winner will be decided on Friday night when all four people are chucked out, but in reverse order of who you have voted to win.

July 20th :

Tim has left the building Last night at 10pm, Tim left the house after receiving 82% of the votes to boos aplenty, although he appeared to handle it well by playing up to the crowd as he walked down the stairs. He admitted he was ginger, but either way he got a less than responsive response from his other half, Johanna. Expect to see him on Big Brother's Little Brother, C4 1.50pm on Sunday (repeated E4, 7pm). Highlight of the interview was a montage of clips to the tune of Bill Withers' "Just the Two of Us" which appeared to portray Alex and Tim as the gayest couple of all time, the best bit being when Tim walked into bedroom 2 with a glass of wine, just as Alex opened the door and the footage was slowed down as he smiled while shutting the door after Tim walked in.

July 17th :

Two people up for eviction this Friday! The two up for eviction this Friday are Tim & Alex. The other three nominated them both each, while Jade and Jonny got two votes each. Kate got none. I think we can safely assume it's "Goodbye Tim", unless he walks before then, perhaps between 9-10pm on Friday, crying "Mummy!" at the backdoor! Alex: Jade ("She's been lying about what people have said, and there was one time when she said to me 'Kate didn't know why you didn't pick her, but it was her doing the choices, she wouldn't have chosen me either', then Kate told me this wasn't true") and Jonny ("When we had the puppet show, we were told do to the puppet show based on memorable events in the house, and as far as I am concerned, me having a go at him for urinating in the shower was not a memorable event, especially when afterwards it was to show what happened in here, we were supposed to shake hands and he was like "Oh no, I don't want to shake your hand. I'm a model", so to speak, and I thought this was blatantly taking the piss.") Jade: Tim ("I don't have anything in common with him, and sometimes when I speak to him I feel he isn't interested in what I've got to say, so I'd rather speak to people who are interested in what I've got to say") and Alex ("He tends to snap at me quite a bit, and I'd rather not be left in the house with someone like that. I wanna have fun and he needs to loosen up a little bit. Ooh, what awful reasons!") Jonny (started saying "With the group being so small I haven't got any issues with anybody"): Tim ("I know he's had a bad week this week, but he's been quite dull, sitting about waiting for Big Brother to give tasks to do, and at the end of the day it's what you make of it in here") and Alex ("He can be uptight, eg. on Saturday night when we suggested we give Tim the phone call, he got arsey about it, saying we don't have the right to force anyone to take the call, when Tim was wetting himself to get it, he was dead excited.") Kate: Tim ("After Saturday night, he made a point of saying that he set himself a target of coming into the BB house and that when he got here he didn't care how long he stayed, whereas I feel that Jade, Alex and Jonny would rather stay till the end") and Alex ("He needs to lighten up and takes things too seriously in here and I can relate to him the least in here") Tim: Jade ("No-one really knows what she thinks of him, and you hear a lot of stuff that's not very nice, but then to your face she'll be really nice. I don't know if she's playing a game but it doesn't really seem fair on anyone") and Jonny ("I like him as a person when he's been himself, but he spends too much time putting on an act and that's really transparent now and a real shame")

July 14th :

Tim gets a phone call Last night's task involved each of the housemates being asked 3 questions about the other remaining housemates, with each correct answer being worth £25 towards the week's shopping budget. They answered 8 questions correct so will get a budget of £200. Afterwards, they had to discuss as a group who they thought was the most deserving housemate to receive a phone call from a loved one, the call lasting five seconds for each correct answer - so 40 seconds long, with no use of random selection. Tim was chosen because he thought he saw his girlfriend on the video screen last week when PJ and Kate received personal messages and Big Brother refused to confirm whether Tim saw her because the message wasn't for him. Tim said he thought Jonny should be in line for the call because he's been a bit down lately. Tim spoke to his Mum for 40 seconds and she said that Johanna (his girlfriend) sent her love, so he knows things are okay there. Not that anyone forced him to enter the bloody house at gunpoint and if he thought there were problems with his relationship when he went in then he shouldn't have gone in. Unlike last week's task, the nominations will have no bearing on last night's events and this week will see the final week of nominations, since in the final week there will be four of them up for the public vote.

July 13th :

PJ has left the building Last night at 10pm, PJ left the house after receiving 81% of the votes to rapturous applause and very little booing. He denied sleeping with Jade or doing anything other than kissing, but it was obvious he was lying. Expect to see him on Big Brother's Little Brother, C4 1.35pm on Sunday (repeated E4, 7pm). There's been no other updates on here in the past week because absolutely sod all has happened. The nominations were ditched after last Saturday's so-called 'task' and the only slight item of interest was when they played drinking games one night and Jade stripped off, but that was pretty gross. Alternatively, have Tim and Alex begun to see each other in a new light??

July 7th :

Two people up for eviction this Friday! The bars came down last night, but at what price? The price was that two of the housemates would get to see personal messages from their family displayed on the plasma TV screen, but that would make them eligible for the public vote this Friday. Tim marked chocolate on six pieces of paper and everyone picked one, those getting the marked ones being Kate and PJ, hence they saw a message from their families, hence they're up for the chop this Friday. However, when Jonny saw his Dad on the video, because all the families were in the same room together, he panicked saying "Oh no, they've got the wrong one!". I think we can safely assume it's "Goodbye PJ".

July 6th :

Adele has left the building Last night at 10pm, Adele left the house after receiving 62% of the votes. Expect to see her on Big Brother's Little Brother, C4 1.50pm on Sunday (repeated E4, 7pm). She said she didn't mind being booed on her exit as she said that meant people were being honest. Of the other votes, Jade got 36%, with Kate and Jonny receiving a mere 1% apiece.

July 3rd :

FOUR people up for eviction this Friday! The four up for eviction this Friday are Adele, Jade, Jonny & Kate. Everyone nominated mouthy Jade, while the others garnered two votes apiece. I'm not bothering with the poll again as not enough people use it.

Adele: Jade ("I feel I can't trust her, am aware of the amount of backstabbing she's been doing and I feel that I'll be next in line. She's been going round the group, lining everybody up so everybody shoots everybody else and she's left out") and Jonny ("He still annoys me and I still feel I can't trust him") Alex: Jade ("I know she's been, so to speak, shit-stirring. She'll say, when I've been outside, explaining that she thinks Jonny's an arsehole and Kate's pissing her off and then she'll go over to Jonny and say things that myself and Adele have apparently done and this is not true") and Jonny ("When we were all on the poor side, and Tim on the rich side, word was out that we should rebel and go and stand on the other side, and I felt that may be because myself and Adele did not join in that it would in some way distance us from the group on the poor side, and I was under pressure to do something I didn't want to do") Jade: Kate ("I don't know where I stand with her. One minute she's nice, all smiles and will talk to yer, and the next minute she won't talk to her and you get silly looks and thinks like that and I don't appreciate that") and Tim ("I don't know where I stand. When Sophie was here he spoke to me more and now she's not, because he knew I had problems with her and that was a reason to speak to me. Now she's gone he's got no reason to speak to me. I don't think there's any real like in there") Jonny: Jade ("She's apparently been talking about a lot of housemates behind their backs, but being nice to their face. She's done this with me as well") and Adele ("I've learned that also Adele has been talking about me, saying that I'm playing the game really well and I know what I'm doing. I've got some sort of professional qualification for doing this game because I watched the show last year, so this has made me think with her that is she as genuine as I thought? Have I been too trustworthy since I came in here?") Kate: Jade ("She talks about too many people behind their backs") and Alex ("It's not because I'm not getting on with him this week because since he's been on the poor side we've got on really well, but I'm gonna go back to the whole of the Big Brother experience from week one, and he's the only one I've had an issue with when he ignored me for a whole week and I didn't know why and he kept having a dig at me. I know we've settled our differences now.") PJ: Adele ("She's a bit two-faced at times. What she says to you isn't what she says to other people. Also, her "relationship" with Jade, her little princess, is completely false and I can see straight through it") and Jade ("To put it in one, she just does my head in. Over the past two weeks I've decided she's very, very manipulative and it really, really gets to me") Tim: Jade ("She appears to be really quite lazy and gets a lot of people to do a lot of other stuff for her") and Kate ("There was clearly something quite special between her and Spencer, and he's been gone a week now and her snogging Alex last night was quite a shock to me. I just haven't seen a girl act like that before, and then to take up smoking as well, are the two things that shocked me into deciding on Kate")

June 30th :

No-one expected this... Last night the housemates took part in an observational quiz where each of them had to answer one question about the house. A correct answer meant you could live on the rich side of the house, while a wrong one didn't. If everyone got them right, the divide would be removed. After the contest was over, a final chance would be given for a rich side housemate to answer one question. If they got it wrong, they would go to the poor side for the next week. At the end of the first round: Correct: Tim and Kate Incorrect: Jonny, Alex, Adele, Jade, PJ Kate got the final question: "Name all of this year's fourteen housemates, including herself, in alphabetical order". She got it wrong, so as things stand right now, all the housemates are on the poor side for the next week apart from Tim. How's that going to work? There was talk of a revolt for a while, but Adele said she wouldn't take part in one and doubted Jade would either. Alex wasn't that bothered either. As tempers calmed down, things looked like they'll just carry on as they have been defined.

June 29th :

Sophie has left the building Last night at 10pm, Sophie left the house after receiving 85% of the votes. Expect to see her on Big Brother's Little Brother, C4 1.30pm on Sunday (repeated E4, 7pm). Lee recorded a message for her saying that he'd see her soon, even though he's still with his girlfriend, Carmen, and he couldn't be in the BB studio last night as he was appearing with the Dream Boys. Tonight there's another task. All the housemates will be asked a question and if they all get them right, the bars come down. It'll be better if they do, but I have warmed to their existence more than I thought I would.

June 26th :

Two people up for eviction this Friday! The two up for eviction this Friday are Jonny & Sophie who had 3 and 4 votes respectively. I'm not bothering with the poll again as not enough people use it. The votes were cast as follows:

Adele: Jonny ("He performs to the cameras 24/7, is too aware of the cameras, too conscious of what the public think and this makes me think he's a false person") and PJ ("He's a very tactical player, often asks people what they think but doesn't disclose his own feelings") Alex: Jonny ("In the first couple of weeks we had our differences - eg. urinating in the shower - and when it comes to less people living in the house I'd rather it wasn't him") and Kate ("She put metal objects in the microwave, thus catching alight, and after Saturday night's task she said I said sorry to other people for not picking them and not her, which wasn't true") Jade: Sophie ("I think she's very false, creeps around people asking "do you like me?" - seven times after I've answered it. I find her really irritating and you could ask her the same story twice and you'd get different answers") and Jonny ("I don't think he's being himself all the way through. He's doing things to impress the outside world and that's not the way to go in the Big Brother house. You should do things because they're you") Jonny: Alex ("I thought it was selfish of him on Saturday night to leave Kate in the poor side again after she'd spent a week with three men in the poor side. He was more concerned about keeping Jade and Adele together") and Tim ("He's only been here a week and I known him the least out of the rest of the group, and I'm not going to nominate one of the others who I've known for four weeks and make up a reason when I've not got a reason for it") - Big Brother didn't challenge this. So much for demanding proper reasons(!) Kate: Alex ("After Saturday night's task I wanted to know his reason for picking Jade over me and he just walked off") and Jade ("She's sometimes a little unfair to some members of the group, such as Sophie, and some find it uncomfortable") PJ: Sophie ("Regardless of who I'm talking to, she always butts in trying to be more quirky than the story I'm telling and it's getting very tiring now and it's doing my head in") and Adele ("I wouldn't say she was two-faced, but the impression she gives others when she's with people is completely different to the impression she gives when you're on your own with her, or in a smaller group. Obviously, some people talk about certain others in the house, but she does it in a conniving way. She can be quite pretentious and false.") Sophie: Jade ("The longer we stay together, the more chance there is of us having an argument. Don't know the reasons why this is. I wouldn't want to be with her until the end.") and Tim ("While he's been here, he's not been at all friendly. We're all in this house together and should get on, but he's not making it easy for me") Tim: Sophie ("She's the only girl that irritates me. She only has three words in her vocabulary - 'Lee', the f-word, and 'mate'") and Jonny ("He's having trouble sleeping, and doesn't seem particularly happy. He can be a bit moody sometimes which rubs off on others, and with the age difference I can relate to him the least")

June 23rd :

Is this the last week of the great divide? Last night the housemates took part in a musical chairs contest. Jonny was first out so remained on the poor side for definite. The winner was Alex and after it was over, these two took it in turns to pick people to join them on their side of the divide, starting with Alex's first choice, then the choices were as follows: Alex - PJ, Adele, Jade Jonny - Sophie, Tim, Kate As Jonny selected Tim, Adele whispered "Thankyou Alex". I don't see Alex being up for eviction this week because neither PJ, Adele or Jade will, and the rest were picked by Jonny, so possibly only Kate's a definite for nominating Alex this week because she was the last choice between herself and Jade. Tim lied to Kate later saying that he would have chosen her, PJ and Jonny if he'd won, when we all know he'd have at least chosen Alex. Then again, Tim didn't deserve to win since he plodded round the chairs like he was bored, yet others like Alex and Jade completely got into the spirit of it.

June 22nd :

Spencer has left the building Last night at 10pm, Spencer left the house after receiving 55% of the votes in a very close-run contest. Expect to see him on Big Brother's Little Brother, C4 1.35pm on Sunday (repeated E4, 7pm). It was funny to see Spencer watching those who nominated him. As Jonny's video clip showed him saying he was nominating Spencer because of the basketball cheating incident and still denying it, Spencer said "You did", then Jonny "replied" "I didn't", to which Spencer said again "You did". Jade proved her stupidity yet again late last night as she was in bed with Alex and Adele, holding her hands out indicating a straight line saying "Is that horizontal... as in hexagon... or oblong?". She is so thick.

June 20th :

Jade and Adele come to blows On Tuesday night, after getting extremely pissed, a row broke out between Jade and Adele over Jade's verucca and how she must wear flip-flops in the shower. Jade ended up hyperventilating as Alex tried to calm her down afterwards and she even threatened to leave, after telling Big Brother that she thinks by touching her face she'll end up covered in them, warts and all, from head to toe! When Big Brother's Little Brother showed this last night, what was in the advert break during the programme? Bazuka gel, which fights against veruccas!

June 19th :

Two people up for eviction this Friday! The two up for eviction this Friday are Alex & Spencer who had 4 votes each. This is probably the last time I'll run a poll since hardly anyone has been voting so if you're not bothered, why should I be? After discussion nominations last week, Jade was excluded from nominating this week, but she has come up with some classic dialogue over the last day or two: (the others talk about TV programme "Inspector Morse"). Jade: "Mother Theresa - is that a television programme?"... "She's from Germany.. Is she English?"... "Sherlock Holmes, I thought was Mother Theresa's partner? They go on about them a lot together."... "Jesus Christ - he was the person who made Adam and Eve." And when Sophie was mind-reading Adele through the ring on her finger, Jade question what was happening, to which Adele replied "She's doing things with me ring". You couldn't make it up! The votes were cast as follows: Adele: PJ ("After spending some time with him on the poor side I found him to be quite lazy and selfish, and he took not being taken over to the rich side very badly and I don't want to spend more time with someone like that") and Spencer ("having no cigarettes or alcohol made him quiet on the poor side and it's a shame he can't be himself without those") Alex: Spencer ("while living on the poor side, Adele had been sitting outside for 90 mins cooking the food, and he said it was disgusting") and PJ ("when I made the difficult decision about choosing who to live with me on the rich side, it was the first time I had seen a negative side to him and I didn't like the way he was upset and I'd made my choice. My decision was final and I didn't feel I had to explain my reasons why") Jonny: Alex ("When I was nominated last week he grinned and was over the moon about it") and Spencer ("He accused me of cheating when the divide went up, and shouted his mouth off about my complaint of that having led to my nomination last week") Kate: Alex ("The decision he made on Saturday night was particularly unfair to some people in the group") and Jade ("I get on really well with her, but sometimes I feel I can't trust her and that she maybe being two-face") PJ: Alex ("It was his decision on Saturday night after the task") and Sophie ("She's the Miss Goody Two-Shoes of the group, she's trying too hard and I find it very annoying") Sophie: Spencer ("I find him lazy") and Jade ("If I spent more time with her we would end up falling out") Spencer: Sophie ("Things that annoy me about Sophie are her continuous motivation talks that she gives from the other side of the divide while holding a glass of wine in her hand and roast dinner in front of her") and Alex (no reason broadcast on Channel 4, but from the website, "I'd have more respect if he hadn't bothered giving reasons", re: the Saturday darts task)

June 17th :

The new housemate enters... Last night a new housemate entered. His name is Timothy Culley, he's 23, runs his own promotion company, hates rhubard and liquorice. His favourite food is steak and seafood and he fancies Margaret Thatcher and Cameron Diaz. He entered the house at around 6.55pm, so when it said "Live" on E4 it was actually the usual 15-minute delay so as to blank the sound when someone started swearing shortly after he entered.

June 16th :

The great divide remains... for now. Last night Alex won the darts contest, which required each housemate to throw one dart at a board set up in the poor bedroom. His choice was to decide which side of the house he would like to live on for the next seven days (the rich side, obviously) and which three housemates he wanted to take with him. He chose Adele, Jade and Sophie. For how long will the divide remain though? It caused ratings to plummet in other countries where it remained throughout the series so it's likely to come down sooner rather than later. A new bloke will enter the house today to replace Sandy. See Big Brother's Little Brother (E4, 7pm, repeated on C4 at 11.05pm, just after the 10pm psychologists' analysis). Presumably he will enter on the rich side of the house.

June 15th :

Lee has left the building Last night at 10pm, Lee left the house after receiving 84% of the votes, almost as high as the 86% Stuart received when up against Paul, this time last year, also three weeks into the series. A new bloke will enter the house on Sunday to replace Sandy. See Big Brother's Little Brother, E4, 7pm. Apart from me voting for Lee in the online poll, only one other person did with no-one voting for Jonny. I'll run the poll for one more week. If hardly anyone bothers to vote in it then I'll call it a day with those.

June 14th :

Someone will leave tonight, and Sandy left a gift Either Jonny or Lee will leave tonight. Have your say in our online poll. Lee's said that if Jonny goes, he will vacate the premises too. Quite possibly in the same way as Sandy. Meanwhile, the Scottish ex-soldier left a present for the housemates before he went. After drinking a bottle-and-a-half of wine the night before, he didn't take the piss, but did the opposite... all into the kitchen bin.

June 13th :

Sandy - what next? Good question. He caused a big stir after climbing over the fence yesterday morning at 7.30am and into the hands of a security guard, but after a recorded interview with Dermot O'Leary for Big Brother's Little Brother, will we ever see him again? He said it would be his one and only interview, not saying anything else that he hasn't said before, and that he'll go to Europe for the weekend and then back to work next week. He also said that he doesn't think he's wasted his place on Big Brother. However, whereas I thought he was playing a game before, he does just seem a rather boring bastard now.

June 12th :

Two people up for eviction this Friday! Surprisingly, there's no chance to vote for the two expected ones this time (Sandy and Alex) since the two up for eviction are Jonny & Lee who had 5 votes each. The housemates were allowed to watch 25 minutes of the England match today after the girls completed a task of 'keepy-uppy', with one minute available for each one done, but what did E4 do when the time came? Switch to the bloody chickens half the time! Quick Newsflash!: Sandy has left the building! He was due to leave at 7pm tonight because he's had enough, but instead scaled the wall in the garden and escaped! The votes were cast as follows: Adele: Jonny ("He's too aware of being on camera and is putting on an act and not being himself") and Lee ("towards the end of this week he's been really childish and unable to control his emotions and this unsettles me") Alex: Jonny (when they had the Tyson/Lewis match on, he said 'after the match was finished, they showed a clip of all of us coming in and they showed that we were saying things by putting things that we said together to make a different perspective of ourselves, then afterwards he said sorry he was only joking, just to wind us up and I didn't like it") and Lee ("he's been gloating, making out our side is a bad place to be and making light of my toilet problems and having a giggle about them. I didn't think it was very funny.") Jade: Lee ("he's been very sly, rude and obnoxious and I don't like him. I've seen a different side to him and I find him fake and I don't like it") and Sophie ("I think she's playing a game and I find her very sly, as a backstabber. She said she was upfront and outspoken, but I find she's a bit of a liar.") Jonny: Sandy ("It'd be nice if everyone could open up and be honest with each other and try and try and get to know each other well and I don't think he's doing that") and Alex ("while he's in here there's always a chance of a rift or a row") Kate: Alex ("He's not made the effort with me although I tried with him, and I wouldn't notice if he wasn't here") and Sandy ("there's being truthful, honest and really, really honest and he's too honest in what he says. He won't apologise for what he's said even though he knows it's wrong.") Lee: Jade ("She can be quite annoying at times. In discussions you can't get a word in, and she butts in when talking.") and Jonny ("When we're together, nothing will be said. I've got nothing to say to him, he's got nothing to say to me. I don't dislike him, I just have no interest in what he's got to say and vice versa") PJ: Lee ("He's becoming so lethargic and dragging me down. I find it increasingly difficult to talk to him.") and Sophie ("Whenever she speaks it's always about her. I could name you ten things about her and she probably doesn't know what I do for a living.") Sandy: Jonny ("My reasons haven't changed from last week. I find his humour not funny, for want of a better word. He's always trying to get attention and everything has to revolve around him.") and Kate ("She is shallow, ie. she also likes to seek attention and uses tears too quickly, and initially she was using the men to get them on-side") Sophie: Alex ("I talk with him, but I find him boring. If he was to go I wouldn't miss him.") and Sandy ("He's been keeping his distance, saying he really wants to go and his attitude towards not wanting to be here.") Spencer: Jonny ("He tends to over-react about things, making more of a meal than is necessary and then next minute is perfectly happy - the mood swings") and Lee ("he's very quiet and has given me no specific reason to nominate him, but also has given me no specific reason to NOT nominate him whereas the others have. With everybody else I have shared better times than with Lee")

June 9th :

The great divide The Big Brother house was last night turned into a 'Heaven' and 'Hell' as the remaining ten housemates were split into two groups after a basketball task which required them to each throw a ball into a basket, the ones who scored being ushered off to the girls' bedroom and the other five off to the boys' one. The winners were Sophie, Lee, Kate, Sandy and Jonny, while the losers were PJ, Jade, Spencer, Alex and Adele. Trying to take it in turns, they still resulted in Spencer and PJ actually completely missing out when it came to throwing a ball, so by default they ended up in the crap side, having to live on basic rations, such as lentils and chick peas, having to clean out the chicken coop, and using an outside toilet, while the rest received £400 to spend on their next week's shopping. The plan is for the dividing wall to remain in place for the duration of the series (another seven weeks) and each week the contestants will be given a task to see who stays and who swaps places. But only one task on a Saturday night? Surely they need more stimulation than that? Also, today is Sophie's 25th birthday, but will Big Brother let the 'poor' housemates have any fun?

June 8th :

Alison has left the building Last night at 10pm, the fat black one, Alison, left the house after leaving a trail of destruction in her wake, including the table in the garden. Over a million people voted in total, and there was only 1027 votes between her and Alex. In the DVDfever.co.uk poll, Alison scored more votes than anyone. A new poll will appear when the nominations are announced this Tuesday, and this time, new girl Sophie will be eligible to nominate and BE nominated. Also, listen to Jade's geography lesson here.

June 6th :

Jade has come of age Last night the housemates had a School Disco party for Jade, who turned 21. She had the choice between that and a video message from her Mum, but she said she could see her Mum anytime but not her housemates (bless!) The picture here shows what they got up to when some of them jumped in the pool in their school uniforms. Hopefully tonight's Channel 4 coverage will be a bit more clear, but you can bet they didn't behave like adults. Continue to vote for who you want evicted this Friday between Sandy, Alex, Alison. Alison is in the lead. Also, visit Bloggerheads.com to find out how they got on when they attended the first eviction night last Friday and got their banner on air.

June 5th :

Three people up for eviction this Friday! Sandy, Alex, Alison: step forward, it's your turn. Alex has the most with 6 votes, Sandy and Alison have 4 each. Those are the three people up for nomination this week, with the votes being cast as follows: Adele: Alison ("she doesn't like me and is putting on a front") and Kate ("got jealous of my relationship with Jade, she started getting pallier with Alison and I feel she would be voting for me") Alex: Jonny ("openly said that he urinates in the shower and I think it's disgusting") and Alison ("she, too, also told us that she urinates in the shower and this, too, is disgusting") Alison: Alex ("I don't like some of his ways: 1. I don't like the way he eats the food when we're cooking and he doesn't leave too much for everyone else, and I also don't like the way he uses the tea-towel to wipe his hands after he washes his hands. I think it's dirty") and Sandy (I didn't like the way he stormed off last night because we couldn't decide on an Indian or a Chinese, and I don't like the way he isolates himself from the group") Jade: Jonny ("he pissed me off a lot yesterday and he's been just over and over and over and he's playing with people's minds and I think and I'm not a liar and I don't like to be put across as being a liar and that's what he's doing and I don't like that") and Alex ("I don't know where I stand with him. It's the same situation really. He's used me as a scapegoat a number of times. If he's got a problem with somebody he doesn't come straight out and tell them, he goes to somebody else and tells THEM. And then he uses you as an excuse to get back at the other person so there's just a lot of tension going around at the moment and I feel the tension is between myself, him and Jonny and I don't like it at all.") Jonny: Sandy ("I think he distances himself and prefers to be on his own all the time and doesn't bring much to the group") and Alex ("He can't compromise with people, even if it means making things better. Alex is Alex and he'll stay that way") Kate: Alex ("the only housemate that's upset me in the first week and he hasn't made any effort to speak to me. I'm not getting on well with him") and Sandy ("I feel everybody's come into this house willing to stay here for the whole ten weeks and is making the best effort they can, but I don't feel Sandy is making any effort at all") Lee: Jade ("I do like her. She's a nice girl, but at times she stirs up a bit of trouble with her mouth, running from one person to another to another to another") and Kate ("She only talks to me when she wants to talk to me. She'll be okay one day and then the next three or four she'll be off with me. I find that quite annoying. Either speak to me or you don't.") PJ: Alex ("Might be a bit of a hygenist, but he tells us what to do with regards to food, showers, rugs, doors, the garden, the vegetables, the chickens, the list is endless and he's just a woman and he's getting to me") and Sandy ("his conversations are generally interesting, but they're few and far between. He's constantly segregating himself from the group which affects the community spirit. Basically he lacks enthusiam.") Sandy: Jonny ("I find his toilet humour beginning to get a bit tedious") and Alison ("You can be sitting quietly somewhere and she decides to come over and start singing, jumping around, singing the same songs that she's been singing for a week and it's quite tedious"). Spencer: Alex ("His continuous whinging gets on my nerves. I just wanna relax and he's continuously moaning and whinging. He seems to be not particularly interested in solving conflicts, more interested in making them") and Alison ("I don't have anything against her. I do like her, but from time to time she slightly annoys me. If it wasn't for this nomination thing I wouldn't mention it. Plus, she has a double bed, which I'd like. Is that a good enough reason?")

June 3rd :

Time to vote again! A new girl, Sophie (aged 24), joined the house yesterday just after 1.30pm and being rather fit, she could pose a threat to Kate with Spencer, or maybe she'll just trigger off Adele's lesbian leanings? Meanwhile, another eviction will take place this Friday and tomorrow the housemates' nominations will be revealed, so then you can partake in the voting system, but nominations for Sophie are only allowed from next week. There were a couple of good quotes from two housemates over the weekend: Alex: [in Diary Room] "I'm starting to piss myself off now, I can't believe it!" Alison: [to Alex] "If you're going to talk behind my back, do it to my face!" Meanwhile, Sandy laid into everyone calling some of the housemates 'morons' and saying that "I can't wait to sit round the table and tell them all what I think of them when I leave." Later on Sophie revealed herself to be a palm reader and told a delighted Kate that she'll find her one true love by the age of 25/26 and will get married and have two children. You mean I've got to wait three years?? :) And, finally, Jonny and Alex didn't quite settle their differences, but started all-out war as they declared their hatred for each other. What will newbie Sophie make of it all?

June 2nd :

See Big Brother online for free! On Thursday I posted a copy of an email which I, and many others it appears, received in response to asking why Channel 4 now charge for their live online feeds of Big Brother when it was free last year. In addition to this, those who have paid will be getting an extra week free before they have to pay (so 3 weeks instead of 2) because the website kept crashing recently. However, anyone still paying for more than one month after this will still find the extra week to be a waste of time because the house activities would have been over before the second paid month was up anyway. However, courtesy of a person online who shall remain nameless, the following are the same live feeds. As long as you have a recent version of Realplayer, these will play fine: Stream A 150k (hi-res) Stream B 150k (hi-res) Stream A 56k (lo-res) Stream B 56k (lo-res)

The housemates pass their task! Last night, live on Channel 4, the housemates had an easy quiz in which they had to get 7 out of 10 questions right. They scored 8, only not knowing who played Harry Potter in the film (Daniel Radcliffe) and what type of cheese is featured in Wallace and Gromit (Wensleydale). As a result they now have £400 to spend on the next week's shopping, whereas otherwise they would have been restricted to just rice and pasta.

A new housemate will join today! Sunita's replacement will arrive today. It's rumoured to be a girl called Rachel, so watch Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4 at 1.35pm to find out who it is.

Let's get Alex moving! The following website has recently gone online in an effort to help sausage-king Alex go to the toilet. Someone on Friday's show had the "Let's Get Alex Moving!" banner in the background in the audience, while another simply read "Help Al-Ex Lax!" Visit Bloggerheads.com and lend your support... and some laxatives if you have spares.

June 1st :

Lynne has left the building

Last night at 10pm, ugly Scot Lynne left the house after the choice was given to the rest of the housemates to decide between evicting her and pig-faced bubbly blonde Jade. The decision was unanimous.

In the DVDfever.co.uk poll, originally Sunita got the most number of votes with 31%, but coming second was Jade. Lynne only got one vote.

A new poll will appear as soon as one is declared, and it may include a housemate entering to replace Sunita.

May 31st :

Someone else will leave tonight

Last night, just after 7pm, Sunita left the house of her own accord and was interviewed on Big Brother's Little Brother. She said "I'm sad but I know it was the right decision to leave... Every single night I thought - do I want to be here? ...I was very aware of the cameras and started to feel claustrophobic. It was the same faces, the same routines and I couldn't shake the feeling off.". She reckons the next housemate to go will be Lynne or Sandy and that Jade will be the overall winner.

The eviction will still go ahead tonight with another house member, but they won't find out until 8.30pm and will have less than 30 minutes to place their votes.

Also yesterday, Alex called a meeting to discuss various issues about cleanliness around the house and generally got on everyone's tits as a result, and Lee had his 22nd birthday party with a Wrestling feast of American fast food.

May 30th :

Sunita quits and Sandy explodes

Over the past couple of days Sunita has been saying that she doesn't want to get to know anyone else in the house and that she's had enough. Last night, at 8pm, she told Big Brother she wants to leave, and she broke this news to the rest of the housemates at 8.18pm. She's set to exit some time today.

Meanwhile, Sandy exploded when he found that the girls had used all the remaining sugar and eggs for Lee's birthday cake, as he turns 22 today.

He said: "For fuck's sake! If you've got no sugar, you don't make things like cake. That's basic. And the eggs were used as well. Thanks for keeping me in the loop. I'm pissed off now.

For fifteen seconds of pleasure, five days of fucking pain. I'll bring it up at a later date. We're not here for fucking parties. If I was still in the army you'd get locked up for taking rations without speaking to the rest of the guys."

But of course, the BIG news is that Alex STILL hasn't had a poo.

As an additional, I emailed Channel 4 about their online activities at: viewerenquiries@channel4.co.uk and said:

"Dear C4,

Since I now have broadband I was looking forward to watching BB3 online, but I and many others I know are disgusted about your plans to charge for this service, which was free the last two years.

I doubt you'll get anyone signing up for it, so I presume I'll have to watch the delayed, censored broadcasts on E4, or was that the plan so that it ups your falling advertising revenue?"

Yesterday I received the reply:

"Hello and thanks for the email.

For the first two series of Big Brother, the live video feeds were provided free of charge on the web by third parties at no cost to Channel 4. The success of the show has meant that the cost of providing such a service has escalated to the extent that this year this was not an option. Without partners, Channel 4 cannot afford to offer live streaming of Big Brother 3 on the internet free of charge.

Viewers will be able to access free live streaming for the first two weeks following sign-up to the live web service and will also get free live streaming on Channel 4 on Friday and Saturday nights.

We are sorry if our decision to charge for live web streaming has disappointed viewers. But having recently posted our first annual loss in a decade, we must ensure we can continue to pay for all the other valued programmes and services provided by the main Channel 4 service at no cost to viewers

Regards

James Povey
Information Officer"

I've emailed back asking for them to sort out the sound-blanking aspect so that we don't go for minutes at a time of no dialogue, and that they drop the constant "BIG BROTHER (red dot)" logo which will appear splashed over all E4 programmes including ER, Friends and Ally McBeal.

May 29th :

The big news at the moment is that Sunita wants out, because she doesn't feel she has anything she wants to know about any other contestant in the house, while Alex wants a poo because he hasn't been yet.

He also fancies Kate, but who doesn't? :)

May 25th :

They all went in last night - 12 this time, instead of the usual 10. See below for a description of each Big Brother 3 housemate but which one deserves to be the first to go?

There's no announced plans at present for anyone new to join the house, but apparently surprises are planned including sending a celebrity into the house.

Of course, the first surprise is that the moneygrabbing bastards at Channel 4 have, this year, decided to charge for viewing the "action" online at the princely sum of £9.99/month! You can view for free for 14 days but in order to do so you still have to submit your credit card details. No thanks!

So, it looks like the new broadband modem won't be put to good use there and I'll have to make do with the censored, delayed broadcasts on E4, almost round the clock (20 hours a day), but they've been putting a banner onscreen when the sound is blanked, saying "the sound will continue when the housemates stop being foul-mouthed", yet they weren't - Jade was talking about a journalist who found out info about the housemates before they went in.

The voting begins now. There are 12 people in the house, but between now and Friday you can vote for who you want out. On the night, the housemates will have three minutes to decide between them which of the chosen two they want rid. Of the poll on this site, the system I'm using only has 10 selections so I've left out the two most popular housemates at the time of writing, according to the Channel 4 website, which are Kate and Spencer.

The 14 contestants

Adele, aged 23. This fitness fanatic, music lover and aspiring DJ's ideal job would be to work as the stylist to her idol Missy Elliot, the bloated female 'rapper'. EVICTED: JULY 5TH	Alex, aged 23. He's obsessed with cars and says his VW Beetle is the fifth most important thing in his life. He'd also like to be reincarnated as Michael Schumacher's left foot(!)
Alison, aged 27. Her ideal partner is "someone who likes talking" and gets angry about "not being able to eat Chinese food". Riiiight! EVICTED: JUNE 7TH	Jade, aged 21. Her specialist subject on Mastermind would be shoes and bags. She loves rum, shopping, but ketchup makes her sick.
Jonny, aged 29. This fireman would like to be reincarnated as a woman "to see whether men are really as much of a pain in the arse as women say we are!"	Kate, aged 22. The fit one of the house, she naturally has a boyfriend and works on an IT helpdesk. She enjoys visiting the gym and going out on the town with friends.
Lee, aged 22. He's a body builder and weight-trains five times a week, while also teaching circuit training, resistance training, spinning and body combat. EVICTED: JUNE 14TH	Lynne, aged 36. A mature student, doing a course in the History of Art, who describes herself as "boisterous, cheery, helpful and meticulous", but her dream job would be as a singer. EVICTED: MAY 31ST
PJ, aged 23. A law student from Birmingham who aims to be the next England football manager and to cop off with Natalie Imbruglia in the Met bar. His third favourite film is "Teen Wolf". EVICTED: JULY 12TH	Sandy, aged 43. The first UK BB contestant over 40, he cycles 12 miles a day and enjoys the "simple things" in life, but he hates bus and taxi drivers. WALKED: JUNE 12TH
Spencer, aged 22. He works in a snowboard shop and thinks he can do an impression of evil Trevor from Eastenders. His specialist subject on Mastermind would be the Life and Works of Michael Jackson. EVICTED: JUNE 21ST	Sunita, aged 25. The trainee barrister enjoys drinking and clubbing in London and eating Italian, Mexican and Thai food. Her hero is Kurt Cobain. WALKED: MAY 30TH
Sophie, aged 25. She works for a recruitment agency, but her dream job would be helping needy and disabled children. She's a boxing enthusiast and entered the house to replace Sunita's voluntary departure. EVICTED: JUNE 28TH	Timothy, aged 23. He runs his own promotion company and hates rhubard and liquorice. His favourite food is steak and seafood and he fancies Margaret Thatcher and Cameron Diaz. He was brought in the Sunday after Sandy did a bunk over the wall. EVICTED: JULY 19TH

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2002.

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