12:42PM, Aug 14, 2009
A week can be a long time in the BB house.
Alliances are formed, rivalries spring out of nowhere and all of a sudden bestest buds are fighting tooth and nail over a Ryvita, a flipflop or somesuch.
Bea continued her rise to Big Brother infamy for all the wrong reasons with yet another week of random whiney-ness and pointless arguments.
It's like they've genetically spliced one of the brats off My Super Sweet Sixteen with Yoko Ono, smeared it in marmite and topped it off with a morality-repellant spray before shoving her in.
Sigh.
Anyway, Bea continued to do what Bea does best, and after a few weeks of loved-up attention from Halfwit (the rate he's going, calling him anything else is tantamount to breaking the trade description act), she bored of the incessant sycophancy and turned on him over his rebellious attiudes towards Big Brother.
As he wandered out of the Diary Room swearing about how the omnipotent one had made him sit in direct sunlight whilst out in the garden jail, Bea told him he was a "rebel without a cause."
Freddie flippantly accused of her "guilt mongering" and - as a wounded David will meekly attest - Bea doesn't like it when you insinuate she's anything but a snuggly, rainbow-pooping Princess.
And trust us, you wouldn't like Bea when she's angry.
She was so insulted by the comment she rolled out one of her traditional foot-stomping paddies and told Freddie he had no right to butt his nose into situations that weren't his business. The rest of the evening was spent convincing the other housemates that Freddie was the worst thing since Kim Jong Il, and infuriatingly, most of them agreed.
"I'm deeply offended by what you said to me with no justification," Bea told him, adding: "I think you're used to bringing up a situation, engineering it and getting the desired outcome. I'm not interested in a nicey nicey conversation after your bravado earlier."
Well isn't she just a delightful, completely rational little ray of sunshine.
Sadly, with Freddie out of her affections, Charlie has become the flavour of the week and the two have bonded over their shared Freddie annoyance.
Don't fall for her Charlie!
Tea With The Queen (and HRH)
Sure, it's being thumped in the ratings, but Big Brother has made some absolutely genius decisions in a number of the tasks they've put the housemates through this year.
This week's Best of British task is probably one of our favourite from BB10 so far, if only for Rodrigo's stellar performance in his own personal challenge.
While Freddie was made to blow the bagpipes, and Marcus and Siavash took part in the "annual" Welsh Bog Snorkeling competition, Rodrigo was tasked with writing a letter to 'The Queen'. The giggly, over-excited small Brazilian manchild was then sent into nervous, fitful joy when he heard that HRH had replied to the letter and would be entering the house to have tea with him herself!
Later that day a meek, little old lady lookalike entered a 'private room' to entertain Rodrigo with her presence.
The gullible simpleton fell for it.
But, as with his saccharinely endearing entrance to the house, Rodrigo's glazey-eyed infantile excitement was.... dare we say it..... cute.
While the housemates were in on the joke for a while, Big Brother eventually broke the news that 'The Queen' was indeed a lookalike. Oddly enough, once he'd recovered from the intiial shock that the greatest moment of his life revolved around a woman with less celebrity clout than Chanelle Houghton, he started laughing and managed to endear himself to us a little more.
Aw.
Marcus Tries To Throw Off Wolverine Label
That's right, the man who seems to have made it his life's mission to become a human Wolverine (all snarly, growly attitude and outrageous hair) was close to tears upon realising that his profile picture - shock horror - made him look a bit odd.
During the Best of British task, the housemates were confronted with their publicity shots for the show and Marcus noted that his photo seemed to emanate a "ball of sadness". He confessed that it made him feel like crying after everyone else's photo made them look so nice.
Luckily, Big Brother was in an uncharacteristically caring mood and, as promised, rewarded the successful housemates with special individual prizes. Lisa nabbed a bag of tobacco, Charlie got to.... er.... listen to Girls Aloud in the Diary Room for 30 minutes (we would have preferred the baccy and we don't even smoke!), but the best was saved for Marcus, who got to sit in the Diary Room and read all his fan mail from Big Brother viewers in a bid to cheer him up.
Poor Channel 4 Intern. Her hand must be crippled from all the writer's cramp.
Nomination
This week's nominations turned up a shocker in the fact that Bea didn't receive an overwhelming majority.
No, it's easy-targets Halfwit and Marcus who are up for the chop and unsurprisingly all the housemates reckon Freddie is the favourite to go. Even if Sky Bet disagrees.
Marcus stands on a rather worrying 1/5, while Halfwit is on 10/3.
Sky Bet’s Helen Jacob said: “Marcus has played a clever game this week by keeping quiet and not drawing attention to himself, whereas Bea has managed to draw Freddie into a series of rows, which is never wise before an eviction. Marcus remains short-priced favourite to get the boot tonight but it could be a closer eviction battle than we first thought.”
With only 3 weeks left though (we hope), it's also time for the past contestants and C-list celebs to start chipping in with their thoughts on who will be the last one standing.
Glyn Wise from Big Brother 7 reckons he wants Bea to stay in until the end as she's "annoying but great entertainment", while BB2's Helen Adams wants Rodrigo to win because he's 'cute' (told you so).
Oh, and 'celebrity' contestant Preston admitted that he'd recently gotten into a taxi driven by Siavash's dad, and he's apparently not happy about his son being in there. Preston however is Siavash's biggest fan and wants him to win.
Sky Bet currently has Sophie and Rodrigo on odds of 11/4 to win, with Siavash in third place on 10/3.
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