So far looks more interesting than last years snoozefest, but I think they're trying too hard to create contraversy, ie putting in a camp gay guy first who says he hates asylum seekers and then putting in second an asylum seeker who says he hates gays.
Big Brother (UK)
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squiggles
, May 30 2004 07:32 AM
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#1
Posted May 30, 2004 @ 7:32 AM
#2
Posted May 30, 2004 @ 3:51 PM
*Can't quite believe he's posting here*
Yeah, the group is interesting. I HATE HATE HATE SUPER BITCH HATE Kitten, though. Stu is pathetically arrogant, too. Shell is from my University, so yay there. The rest? Dunno. But Marco isn't camp. He's a whole settlement. A big ol' hamlet of gay.
Yeah, the group is interesting. I HATE HATE HATE SUPER BITCH HATE Kitten, though. Stu is pathetically arrogant, too. Shell is from my University, so yay there. The rest? Dunno. But Marco isn't camp. He's a whole settlement. A big ol' hamlet of gay.
#3
Posted May 30, 2004 @ 5:15 PM
Worryingly, the only one I can stand is the homophobic guy. Daniel doesn't seem to be too horrendous either. But Kitten with the extreme agressiveness? Marco with the incessant squealing? Jason with the thong??? There just...there are no words.
The first year I watched fairly regularly, the second year I was completely addicted. The third year I only watched for Jade and Alex, and last year I watched sporadically at best. So far this time I've watched the introduction show and about half an hour of the live feed and I have a strong feeling this may be the year I don't bother watching any more at all. Which would undoubtedly be the best course of action.
The first year I watched fairly regularly, the second year I was completely addicted. The third year I only watched for Jade and Alex, and last year I watched sporadically at best. So far this time I've watched the introduction show and about half an hour of the live feed and I have a strong feeling this may be the year I don't bother watching any more at all. Which would undoubtedly be the best course of action.
Edited by Ro, May 30, 2004 @ 5:16 PM.
#4
Posted Jun 3, 2004 @ 1:33 PM
I do believe that Kitten will be the first evicted but they won't let her come back in.
#5
Posted Jun 3, 2004 @ 2:11 PM
On Big Brother's Little Brother tonight they said that because of Kitten's rule breaking someone else was being evicted. Pure genius! I just hope someone boring like Shell goes.
#6
Posted Jun 4, 2004 @ 3:21 PM
I hate myself for watching this, but I just can't stop. It's like a car crash...horrible, yes, but strangely entrancing.
I haven't watched for the last couple of weeks past the first week or so, which is probably going to happen again this time.
I haven't watched for the last couple of weeks past the first week or so, which is probably going to happen again this time.
#7
Posted Jun 4, 2004 @ 4:44 PM
so Kitten is out? Evicted? What happened? Will this help the show? Will they bring someone else in?
#8
Posted Jun 17, 2004 @ 4:17 AM
If Big Brother 5 in the US ever gets as interesting as this i will be a very happy person. I wish i had subscribed to the realplayer feeds for this.
Big Brother 5 UK chaos
Big Brother 5 UK chaos
#10
Posted Jun 17, 2004 @ 4:19 PM
...Sometimes, there are really no words.
If the U.S. version was as half as interesting as THAT, ratings would be through the roof.
If the U.S. version was as half as interesting as THAT, ratings would be through the roof.
#11
Posted Jun 17, 2004 @ 5:37 PM
I bet Kitten was watching at home going "Damn! too late"
Edited by holdencaulfield2003, Jun 17, 2004 @ 5:37 PM.
#12
Posted Jun 17, 2004 @ 6:42 PM
Wow, cool! I would definitely watch that version over the crummy U.S. one.
Who's the woman in the Pocahontas costume? What's her story?
Who's the woman in the Pocahontas costume? What's her story?
#13
Posted Jun 17, 2004 @ 6:50 PM
I can imagine the uproar if anything like that occured in the US version, especially in the current content sensitive enviroment. Yes angry black gentleman with powder on your face, we know who you are now, everyone in Great Britain knows who you are, as do we thanks to the poster who linked that clip. Graham Norton (UK talk host who was on BBC America) is probably salivating to book you as I type!
#14
Posted Jun 17, 2004 @ 11:38 PM
Here's a longer clip of the brawl:
http://homepage.ntlw...vil/bbfight.mpg
It wasn't just Victor and Emma, thought they apparently were the center of the breaking glass. But a lot of others were involved earlier on.
http://homepage.ntlw...vil/bbfight.mpg
It wasn't just Victor and Emma, thought they apparently were the center of the breaking glass. But a lot of others were involved earlier on.
#15
Posted Jun 18, 2004 @ 9:25 AM
Who's the woman in the Pocahontas costume? What's her story?
That's Michelle, 23, from somewhere up around Newcastle, England. Apparently, her ambition is to be a Page 3 girl in The Sun, or something. And she calls people "chicken" as a term of endearment. And she probably had sex with Stuart (the long-haired guy, sort of visible in the background) a few weeks ago...
Emma's supposedly getting kicked out tonight, in lieu of the Dan/Vanessa nominations, which will probably be carried over to next week since C4 has already collected a bunch of money from people phoning in their votes.
#16
Posted Jun 21, 2004 @ 12:31 PM
Wow, I've been following the show online for a couple weeks now, and I had the good luck to travel to Barcelona and (briefly) London. The one night I happened to actually see Britain's take on Big Brother was the night of this brawl, and it was amazing! My friend and I were watching it live, and it was just way too chaotic to even be able to tell what was going on. I believe the loud clanging sound you hear after they cut away from the fight and there's just audio is Emma throwing an aluminum tray at Victor, and then him retaliating. We sat there, watching with utter attentiveness, even as they cut away to still shots of the house (oven mitts, garden hose, sink faucet, etc.) over the sound of birds chirping. Sadly, the feed didn't come back that night, and we just caught the last five minutes of the next night's show.
Anyway, calm seems to have returned to the house now, with Emma removed permanently from the house. Jason is talking about wanting to leave, and Dan & Vanessa are up for eviction this Friday. As for the weird getups some of the houseguests were wearing, they had a costume party that night and some people hadnt taken theirs off yet. Victor had the white makeup from his clown costume, Michelle was still in her Pocahontas outfit, and Stuart kept his cowboy suit on for days.
I'm completely addicted to this now, even though I can't watch anymore. The official website has frequent enough updates that I can mull them over every couple of days and still follow the story. British TV is awesome.
Anyway, calm seems to have returned to the house now, with Emma removed permanently from the house. Jason is talking about wanting to leave, and Dan & Vanessa are up for eviction this Friday. As for the weird getups some of the houseguests were wearing, they had a costume party that night and some people hadnt taken theirs off yet. Victor had the white makeup from his clown costume, Michelle was still in her Pocahontas outfit, and Stuart kept his cowboy suit on for days.
I'm completely addicted to this now, even though I can't watch anymore. The official website has frequent enough updates that I can mull them over every couple of days and still follow the story. British TV is awesome.
#17
Posted Jun 21, 2004 @ 6:35 PM
Thanks PikeyPower and Nick for the information about the costume party. I have to admit I just thought "Well, they're British!" I so wish our BB was like this!
#18
Posted Jun 23, 2004 @ 9:01 AM
Argh! I went on holiday and missed the fight! How gutted am I! I just watched the clips there though and it seemed pretty intense. Did they show any of the action that was cut away from in those clips on the channel 4 show the next night?
Did the fight happen the night that Emma and Michelle were brought back from the bedsit or the night after? And why was only Emma kicked out when Victor and Jason were just as much to blame? And what's this I hear about the police getting involved? I think that's a bit over the top seeing as no one was actually hurt.
Did the fight happen the night that Emma and Michelle were brought back from the bedsit or the night after? And why was only Emma kicked out when Victor and Jason were just as much to blame? And what's this I hear about the police getting involved? I think that's a bit over the top seeing as no one was actually hurt.
#19
Posted Jun 27, 2004 @ 11:44 AM
Like I said, I only saw the tail end of the episode after the big fight, so I don't know exactly how much they might have shown before, but as I turned on the TV they seemed to just be starting showing footage of the blowout. It was not quite as jumbled as the live feed had been (they used some better angles and showed the beginning, when Jason toppled the table, which the live show missed since it was showing Dan, Vanessa, and Shell in the bedroom). Besides that, they showed the security guards stepping in to separate the fighting houseguests.
The fight did, indeed, happen the night that Michelle & Emma moved back into the house. There was a costume party and a food fight that eventually led to the madness. I don't know much about exactly why Emma was taken out of the house, except that they kept certain houseguests separated for a while, and she was still in the Bedsit while the other ten smoothed things over in the house. Eventually TPTB declared that while Emma was no more or less to blame than anybody else, her reintroduction to the house would compromise the peacekeeping efforts. As for the police, while I was sightseeing in London, I saw someone reading a newspaper with a huge headline about police investigating the brawl, but I didn't hear anything after that.
What amuses me is that Kitten had been on the live Big Brother Forum that evening and threw a big stinking hissyfit about people not listening to her, and she probably would have gotten a lot of attention for it, too, were it not for the big fight that overshadowed her ranting. Shut up, Kitten.
The fight did, indeed, happen the night that Michelle & Emma moved back into the house. There was a costume party and a food fight that eventually led to the madness. I don't know much about exactly why Emma was taken out of the house, except that they kept certain houseguests separated for a while, and she was still in the Bedsit while the other ten smoothed things over in the house. Eventually TPTB declared that while Emma was no more or less to blame than anybody else, her reintroduction to the house would compromise the peacekeeping efforts. As for the police, while I was sightseeing in London, I saw someone reading a newspaper with a huge headline about police investigating the brawl, but I didn't hear anything after that.
What amuses me is that Kitten had been on the live Big Brother Forum that evening and threw a big stinking hissyfit about people not listening to her, and she probably would have gotten a lot of attention for it, too, were it not for the big fight that overshadowed her ranting. Shut up, Kitten.
#20
Posted May 27, 2005 @ 4:35 PM
Well it's back. And banal as ever. Thirteen abominations of nature, pseudo-homo sapiens with withered cortices firing off neurones of self-importance and idiocy, all crammed together in one house. And yet nobody thinks to use this site as a new weapons testing ground? The annihilation (sp?) of most of the audience could raise the national IQ by about 30 points. Okay, so I watched it, I know, and I'm condemning myself to hell, an eternity of suffering. And that's just the next 12 weeks as I get slowly addicted to my daily dose of mentally retarded people on the telly. Bring it on.
Edited by pedestrian bob, May 27, 2005 @ 5:19 PM.
#21
Posted May 27, 2005 @ 4:46 PM
Hah, another round, hmmm? I guess I'm just going to say that I won't watch it, but I will eventually tune in and have random thoughts of "how stupid and bitchy [insert housemate name here] is" at inopportune times. And also how much I would love to throttle Davina McCall.
Edited by bakaney, May 27, 2005 @ 4:47 PM.
#22
Posted May 28, 2005 @ 6:27 AM
Okay, I watched. Kill me. Every year I say I won't but somehow it always draws me in.
I think they've gone slightly overboard with the characters this year though, at this point only Maxwell looks like someone you could meet in a a pub and have a chat with.
Please let me join you in that, will someone please tell her that shouting does not equal good presenting.
I do have love for Dermot though, his dancing on BBLB won me over.
I think they've gone slightly overboard with the characters this year though, at this point only Maxwell looks like someone you could meet in a a pub and have a chat with.
how much I would love to throttle Davina McCall
Please let me join you in that, will someone please tell her that shouting does not equal good presenting.
I do have love for Dermot though, his dancing on BBLB won me over.
#23
Posted May 30, 2005 @ 7:28 AM
I dunno. I'm finding it very hard to find a likeable one in the bunch. They have just stuck in 13 nutcases. Day 2 and they were fighting like cats and dogs. I had to laugh though when Science was fighting with Kemal and went "I am S. C. I. E. N. C. E". and Kemal just went "What the fuck? I'm A. B. C. D. E. F. G".
They will find it very hard to top last years entertainment.
They will find it very hard to top last years entertainment.
#24
Posted May 30, 2005 @ 8:47 AM
I'm going to watch this, aren't I? (At least until the US version starts.)
Since I haven't watched the UK version before, it's fascinating to see how the original format works opposed to the ways they "Americanized" it for my local production.
Since I haven't watched the UK version before, it's fascinating to see how the original format works opposed to the ways they "Americanized" it for my local production.
#25
Posted May 30, 2005 @ 10:47 AM
I don't think this is the original, I think it was on in Holland first.
#26
Posted May 31, 2005 @ 4:41 AM
I think they've gone slightly overboard with the characters this year though, at this point only Maxwell looks like someone you could meet in a a pub and have a chat with.
I agree that there are far too many ‘characters’, although I think a lot of them are settling down now. I think Roberto the Italian guy seems pretty likeable, and even Kemal seems to have a lot more to him than his entrance to the house suggested.
The one who's really grown on me though is Makosi - once she realised what her task actually was, she's been really funny. I loved in last night's episode when she was baiting the others by saying she had a chance to win them some wine, but had refused to do it. I was laughing my arse off. I think if any of the others (bar maybe Kemal) had been given the task, it wouldn't have been nearly as entertaining.
#27
Posted May 31, 2005 @ 7:17 AM
I loved Big Brother calling her in to offer her a glass of cherry tango and then had glued the lid shut. "Unlucky" indeed.
#28
Posted May 31, 2005 @ 6:19 PM
I think they've gone slightly overboard with the characters this year though, at this point only Maxwell looks like someone you could meet in a a pub and have a chat with.
Spot on. I think I can safely say that my Big Brother addiction will not even touch what I was feeling last year.
BBLB however, is a whole other story, as I would watch Dermot read the minutes of a Parliament meeting.
#29
Posted Jun 1, 2005 @ 6:23 AM
The one who's really grown on me though is Makosi
She's my total favourite now. Totally hilarious and I love how she always refers to herself in the third person.
Maxwell has really gone down in my estimation after last night. I don't particularily like Lesley but I think he was harsh on her.
BBLB however, is a whole other story, as I would watch Dermot read the minutes of a Parliament meeting.
The dancings back!
#30
Posted Jun 1, 2005 @ 6:50 AM
I thought Mary came across well last night when she was talking about the others in the Diary Room. When she drops all the witchy stuff, she's quite likeable. She seemed to have seen right through Saskia, and seems to see who's been genuine (including Makosi, who I think isn't probably that different to how she's been acting in the task anyway). Mary seems to have real body image problems though - she was showering in a full-length dress!
I'm still liking Makosi a lot. When she told the others that she'd chosen the cherryade instead of the wine, I was cracking up.
I agree. I think he's going to alienate a lot of the people in there, especially the girls, one way or another. I don't think he'll be happy when he finds out Sam and Anthony snogged either - he seemed to think he was on a promise with Sam.
Roberto's looking like he could be fun though - he made me laugh when he was talking about Makosi and the state of the NHS.
I'm still liking Makosi a lot. When she told the others that she'd chosen the cherryade instead of the wine, I was cracking up.
Maxwell has really gone down in my estimation after last night. I don't particularily like Lesley but I think he was harsh on her.
I agree. I think he's going to alienate a lot of the people in there, especially the girls, one way or another. I don't think he'll be happy when he finds out Sam and Anthony snogged either - he seemed to think he was on a promise with Sam.
Roberto's looking like he could be fun though - he made me laugh when he was talking about Makosi and the state of the NHS.
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