Ashley and John – Further Writings

In all of this frenzied media surrounding the eviction of Ashley and John, my blog has rocketed to the number 4 position on WordPress.com’s top blogs.  This is out of 243,000 blogs, so I am feeling pretty amazed!  If the popularity of my blog can be correlated to that of the current series of Big Brother, this event is completely off the scale!

Since my last entry about this scandal, I have seen last night’s daily and eviction show, listen to conservatives crap on about axing the show and seen the actual footage with my own two eyes.

I think that they handled the daily show quite well in terms of explaining what transpired while being sensitive to the fact that children would be watching.  What I couldn’t believe was how the housemates reacted.  They were seemingly all comforting each other… except for Camilla.  For Jamie, the whole incident seemed to be about him, which was in character.  Perry did lot’s of mumsy type things.  Claire felt sorry for Ashley and John, Gaelan didn’t say a damn thing and Krystal thought she could negotiate their return.  David was criticised for not saying anything much, but I think he knew the whole thing wasn’t about him, he seemed to be the most concerned for Camilla.

There have been further calls by conservative politicians and the like for Big Brother to be axed.  I can’t believe the kinds of issues that mobilise such passion in these people.  Get a life.  I don’t agree with what happened, but this is hardly the thing that is going to bring down our civilisation is it?  Maybe you could focus on the fact that Global Warming is a reality and stop worrying about other (not you) people watching a television show.

I saw the footage thanks to a few commentors on this blog and found the behaviour dissapointing.  John and Ashley seemed to conspire the situation in bed as a joke.  There wasn’t any hyperactivity before it and Camilla seemed to suspect what they were going to do.  Despite her protestations, she still got into the bed.  I don’t think she was truly offended, but I think their activity was degrading towards her and they wouldn’t have done it to any of the other housemates.

This situation has boosted Big Brother’s popularity at time when interest was flagging.  Will they bring new housemates in at this late stage?  Or maybe bring back two previously evicted housemates.  They could have phone vote for who to reinstate.

Beannachd Leat Gaelan

So this week it was Gaelan to be evicted, and he got 51% of the merged vote! I’m quite surprised that the margin was so large, but considering it was his first time up for eviction, there wasn’t any information from the past to analyse.

Gaelan claims that he is the sort of person that avoids conflict. Maybe it’s true, but there were definitely times in the house where all housemates were participating in a discussion except for him. Everybody else seemed to be cool with this, but not sticking up for people when called for is a character flaw in my opinion.

I did enjoy the animated way Gaelan told stories. He seems to have a gift for physical comedy.

I saw his picture on a Piping Hot T-Shirt packet on the weekend. Maybe, he’ll go on to bigger and better things now… like a Myer Catalogue!