Sayonara Jade and Dino

Last night's evictees were Jade and Dino. Jade was no surprise, but I felt Dino was a shock.

Things are more unpredictable now that evictions are based on a 'merged' vote of EVICT and 2SAVE. Despite this unpredictability, all evictions have been accurately predicted by the odds at Centrebet.

Jade was definitely a boring housemate and even her farewell 'package' couldn't paint an interesting picture of her.

Dino was the alpha male and a major contributor to the culture of the house. I am not his biggest fan, but I can see the show sliding more and more towards a blander interaction of the housemates in coming weeks.

I'm glad that John was spared.  I feel sorry for Dino having to share the eviction spotlight with Jade this week!

Spread the Love

I thought I should write a post about Jade before she is evicted.  Could she be the most boring intruder ever?

Last night she barely featured in the daily show and it was only because she spoke to herself that she had any dialogue!

I can’t believe that Big Brother has given her the Insider task of ‘spreading the love‘ in the house.  Is this patronising or what?  It’s like a parent trying to trick their shy child into being more sociable.  They must realise that Jade has been a flop.  Spreading the love is hardly an Insider type of task.  It doesn’t matter if she succeeds or not, because she won’t be there on Monday to enjoy immunity.

Nominations 5

The nominees for eviction this week are…

• Camilla
• Dino
• Jade
• John
• Krystal

Gretel told us last night that it was the first time that housemates faces and percentages had been shown before a vote was finalised.  Was this because they wanted to raise more cash?

Forgive me for being cynical, but I think it’s wrong to allow the viewers to nominate housemates for eviction.

I don’t believe that John or Krystal are ‘flying under the radar’ and it was unfair to have them up for this vote based on the results of a cheesy lie detector.  I can’t believe that Ashley and Gaelan netted so few of the votes.  Ashley is pretty bland and Gaelan is flying so low, he’s a worm burner.  I don’t blame John for being pissed off about being nominated.

As it’s a double eviction this week, my tips are Jade (easy) and Camilla (not so easy guess).

SAVE JOHN!

Big Brother Quiz

I’m looking forward to seeing the quiz BB gave Ashley, John, Jade and Krystal on (hopefully) tonight’s show.  John was good with the Maths questions.  I wonder if the selection of housemates was intentional.

Here is a preview of two of the questions…

Who is Australia’s first Prime Minister?
John: Bartman? It’s on that ad. You know that ad?
Jade (singing her answer): Sir Edward Barton.
BB: Incorrect.
Ashley: Bob Hawke.
BB: Incorrect.
Ashley: Sir Elton John.
BB: The correct answer is Edmund Barton.
John: Close enough Jade.

What is the name of J-Lo’s perfume?
Krystal: She’s got two. One is glow, one is Miami and one is Lime.
BB: Correct

Insider – The Next Generation

Q. How do you make a crazy person crazier?

A. Appoint them as the Big Brother Insider.

The majority of voters have decided that Jade would be the best new Insider.  That remains to be seen.  She was happy to accept the role from BB (again, what choice did she have?) but as she has said to others, she doesn’t really enjoy being told what to do by anyone.  This was evident at the end of last night’s daily show when called into the diary room (after not featuring in any of the earlier footage), Big Brother set her the challenge of singing all day instead of talking.  What does she do?  “I’m getting a sore throat, I don’t think I’ll be able to talk tomorrow.”  Just like the kid who wants a sick day from school and lays the bait with Mum and Dad the night before.  Michael would have handled this kind of a task with gusto. Damn you bet!

And while on the subject of Michael, his freelance insider work seems a little sad.  Throwing away cutlery, what’s that all about?  And what about David, is he going to join in now that he survived Sunday night?  Big Brother needs to capitalise on the fact that he has an Insider and one (maybe two others?) that think they are the only people causing trouble.

The Intruders

I have now had a chance to observe the Intruders in the house.

Rob is nice, but sometimes he tries the in your face gay guy thing, particularly in his advice to Michael that can at first seem overly agressive. I think this is probably just a self defence mechanism as I believe Rob is probably more of an introvert. I think David thought he was bit filthy at first, but later realised he is actually a nice person with bad hair and odd eyebrow grooming habits.

The house now has a hairdresser!

Jade could be okay. She has come in expecting to be quite powerful and like Elise before her, is finding herself marginalised from the other housemates. I think if she just acts naturally, people will discover she is cool. Just as they have with Claire. Although the talking to herself might draw comparisons to Rachel from BB05.

Danielle just seems a bit blank. She is a girly girl and Krystal found herself instantly drawn to her character. I can't imagine her making much of a contribution to the house. But this is probably due to her being so young.

This year more than previous years, it seems like there haven't been enough mature (should that read old? ) people put into the house!