The northlondonhippy

Yes. Yes, I am.

I haven’t stopped watch­ing it. I just haven’t writ­ten about it in a while. I’m a bad hippy and deserve a spank­ing, but don’t get any funny ideas about send­ing Jonty ‘round to do the hon­ours. This hippy don’t play that way.

Not that there’s any­thing wrong with a lit­tle bit of light spank­ing, I would just pre­fer that it were Chan­nelle admin­is­ter­ing my much deserved pun­ish­ment. As if she would even look in my gen­eral direc­tion while hav­ing one of her infa­mous strops, let alone smack my ass for all she was worth!

Ah-hem.

The res­i­dents of the house have cer­tainly changed since last I com­mented on it. We’ve had a fake house­mate, we’ve seen Chan­nelle walk and Charley evicted, twice! We’ve also got five new best-friends, though after tonight, there will be pos­si­bly two less of them.

It seems to this more than casual observer of BB, that the pro­duc­ers have had some clever gim­mick up their sleeves every week of this run. A lot of it has been enter­tain­ing and amus­ing, but all of it is feel­ing some­what man­u­fac­tured. I guess that’s what the for­mat has become, after so many years of it. It’s had to change and evolve, to keep us all watching.

I’d watch any­way, but then I’d watch paint dry, if it was smeared all over a dozen com­plete strangers!

It’s been a weird series for me, I haven’t really warmed to any of them, but then I don’t really hate any of them either. My reac­tion to them is as bland as a con­ver­sa­tion with the twins.

I find Gerry nice, but too whiny and moany. I like Car­ole, but she doesn’t really shine either. The twins are cute, in a very imma­ture way. I could go on, but you get the idea.

I bought the Ziggy and Chan­nelle rela­tion­ship com­pletely. No one would put them­selves through that much angst and bull­shit, if they didn’t really have feel­ings for each other.

I dis­agree with all of you who think Ziggy was using her. No, I don’t think she was the love of his life, but I think his inten­tions were gen­uine. He liked her; he would have dated her prop­erly out­side the house if he could have. He couldn’t, instead he had to live with her for 2 inten­sive months.

Chanelle liked Ziggy too, but I go back to what I said before. She’s the sort of girl who always has a boyfriend, and to her it’s like a cast change in a play. A lot of the shit she was tak­ing out on Ziggy was more than likely bag­gage from pre­vi­ous rela­tion­ships, redi­rected at him.

In real terms, a two-month rela­tion­ship in the house is prob­a­bly equiv­a­lent to a full year in the real world. It would be more intense then you could ever imag­ine. I don’t envy either one of them, not even the sex. I can’t see a self-conscious shag under a duvet and the gaze of a dozen cam­eras can be very sat­is­fy­ing. I’ll never, ever know.

I was glad to see Charley go, I think she out­lasted her use­ful­ness. She was amus­ing to watch at first, but her shtick grew old and tired, fast. How can some­one be like that, with every­one, all the time? It’s just so unpleas­ant. Would you spend time with some­one who behaved like Charley? I wouldn’t, unless I was empow­ered with the right to deliver a well placed back­hand to the chops, when it all got too much.

Bye, bye, Charley. It’s back to obscu­rity for you. Channelle’s well-timed walk has stolen your week and your thun­der, at least if the tabloids are any mea­sure. Oh wait, they are.

I enjoyed fake week, which I realise must seem like ages ago now. Thalia/Pauline was hot, the tasks were amus­ing and I loved how wound up they all got by the mis­in­for­ma­tion. The plane with the ban­ner about the other house was great!

I was impressed that Car­ole seemed to see right through each and every one of BB”s tricks that week. She’s a sharp one, sometimes.

I can’t say I’m blown away by the halfway house­mates and the twists that fol­lowed, espe­cially since it’s ended up with three of them back where they started, ready to be booted out the door. I think mainly, it was the appar­ent ran­dom­ness of the final twist, send­ing Ziggy, Liam, Amy and Jonty into the main house that ruined it for me. There was no drama, no sense of the unex­pected, it was just down to a whim of the producers.

Maybe this whim was pre-planned, but it had the feel­ing of dam­age con­trol. “Oh, shit, we can’t lose Ziggy or Liam, and the Jonty guy would be a waste if he left with­out a spank­ing. And if we’re going to keep Liam, we might as well keep Amy too, so he can have a sexy, buxom, canny lass to play with…”

You get the idea.

They’re will­ing to risk Tracey, but she doesn’t really bring that much to the show any­way, so it’s a cal­cu­lated risk. Near as I can tell, as it’s a dou­ble evic­tion tonight, she’s vul­ner­a­ble, so we could still see some drama and real tears.

David is a gonner tonight, peo­ple have taken an instant dis­like to him and his giant, over­con­fi­dent ego. Only Gerry will be dis­ap­pointed to see him leave, but he didn’t have a hope in pulling him, so its prob­a­bly for the best.

The other evictee will be either Shanessa or Tracey. I’d rather see Shanessa stay, as she is real com­edy gold and car-crash TV at it’s finest. I’ve never been a Tracey fan, though I should be because we both like to get off our faces. I find her dull and her rep­e­ti­tion of those innane catch phrases just doesn’t float this hippy’s boat. I might even feel the need to cast a few votes myself.

The real ques­tion is, what hap­pens to the two peo­ple left in the halfway house? Do they move into the main house? Do the two leav­ing tonight get to choose a 3rd to come with them, live with Davina?

How the hell should I know? I’m sit­ting here on my sofa, slack-jawed and wide-eyed, watch­ing it myself, just like the rest of you!

There’s only a month left, so I guess we’re around two-thirds of the way gone. Any­thing can hap­pen and it’s not 100% that Brian is going to win. It would be cool if he did, because he always makes me laugh.

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