Guests Galore: Steve, Anne, Rima, and Pamela!

Plenty more guests left to enter the BB House this year, or at least be involved with the show:

Steve Carrell & Anne Hathaway
Stars of Get Smart will appear live in the Dreamworld Amphitheatre this Friday night for FNL with Mike, Bree & Fitzy, playing games with the hosts. But will they make a House appearance?

Rima
The bandages are off and Rima will be back in the House as a guest from this Sunday night, for an indefinite amount of time. Though she will not compete for the grand prize, she will have a secret mission to accomplish in the House upon her return.

Pamela Anderson
God knows what this is all about, but now Pammy is going to enter the House on Wednesday July 9 during the Surprise Eviction show.

At this rate Dreamworld might as well start letting the theme park guests do tours of the House before the show even finishes. Then they call all be special guests!

Big-Mouth Vesna Settles In

Hopefully Vesna will join the Big Mouth panel as a permanent fixture. (As permanent as it can be with 3 weeks left.) After a quiet start to her hosting stint last week, this week she really relaxed and was really funny. Sitting her next to Tim probably helped because she has a close bond with him from their stay in the House.

Vesna and Nathan are probably 2 of the funniest HMs ever. Along with the intelligent (and funny) comments from Tim and Chrissie, they make up a great panel.

Of course the revolving panel really keeps it fresh every week, with a few special appearances like Susannah last night. But they really need to get rid of the "expert opionions"-- the dream guy, the relationship chick-- they do nothing for the show except slow it down.

Looks Like a Monday Finale After All

Today tickets went on sale on the Dreamworld website for the eviction show on Sunday 20th July-- the day highly speculated to be the finale for the series. It looks like this will be a regular Eviction show, with the Finale likely following on the Monday night, because:

• Dreamworld site says "Eviction", not "Finale".
• Cocktail Party tickets are also on sale for that evening. They don't normally have a cocktail party before the finale show because ex-HMs are all busy getting ready for the show and can't attend. Plus the live show starts earlier for the finale, so Dreamworld is still open up til the audience is just about seated for the finale.
• Cocktail party is scheduled for 5:30pm - 6:30pm. If this was the finale, the audience would be seated by 6 for a 6:30 start.
• Plus, having 2 HMs rattling around in the House for longer than 24 hours would be a bit silly and boring.

Looks like the Finale will actually be Monday 21st July this year. I guess if this is true the tickets for the Finale will go on sale on the Dreamworld site sometime in the next week.

This is great news for me because I have theatre tickets for a matinee on Sunday 20th July so it would have been a big rush home for the finale if it was that night. Now at least all I'll miss is the start of the final Daily Show.

Looking forward to confirmation of this in the next few days!

Grey Nomads' Popularity to Soar

For Nobbi it was likely the designation to the Kombi Van that increased his popularity. Both from those who saw it as an undeserved challenge, and from those who enjoyed watching the trouble-maker live through his punishment night after night. Will it have the same effect on Terri and Terrence?

Putting them in the Kombi together will likely create heaps of funny moments and lots of Daily Show footage of them camping out together. It will make the already popular HMs even stronger. Nobbi wasn't thinking ahead when he decided this would be a punishment for Terri, as he has now made her chances at a $250,000 retirement fund even better.

If Nobbi had put Terri in with one of the boring ones (Ben or Alice) it may have less of a positive effect on the viewing audience.

Now with Terrence nominated this week against 2 original HMs, will the new focus on him be enough to keep him there another week, or more?

BB Oldies Move Into Kombi

After Nobbi's eviction tonight, the Kombi Man got to pass on his punishment to 2 HMs of his choice. Of course he repayed Terri with the honour after she bestowed it on him on Day 1. And he has chosen Terrence as her Kombi buddy.

Both HMs will be banished to outside the House. As a luxury Nobbi never got, they will be allowed inside for 20 minutes a day to use the indoor showers and ammenities. They will use separate sleeping bags.

Terri and Terrence have already started comparing stories about the worst houses they have lived in. Terri has slept in a house with fibro walls and a gap under the door "this big". Yada yada.

They are giving the bedding a good shake out after Nobbi has been in there for so long. Rory reassured Terri not to worry, Nobbi has only had a pull in there 3 times. Terri exclaimed she wasn't worried how many times Nobbi has pulled in there.

Eviction #7: Who Will Go?

In a record for the season, 6 nominees face eviction tonight, but only 3 of them know it. Plus one may think he knows it, but he is not up for eviction at all.

Rory was saved by Nobbi's Eviction Twist. I'm sure he would have figured out it was him that was saved somehow.

But will Nobbi be expecting to be on the chopping block? Especially along with 2 others?

Who are the Nominees and what do they have for and against them?

• Alice: Regular nominee, and most-saved HM for the year. She must be feeling unloved being nominated so many times by her HMs and the public. This week she is up again. While she was my least favourite in the first week, seeming a bit bland, she has grown on me over time. I don't want her to win, but she brings some stuff to the group dynamic. Maturity is one-- she doesn't fall into the kids category. She is smart. She doesn't really get involved in that much fun though. She gets into some of the spa antics with them but some of the more immature games she stays away from.
• Brigitte: She seems to think that either hating people or being hated is what is keeping her in the House. She is the ditzy blonde of the year, and has lived a sheltered life, so she brings humour to the House. Not in a good way for her, as the joke is usually on herself. Her bad moods and tantrums could work in either way for her. Watching the spoilt little girl have everything taken away from her is entertaining though.
• Cherry: Being this far up himself is probably not physiologically healthy for him. He thinks he is God's gift to women, though something tells me women like a bit of personality and likeability mixed in with their muscles. In 3 weeks he has failed to show any intelligence or charisma, and he has the nerve to tell Rhianna he "hates" her after a few days-- probably to get in further with the boys of the House, though I don't think it sat well with Travis or Rory.
• Nobbi: He's the one we're supposed to love to hate. Most years I hate that one, but this year I am actually loving hating Nobbi. He is nasty, manipulative, rude, arrogant, and has little care for even his closest HMs, but something about him being stuck outside in that bloody van makes me laugh, because no matter what he does to upset the others, he is the loser at the end of the day.
• Terrence: Give the old bloke a chance. He has more personality that any of the other boys (aside from Travis) combined. He seems like a nice guy and he really is trying to get along with everyone. The young ones won't gove him a chance, but that doesn't stop him. He is also revisiting his youth a bit too I think getting in on all the immature games and just having fun. The HMs don't like his jokes or his nudity, but they should give him more credit.
• Terri: There is 1 year and a world of difference separating Terri from Terrence. She is your old-school Nanna. And while she has come around a bit and opened up to the younger HMs a lot over the series, she is still the mother figure to them and not the friend. That's nothing bad though if that's what she wants. She is a great HM for diveristy and should hang around.

So who will go? Hopefully Cherry. I doubt he'd even be missed from the show now. The next least impact would be Alice. All the others are pretty much necessary HMs and possible finalist material.

The viewing audience might go for Cherry, Alice, or Terrence. Nobbi has plenty of anti-fans on the outisde who have probaby been waiting for just this opportunity to get rid of him, but he has a lot of fans as well who want him in there for stirring things up. I think Brigitte and Terri will be safe this week.

But then again, I haven't voted.

Will Nobbi's Penis Go In Big Mouth?

First of all, sorry, I could not help but use that title!

So, the "incident" went like this: boys in spa, Nobbi's takes nob out, Bianca calls Terri over, Terri disgusted, huge discussion about dicks ensues. Was it sexual harassment? That question is really up to the harassed to decide.

First of all, this is nothing like the Turkey Slapping of BB06. In that case Camilla was forcibly held down while John and Ashley put their bits in her face, possibly against her will. It also doesn't really hold up to the Celebrity BB incident where Warwick Capper exposed himself to Adriana Xenides and some of the other girls, just because of the nature of the Celebrity series, in that it was about celebrities raising money for children's charities, not a real reality series, nor an adult series.

Technically this would be counted as indecent exposure, which is illegal. When done in a joking way among a group of friends, there would be no problem though. If it was any of the other girls in the House there would be no fuss about this. But really it can't be categorised. It comes down to the individual and how they feel about the way they've been treated.

In this case, being just exposure, I'm sure Terri has seen her fair share of them in her life to not get too worked up over it. She is a bit of a fuddy duddy though. She would be well within her rights to go to BB and say it was the most horrific experience of her life, and BB would have no option but to evict Nobbi for breaking the rules. However I think she has more common sense than that. Going into the BB House she must have known she would be spending a lot of time with sexually-charged younger HMs and that this kind of prank might go on. Plus the fact that she is trying to be treated as an equal by them, and not a mother figure, would be affected if she did. Of course none of this gives anyone the right to make her feel uncomfortable, or takes away her right to feel uncomfortable about it. It just has to do with the way she chooses to perceive what happened.

There is also the fact that it was Bianca that called Terri's attention to what the boys were doing privately in the spa (though why they were is another question!). So is Bianca to blame for Terri seeing it?

And really, if exposing your genitals to other HMs is sexual harassment, why does BB give them the big open shower to share? Currently 3 of the men in the House are showering in all their glory (including Nobbi in the outdoor shower!). They have said it is for hygeine reasons, and because they are not ashamed of their bodies, however if it makes others uncomfortable, and if there is no way for any of them to shower privately, doesn't that count as harassment in a way too?

So the final question, and getting back to the title of this post, is what will Big Mouth make of this event tomorrow night? Will they touch it at all? Will they edit it in a positive or negative way? (Gretel, don't tell me they can't do that!) And the one thing we haven't even heard yet is, does Terri even care anymore, after her initial reaction? Maybe she did go away and have a big laugh about it. Maybe she came out 10 minutes later and gave all the boys a big flash of her own. Now that would stop them in their tracks!