Cast Members Jump From Sinking Ship

No loyalty around here anymore! 2 BB hosts have come out after the announcement of the show's axeing and said they wanted to leave the show.

Kyle Sandilands who only signed onto the show last year for the BB08 season says he is glad the show was axed and now he gets 6 months of his life back (presumably the period of next season). Was his plan to sign on to a show he hated and bring it down from the inside?

Even Mike Goldman told the Courier Mail that if the show was picked up for a 9th season, "I probably wouldn't want to work on it". Seems a bit funny that later in the article he says he doesn't know what he's going to do next. You'd think if he was planning on quitting at the end of the season he might have thought about future prospects!

I get the feeling they are distancing themselves from the doomed program to save face. (Gee, Kyle wouldn't be underhanded and selfish now would he?) Would they really have left if the show hadn't been axed? Only 2 days earlier Mike Goldman was saying on his live blog on the Courier Mail site that BB09 was defintiely on and how much he loved the show.

Also on the finale of Big Mouth last night, semi-regular panelist Tom Gleeson turned his back on the show, saying he was only upset that he had attached himself to a dud. I'm sure you had heaps of other offers Tom with that one joke you know-- "I have red hair!"

Brigitte Turns Orange

In the House her hair extensions turned green from the chlorine in the spa, and her roots turned black from too long between hairdresser visits. But who can explain why 4 days after leaving the House, Brigitte's skin has turned orange? She's either been on an all-carrot diet, or paid a visit to the Gold Coast's budget spray tan salon.

Ten Dumps BB (The Logistical Viewpoint)

I really didn't think it could happen. Ten have announced it is dropping BB from its 2009 schedule. Regardless of the declining ratings, BB08 has been Ten's top rating show every night and has still done well in the all-important 18-49 age group.

BB is an established show with an existing infrastructure at Dreamworld, and a huge crew. Piloting new programs is so hit and miss these days, it would take forever for Ten to produce new programming that would find an audience, or to find a balance of existing shows that will rate any better.

Without BB Ten have to fill 120 hours of primetime programming, not to mention it was a huge chunk of its required Australian programming quota.

Idol's ratings are also dropping massively year by year, and with no Mark Holden this year it may cause another drop. Could Ten possibly axe its 2 reality staples in one year? Will they spread So You Think You Can Dance and The Biggest Loser across more of the year to fill the gaps?

Eviction #11: The Penultimate Eviction

Who should go? CHERRY! The guy hasn't made a word of conversation the whole time he's been in there. Lucky he can surf, otherwise he'd be crap at everything! He's a sleaze, and I would have said that even before I saw him latch onto Pamela Anderson's arse in his "goodbye hug". (Doesn't he get evicted for sexual harassment BB?-- of a celebrity guest! I didn't hear her ask him to do it.)

Luckily Cherry is favourite to go, and least favourite to win. Though Rory will get a lot of votes and is in danger of going tonight too.

Ben and Alice are the boring ones who need to go before the final though. Travis and Terri are the perfect finalist duo, though it looks like next week with be a double eviction with a trio in the final.

BB Silences HMs

Right now on the live feed the HMs are dancing up a storm, but all we can hear is their feet tapping on the ground. BB has invented the silent disco!

Armed with a blindfold, a fluro costume, and a personal music player (OK, it's a promo for a new LG phone), they must dance on the spot for as long as possible to 4 songs on a loop. The HM who lasts the longest wins a prize. I'm guessing they win one of the phones they are using.





It's one of the funniest sights I've seen. All you hear is Rory coughing every now and then. How long will they keep this up?

The Many Faces of... The Combi

One thing that has set this season of BB apart from the rest is a dirty great hunk of scrap metal in the backyard, also known as The Combi Van.

Who came up with the idea of putting the vehicle in the backyard and getting one unlucky HM to spend their entire BB existence sleeping in it? And were they smoking the same stuff when they came up with the idea as they were in the 60s when they were driving one around?

The Combi has become a character itself, and has had a few facelifts to keep it looking fresh for its inhabitants.

When Nobbi moved in on Day 1, the Combi was proudly sporting its hippie heritage design of large brightly coloured flower decals.



During his 5th week living in the van, BB decided Nobbi required a bit more style, and the HMs pimped out the Combi with zebra stripes, matching sheets, mirror balls, and fluffy dice.



When Nobbi was finally evicted, he flipped the grenade Terri gave him and sent her packing to the backyard with Terrence to keep her company. On Day 57 the HMs rid the Combi of all trace of Nobbi and set it up for the Grey Nomads, with a fitting grey paint job, featuring designs from each of the HMs.



Terrence was then evicted and told Terri she could move back into the House, so the vacated Combi got its final redesign in a rainbow grafiti style, again with a motif from each HM, and a multicoloured row of HM hand prints to make their mark on the Van.



The van is now inhabited by Ben due to his insubordination. Will he be the Combi's final occupant?

Well, Didn't We Get It All Backwards (Maybe?)

Brigitte's claims throughout the latter part of the season that if she hooked up with a boy in the House it would ruin her life, seem to have been taken rather the wrong way.

While it was speculated in and out of the House that Brigitte actually had a boyfriend on the outside named Eric who threatened her if she should make him look to be a fool by breaking up with him on national TV were almost the complete opposite of the story that has come out today.

And if it is possible to have two complete opposites of something, a further story told by Eric this week was that they were nothing more than friends and she wanted to be more than that, threatening to hurt herself if he saw other girls, and threatening to kill girls he would get together with to put her off him. He made her out to be a bit of a bunny boiler.

The third (and final?) story that has come out today from Brigitte herself is that Eric wanted to be more than friends with Brigitte, and she didn't, but he was threatening to release a sex tape he had secretly made of them together if she should do anything with any guys in the House.

The story is so bizarre it could not be made up. So who do we believe? With the evidence given, all 3 make sense. So did BB invite Eric onto the eviction show not knowing about the sex tape story, and when Kyle knew all about it that's when they decided not to pair them up on stage? Did BB inadvertently invite Brigitte's blackmailer to meet her?

Just when you though Brigitte could not be any more mentally draining!