Mole Unearthed

After 3 days of non-stop speculation, BB has called in all the mole guesses from the HMs. The only one who was not a suspect was Cherry as he was an Intruder, and in turn he was the only one to not vote for Brigitte as the mole. The OS Diary doesn't specify who he did name though.


So did the task have the effect desired? It certainly made the HMs speculate strongly about each others' characteristics, and things about each other they may not think were genuine or being fully shown. How many times did people tell Brigitte she was really intelligent and was just playing a typical dumb blonde, only for her to know she really is a typical dumb blonde.

In a replay of the Travis-Alice spa incident, as soon as Travis named Brigitte as the mole he broke into tears. Seems the guy can't even force himself to say a bad word about someone. And this in turn made Rima start crying. Did she know what she was getting herself into with this task? Well when she revealed that there was no mole and this was just her Hand Grenade to the House, she did it via the plasma screens from the Diary Room, and announced she was not returning to the House again. Makes me think this was not planned, and she decided on the spot not to go back and face up to the fallout of her trick.

Maybe explaining herself might have helped though because Bianca seemed to blame Rima outright for the whole prank, and threw items around the backyard in a fury, and called her some pretty bad names.

A few hours on and the House seems to be back to normal, but I'm sure they'll still think of the things that have been said about each of them for the past 3 days.

What's With Nominations?

When they announced that Nominations would be moved into a separate show from Week 10, they forgot to mention that all it would be is a dragged out version of what has been happening for the last month. Nominations are still built into the end of the Daily Show. There is no host. It is not live. In fact HMs nominated earlier than they have been previously, to give them time to edit together relevant clips.

Combi Vacated

Nobbi spent 8 weeks outdoors and sleeping in the Kombi Van. Terri and Terrence did it for 1 week. And now, for the first week, the Van is empty. I guess now it becomes the Chill Out Van for small gatherings and bitch sessions. It has been a gimmick that has set this season apart from others. And probably the first time BB has seen something like this all the way through. With other endurance tasks like last year's White Room, BB gave up long before the Wild Cards ever planned to. So for Nobbi to not even get a chance to get out of the Combi was a welcome surprise.

Whole Day of Mole

Rima is back and has brought with her a secret mission to make the HMs think there is a mole in their ranks and stir things up a bit-- and she has.

Thank god BB put a 3 day time limit on the Mole task, because all they have talked about for a whole day is who the mole could be! It has split them into little trust groups, made them secretive with each other, made them suspicious and watch every move everyone makes. They are doubting everything they know about each other including ages, occupations, intelligence, and backgrounds. They even guessed Terri had not really had a hysterectomy.

This is actually a pretty smart move because with only a few weeks to go, we are seeing a different side to some of the HMs, and learning what aspects of other HMs they have suspicions about. It could even help them realise some "playing the game" traits in others they had not yet realised.

Hopefully the revelation has been thought through and will be done in an interesting way.

HMs Nominating Sunday Night

Tomorrow is the first separate Nominations show for BB08 and you'd think they'd do it live, wouldn't you? Well it is Sunday night and HMs are nominating now-- even earlier than they used to do it.

One possible explanation is, Kyle and Jackie O could be recording the Monday night show now, since they are already at Dreamworld. They could record it now as if it were live, to be shown tomorrow night at 8:00pm. But no mention was made tonight of the Nominations show.

And tomorrow Big Mouth creeps half an hour even later, thanks to Channel 10's brand new, destined-for-failure mockumentary-reality-sports-sitcom series spun off from a cancelled sketch show character.

A Way To Make FNL Fair for Terrence

Terrence is at a serious disadvantage if he never gets to compete in FNL because of his neck issues. So, if he doesn't get evicted this week, or next week, here's a way to solve the problem...

Make the first game something non-physical-- a quiz or memory game that Terrence can compete in. If he goes out in this round, he is out: that's it. If he gets through the first round, Terrence gets to choose any eliminated HM to represent him in the following games. The player would play on and when they are eliminated they and Terrence are out. If Terrence's representative wins, Terrence gets the Eviction Twist, the representative player gets HoH, and they share the "mystery" prize-- a movie or a flight to the Holiday House.

Of course they should have done this 3 weeks ago, because there are really only 2 more FNLs that will give the HMs an advantage.

Early Bird Misses the Worm

When Nathan was evicted, his Hand Grendade to Travis was that he was to be first HM awake every morning (on BB's alarm), and make breakfast and tea for BB before the other HM rose. But since Terrence has been in the Combi Van, he has been getting up before BB plays Travis' alarm, and BB lets Travis continue sleeping. I think there are some grenades BB wasn't even ready to see through.