Mail Bonding

(I love a blog entry with a good pun in the title.)

For weeks Rory and Travis have been planning a day where they will do a "life swap" in the outside world, where Travis will take on Rory's job as a brickie and go out partying, and Rory will do Travis' job as a PA, and go horse riding. Rory has been giving Travis lessons in how to be him by teaching him to lay bricks. Very expensive bricks so far, as the only thing they've had to practise with in the House are the $25,000 cash bricks from the Prize Money wall.

Today BB answered their requests and delivered a wheelbarrow full of real housebricks and a bag of lime to make mortar. Rory and Travis' task was to build the first ever BB mailbox. He even gave them a real taste of the tradie's life by offering them a "smoko" of coffee and sausage rolls with sauce.

After a couple of hours, the letterbox was complete, right beside the Combi Van, and Rory and Travis etched their names and "BB08" into the wet cement. The job looks pretty good, and it will be something to see when doing the BB House Tour when the series ends.

Mike Goldman "Not Needed" for Finale

Are the producers morons or something?

Mike Goldman showed up for work on BB on Launch Night 2001, and has not missed a day in 8 years. He has done:

• voice overs for about 600 Daily Shows
• live crowd warm-ups for 6 years of Evictions, Nominations and specials
• hosted about 260 episodes of UpLate by himself for up to 2 1/2 hours a night
• co-hosted 54 episodes of Friday Night Live
• co-hosted 2 live evictions when Kyle got sick

And the producers have the nerve to call and say they don't need him to be there for the Finale of all Finales.

From the response Mike got to this revelation on his live blog on the Courier Mail website it is obvious fans want to see him at the Finale, if not hosting it over Kyle "I always hated BB" Sandilands. He did say things could change at any time and we may still see Mike, Bree and Fitzy make an appearance during the final show. Let's hope they come to their senses and let Mike give his show a big send-off.

Unfortunately chances are looking slim that Gretel Killeen could possibly make an appearance as she is in the middle of a month's run in The Rocky Horror Show in Sydney.