Cherry Ripe for Finals

Having won another FNL, Cherry would have to be pretty unlucky to not get into the final week of the show now. Last week he was the only HM to get NO nomination points, proving he is as far under the radar as he can go without dragging along the ground. If the public were nominating and HMs evicting like at the start of the season, I don't think he'd still be there.

So he is not nominated this week, and assuming they do go ahead with the midweek eviction this week, then Monday's nominations will be for Wednesday's eviction when Cherry will have the chance to save himself. If he is not unlucky enough to get himself nominated this time, then the earliest he will go is next Sunday.

But with HMs ignoring his nominatability and viewers seemingly liking him, we may see him get through to the final eviction the night before the Finale, or even in the final 3!

HMs Leave Their Marks

At last they have created a memento system for each HM that has been in the House this year. Every year sees some kind of marker for evictees, and I thought this year it wouldn't happen, being so late in the piece.

This evening the HMs have cut up old cereal boxes into 22 shapes representing everyone that has been in the House this year, and stuck them in order of eviction/leaving along the purple wall next to the eviction door.

I was trying to figure out what each object was. So far I only got: Rima is a mole, Ollie is a dog, Travis is heart-shaped glasses, and Rory is a dick & balls!

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.