Big Brother 2012 Day 2, Channel 5

Day 2 in the Big Brother house June 7^th 2012  Channel 5 10pm

Well the housemates are getting to know each other better in the house and all seems merry, bar a few blips.

Loving the Diary Room chair

Self conscious Luke A decided to tell the housemates, a few at a time that he was born female. Once he'd got his secret of his chest he felt accepted and relaxed but still hasn't found the courage to tell Luke S, Arron and Conor yet. Hope he tells them soon and moves on from the subject.

Big Friendly Giant, Adam revealed his past as a criminal too, the look on Luke A and Lydia's face was a treat.

Deana feared she wasn't gelling with anyone and told the girls who showered her with compliments to put her at ease. Deana comes across as the kind of girl who likes a lot of attention which could wear both herself and fellow housemates down in the coming weeks. I honestly can't see her lasting long in the house.

Chris filled the fun factor with his garden workout and dancing antics. He's spreading himself around the house and mixing things which could backfire on him badly if he's not being genuine. In his audition he claimed to be two-faced so that side will probably come out more in the Diary Room in days to come.

Loving

Sheivonne ; Her impressions of fellow housemates in the Diary Room showed her fun side and housemates were pretty impressed, bar Lydia (See Hating)

Luke S ; He comes across arrogant but is showing signs of being a fun housemate. He likes the older ladies and told Big Brother in the Diary Room that Sara's his kind of crush. He's been weighing up Victoria to the other young guys. Would he go there? Also with Sara it's the typical male attitude... go for the prettiest first and if you don't get nowhere there's plenty more to choose from

Hating

Lydia ; The girl needs to get over herself. She's already pissed off being up for eviction and was not a happy bunny when she saw Sheivonne's impression of her “...I'm not in here for the fame”. “I've come in here to be myself...I'm not in it for the fame...I've worked with loads of famous people and my boyfriends a celebrity...” she wailed. Andy Scott Lee, a celebrity??? In his prime he was Z list and now he's at “who cares” status. If this girl don't stop whimpering it'll be goodie bye tomorrow night and good riddance

More tomorrow night. Lydia's my favourite to go but I'm thinking people might not be feeling Victoria. She's hot but her personality makes her seem more 50 than 41.

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BIG BROTHER 2012 DAY ONE

Big Brother 2012 Day 1

June 6th 2012 Big Brother 2012 Channel 5, 10pm

Day 1 in the Big Brother house: Deana's having second thoughts about the nominations she made, Conor, Victoria and Lydia. Conor told Deana not to worry but revealed his fears at being evicted this Friday in the Diary Room. Victoria asked Deana if she really had “evil eyes”, Deana spun her a line about eye contact made whilst she had to make her decision so Victoria said she's not bothered. Lydia seems to have taken the news the hardest and is struggling to connect with anyone in the house, bar Deana, who she's trying to suss if she's genuine or not. Phew!

Little groups are forming quickly but will change as personalities are revealed more. Sara, Arron and Ashleigh didn't waste any time getting into the hot tub. Luke S and Adam are competing for the Alpha Male role, in a polite way, for now. Bitching has already started with Chris and Scott sharing opinions of other housemates with poor Luke A who's more concerned with how people will react when he reveals that he used to be a she and will Sara, who he met during auditions, reveal his secret before he decides to.

I'M LOVING

Chris, the squeaky voiced bailiff's bitching and wanting to be in everyone's business makes him a perfect housemate for viewers. Especially in these early days when we're waiting for people to let down their guards.

Sheivonne; I was unsure if she'd be annoying or funny when she went in the house but I'm starting to think she could be a cool housemate now if she finds the right sidekick.

Luke A; I'm hoping his “secret” doesn't become more prominent than he is as he seems to be a cool, good spirited person.

I'M HATING

Bloody Benedict going on about his porn and teaching career. I can see him showing some deep issues quite soon.

Scott; I can't take to this guy. He comes across as creepy and slightly fake. Wish Deana had picked him.

Ashleigh; She's seriously going to grate me and talking about “Golden Showers” on the first night in a house full of strangers on National TV is not a good thing.

Wildcard housemates from left Anthony, Bhavesh and Rebecca

Three wildcard housemates are ready and waiting to exchange places with whichever housemate is evicted on Friday. Viewers can vote, via Twitter at channel5.com/bbwildcard for either self-confessed weirdo Anthony Burns, Rebecca Hannon or “stirrer”, Bhavesh Sharma to go in the house. They all seem a bit wacko to me and not worthy of being a housemate more than Conor, Victoria or Lydia.

Tune in to Donz On The Box tomorrow for more Housetalk

Big Brother 2012 launch night

BLOG ALERT : Housemates pictures will be added/updated as soon as I get em.

Big Brother 2012 launch night 5th June, kicked off on Channel 5 this evening with a mega 16 housemates. First housemate in, Deana, was given immunity from Friday nights eviction so long as she nominated three fellow housemates. And she had to nominate in front of them.

Deana, a pretty Asian girl is the company of a wild and wacky bunch. Here's my first impressions, and as always with Big Brother, they usually change as the weeks go by.

Deana

HM 1 Deana : Pretty, came across bolshy and upfront in audition footage but I see a sneaky side to her which will involve backstabbing and manipulation to get what she wants. My side-kick, Joelle, who is helping me edit this write up liked her at first but didn't like the way she came across throughout the programme.

HM 2 Arron : Manchester model claims to be a player but isn't all that hot or cool enough to carry it off. A little bit too prissy for my liking. Will watch him and see. Joelle thinks he's a knob.

HM 3 Caroline : Self-confessed lazy bones has big unruly hair and will probably come across as totally annoying or funny. Joelle likes her.

HM 4 Shievonne : 28 year old Londoner is a little self-obsessed and loud. May get on with Caroline. May get on other HM's nerves.

HM 5 Conor : Irish Jack-The-Lad came across cocky on audition footage but throughout the show seemed like a funny housemate who can get on with anyone, yet is able to stand up for himself. Will either be great pals with Arron or enemies. Conor was nominated by Deana at the end of the show. Her reason; he didn't make the effort to talk to her.

HM 6 Lauren : Farmer's daughter Lauren is well educated and obviously in there for the TOTTIE factor. Seems likely to get up to pool and bedroom antics to keep viewers watching.

HM 7 Luke A : Transexual Luke is a 31 year old chef who is married. A lot of stories to tell and as a chef will be great in the kitchen until housemates decide they want to eat/cook different things from the others. Seems confident within himself

Adam

HM 8 Adam : Brit Born, American reared, former prisoner turned good guy seems genuine and will probably want to take the fatherly role in the house which normally means boring viewing and bossy to housemates.  Has 14 sisters so should know how to handle any bitching between female housemates.

Sarah

HM 9 Sarah : Gorgeous TOTTIE model from Edinburgh. Definitely a fave with the guys and I caught Luke A checking her out with a BIG grin on his face. I thought Deana may have picked her for nomination, but she escaped.

HM 10 Scott : Me and Joelle don't like this self-confessed snob, gay student as he appeared to snub Adam and Shievonne on his entrance in the house. Will have to keep my eyes on him.

HM 11 Ashleigh : Loopy Ashley likes to swear and annoyed me and Joelle so much from the audition footage we didn't pay her any attention.

HM 12 Luke S : Clever young entrepreneur comes across cocky but he insists he's not.

HM 13 Lydia : 25 year old dancer/model Lydia is the girlfriend of Andy Scott Lee (Michelle Heaton's ex) so she would have had a good briefing on how to portray herself on reality TV. Such a shame she's been nominated for eviction by Deana who said they didn't talk enough, which Lydia refuted. Lydia was not a happy bunny at the end of the show.

HM 14 Benedict : 32 year old stripper loves porn and will obviously be keen to show his body off in the house and get some action. He's not all that hot and may make the girls flesh crawl with too much sex talk.

HM 15 Chris : Chubby, squeaky voiced Chris seems to be a eager to please guy and will think he's funny when he's not. He's single but I don't think he'll find love in the house but may please viewers...Or not.

HM 16 Victoria : 41 year old Victoria is hot for her age but putting just one housemate in her age group is a little bit cruel. She may be ostracised by the other girls and may come across desperate to viewers if she joins in the fun. Poor Victoria may be last in, first out as Deana nominated her for having evil eyes.

Big Brother is wicked making Deana pick 3 housemates to face the public vote as she has to spend 3 nights with them and faces heavy backlash and possibly being up herself next nominations, especially if Lydia stays in. She could have opted out of the decision and faced the public vote herself, which is what a coward like me would've done. If she's as straight up as she claims she'll handle herself well but something tells me there's gonna be tears and slanging matches over the next few days.

Roll on tomorrows show. I can't wait.

We've missed you Big Brother.

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Emmerdale Vicar Ashley Gets His Comeuppance

Well Emmerdale fans! This week (28/05/2012 – 01/06/2012) on the Dales we've seen Grandad beater, vicar Ashley Thomas' life take a dramatic downfall. Not only has he been turfed out of his former father-in-law, Rodney's house but after securing a secret job in a burger bar he was fired for stealing, in the presence of his estranged wife Laurel.

Troubled vicar Ashley Thomas

A lot of Emmerdale fans are split on whether to feel sorry for Ashley's character or feeling he's getting his comeuppance for his atrocious bullying behaviour towards his father, Sandy. I must say although I have a little teeny bit of sympathy for the vicar, the turn in his life is brilliant for the 'moralistic' character and great viewing for audiences. The whole community that once looked up to him have now turned against him. His daughter is so terrified of him she won't see him and worse of all... the reason for Ashley's personality transplant was triggered by the closeness between Laurel and pub chef Marlon. Now it looks as though their friendship is being rekindled and Ashley is having to watch it blossom unable to do anything.

It'll be interesting to see where writers take this storyline and how much more Ashley will suffer but I'm enjoying it immensely.

Messed Up Soap Times

What are TV channels doing to viewers changing the Soap times?  Coronation Street is on Monday to Friday this week (w/c 7th April) with Monday - Thursday episodes being screened at the later time of 9pm due to the fact Britain's Got Talent finals are going on.  Eastenders shifted their normal 8pm slot to 7:30 Bank Holiday Monday and the omnibus edition is shown after midnight on a Friday night instead of Sunday afternoon.  This is likely to be the case until after the Olympics finishes later on in the year.  Ridiculous.  Over on Channel 4, the Hollyoaks omnibus has shifted to E4 on Sundays at the crack of dawn in the morning.  As this soap has a huge teen following its pretty stupid to show Hollyoaks so early when most teens will be sleeping off a hard Saturday night.  The only soap that seems to be unaffected in Emmerdale, for now at least.

UK Soap Watch 2nd to 6th April 2012

EMMERDALE

C'est La Vie Aaron

Sad scenes as Aaron left the Dales this week to start a new life in Paris with boyfriend Ed. Leaving with a warrant out for his arrest for a crime he didn't commit has erupted chaos for the loved ones he's left behind. His poor mum Chas has lost her only son, fallen out with nearly everyone in the village and is getting too close to niece Debbie's boyfriend, Cameron. The heat between the pair turns up next week. It's all gonna end in tears.

Elsewhere in Emmerdale, busy body Brenda showed she wasn't such a “Miss Prim” as she had a one night stand with Eric Pollard and Ally revealed that she couldn't read to son Shaun. A lot of viewers are finding it hard to warm to the new family, just as they did all those years ago when the Dingles first arrived. Hopefully this storyline will create viewer empathy and a lot less shouting from the characters.

HOLLYOAKS

All The Ladies Love Riley

All the ladies are loving Riley Costello. Mercedes wants him back, Mitzeee wants her cousins love as well as the showbiz lifestyle. However, the only girl that stands a look in with the hunky footballer is nurse Lynsey. I want to know how a star player like Riley has so much time on his hands when its the middle of the football season.

Brendan the villain we love to hate

Bad boy Brendan is back on his evil form, bullying, intimidating and torturing American Doug. Desperate Doug wants to go in business with Ste, Brendan's former lover and Brendan wants to keep himself in Ste's life. Doug tried his best to pull out of Brendan's deal to be a silent investor and failed miserably. The Irish villain is a menace you'd never want to cross but a pleasure to watch.

CORONATION STREET

Lesley and Eileen

Eileen finally got her man, Paul as wife Lesley was put into a residential home. Obviously Paul is devastated that he has lost his wife to the mind robbing Alzheimers. Will he be able to fully commit to Eileen. God knows she deserves it.

Secret lovers Karl and Sunitta

Sultry Sunitta got her man, Karl after his missus Stella turfed him out for his secret debts and faking a robbery on the Rovers. With husband Dev and the kids on holiday, Sunitta was more than happy to offer a roof over Karl's head. He's on the sofa but how long before he gets into Sunitta's bed.

Romance was in the air for young bloods Tommy and Tina after months of mucking around. After learning of Tommy's grandfathers death, Tina offered a shoulder and her lips to comfort Tommy. The pair will soon have to take their eyes of each other to look out for mate Tyrone as his girlfriend Kirsty becomes more manic and violent.

EASTENDERS

No omnibus this Easter Sunday and I've missed a couple of episodes. Kim and Ray rekindled their romance after a nasty accident with a knife and Ray's finger in the kitchen of the Queen Vic. Alfie stepped up and double-crossed nasty Derek, who thinks arch rival Phil stole his booze.

Kim locked lips with chef Ray

Next week will see Heather laid to rest and one of the Mitchell guys arrested for her murder. My money's on it being Jay, especially as Ben has the murder weapon in their bedroom.

Is Ian about to get his heart broke again?

Poor Ian couldn't get it up with Mandy and their doomed relationship is set to go nowhere as its been leaked in the press that Nicola Stapleton who plays Mandy will soon be leaving the soap. Will she marry Ian before she leaves and how will he cope being ditched once again.

Good TV, Bad TV, Ugly TV

Good TV

Ken Barlow's Kimono in Coronation Street

BBC 1's 4 part drama, One Night. I only seen the final part and it was totally gripping stuff.

The Fantastic Billy Matthews as Alfie.  One Night BBC 1

BBC 1's The Voice. The second outing captured my attention more than the first show. Love the judges dynamics. Smarter than X Factor by far.

Janey (Chrissy Rock) is back on ITV 1's Benidorm. I so missed her, no offence, Sherrie Hewson (Joyce) but Janey Rocks.

Bad TV

BBC 1 showing drama One Night so late and not showing enough promos before. I only watched this through browsing the channels. The many talents, especially Billy Matthews, who played troubled teen Alfie were wasted by being screened at such unsociable hours.

BBC 1 deciding to axe Total Wipeout. Good classic family entertainment for Saturday early evenings and the “big wigs” go and scrap it. Total Idiots!

Big Red Balls  Total Wipeout BBC 1

Ugly TV

Rose Cotton's turkey neck in Eastenders. Can't the wardrobe people cover it up or maybe she should have a quick nip and tuck but honestly its not easy on the eye, nor her face cacked in that make-up.

Polly Perkins and that Perky neckline