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GUEST POST FROM LESLEY BRAIN

On the face of it it's an easy decision.

In one corner we have a sad and sorry Tigger, everyone's depressed but gallant punchbag....and on the other Fungus The Bogeyman, the last person you would want to have to tea with The Queen and Rodrigo.

But is it that simple?

Certainly Freddie has shown, despite undercover investigative fumbling, that he is ball-less while Marcus, Mr Consistency, likes to appear as a smouldering lump of testosterone.

Neither would figure in anyone's wildest erotic fantasies. (Unlike Lisa, of course, who I am still waiting to fulfull her early boast that she can 'turn anyone' including me and Angelina Jolie.)

What they have in common that they live at home with mummy, though not the same mummy, obviously, as Marcus is a skilled tradesman while Freddie has, fatally for me, revealed that he has been on the dole.

I have a very low opinion of Gap Years - that time when children of rich parents wander about the world together patronising poor people and emailing home for more cash every five minutes - and for Freddie life will always be one long gap year. I hold a secret convoluted thought that somehow I am paying for it and now I know I am.

At least with Bea and Lisa they will always be able to find work as stirrers. And I am sick of Freddie's semi-autistic conversations. An example.....

Freddie, who looks every inch the Morris Dancer sipping Real Ale and playing the triangle but has chosen to wear his dressing gown for four days: 'Hey, man, wouldn't it be like AMAZING if I had a copy of Nietzsche to read out loud like amazing, dudes.'

Charlie, who is waiting for BB to give him 100k because his mother is in a coma (move over, mate, I'm an orphan): 'eeee by gum, your a reeet tosser.'

Freddie: 'That's so like cool, right on man, AMAZING, just like the time I was in Thailand being a hippy dude, eh Bea?'
At least Marcus can laugh at himself and can surprise us by speaking some sense. Occasionally. And he is his own man - to a fault - while Freddie tries to be all things to all men and fails to please anyone. But both are really 8 year old boys being manipulated by a 13 year old girl. (Bea and the media studies girl behind the screen).

So finally my vote to stay has to go to FREDDIE. Freddie did what is required of all housemates and the one thing I would never have delivered. He broke down completely on national television. He fell apart.

A genuine attempt to leave it all behind or a cry for help?

Who can say, but it gave Lame Lamb a laugh on BBLB which says more about Lamb than about anyone else. I don't know why housemates go on BB - I don't know why I went - and I can't imagine what Freddie will get out of this but I do think he should be allowed to see it through to the end.

(Though Marcus did shed a tear over the publicity shots BB had taken of him. 'I look like a freak of nature,' he said sadly. At least they didn't make you look like a demented head-teacher, Marcus.)

KEEP FREDDIE IN. Reluctantly....MARCUS TO GO.

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BRIFFA'S BLOG

I don't often disagree with Lesley.

The strawberry-loving mattress-sniffer is usually on the mark about everything. She was an "amazing housemate" too. She only spent just over a week in the house and it was over two years ago, yet she was more memorable than this years walkers, Saffia, Ken, Tom and Isaac, put together. If she'd only stayed she might have even salvaged that torrid farrago that was BB8.

But she's got it wrong about the Fredster. He's red hot favourite to stay, and she wants him to stay, but in my opinion he's past his sell-by-date. The man's being "emotionally terrorised" by the BB hit girl Bea, whose voice is "literally giving me a panic attack", and sending his whole body into convulsions.

Am I the only one who found all that quite funny? I must be a terrible person. The point though, is that Freddie is at the end of his tether. Marcus, meanwhile is only at the beginning.

Let's face it, so long as Bea is in there Freddie will be but a pale shadow of his former self. He took on the Lisa Crew, despatching Kris, Karly, and Sree to the boundary like Freddie Flintoff in his prime. But our Freddie doesn't even have one more test match in him. He's the walking wounded, he can't bowl any more, and could break down at any time.

I mean, he never collapsed in all the time he was taking them on, yet one whiny lentil-eater has a go at him and he hits the floor like a deck of cards. Why does he care so much about Bea? She's completely untrustworthy and none of them actually like her. But Fred's been in there for nine weeks now, and the scars are showing.

Whereas the Irrepressible Dark Horse is ready to take on the world. Don't get me wrong. There is plenty to dislike about Marcus. His bizarre rant about Siavash yesterday confirmed his deranged paranoia. His pursuit of Noirin, his instant hatred for Tom, his crude language... the list is endless. And yet... he is irrepressible. Marcus knows that this is only a gameshow. Not since the valiant Victor have we had a housemate who is going for it, not to make himself look good, but to make the programme look good. I suppose you could say Brian Belo was similar, but he was in it to win it all along. Marcus isn't.

Marcus has his delusions, but I don't think they extend to him thinking that he has a hope in hell of actually winning this show. He's broken so many rules now that although that might endear him to some of us, that won't endear him to BB. He's also one of the many who is convinced that Charlie has this all wrapped up.

Presumably that's why he's up for eviction now. BB wants Marcus out before he can do further damage to the show's credibility. I still don't get how letting them discuss nominations was a punishment. In particular, I don't see how such obvious rule-breakers as Bea and Sophie got punished at all. Sophie begged people to nominate her, remember. I didn't see her do too much of that when it really was time to nominate.

But Freddie v Marcus. BB can only be doing this to break up the amigos. If Marcus goes Freddie will be even more isolated, and we'll have endless highlights of Lisa and David at the bus stop, Charlie and Rodrigo play-fighting, Sophie being cute, and Freddie and Siavash sitting on chairs not saying much, with Bea hovering about trying to be nice and then falling out with them. If Marcus stays at least there's a chance he'll put up some sort of a fight.

But will he even stay there? I wouldn't put it past him to make a Ken-like break over the barriers. He will have thought about it, and would love to go out in a blaze of glory. It must be what BB fears too. But how could they stop him?

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