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There has been some discussion already on the mystery surrounding the message delivered by Big Brother to Kenneth from Karly. The intriguing nature of the message has deepened somewhat with Kenneth's escape from the House in the early hours of this morning. Here, I would like to discuss some of the strange issues surrounding this episode, put to rest some possible misunderstandings, yet pose some baffling questions.

The key mystery here is why Karly would want such a message delivered to Kenneth and why Big Brother would choose to deliver such a message.

Contraceptive pills are very easy to come by from a number of different perfectly legal sources. There has been no indication that there is anything particularly special about the pills supposedly left in the House. Karly could easily get some more, so why be so concerned about gaining access to pills supposedly left in the House?

Given that the makers of Big Brother are undoubtedly aware of the facts in the above paragraph, why did they take the message seriously? Why did they choose to not only pass it on to Kenneth but to show it in a diary room segment? Perhaps they thought it would be good TV; in many ways it was, although this was in part down to the very incongruity of it. However, even given that it might be interesting viewing this benefit would surely have been outweighed by the concern that they were being played somehow by Karly and Kenneth.

I note at this point that it is interesting that Kenneth did not locate any contraceptive pills. It may be that he just could not find them; it may be that Karly was simply mistaken; or it may be that there never were any pills at all. We have no direct evidence for any of these.

Why did Karly wait so long to make her request to Big Brother? I note with interest that, at least as far as we know, it was only after the new HMs failed their task, Kenneth went up for eviction and it quickly became apparent that he would be ousted from the House that this message was delivered. However, I also note that there is absolutely no evidence that these facts are linked in any way.

I note further, while again acknowledging that there is no evidence to indicate this has gone on at all, that a coded message would be easy to arrange even though Karly was not aware that Kenneth was entering the House: through a third party such as a friend, an e-mail left on an account or a voicemail message, for example.

While I try not to get too excited by conspiracy theories, I think some of the points raised above indicate that there are enough odd aspects to this entire affair to ground legitimate suspicions that something odd has been going on here, even if it is just an extraordinary sequence of baffling decisions and ineptitude.