[Beso]

A crushing 68.6% wanted her out. So out she goes.

The interview was diabolical. To think I first welcomed the new panel idea. But perhaps that was more to do with the interviewee, not the procedure. Sophia was interested in what they had to say. They listened to each other, and she was coherent and defended herself intelligently.

Since then it's been downhill all the way. Shrinks who talked psychobabble as if it was fact, not opinion, and celebs who look as though they've never seen the show before in their life.

This time around, for Lisa, Davina glossed over the difficulties: minor rows with Freddie and the like, asked stupid questions, and let the panellists talk all over one another.

What Bea and Noirin made of it, back home on their sofas, who knows. They got a far harder time of it. What, finally, did Noirin do that was so terrible? She kissed a guy.



The longer the series goes on, the more vacuous the interviews become. This isn't always the case. Makosi got a torrid time, in front of a crowd as well, and Jason sat their bemused. He came second in BB5, and Davina sat their ridiculing him.

But it doesn't augur well for the final. She certainly won't give cheeky Charlie a hard time at all. "Maybe you pushed some of your jokes too far". She might just try it once. Then he'll say he never meant anything by it, and she'll then ask him if he fancies Rodrigo. Nothing to see here, let's move along.

I mean, do they all think Lisa is a delicate flower who couldn't take it? Is saying: "I think the reason you're here now is that in the early weeks you surrounded yourself with a gang of hyenas who tore into Freddie for hours on end, behind his back and in front of his face, and you never gave him an even break. He endlessly tried to reason with you and none of you gave a damn".

How hard can it be? It's what the audience wanted to hear. Even the ones who thought Freddie was arrogant, difficult, and the author of his own misfortunes might have wanted to hear it.

As is, Lisa left to a chorus of boos, and she won't yet know why.



Anyway, the game is over now. Even though it's got the worst set of final week housemates since BB6, and even though it's probably the closest final ever, it's also got the least worthy set ever as well. But Sophie's got it all wrapped up. Her Noirin impression will have tipped the balance in her favour, and Siavash once again ballooned a golden chance over the crossbar.

When they were shown the highlights of the programme in which he kissed Noirin, he could have taken it well. He could have laughed gamely, played along with it, and seen the funny side. Instead he did his tortured martyr bit, buried himself under the blanket, asking, self-consciously, "Biggie, why are you doing this to me?"

Can you imagine Freddie, or Marcus doing the great big sulk? Even Lisa would have played along.

So it's Sophie for the win. Mind you, I'd still like it to be Rodrigo, if only because I predicted it on Launch Night