[Amy]

By Cameron Stout
EVICTION night on Friday was absolutely amazing. Incredible.
There were two very intense half-hour programmes, but I think most folk would have liked the second to last an hour.
But holy smoke! I’d been hoping Big Brother would put more thought into the psychological aspects. Not that I’m concerned about the psychological state of the housemates — I’m much more shallow than that!
So I’m very chuffed with this year, where we’ve had the Secret Garden and the three new housemates. On the very first night they had the “Unlucky 13th” housemate, where Makosi innocently responded when they asked for a housemate to come to the Diary Room.
Lies
The equivalent in my year was when I went into the Diary Room and ended up on African Big Brother!
Last week the viewers knew that the housemates had been told two lies by Big Brother. The first was that nominations were optional, the second was about who was up for eviction.
Housemates did ask if nominations really were optional and Big Brother continued with the lie. This was probably the biggest thing BB could have tampered with.
Would I have worked out what was going on? Remember, the biggest hard and fast rule is that Big Brother can change the rules as they go along.
So I’m hard pushed to think what I would have done in there. The housemates had been mulling it over, too. Derek came close to sussing out the trap and Science also seemed to have an inkling.
Science is really impressing me. I’ve been annoyed with the way he shouts everything and he has problems putting his points forward.
Nobody in the House seems to understand him, which is maybe just as well because otherwise he might have been voted out long ago. He’d be seen as a threat.
But because nobody’s got a handle on him, there are more obvious candidates. Yet he’s having an experience and I don’t think he’s gone in it to win.
Psychological
Because the game’s become more psychological, the housemates are struggling to second-guess the public. One week Davina ran through all the housemates’ names to either a cheer or a boo from the audience. That got some of them thinking.
For example, Saskia and Maxwell were cheered and that now looks like it was the start of their downfall because they thought their behaviour was popular.
The following week, Davina asked the audience to cheer everybody. On Friday night there were cheers and boos as they went down the line. Makosi got booed and just laughed. Orlaith got the same treatment and looked worried, but poor Vanessa just wasn’t prepared.
She was horrified when Davina told her that the housemates who were up for eviction were actually the six who hadn’t nominated anyone. The lie had led them to break a cardinal rule.
I can sympathise, because I think I would have been taking it at face value as well.
I was sorry to see Vanessa go, because I liked her. At the eviction interview, she was very honest. She said that when she got into the House she was overwhelmed by the other characters. She felt at home with Makosi, but very much in the shadow.
It’s great having parents who take an interest in the programme because they offer a different perspective and my family has had some really animated dining-table chats about BB6.
Glasses
My dad had an interesting take on Vanessa. “Have you noticed that her personality is different when she takes her glasses off?” he asked me.
“She’s funny, active, joins in and is even quite obstreperous, yet with her glasses on all she does is eat and sleep.”
I started to look out for this trait on the live feed and, sure enough, it turned out to be the case!
The only insight Dad could offer was, “She’s plain with her glasses on, she’s hyper with her glasses off.”
I’m not saying it’s right, but it might be a subconscious thing with Vanessa and somehow I think even she would be interested in the theory.
The way Davina announced the eviction on Friday was hilarious.
“The seventh housemate to be evicted will be . . .”, and then she took an even longer pause than usual, before adding, “either . . .” Absolutely fantastic!
Then the mind games started again. Instead of the public voting for the one to leave, the housemates had to pick between the two who got the highest public vote. It was done round the table and in open view for the pair to see.
It’d be easier to know you’d been voted out by four million viewers rather than the trauma endured by Makosi and Vanessa of being voted out by four fellow housemates.
I was heart-sorry for Vanessa for the way it was done and, I have to admit, she wasn’t the only one in tears — I shed a few myself.
Weakest Link
One Big Brother fan I know called Philip made a good point. He reckons Friday’s eviction voting by the housemates should have been done Weakest Link-style, where contestants write down their choice.
No-one will know the pressure Anthony faced having to go first.
But that little Kemal! He’ll say that from the votes from housemates before him he knew Vanessa would already be leaving. He’ll justify to Makosi that the only reason he voted for her was as a kindness to Vanessa so it didn’t look like they all wanted rid of her. He’ll not let on that he’d actually nominated Makosi earlier in the week.
Orlaith is on a loser trying to keep in with Makosi. And she’s on a loser with me, too. I now feel she’s pretty pointless in the House.
I don’t know what to say about Eugene, which is maybe something in itself. I struggled to describe him in real life and I’m still bewildered.
It would cost me a £700 air fare to fly from Orkney down to London, but I’d pay it to drag Derek out of the House if I hear him boo-hooing one more time about how much he wants to leave.
It’s very selfish wanting to come out when you’ve got in because there are tens of thousands who wanted to be there. I can’t be doing with it.
With the public voting on four housemates, more than usual, the fact that most wanted either Vanessa or Makosi out will make Makosi think. I think her grip on reality is tenuous and I don’t like fuss — and she has been the biggest fusser in the House.
Double acts
Since Saskia and Maxwell left, Craig and Anthony have become one of the funniest double acts on TV.
I think Anthony sees Craig as an annoying younger brother. It’s a fraternal relationship rather than horseplay, but it’s honest and endearing.
I don’t think it would do Craig any good to win, but it would be amazing for him if he came second.
Anthony didn’t like the two-camps situation at all and has come out of himself more now.
He was very kind to Science when he was drunk, he stood between Roberto and Maxwell when they had a face-off and when he saw Kemal down in the dumps he suggested to Makosi that it would be nice if she went and helped him.
Anthony is worth loads in that House.
I want Science in the top three and I’m swithering between him and Anthony for top spot.
I’d want Derek and Makosi up for eviction this week, but I think the housemates will choose Orlaith over Makosi.

Well, tarra for noo!

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